![]() The company brings in experts from such institutes as Hartnell College to train employees in ag mechanics. That is done through and in-house employee training program call PAR University. One of Walker’s main management concepts is building managers from within. It has between 65 and 70 investors, many of them growers. The company is an LLC, limited liability company. There’s a memorial bench in a rose garden outside the company’s offices at 4 Harris Road and photos of him on the stairwell leading to Bart’s second-floor office. He set the ball rolling and we just had to keep it rolling.”Ĭharlie Walker died seven years ago. He was one of the first to come up with a rental tractor concept. “Dad was really well known in this valley and in the ag business,” Walker said. He went to work for Tanimura & Antle for several years, then joined his father in Pacific Ag Rentals. He (his father) never made it passed the third grade,” Bart Walker said.īart Walker grew up in Salinas, graduated from North Salinas High School and went on to earn a degree in ag management at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. “It’s (Pacific Ag Rentals) really a success story. Although he was afraid of heights, Charlie found that being a paratrooper paid an extra $10 a week. ![]() He wound up in the 101st Airborne Division. When he was 17, Charlie Walker, a Tennessee native lied about his age and joined the Army. He began his sales career selling TVs at Sears then sold tractors at Farmer’s Mercantile. Last weekend the company rented out its VIP toilets to the Sea Otter Classic and the Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival.Ĭharlie Walker knew the Salinas Valley ag industry well. ![]() It rents brand named tractors, field forklifts, GPS systems, flail shredders, rubber track systems, farm implements, even port a potties and VIP luxury toilets built on long trailers. ![]() Today, Pacific Ag Rentals, has offices in four states and Mexico, five branch offices, more than 2,000 pieces of rental equipment and 180 employees. His first company, Salinas Equipment Distributors, was sold in the 1990s. Walker’s father, the late Charlie Walker, launched the company in 2001. As president Bart Walker tells it, the company began at his family’s kitchen table in Salinas with two rental tractors. ![]()
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