Fork
Rent enters access market . . . . and the crane market
Fork
Rent, the Ipswich based telehandler rental company, that ordered 1,000
new JCB telehandlers in April, has purchased 25 Manitou rough terrain
boom lifts for its fleet, through Russon access, the ManiAccess dealer.
Most units are the 52ft platform height 180ATJ, model fully equipped with
articulating jib, four wheel drive and four wheel steer.
Guy Nicholls managing director of Fork Rent said that it had frequent requests from its customers for aerial lifts and had decided that now was a good time to enter the market. He said that most of the company’s customers needed heavy duty rough terrain equipment. Chairman Trudi Nicholls told C&A that the company had found Russon Access to be an easy company to deal with a good attitude. She also said that the booms were going out on hire as fast as they were being delivered.
In addition to the access market, Fork Rent is dipping its toe in the
self erecting tower crane market with the purchase of a single FB Gru
self erector from Hos plant. The unit was on display at the recent SED
show.
As published in Cranes & Access July 2006