How does Nexus handle Thorough Examination on forklifts and lifting equipment?

Every Thorough Examination certificate is captured against the hire record — validated before the truck leaves the depot and downloadable on demand. The Iris® Lift & Operator dashboard surfaces upcoming TE expiries with proactive alerts, so recertifications are booked before the truck becomes an HSE-stop risk — not after a warehouse inspector flags one out of date.

Are operator certifications (ITSSAR, RTITB, AITT) tracked alongside the kit?

Yes. Operator certifications are captured against the named operator and the specific truck class — counterbalance, reach, narrow-aisle, rough terrain — with expiry alerts that surface alongside equipment compliance. Equipment cert and operator cert in one view, so a category-correct operator pairing is auditable before an HSE inspector asks the question.

What happens if a reach truck or counterbalance goes down mid-shift?

Off-road events are flagged inside Iris® the moment they're reported, with engineer attendance tracked against the supplier's signed SLA. Replacement kit is sourced through the wider 125+ supplier network where the original supplier can't fulfil — so an aisle doesn't sit dark waiting on one supplier's engineer diary.

Can existing forklift supplier relationships be onboarded into Iris®?

Yes. Iris® is supplier-agnostic. Existing forklift supplier relationships can be onboarded into the platform alongside the Nexus accredited network. You keep the suppliers you trust; we consolidate how you manage them — including Thorough Examination, operator certs, Pre-Use Inspections, damage, and reporting.

How is Nexus different from a hire company?

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.

How does Iris® work with my existing suppliers?

Iris® is supplier-agnostic. We work with our accredited network of 125+ suppliers across 650+ branches, and we can onboard suppliers you already have relationships with. The platform doesn't restrict your choice — it consolidates how you manage that choice.

How much admin time can Nexus actually save?

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. Iris® eliminates most of it. The exact saving depends on your hire volume and current process — we model it for you in a demo.

What's covered under compliance management?

Iris® tracks LOLER, LBT, PMI, MOT, servicing schedules, and all associated paperwork in real time. Certificates are pre-validated, digitised, and downloadable. Expiry reminders fire automatically. The compliance dashboard gives you a live audit trail across your entire hire estate — no chasing, no spreadsheets.

What categories of hire does Nexus cover?

Five categories: Site & Ground Works (plant), Material Handling (forklifts, telehandlers), Access Equipment (MEWPs, scaffolding), Site Setup & Welfare (cabins, infrastructure), and HGV & Specialist Fleets (rigids, articulated, specialist HGV, light commercials). All managed through one platform.

How are damage claims and fines handled?

Both run through Iris® with full digital audit trails. Damage claims are pre-validated against supplier SLAs, with engineer and assessor reports captured digitally and overcharging challenged on your behalf. Fines are processed, validated, and available within 5 days, with driver, operator, and vehicle attribution stored against the hire record.

How do I get started?

Book an Iris® demo. We'll walk you through the platform, model your potential admin saving, and show you exactly what consolidated hire management looks like for your operation.

Material Handling - Nexus Rental

Material Handling Hire —
LOLER-Compliant. Loadable Tomorrow.

Counterbalance, reach, rough-terrain, telehandlers. Thorough Examinations in date, operator certifications verified, and next-working-day delivery on standard kit — across the 125+ supplier network.

The category where the compliance burden is twice the weight of the kit. Forklifts and lifting equipment need Thorough Examination every 6 or 12 months, operators need category-specific certification (ITSSAR, RTITB, AITT), and the new line goes live Friday whether or not the reach truck arrives Monday. Nexus consolidates both compliance axes — equipment and operator — into a single Iris^® dashboard, sourced through one supplier relationship.

Every class of forklift, telehandler and warehouse truck.
One supplier relationship.

Material handling equipment for warehouse operations, distribution centres, construction sites, and yard logistics — sourced across the Nexus 125+ supplier network. Whether the hire is a 1.5t counterbalance on next-working-day delivery or a 17m telehandler for a civils project, it's coordinated, governed, and reported through the same platform.

i. Counterbalance

Counterbalance forklifts.

1.5t to 16t, diesel, LPG, and electric. The volume workhorse — for warehouses, yards, and DCs running standard pallet movement. Next-working-day delivery on standard specifications across the network.

ii. Reach & warehouse

Reach trucks & warehouse equipment.

Reach trucks, narrow-aisle (VNA) trucks, order pickers, pallet trucks, stackers. The internal-DC kit where downtime drops an aisle and operator licensing is class-specific.

iii. Rough terrain & telehandlers

Telehandlers & rough-terrain forklifts.

Telehandlers (fixed-boom, rotating, heavy-lift to 17m+), rough-terrain forklifts, masted variants. The kit that works the yard line alongside plant — and bridges into Site & Ground Works compliance.

iv. Specialist lifting

Specialist lifting.

Side-loaders, container handlers, heavy-lift forklifts (to 50t+), hoists, and bespoke lifting equipment. Where standard procurement falters and supplier-network breadth becomes the differentiator.

The standards every forklift supplier in the network is governed against.

Material handling carries the heaviest dual-compliance load of any hire category — Thorough Examinations on the equipment, category-specific certifications on the operator. These are the standards every Nexus supplier signs up to, tracked via Iris^® scorecards, and audited annually across the network.

Equipment cert and operator cert.
One dashboard.

Material handling carries a compliance burden no other hire category does. Two axes, not one. Every truck needs a Thorough Examination (LOLER, 6- or 12-monthly). Every operator needs class-specific certification — counterbalance, reach, rough terrain, narrow-aisle — issued by ITSSAR, RTITB or AITT, expiry-dated. An HSE inspector walking your warehouse floor will check both. So will a Tier 1 audit.

The Iris^® Lift & Operator dashboard surfaces both axes in one view — asset paired with operator, both compliance windows visible, both expiry alerts proactive. Status flagged across the entire estate, so site teams act on what's at risk before the auditor arrives, not after the truck is parked.

See your forklift fleet on one platform.

Material handling carries a dual-compliance load no other hire category does — and a downtime cost the warehouse manager pays for, hour by hour. Fragmented across suppliers, the admin compounds. Consolidated, it reduces to one platform, one team, one invoice.

Nexus is the consolidation layer that turns that fragmentation into one operation. A 30-minute Iris^® demo shows you exactly what your forklift fleet looks like when equipment compliance, operator certification, and supplier coordination stop being three separate jobs.

The intelligence layer behind every hire.

Industry experts. Not order-takers.

Numbers, answers, and the brochure.

Material Handling Hire —
LOLER-Compliant. Loadable Tomorrow.