Rigid vehicles (5t–26t).
Curtainsiders, box bodies, refrigerated units, and tippers for municipal contracts, retail distribution, and construction materials movement.
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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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Resources
Numbers, answers, and the brochure.
Everything you need to evaluate Nexus before a conversation.
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HGV & Specialist Fleet Hire.
Managed by Nexus. Powered by Iris®.
Heavy Goods Vehicles and specialist transport for logistics, construction, and operations. One platform. One team. Every supplier.
Managing HGV and specialist fleet hire across multiple suppliers means fragmented compliance schedules, fines administration spread across providers, and invoice reconciliation takes days. Nexus consolidates your HGV and specialist fleet hire through Iris®, with compliance, damage claims handling, and fines coordinated by our Live Hire Desk.
02 · Scope
All classes accessed through one Iris® account.
What We Offer.
Whatever you move, wherever you move it, Nexus has the vehicle. Rigid, artic, specialist, and light commercial, all sourced across our 125+ accredited supplier network, managed through Iris®, and consolidated into one relationship, one invoice, and one compliance trail.
Articulated vehicles.
Tractor units and trailers for trunking, container haulage, and high-volume national operations.
Specialist.
Low loaders, tankers, refuse collection vehicles, mobile cranes, Hiab 12–32t, and traffic management vehicles. Sourced across the full supplier network for requirements that a single supplier cannot always fulfil.
Light commercial vehicles.
Vans, Lutons, and tippers. Managed alongside the HGV fleet on the same platform, the same compliance trail, and the same invoice.
03 · Service Standards
HGV Service Standards.
Operational standards on HGV hire need to hold up to a phone call from the Traffic Commissioner. These are the standards that every Nexus supplier signs up to in written SLAs, all of which are tracked via Iris®.
01 / Breakdown
24/7 breakdown support.
02 / VOR attendance
VOR attendance · within 120 minutes.
03 / VOR duration
Average HGV VOR · under 5 days.
04 / MOT
95%+ MOT pass rate.
05 / Compliance
Compliance paperwork provided upon delivery.
06 / Damage
Damage notifications within 5 days from end of hire.
07 / Fines
Fines processed, validated and available via Iris® within 5 days.
04 · Transport Manager Assurance
Your O Licence is your responsibility.
Your O Licence is your responsibility.
Iris® keeps you ahead of it.
A missed PMI, an overdue tachograph calibration, or a laden brake test that can't be evidenced isn't just an operational problem — it's a risk to your licence.
Every compliance event across your hired HGV fleet is tracked in one place. MOTs, PMIs, tachograph calibrations, laden brake tests, and LOLER certifications — all digitised, pre-validated, and available on demand. Proactive alerts at 30, 7, and 3 days before expiry mean nothing falls through the gap. Audit-ready records, one click away.
Compliance planners are configurable by category, giving you a forward view of every upcoming inspection across the fleet. No surprises. No missed deadlines. No risk to your licence.
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
Common questions about
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Common questions about
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.
