The right forklift for your operation depends on where it will work and what it will be handling. Birmingham businesses run everything from tightly packed inner-city warehouses to open industrial yards, and each setting calls for a different type of machine.

Electric forklifts are the natural choice for indoor work. They run cleanly with no direct emissions and operate quietly, which makes them well suited to the storage and distribution units found across sites like Tyseley and Aston, where enclosed space and air quality matter.

Diesel forklifts offer more power and cope better with uneven ground, so they tend to be the preferred option for outdoor yards, builders’ merchants and the heavier engineering sites around the city and the wider West Midlands.

LPG forklifts sit between the two. They give off fewer emissions than diesel while retaining enough performance to move between indoor and outdoor tasks, which suits businesses that need one machine to cover both.

If you are not certain which configuration or lifting capacity fits your site, call our team and we will talk you through the options.

Buying a forklift outright ties up capital and leaves you responsible for its upkeep for years. For a lot of Birmingham businesses, hiring makes more sense, giving you the machine you need for as long as you need it and nothing more.

The main reasons firms across the city hire from Acclaim Handling include:

• No purchase price to fund and no depreciation to absorb, keeping your capital available for the rest of the business
• Servicing, maintenance and repairs covered throughout the hire, so a breakdown stays our responsibility rather than yours
• Hire terms that flex from a single day to a long-term contract, matching whatever your workload demands
• A single point of contact for a full range of forklift types and lifting capacities
• Experienced engineers across our depot network, each with an average of ten years’ service behind them

Short-term hire works particularly well for seasonal spikes in demand, one-off contracts, and covering the gap when an owned machine is off the road for repair.

What you pay for forklift hire in Birmingham comes down to the type of machine, how long you need it, the lifting capacity involved and any particular specification your site calls for.

Hire starts from £79 per day. If you need a forklift for a longer stretch, our weekly and monthly rates usually work out at better value than day hire, and we will always set out the full cost in a quote before anything is agreed, so there are no surprises once the machine arrives.

To get a price for your requirements, fill in the enquiry form on this page, call 01708 861 414, or email [email protected].

Birmingham has a broad and varied economy, built on a long manufacturing history alongside a modern logistics and construction base. Acclaim Handling provides forklift hire to businesses across the following sectors throughout the city and the surrounding West Midlands:

• Manufacturing and engineering, a mainstay of the local economy, where forklifts move raw materials, components and finished goods around factory floors and storage areas
• Automotive and metals, where component suppliers and fabricators depend on reliable handling equipment to keep production lines supplied
• Logistics and distribution, which thrives on Birmingham’s position at the centre of the motorway network, with large warehouses needing constant stock movement
• Construction and civil engineering, kept busy by ongoing city centre regeneration and major infrastructure projects, where diesel and rough-terrain machines are in regular use
• Food and drink production, where hygienic and efficient handling of ingredients and packaged goods is a daily requirement
• Wholesale and trade, where short-term hire helps cover busy trading periods and one-off deliveries

Whatever sector you operate in, our fleet and depot network give us the capacity to keep your Birmingham operation supplied with the right equipment.

Birmingham’s position at the heart of the motorway network, with the M6, M5, M42 and M40 all within easy reach, means our team can generally organise delivery across the city and its surrounding areas efficiently. How quickly a forklift reaches you will depend on the machine you need, current stock levels, and exactly where your site is located.

If your requirement is urgent, the quickest route is to call us directly so we can check what is available and confirm a delivery window there and then. Should your first-choice model be committed elsewhere, our team will look for a suitable alternative from the fleet rather than leave you waiting.

To arrange delivery to your Birmingham site, call 01708 861 414.