Payton Davis Trucking & Equipment Inc.

Payton Davis Trucking & Equipment Inc. is a minority and woman-owned small business providing transportation, heavy equipment, and related services to federal land management agencies. As a prime contractor, the company has received delivery orders from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to provide trucking, equipment rentals, and associated services in support of wildland firefighting, forest management, and emergency response operations mainly within USFS Region 5 encompassing California.

Specific past awards to Payton Davis as prime contractor include firm fixed price delivery orders issued in 2022 and 2023 by the USFS Region 5 Pacific Southwest division for transportation services, heavy equipment rentals, and other unspecified goods and services. These orders, ranging from approximately $12,000 to $59,000 in value, supported wildfire suppression and federal lands management operations in locations across northern California such as Grass Valley, Nevada City, and Redding.

Additionally, Payton Davis holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with potential values up to $250,000 each for providing dozers, excavators, trucks, operators, and other rental equipment to USFS Regions 3, 5 and 6 as well as interagency partners involved in firefighting and emergency response. Two of the IDCs are multiple-award vehicles set aside for total small businesses, while the third designates Payton Davis as one of several small business awardees within a specific USFS dispatch zone. Task orders issued to date under these vehicles have called for transportation and equipment services in support of Pacific Southwest region operations.