Side loader and multi-directional forklift hire
Side Loader and Multi-Directional Forklift Hire
Side loaders and multi-directional forklifts for hire, from a single day to a long-term contract, or on a lease. Combilift machines for long loads such as timber, steel and pipe, delivered nationwide from eight depots on our own transport.
- Since 1982
- trading, under the same name
- No minimum
- hire period: a machine can go out for a day
- 8 depots
- nationwide delivery on our own transport
Side loaders on hire
Combilift side loaders and multi-directional forklifts
Side loaders and multi-directional forklifts are available on hire; ask us which models are available now. We are an authorised Combilift dealer.
Combilift side loaders
Best for long, heavy loads moved lengthways through yards, gates and narrow aisles: the Combi-SL, SLE and 4WSL, 4.5 to 6 tonnes.
- The three-wheel Combi-SL can also drive in four directions
- The four-wheel Combi-4WSL suits longer runs across a yard, at up to 25 km/h
- The SLE5000 is the electric version, rated at 5,000 kg
Combilift C-Series
Best for long loads carried sideways through narrow aisles and doorways and stacked in racking: three forklifts in one, 2.5 to 25 tonnes.
- Drives forwards, backwards, sideways and diagonally
- Diesel, LPG or electric
- Lift heights to 12 m and aisles as narrow as 2,200 mm across the range
Why a side loader
The long load never has to swing
Narrower aisles
A counterbalance truck has to turn a long load to move it down an aisle. That sets your aisle width, and aisle width sets how much you can store.
Through gateways
Carried lengthways, a long load goes through gateways a front-loading truck could never get it through.
One truck
Unload, move and rack long goods with one truck, and do without a second machine.
Typical loads
Steel, timber, pipes, aluminium profiles and building products.
Straight into racking
Builders' merchants and steel stockholders take bundles off a lorry and put them straight into cantilever racking.
Palletised stock
Where the stock is palletised rather than long, an articulated forklift is usually the better fit.
Side loader hire prices
Get a hire price
Tell us the length and the weight of the load, the lift height and how long you need the machine, and we will price the truck that fits. Hire a machine for a single day and the minimum charge is one week at the weekly rate; transport is charged separately.
Hire terms
How side loader hire works
| Hire terms | |
|---|---|
| Minimum hire period | None. A machine can be hired for a day. |
| Minimum charge | One week at the weekly rate. |
| Contract | None on a short term hire. Extend the hire if the job runs on. |
| Thorough examination | Every hire machine goes out with a current thorough examination. |
| If a machine stops | You get your money back, and we send an engineer out to fix it. Where we judge it necessary we supply a stand-in machine. |
| Delivery | Nationwide from eight depots, on our own transport. Transport is charged separately and depends on where you are. |
| Prices | Every price on this site is ex VAT. |
| Longer term | Lease purchase, contract hire or operating lease, on new and used machines. See leasing and contract hire. |
If a hire runs on and starts to look permanent, we will say so, because past a certain number of months a longer agreement or buying is usually cheaper.
We run multi-directional and side loader training at our centres and on customers' sites. We service Combilift machines and stock Combilift parts. Need a counterbalance truck as well? See forklift hire.
Side Loader and Multi-Directional Forklift Hire: common questions
Eight depots across the UK
Our own engineers, out of our own depots - wherever you are, service comes from us.
Additional Services
Checkout our range of other machine services below
