Queensland’s largest privately-owned and operated supplier of height access and scissor lift equipment has called on Isuzu to help transport its equipment around the state
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Height 4 Hire’s trusty Isuzu truck is a proven performer in the field
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Height 4 Hire is a business on the move.
In the past 12 years it has grown an average of 16 per cent a year.
When Ken and Geoff Baker took over in 2010, the business had 57 machines and three staff – now it has 955 machines and 47 employees.
Managing Director Ken Baker says the company specialises in getting people to height safely to do the work they need to do.
The majority of its customers operate in the construction and manufacturing sectors, hiring lifting equipment from anywhere between half a day to 11 years.
“Some weeks we do as many as 700 machine movements,” Ken says.
“So, it’s a lot of mechanical work to get them up to speed to go out on the next hire.”
Height 4 Hire has a dozen technicians working out of two depots in Brisbane doing equipment inspections and servicing.
Every time a lift is returned to the depot, it’s inspected, cleaned and the batteries and diesel are topped up. There’s a more thorough check of each piece of equipment every 90 days and once a year each machine is comprehensively checked, a process that takes more than an hour.
The equipment, which can lift people from 19 feet (5.8 metres) to 135 feet (41 metres), is available for hire through Southeast Queensland, from Brisbane to the Gold Coast in the south and Toowoomba in the west and north to the Sunshine Coast.
Height 4 Hire last year expanded its truck fleet with two FVY 240-300 Auto LWB Tilt Slides and three FYJ 300-350 Auto XLWB Tilt Slides to help deliver and collect its hire equipment.
With each FVY 240-300 having a GVM of 24,000 kilograms and a GCM of 36,000 kilograms and the FYJ 300-350 with a GVM of 30,000 kilograms and a GCM of 45,000 kilograms, each truck is more than capable of delivering several pieces of equipment.
“Once you put on a tilt tray on the back of the FYJ, they can cart about 13 and a half tonnes,” Ken says. “So that’s six 19-foot scissors or more.”
The versatility of the fleet makes it possible for Height 4 Hire to coordinate its approach when it comes to dropping off and picking up gear to ensure maximum efficiency.
“You have to do milk runs in this business to make it all work. So you could have two machines to one site, two to another, two to somewhere else,” Ken says.
“Then when they’re out there, you fill them up from other sites and bring them back.”
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