Investment in STR fleet

Briggs Equipment has invested £5.5m in its short-term rental (STR) fleet as part of a £20m plan to become the UK's leading distributor of Yale Materials Handling equipment.

The new STR fleet of 450 Yale machines covers counterbalance trucks, order pickers, power pallet trucks and reach trucks, taking the total Yale product range to over 900 with an average age of below 18 months. All the trucks reflect the latest specifications from Yale, to provide customers with optimum efficiency and flexibility.

Allan Parsons, asset manager at Briggs Equipment, says: "STR fleets are usually made up of very old equipment which come with high maintenance and repair costs. Our machines are virtually new which will see fewer breakdowns and will keep service costs to a minimum." All the trucks are highly specified with various modifications including special transmissions, oil cool disc brakes, numerous engine sizes, monitoring systems and speed limiters to ensure optimum safety and comfort.

"STR users often have difficulty in finding the right truck to fit their specific operation; which can pose a real threat to health and safety.With a wide variety of modifications available on our machines, we can provide flexible short-term solutions to fit many different applications," says Parsons.

Currently, Briggs' STR fleet is 30% Yale and in the next six months it hopes to increase this to 55% making a total of 1200 machines.