Nationwide Platforms

Nationwide Platforms is part of the Loxam Group, which has focused exclusively on equipment rental to professionals for more than 50 years. The company has over 12,000 machines on its fleet and depots located across the UK. It is certified as a 'Great Place to Work'. Nationwide Platforms offers powered access hire and training, and serves the infrastructure, construction, facilities management, nuclear, telecoms, TV, film, media & events, aviation, and wind sectors.

Its fleet includes boom lifts with working height access from 10m to 58.5m and outreach up to 24m, scissor lifts providing access up to 33.5m, low level access platforms up to 8m with safe working loads up to 250kg, tracked booms with working heights up to 31m, truck mounted cherry pickers from 13.3m to 90m with self-drive and operated hire options, van mounts with working heights between 12m to 16.5m, and telehandlers for lifting up to 17.5m with lifting capacity up to 4,000kg. It introduced Harness ON™ for safe working at height and offers my.NationwidePlatforms, a suite of online tools for managing and monitoring accounts.

Helpfulness and reliability are the qualities that surface most often in feedback on this Wednesbury access hire and training operation. Customers repeatedly highlight the support they receive, singling out Stacey for her calm, efficient handling of urgent requests and her consistently positive approach, while others describe the team in general as friendly and lovely to deal with. The range of equipment draws praise for its breadth and availability, with machinery described as clean and handovers handled promptly, so that time on site is not lost to waiting around.

Training also features prominently, particularly the IPAF and scissor lift courses, which attendees call informative and well run. On pricing, the picture is mixed in detail: a single day's hire is felt to be costly, yet the cost is judged very good value when equipment is kept for several days at a time. That combination of attentive staff, well-kept plant and courses that people find genuinely useful is what keeps customers returning for powered access and lifting instruction.