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Premium office space

Road Plate Hire - Office Secure Storage Unit

Using: 10ft Anti-vandal office No site of consequence can operate efficiently without a good site management. But unfortunately sometimes not enough consideration is taken over his or her workspace. So if this has been overlooked and you’ve run out of room for a full size office unit, then our compact 10 ft anti vandal offices…

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Towable Welfares – A home for work

Road Plate Hire - Towable Welfare Unit

Using: Towable welfares Finding and keeping good staff is key to any successful business. And those people of quality who spend their time working on the roadside or on site, for all of it’s deprivations and inclement weather, definitely deserve a safe, clean and secure place to enjoy lavatory facilities, clean their hands, have a…

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Double door containers – The one in, one out policy

Road Plate Hire - Double Door Storage Containers

Using: Secure Site Store – 20ft x 8ft High Cube – Double Door These are a relatively new assimilation into our hire fleet. They have all of the advantages of a normal High Cube 20 foot, but benefit from doors both ends. This means whichever way round the unit is dropped on site, there will…

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Need to keep roadside plant secure? – Pump up the volume!

Road Plate Hire - Onsite Welfare Unit

Using: Secure Site Store – 20ft x 8ft x 9ft 6in High Cube One of our longest standing clients used to suffer very badly with plant being stolen or maliciously interfered with from their invariably roadside job sites. But for many years now they have used 20 foot high cube containers to keep the 3…

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Standing tall?

Road Plate Hire - Secure Storage

Using: Secure Site Store – 10ft x 8ft x 9ft 6in High Cube Sometimes a little more height is needed. That’s why we have some high cube versions of the standard 10ft x 8ft. Being more than foot taller inside, with their elevated roofs, they will hold higher items such as a 2.7 tonne mini…

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Universal roadside storage

Road Plate Hire - Universal Storage

Using: Secure Site Store – 10ft x 8ft We have more of these handy storage units on the hire fleet than just about anything else. A perennial favourite with roadside crews such as gas, water and civil, they can be moved and re-sited with a half decent HIAB, even when they’ve been loaded up with…

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Enough is enough

Road Plate Hire - Secure site storage

Using: Secure Site Store – 8ft x 8ft Sometimes, enough is enough. For instance if you have a piece of machinery that you need to keep secured that’s just less than 8 feet long, why would you clutter things up with a storage unit that’s any bigger than absolutely necessary? Because almost inevitably, you’ll either…

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Just enough room to squeeze one in?

Using: Secure Site Store – 8ft x 6ft A lot of job sites, particularly ones in urban environs, suffer with the twin curses of little spare space and lots of crime and vandalism. Our 8ft x 6ft stores can provide the answer, with a good bit of storage space in a compact package. Being only…

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No room at the Inn? – A tale of 2 trades.

Using: Secure Site Store – 8ft x 5ft Pub refits are very often a high pressure activity, because every day or night they’re not open for refreshment, the precious clientele can slip away, with the risk they may never return. This can put considerable strain on the project. Add that a case where there is…

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Blocking and jacking – Crane strain

Road Plate Hire - Crane removal

Using: NEW Wooden Sleepers For supporting loads whilst jacking, nothing really beats a nicely sawn, hardwood sleeper. Their combination of mass, strength, fantastic performance under compression and fibrous reluctance to slip or shift when stacked in correctly, makes them the engineers first choice when dealing with high mechanical loadings. That’s why when a maintenance job…

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