Here are four ways that offering Hyster® forklifts and equipment can help you deliver what your customers need.
1. Dependable toughness
Hyster lift trucks have toughness in their design DNA. When looking to rent materials handling equipment, many businesses in tough industries will choose a Hyster truck. That’s because they feel assured that they will get the durability they need, even in intense operations and harsh environments.
Hyster, along with our local dealers, can also work with you to establish an appropriate ongoing maintenance plan. A proactive and preventative approach helps support greater equipment uptime, giving your customers confidence that you have the machines to help keep their operations running. With the correct approach to maintenance, you can also extend the useful life of your rental units and increase the rental yield of the asset. With a reliable rental fleet, you can maximise your investment while supporting your customers for the longer term.
2. Different options for different applications
In plant hire, you have an extensive range of customers with varying requirements demanding more versatility, efficiency, and durability from their rental units. Hyster can provide a full selection of robust truck types and models, and a large range of options and features, to meet your customers’ demands across a range of industries. From construction sites to timber yards and manufacturers’ storage facilities.
The range includes ICE (internal combustion engine) and electric forklifts for indoor unloading of palletised and crated goods, such as the space-saving S6.0-7.0FT lift truck range and the J1.5-2.0XNT three-wheel electric lift truck series.
Hard-wearing IC lift trucks for outdoor loading and unloading are also available to support tough industry applications, from our newest Hyster A Series H2.0-3.5A lift trucks, through to the Hyster H8-18XD big trucks, for heavy duty handling without compromising operator comfort.
For businesses looking for a plant hire solution to meet seasonal demands, such as those encountered in industrial manufacturing operations, Hyster can also provide manoeuvrable pallet trucks, ideal for storage areas, working on loading docks, or in the back of trailers.
3. Track your assets
Once equipment from your rental fleet is on a customer site, it’s hard to know how and where it is being used, or how it is being cared for. With Hyster Tracker telematics, you have a wireless fleet management solution that enables you to locate all of your Hyster units in the field and understand the demand being placed on them.
Critically, Hyster Tracker provides data to support service and repair requirements for your trucks. For example, impact monitoring and alerts, alongside other incident data. This enables you to keep on top of maintenance and repairs, helping to support your customers with operational uptime, while protecting your own fleet.
In addition, telematics may help reinforce desired operator behaviours by allowing only assigned operators to access the trucks, requiring pre start checks to be completed, and tracking training updates needed. This helps meet regulatory requirements while also helping to reduce the likelihood of costly damage (and downtime) caused by operator error.
4. Meet sustainability demands
Increasingly, businesses have a sustainability agenda and environmental objectives to meet. This means customers may be looking to hire equipment that has the benefit of reduced emissions. Hyster IC lift trucks offer highly fuel-efficient engines which comply with Stage V emissions regulations, making them a compelling choice for those where IC lift trucks are the best fit for the application.
For organisations looking to remove tailpipe emissions from their operations completely, Hyster offers tough electric trucks, suitable for working indoors and outdoors, for loads up to 18 tonnes. This includes durable trucks with lithium-ion batteries, which are free of tailpipe emissions. Lithium-ion batteries are maintenance free, helping to simplify support requirements on your plant hire business’ electric forklift fleet.
Give your customers what they deserve
If it is time to update your rental fleet with a range of Hyster models that will appeal to a wide range of customers and deliver the performance that will make your plant hire business a favoured option. Explore the full Hyster range now.
