Forklift hire in Telford — local experts based just minutes away

Davison Forklift Ltd is your local forklift hire specialist in Telford. Based in Shifnal, East Shropshire — just 6 miles from the heart of Telford — we have been supplying forklift hire, forklift sales, and materials handling solutions to businesses across the town and the wider Shropshire region for over 45 years. No national provider can match our combination of local presence, fast response times, and genuine knowledge of the Telford business community. When you need a forklift, we’re the closest established depot you’ll find.

Telford is one of the UK’s most significant planned industrial towns, purpose-built to support manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and distribution at scale. Its network of industrial estates — including Stafford Park, Hortonwood, Halesfield, and Tweedale — is home to hundreds of businesses with active and ongoing materials handling requirements. From large production facilities and distribution warehouses to smaller engineering workshops and trade operations, the breadth of commercial activity across Telford means we regularly serve a wide variety of customers with very different equipment needs. Whether you’re on one of the major estates or operating from a smaller commercial unit in Wellington, Oakengates, Donnington, or anywhere across the Telford conurbation, we can get the right machine to you quickly.

We offer a comprehensive range of forklift hire solutions including diesel, LPG (gas), and electric counterbalance forklifts across a wide capacity range. Every unit in our hire fleet is thoroughly maintained and safety-checked before dispatch from our Shifnal depot. Short-term and long-term hire arrangements are both available, and next-day delivery to anywhere in Telford is standard on most hire units (subject to availability) — with same-day or faster turnaround often possible given our proximity.

Our hire fleet extends well beyond standard counterbalance forklifts. We supply reach trucks, powered pallet trucks, electric stackers, order pickers, side loaders, and heavy-duty machines for high-capacity production and warehousing environments. For construction, civils, and outdoor projects — common across Telford’s ongoing development activity — we provide telehandlers and rough terrain forklifts. Agricultural machinery and tractor hire is also available for businesses operating in the rural areas surrounding the town.

As authorised UK dealers for Clark and Ausa, we sell new and used forklifts for businesses where long-term ownership makes more sense than hire. Our sales team can guide you through the full range — from compact lithium-ion pallet trucks to high-capacity diesel counterbalances — and advise on whether purchase, lease, or hire best fits your requirements and budget. As a local dealer, we also provide ongoing manufacturer-backed support for everything we sell.

Davison Forklift Ltd provides comprehensive forklift servicing, planned maintenance contracts, and rapid-response breakdown support for all makes and models of forklift truck. Our engineers are based locally and cover the whole of Telford, meaning response times are faster than you’d get from a provider based further afield. We carry a comprehensive stock of genuine spare parts for leading brands including Clark, Hyster, Linde, Doosan, Samsung, and Lansing — ensuring fast, effective repairs that minimise your downtime and keep your operations running.

We carry out LOLER inspections and thorough examinations of lifting equipment at sites across Telford and the surrounding region, keeping your fleet legally compliant with all current UK health and safety legislation. Flexible finance options — including lease purchase and lease rental — are available for businesses looking to invest in equipment without a large upfront commitment.

For forklift hire in Telford, service and maintenance, LOLER inspections, or new and used forklift sales, call our team today. We’re 6 miles away in Shifnal — close enough to respond fast, experienced enough to get it right.