Plant hire company invests £9.5m on fleet expansion
One of the UK’s largest fork lift truck and materials handling providers has invested almost £10m to boost its fleet.
Cannock-based Briggs Equipment has added 10 JCB scissor lifts to its rapidly growing access platform fleet.
The deal, one of the first for the recently launched JCB Access equipment division, includes 5.8m platform height S1930E electric scissors, 8.1m S2632E platforms, the higher lift capacity S2646E model and S3246E scissors, which combine a 10m lift height with a 320kg platform capacity.
The total investment is £9.5m as the company looks to double the number of access platforms it has available from 100 to 200 machines throughout 2017.
JCB has been developing and engineering a line-up of powered access machines in secret for the past two years. By the end of 2017 the newly-launched JCB Access business will be offering 27 new platform options.
Allan Parsons, national rental manager, Briggs Equipment, said: “From building contractors and heating engineers to commercial window cleaners and security installers, more and more businesses are engaged in day to day tasks that involve working at height.
“JCB has a deserved reputation for well-engineered products that are built to cope with the toughest challenges, so we had no hesitation in adding its new electric scissor lifts to our equipment fleet.”
Briggs Equipment has been a long-standing customer of local dealer Gunn JCB and the company currently runs more than 80 JCB machines on its fleet. This includes industrial Teletruk forklifts, rough terrain fork lifts, Loadall telescopic handlers and now aerial work platforms.
The company runs its rental operation on a national basis from a network of seven regional depots.
