Material handling equipment leasing keeps warehouses, 3PLs, and manufacturers moving product without sinking capital into forklifts and conveyors that work three shifts and depreciate on all of them. Commercial Funding Partners is a direct lender funding material handling equipment from $250K to $100M+ — single fleets to full facility build-outs, nationwide.
Equipment we lease and finance
Forklift and reach-truck fleets (electric, IC, and lithium conversions), pallet jacks and order pickers, conveyor and sortation systems, racking and mezzanines, automated storage and retrieval systems, AGVs and autonomous mobile robots, dock equipment, and the charging infrastructure that electrified fleets demand. New, used, or mixed.
The fleet math: lease versus buy
A forklift fleet is a consumable that looks like an asset. Duty cycles wear trucks on a schedule you can predict, which makes them ideal lease candidates:
- Match payment to working life. 36–60-month terms aligned to duty hours, with replacement built into the cycle instead of fought through next year’s capex round.
- Keep maintenance leverage. Uniform fleets on planned cycles cost less per hour than aging mixed fleets running past their economics.
- Fund growth, not replacement. When a new contract needs a new building’s worth of racking, conveyors, and trucks, one master lease funds the rollout schedule by schedule.
- Electrification without the cliff. Converting IC fleets to electric or lithium means trucks plus chargers plus power work — a structured lease spreads the conversion instead of stalling it.
Automation is a financing problem before it’s a robotics problem
ASRS, sortation, and AMR deployments carry long lead times and staged commissioning. We fund progress payments and stage funding to commissioning milestones, so the financing follows the project plan rather than forcing payment before throughput exists.
How CFP structures it
Direct lender, direct answer: capital leases for keep-forever infrastructure like racking; operating and FMV leases for trucks and tech that refresh; sale-leasebacks that pull working capital out of equipment you already own; master lines for multi-site programs. $250K to $100M+, established companies, all 50 states.
From the field: our $1.4M forklift fleet acquisition financing shows a full-fleet structure in practice.
FAQ
Do you lease used forklifts? Yes — used and reconditioned trucks underwrite fine when the operator and maintenance story are sound.
Can racking and installation costs be included? Yes. Racking, freight, installation, and engineering soft costs can be wrapped into the same schedule.
What about multi-site rollouts? A master lease with per-site schedules funds each location as it comes online — one credit approval, many deployments.
How big or small can a deal be? Our lane is $250K to $100M+ — a single fleet refresh through a network-wide automation program.
Keep the floor moving
Call (801) 545-4000 or contact Commercial Funding Partners. More on our material handling industry practice.
Looking for documented examples? Browse the complete funded-transaction index.
Preparing a project? Work through the Equipment Financing Readiness Checklist — the same items CFP reviews before structuring $250K to $100M+ financing.
Adding lift trucks or conveyors before year-end? Run the purchase through our Section 179 and bonus depreciation calculator first.