Heavy Equipment Rental Software

Modern equips your rental manager with the documentation and communication tools to defend every dollar of rental profit.

Protect Every Dollar Your Rental Department Earns

Rental margins live and die by documentation. When equipment comes back damaged or a customer disputes a charge, the dealership without proof loses. Modern turns disputes into closed cases your team can defend with one click. Photo walk-arounds, video documentation, and time-stamped agreements become the backbone of a rental operation that runs cleaner, protects more equipment, and turns disputes into closed cases your team can defend with one click.

Two Workers Shaking Hands For Machine Parts

Documented Check-Ins and Check-Outs Every Time

Every rental transaction inside Modern starts and ends with full documentation. Your team captures photos, video walk-arounds, and digital signatures the moment a vehicle leaves the lot and the moment it returns, giving your dealership undeniable evidence of equipment condition at both ends of the transaction.

Rental Agreement Texting Built for Speed

The platform sends every rental agreement directly to your customer’s phone for fast review and signature. Rental agreement texting eliminates the back-and-forth, the in-person pickups, and the missed details that slow down rental turnover and frustrate the contractors who depend on your fleet.

Communication Designed for the Way Rental Operations Run

Rental departments deal with last-minute changes, early returns, drop-off location swaps, and quote updates every single day. Modern handles all this live in one thread. Customers know where to drop off, when pickup is, and what they owe at every stage.

25-50%

Increase in Customer Satisfaction

Take Control of Your Rental Operation Today

Watch how Modern turns rental communication into one of your dealership’s strongest competitive advantages and most reliable profit drivers.

Built for Construction, Agriculture, and Material Handling Rentals

Modern supports rental departments across the heavy equipment industries, from skid-steers and compact track loaders, to a harvest-season tractor rental or a one-week forklift swap.

Construction Equipment Dealership

Perfect for Construction Rental Operations

Construction contractors rent hard, return fast, and expect their dealer to handle every transaction without friction. Modern documents every check-in, accelerates every approval, and protects every machine in your construction rental fleet. From skid-steers to compact track loaders to attachments, your team has full visibility into where every piece of equipment lives, what condition it returned in, and what each customer owes the moment a job wraps.

Heavy Equipment Rental Software Tailored for Agriculture and Material Handling Machinery

Ag and material handling rentals come with their own complexities, from seasonal demand spikes to specialized attachments to multi-unit deployments. Modern flexes around the way your dealership actually rents, supporting everything from a one-week forklift swap to a multi-month harvest-season tractor rental with the same documented workflow. Your team works smarter, your customers know exactly what to expect, and your rental department becomes a reliable contributor to the dealership’s bottom line.

Overhead View Of A Tractor Dealership

FAQs About Our Heavy Equipment Rental Software

You can deploy Modern at heavy equipment dealerships across the mainland USA and Canada, supporting rental operations of every size from single-yard fleets to multi-state networks.

Modern stays actively involved with AED, MHEDA, NAVDA, FarmEquipment, and Texada, connecting your dealership with the groups influencing rental and service standards across the industry.

Yes, Modern lets your team update quotes mid-rental, add line items as needs change, and capture customer approval on every revision inside the same documented thread.

Take Control of Your Rental Operation

From the first text to the final invoice, Modern keeps your rental desk documented and your margins defended. Get started today.

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Brigham Timpson

Chief Executive Officer

Brigham Timpson is a mechanical engineer with a lifelong penchant for optimizing systems. Before leading MODERN, he was a key player in building and scaling another successful software company serving the construction industry. Today, he applies that same operator mindset to MODERN — an independent service communication platform helping heavy equipment dealers drive faster approvals, better customer experiences, and stronger service revenue.

Ryan Young

National Sales Director

Ryan Young brings over 15 years of dealership experience with a deep understanding of dealership operations, service, and customer relationships. Before leading growth at MODERN, he built his career working inside the trenches of dealerships improving performance through technology, customer relationships and operational excellence. Today, Ryan is focused on expanding MODERN\'s footprint across North America while working directly with dealers through hands-on, in-person training, helping their teams drive faster approvals, deliver better customer experiences, and maximize service performance.

JoAnne Zitting

Director of Customer Success

JoAnne Zitting is an operations and customer success leader with extensive experience improving processes, driving organizational growth, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Drawing from leadership roles in both healthcare and technology, she brings a strategic, hands-on approach to helping heavy equipment dealerships streamline service operations, increase customer engagement, and achieve measurable business results through MODERN.

Jared Timpson

Lead Engineer

Jared Timpson is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling modern web applications. Since beginning his career in 2012, he has helped businesses develop reliable, high-performance software solutions tailored to their unique needs. After earning his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2014, Jared has focused on delivering scalable, user-friendly applications that improve efficiency and drive business growth. He is passionate about creating technology that solves real-world problems and provides lasting value for his clients.

George Yu

Software Engineer

George Yu is a Software Engineer at MODERN, where he helps shape the platform by building scalable, reliable solutions for heavy equipment dealerships. Before joining MODERN, he worked at TaskRabbit, contributing to software used by millions of customers. He enjoys the pace and ownership that come with a growing company, leveraging his experience building large-scale systems to deliver thoughtful solutions that improve dealership operations and elevate the customer experience.