About Us - What We Do

ToolTrucks.com is an online classifieds for buyers and sellers of New and Used Tool Trucks and Tool Trailers. We are a "For Sale by Owner" venue. We also offer a Tool Truck Parts Store, Financing and Delivery referrals, and all kinds of specific and general Tool Truck and Tool Trailer info. We are a nationwide venue for advertising and showing your tool truck to the tool business. The Internet is accessed by people all over the world, but "Worldwide Venue" sounds too big. There have been sales all over North America and a few trucks have gone to Europe. OK, we admit it -we are a WORLDwide venue.

Our Mission

ToolTrucks.com is here to help you sell your tool vehicle in the most expeditious way possible, or equally, to help you find a great Tool Truck or Trailer. We are an equal opportunity and independent business website, not affiliated with the tool companies or truck builders. We will "talk trucks" with you anytime.

How it Works:

Visit our "Classifieds" for the most comprehensive listing of new and used Tool Trucks and Tool Trailers you will find in one place. If you would like to sell your truck, Go to the "Place an Ad" page via the menu at the top of every page and the ad entry form will walk you through the process of placing an ad. After review, your ad will be up and running by the next business day.

With every ad, you get our personal touch: a fast response to your questions - we answer every email - unlimited updates to your ad info upon request, and our words of support and encouragement. That's big - we are here if you need us. We will also edit your ad comments for clarity and make paragraphs where needed, so don't worry if you are not Longfellow, we'll help.

Our Story

Tom Kincaid is the creator of ToolTrucks.com. "After college and armed with a degree in accounting, I took a job with a Pontiac dealer as assistant controller, mainly because I love all things automotive and it was a good fit for my interests and abilities. I liked the dealership environment but the hours were long. I was soon attracted to the growing automotive leasing industry and went to work for Gelco Corp, working for Foy Thompson. Foy taught me a lot about how to treat the customer: return calls promptly, do what you said you would do, and offer a solution. We got into Tool Truck leasing in a big way and fast forward, Gelco Corp became GE Capital Fleet Services. From 1991 on, our Tool Truck lease portfolio really grew in size. We leased new trucks from all the truck builders, at one time having over 3,400+ vehicles and about $120 million in our portfolio. I worked in the Commercial Transportation / Specialty Markets Group, where we concentrated on the Tow, Tool, and Tire Truck Markets; Medium Duty Trucks and Buses, typically to small companies and individual lessees. As a group we did a lot of business; over $1 billion in assets were on our books in the mid-1990s.

Of course with any large portfolio like the Tool Truck portfolio there is naturally some turnover in vehicles as individual dealers and distributors seek to upgrade, downsize, enter, and exit the tool business. A large part of ensuring that our Tool Truck Lease Program remained successful was keeping the trucks on the road and "burning gas", not sitting somewhere, so by necessity selling used trucks became second nature to me. I really grew to love the remarketing end of the business.

Today it seems like the Web has always been with us, but 1990 was pre-Internet, so mailers and brochures were the standard of the day. This meant getting the word out on what we had in inventory by compiling a list, printing, copying, stapling, folding, and mailing the list to prospective buyers. With the lag in mailing time and additions and subtractions, the list grew more outdated every day and by months end it was hardly the same list we had sent out. In other words, it was a real pain keeping it current, and there had to be a better way but no one (not even Al Gore) had invented it yet. The used truck idea that became ToolTrucks.com was forming in my mind gradually, even if I didn't know what it would look like in it's final form. I don't even think I knew it was forming!

Sometime in the 1990's, I don't remember exactly when, I got an AOL account and discovered the world wide web and websites. I somehow managed to reserve the domain name "ToolTrucks.com" in 1998, not really knowing what I was going to do with it, but I liked the way it sounded. In '98 I was going to graduate school and needed a project for my E-Commerce marketing class. Not knowing what I was doing or if it would go anywhere, I created a fictitous website for used truck sales and parts and named it ToolTrucks.com. Little did I know.....

The Internet was coming on strong by the late '90s, and inspired by the school project, I asked to put a list of GE's used tool trucks on a portion of GE's fledgling website. We all thought posting inventory online was cutting edge, and it probably was at the time.

By 2000 and beyond, we were doing a lot of business with all of the tool companies, and had expanded into related industries where independent contactors - FedEx Ground, Pepperidge Farms, Excel Logistics, etc. - used a specialized truck in their business. In early 2003 GE Capital Fleet Services announced that it was going to concentrate on it's Fleet business with corporate lessees and move away fom individual and small business leasing. The thinking was, why have 4,000 vehicles with 4,000 lessees when you can have one account with 4,000 vehicles and one lessee? Which costs less to administer? I certainly see the logic there. This meant that certain leasing groups that worked with small business within Fleet Services had to go. The Tow portfolio was sold, Buses and Medium-Duty trucks transferred to another GE business, and the Tire and Tool portfolios stopped leasing new trucks. Both accounts were put in "wind-down" mode, where used trucks where generally sold instead of re-leased, and existing leases were allowed to "run off" their remaining term until paid off. The company ultimately closed our Specialty Markets Division, and my last day was September 30, 2003; I was literally the last employee to leave. I have nothing but positive things to say about my time at GE Capital Fleet Services. I worked with some great people like Jerry Gormley, Tom Callahan, Alexandrine Harris, and many more, people who inspired me to do more. I was fortunate to wear a lot of hats during my time there. I was involved in new business development, account management, pre-screened applications, and of course, asset re-marketing. I learned and absorbed a lot from a lot of smart people, but all good things must come to an end.

So now it's October 2003. I liked the idea of doing more of everyday business on the Internet. I sent my resume to several companies whose work I admired, in particular AutoTrader.com. Unfortunately the Auto Trader inquiry didn't go anywhere but my desire to do something with Online Classifieds was still there and growing. I had my MBA now and was intrigued by the idea of Internet advertising, and having worked on the school project and advertising on GE's website, by December I finally realized what ToolTrucks.com could be when it grew up! Through an old friend from high school, Jim Mitchell, I found a more-than-able webmaster, Jim Davidson, and we started laying out the website. I knew what I wanted to see and say but not how to do it technically. GE had provided a severance package, but I wanted ToolTrucks.com to stand on it's own, so I raised the money to pay for Jim D's services by selling childhood toys and extras around the house on EBay. We had ToolTrucks.com up and running by March 2004 with 15 truck ads, and off we went. As of this writing (March 2011) we have had over 2,600 ads and approximately $50 million in reported sales. It was fun then and still is now!"

Special thanks to Denise, Jerry Gormley, TPC, "Alex", Foy, Mr. Fossett, Neuman, Rick S, Maggie, John the Hockey player, Charlie, Tommy the Green Beret, the two Jims, Derrick, Katie, Jan Rovner, Larry Sherstad, Dan Gilmore, John "Tractor" Schmitt, Dose, Ay Raber, and many many more people - thanks for your encouragement, friendship, help, industry knowledge, inspiration, everything! If I left anyone out you will be added soon!

Thanks and Happy Looking!

Tom Kincaid