Forklift Trucks.
Counterbalance forklifts (electric, diesel, LPG), reach forklifts, reach trucks, and rough-terrain forklifts for warehouses, distribution centres, yards, and construction sites.
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- Site & Ground Works Excavators, dumpers, rollers, breakers, compactors.
- Site Setup & Welfare Cabins, fencing, generators, tower lights, CCTV.
- Access Equipment MEWPs, scissor lifts, boom lifts, scaffold towers.
- HGV & Specialist Fleets Tractor units, curtainsiders, tippers, tankers.
- Material Handling Forklifts, telehandlers, reach trucks, pallet trucks.
Iris®
The intelligence layer behind every hire.
125+ supply partners, bookings, compliance, fines, damage, reporting.
The team
Industry experts. Not order-takers.
UK-based plant, equipment and HGV specialists owning every hire end to end.
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Material Handling Hire
Managed by Nexus. Powered by Iris®.
Equipment for lifting and moving materials across warehouses, sites, and facilities. One platform. One team. Every supplier.
Managing material handling equipment across multiple suppliers means multiple compliance schedules, multiple invoices, and overhead your team absorbs without seeing the cost. Nexus consolidates it all through Iris®, with LOLER compliance tracked on every hire and every booking coordinated by our Live Hire Desk.
02 · Scope
All classes accessed through one Iris® account.
What We Offer
Material handling equipment for warehouse operations, distribution centres, construction sites, and yard logistics, sourced across Nexus’ 125+ supply partner network. Whether the hire is a 1.5t counterbalance or a 17m telehandler, it's coordinated, governed, and reported through the same Iris® platform.
Warehouse Equipment.
Pallet trucks, stackers, LLOPs, pump trucks, and order pickers for internal warehouse and distribution centre operations.
Telehandlers.
Compact to heavy-duty, long-reach, rotating, attachments, and specialist attachment configurations. The versatile option for construction sites and yards, working alongside plant.
Specialist Lifting Equipment.
Side-loaders, container handlers, heavy-lift forklifts, and bespoke lifting equipment for specialist requirements.
03 · Service Standards
Service Standards
Material handling equipment carries a heavy compliance burden. Every supply partner in our network is held to the same standards, tracked through Iris® and audited annually, so your team can focus on the operation rather than the paperwork.
01 / LOLER
LOLER compliance tracking and alerts.
02 / Documentation
PDI documentation and regulatory certifications available on demand.
03 / Speed
Fast quotes, rapid deliveries, and prompt collections.
The intelligence behind your operation
Most hire platforms give you tools to manage your suppliers yourself. You get a portal, a few dashboards, and a stack of new admin to do.
Iris® is different. It’s the platform we use to manage your suppliers for you. You get the visibility and control. We handle everything else.
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Your suppliers stay. Your control improves.
Book equipment from any supplier through Iris®. Our live hire desk handles the coordination.
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See everything in real time.
See every piece of equipment on-hire. One dashboard. Automated off-hire alerts.
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One invoice. Total transparency.
One invoice covering all suppliers. Line-item visibility with export toolkits
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Compliance management.
LOLER, Tacho, PMI, LBT, MOT dates tracked automatically. Backup paperwork downloadable on-demand.
07 · The Hire Desk
Industry experts.
Industry experts.
Not order-takers.
The Nexus Live Hire Desk is much more than a booking service. It's our UK-based team of Plant, Equipment & HGV hire experts providing real operational support via live chat, phone, and email.
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Plant, Equipment & HGV sourcing managed on your behalf. Right kit, right place, right time, sourced across 125+ accredited supply partners, 650+ UK branches and 700,000+ assets.
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Delivery and collection audit checks completed for you. Pre-delivery inspections, condition reports, off-hire docs, all captured against the hire record.
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Damage, fines, compliance, and escalations handled end to end. Cases validated against supplier SLAs and challenged on your behalf where overcharging is flagged.
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Invoices pre-checked, validated, and challenged where required. Every supplier invoice validated against signed terms before it reaches your finance team, all underpinned by full visibility and control through Iris®.
11 · Common Questions
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Nexus and Iris®.
Nexus isn't a hire company — we don't own the assets. We're the intelligence layer between you and the UK's hire market. Through Iris®, we manage Plant, Equipment & HGV hire across every supplier you'd otherwise deal with directly. You get one platform, one team, one invoice. We coordinate the network behind the scenes.
We work with our accredited network of 125+ suppliers across 650+ branches, and we can onboard supply partners you already have relationships with. The platform doesn't restrict your choice; it simply consolidates how you manage that choice.
Most businesses spend over two hours and £50–75 of administrative overhead on every hire: sourcing, compliance chasing, invoice reconciliation, off-hire admin. Across hundreds of hires a year, that's a measurable operational cost. Nexus eliminates most of it. The exact saving depends on your hire volume and current process. Try our calculator to see the potential savings for your operation. To view our calculator, click here.
Iris® provides end-to-end compliance management across your entire hired fleet. For Plant and Equipment this covers LOLER certifications, PDI documentation, and PMI tracking. For HGVs this extends to MOTs, laden brake testing, tachograph calibrations, and DVS requirements. All compliance records are pre-validated by our team before being digitised and made available on demand through Iris®. Proactive expiry alerts at 7 and 3 days ensure nothing is missed. Every record is audit-ready, downloadable, and held against the hire record.
Five categories: Site & Ground Works (heavy plant machinery & groundbreaking equipment), Material Handling (forklifts, telehandlers), Access Equipment (MEWPs, scaffolding, powered access), Site Setup & Welfare (cabins, infrastructure, power), and HGV & Specialist Fleets (rigids, articulated, specialist HGV, light commercials). All managed through one platform.
08 · Talk to the Desk
Your Plant, Equipment & HGV hire.
Your Plant, Equipment & HGV hire.
Our intelligence.
Whether you are managing 50 hires a year or 5,000, the complexity is the same. We turn it into a single platform, a single invoice, and a single point of contact. Book a demonstration of Iris® and discover what complete visibility and zero overhead looks like for your operation.