Forklift Hire Southampton

Forklift hire for Southampton, from Cosham

Southampton businesses can hire counterbalance forklifts on diesel, LPG or electric, reach trucks, Flexi articulated trucks, powered pallet trucks and stackers from £85 a week, plus access platforms and cleaning machines. Calls to 01243 788415 reach the Cosham team between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, and the emergency breakdown callout line answers 24/7.

Unit B, Oak Park Industrial Estate sits on the M27 at the top of Portsmouth, and Southampton is about 18 miles west by road, in through Bitterne to the city centre. Hire machines travel on our own transport, with the return date settled at the time of booking.

Cosham covers Portsmouth, Southampton and the coast either side, where much of the work is port and distribution. A Southampton firm with a second unit in Eastleigh, Totton or out along the motorway deals with the same depot for both.

Choosing a forklift for Southampton work

Cargo work around the Western and Eastern Docks calls for big capacities and long forks: diesel counterbalance trucks on pneumatic tyres, stepping up to heavy-duty forklifts for the heaviest units. LPG trucks suit warehouses by the port gates, where a truck loads trailers outside and stacks inside.

The distribution sheds at Nursling, Adanac Park and Hedge End rack to height, which is reach truck work, and a Flexi articulated truck handles the narrower aisles. Indoors, the food, drink and retail warehouses run on electric counterbalance trucks, with powered pallet trucks and stackers for goods-in.

Say whether the truck will be parked outside by the water between shifts, because salt air changes how it is set up and how often it is serviced. The same delivery can bring access platforms or industrial cleaning machines, and the quote sets out the machine type for the load, the height and the ground.

Southampton's docks, parks and estates

The Port of Southampton runs along the city's waterfront, with the Western Docks and the container terminal beside Millbrook and Redbridge, and the Eastern Docks close to the centre. Around them sit cold stores, vehicle compounds and warehousing that serve the shipping.

North-west of the city, Nursling Industrial Estate and Adanac Park lie close to where the M271 meets the M27, and Totton and Marchwood carry on round the head of Southampton Water. Northam and the banks of the Itchen hold older trade and marine yards near the city centre.

Up the M3, Chandler's Ford and Eastleigh, by Southampton Airport, mix light industry, trade and distribution, and Hedge End and Botley Road add business parks at junction 7 of the M27. Fawley and the Waterside, across Southampton Water, are on the same runs.

Service, LOLER and training for Southampton hires

Hired trucks in Southampton are maintained by the Cosham engineers who also handle forklift servicing and repairs in Southampton, and a service and a thorough examination can be done on one visit. We book the LOLER thorough examination too: at least every twelve months for a truck lifting loads, and every six where it lifts people. The hire fleet is CFTS accredited.

By the docks, salt gets into mast channels, chains, battery terminals and hydraulic rams, so trucks on the waterfront are serviced to a schedule rather than when something gives way. Cosham's parts store keeps traction batteries, chargers, tyres and attachments, and the engineers fit them.

We run operator training at our centres and on customers' sites, so Southampton operators can train on their own premises or at our RTITB accredited Cosham training centre: see forklift training in Southampton. Novice, refresher and conversion courses are all offered.

Hire terms and prices

Hire runs from a single day through to long-term contract hire, from £85 a week. The rate moves with the machine, its lifting capacity and lift height, any attachments, and how long you keep it: longer hires cost less per week. Short-term hire covers a peak, a project or a truck off the road, and emergency hire is there for the day something has gone wrong.

Regular customers can put the machine, its servicing and its statutory inspections together as a contract, in one monthly payment with cover if the truck is off the road. Fleet management extends that across several sites.

If hire stops making sense, we sell new and used machines and take part exchange on your old truck, working or not. All prices are ex VAT.

Port-side warehouses often need an extra truck when a vessel's cargo lands all at once, and hand it back once the shed is clear. Hire from a single day is built for that pattern.

The Cosham centre behind your Southampton hire

The South Coast Centre at Cosham is one of Acclaim's eight regional service centres, and its patch takes in Hampshire, West Sussex and Dorset, from Chichester round to Poole, and inland across the South West. Since 1982 Acclaim has supplied and maintained handling equipment as an independent company, so what we put forward for a Southampton job is matched to the work. We are an exclusive dealer for STILL, Hyundai and Lonking, and we also supply Flexi articulated trucks, Genie access equipment and Kärcher cleaning machinery.

Port and marine handling, food and horticulture, and the motorway estates are the work this centre knows, and a Southampton business with a foot in more than one has a single number to call. One team handles hire, new and used truck sales, servicing and training.