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 operates depots across the UK and has over 12,000 machines in its fleet. It serves the infrastructure, construction, facilities management, nuclear, telecoms, TV, film, media and events, aviation, and wind sectors.

Its hire fleet includes boom lifts with working heights from 10m to 58.5m, scissor lifts providing access up to 33.5m, low level access platforms with access up to 8m and safe working loads up to 250kg, tracked booms with working heights up to 31m, truck mounted cherry pickers with access from 13.3m to 90m, van mounts with working heights between 12m and 16.5m, and telehandlers with lifting heights up to 17.5m and lifting capacity up to 4,000kg. Nationwide Platforms provides powered access hire and training. It offers Harness ON™ for safe working at height and my.NationwidePlatforms, a suite of online tools to manage and monitor accounts. The company is certified as a 'Great Place to Work'.

High-level access machinery and formal training sit together at this Bishop's Waltham operation, and the feedback covers both in comparable depth. Various customers describe finding the plant needed for elevated work, while others write about the instruction they received on site. Courses come across as clear and well structured, and the tutors are consistently portrayed as approachable and ready to help. Gary, named in the reviews, is praised for breaking down technical material and making it digestible across the day, a detail that recurs when candidates talk about their IPAF renewal.

Theory and practical assessments are described as informative and run to a professional standard, and reviewers note the quality of the MEWPs available for practice. The thoroughness of the tuition is a point that comes up often, with the balance of classroom and hands-on elements drawing particular appreciation from those who completed refresher training. Staff and instructors alike are remembered for their friendliness, and the machinery on offer for powered access work receives its own share of positive comment from visitors to the site.