Aisle Master Articulated Forklifts

Articulated forklifts are available on hire and lease, depending on what is free in the fleet at the time. Our own engineers service and examine Aisle Masters, and we run articulated (pivot steer) training at our centres and on customers' sites.

Acclaim has been trading since 1982 and is the biggest independent supplier of used forklift trucks and materials handling equipment in the UK. Success built on quality service.

Call 01708 861 414 or browse our articulated forklifts.

What Aisle Master builds

Aisle Master is part of the Combilift group, and Combilift's global headquarters and state-of-the-art facility are in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. If you are also looking at Combilift multi-directional or side-loading trucks, they come from the same manufacturer. See our Combilift page.

An Aisle Master is an articulated counterbalance truck: the front section pivots, so the truck can turn into a rack without the whole chassis swinging round. Aisle Master trucks work in aisles as narrow as 1.6 m, with lift heights up to 15 m.

AC electric Aisle Master

The AC electric Aisle Master lifts 1,500 to 3,000 kg, with masts from 4,300 mm to 15,000 mm. It runs a 19.5 kW AC traction motor on 48 V, with batteries from 620 Ah to 930 Ah. Maximum travel speed is 16 km/h; lift speed is 0.4 m/s laden and 0.5 m/s unladen; gradeability is 12% laden and 15% unladen.

LPG Aisle Master

The LPG model lifts 2,000 kg, with masts from 4,300 mm to 12,400 mm, a 3.0 litre GM water-cooled engine, hydrostatic drive and a closed-loop fuel system as standard. Ground speed is 11 km/h and gradeability is 15% laden and unladen. It is ideal for indoor and outdoor operation.

Aisle Master Order Picker

There is also a dedicated order picker: 2,000 kg capacity, mast range 4,300–12,100 mm, 600 mm load centre, the same 19.5 kW AC traction motor with a choice of 620, 775 or 930 Ah batteries, and a ground speed of 8 km/h.

If you are picking cases rather than moving full pallets, look at our order pickers and VNA equipment as well.

Aisle Master trucks Acclaim holds

Acclaim's Aisle Master stock is rated 1,500 kg to 2,000 kg and includes the 15SE, 15SHE, 20SE and 20WHE. Stock moves. Check the articulated forklifts listings for what is on the yard today, or ring 01708 861 414 and we will tell you.

We also stock Flexi and Narrow Aisle articulated trucks, so if the spec you need is not sitting on an Aisle Master today there may be an equivalent that is.

Buying new: factory orders

Acclaim can order new Aisle Master machines direct from the factory. Tell us the aisle width, the top beam height and the heaviest pallet you handle, and we will spec the mast and the truck against it. We supply the machine, deliver it, service it and keep it in parts.

Buying used

The vast majority of our used trucks are ex-own-hire-fleet, machines we bought new, hired out and maintained ourselves. We know their history because we wrote it.

Before a used machine goes to a customer it is inspected thoroughly against our standards. Every used machine is supplied with a current report of thorough examination. We also refurbish, if you want a machine brought back further than a pre-sale inspection would take it.

See our used equipment listings, or ring us to ask what is on the yard.

Hiring an Aisle Master

There is no minimum hire period. You can have a machine for a day if that is all you need. The minimum charge is one week at the weekly rate.

If a hired truck does not work you get your money back on it, we will send an engineer out to fix the machine, and if we judge it necessary we will put a prop-up machine in while yours is down. That applies to everything we hire, not just forklifts. See forklift hire.

Service, parts and thorough examination

Acclaim runs comprehensive and planned maintenance contracts with our own engineers.

Acclaim is CFTS accredited and the accreditation is current: a CFTS examination covers LOLER and PUWER together and gives you one examination and one report. We examine machines we did not supply, and we examine lifting accessories (slings, chains, forks and attachments) as well as the trucks. See LOLER thorough examinations.

We supply Aisle Master and Combilift parts, along with STILL, Hyundai, Flexi Narrow Aisle and Lonking. See forklift parts.

Finance, training, transport and cover

Finance. Outright purchase, lease purchase, contract hire and operating lease, on new and used machines.

Operator training. Acclaim is RTITB accredited with nine in-house instructors. See training.

Delivery and transport. We deliver nationwide; the fee depends on the postcode. Our forklift transport service is open to third parties, for all machine types.

Accreditations. CFTS, ISO 9001, ISO 45001, UKMHA, SafeContractor, RTITB, JOSCAR and Cyber Essentials. See health and safety compliance.

Where we cover. Eight depots: South East (head office, Rainham), East Anglia, East (Pinchbeck), Midlands, West, Southern, Liverpool/North and South Coast.