Power Equipment Direct (PED) is an online retail company based in Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA.

The company began in 2002[1] selling pressure washers, and now operates many niche websites selling different types of outdoor power equipment, including air compressors, chainsaws, electric generators, log splitters, lawn mowers, snow blowers, sump pumps, water pumps and accessories.

Jon Hoch founded Power Equipment Direct in 2002 following a negative experience he had while shopping for a lawn mower.

[citation needed] To accommodate quick growth, Power Equipment Direct expanded into a new warehouse in 2010.

Power Equipment Direct entered into a partnership with Operation Support Our Troops America in the Fall of 2011.