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UPHIRE offers high quality Telehandlers at great hire rates and industry leading new purchase prices. Our line-up of Telehandlers includes models from Merlo and Manitou which feature generous sized cabs and plenty of power to do get some serious work done.
Telehandlers are incredibly versatile machines, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. Whether you are working on a mining project, an agricultural job, or need to efficiently move loads of material at your own business or construction site, UPHIRE has the right equipment for you. Telehandlers are designed to handle various tasks, from lifting heavy loads to reaching elevated work platforms, making them an essential piece of access equipment for any job site.
You can feel confident renting from UPHIRE because our telehandlers are durable offering superior safety features and unsurpassed reliability.
Licensing: Telehandlers may only be used by licensed operators. Customers need to ensure that their operators are appropriately licensed for the equipment they are operating. Click here for further information on specific licensing requirements.
Our telehandlers come with a variety of attachments to enhance their versatility. From pallet forks for lifting heavy loads to buckets for material handling, these attachments make telehandlers adaptable to different tasks. Compact telehandlers are also available for projects that require maneuverability in tight spaces. With lift heights that can reach significant elevations, our telehandlers are perfect for both small and large-scale projects.
UPHIRE’s friendly staff, located in Sydney and Brisbane, are ready to help you get started on your job today. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and support. Our team is available to assist you with selecting the right telehandler for your needs, offering on-site consultations, and providing training to ensure safe and efficient operation of the equipment.
UPHIRE’s friendly staff, located in Sydney & Brisbane, are ready to help you get started on your job today. Please call 1300 87 44 73 or send us an email us for a great price and excellent service. Let us help you take your job to new heights.
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When your project demands the lifting power of a forklift, the reach capabilities of a crane and the mobility of a 4WD, a telehandler is the one piece of access equipment that delivers the service of all three. At Uphire, we supply a late-model range of Merlo telehandlers for hire across Sydney and Brisbane, giving construction, civil, mining and agricultural customers the right equipment to move heavy loads safely at height.
Every unit in our rental fleet leaves the yard site-ready, fully compliant with AS 2550.10, and backed by in-house transport, 24/7 breakdown support and a reliable service team that understands what site deadlines feel like right across Australia.
Telehandlers (also known as telescopic handlers) are defined by two numbers: lift capacity in tonnes and maximum lift height in metres. Matching those numbers to your task is the difference between a productive day on the construction site and a machine that can’t quite reach.
The market broadly splits into compact and mid-range telehandlers in the 2 to 7 tonne range (suitable for most residential, commercial and agricultural industries) and heavy-duty units from 12 to 23 tonnes built for bulk earthworks, industrial projects and port-side material handling right across Australia. Rotational machines, which spin the boom through 360 degrees on a slewing turret, scale across both bands and are popular when crane-style placing loads is needed inside a tight working envelope.
Our Merlo telehandler range covers the compact and mid-range categories that suit the majority of construction, civil and agricultural project requirements across Sydney and the wider east coast. Talk to us about the right telehandler to suit your specific needs, from a range of late-model equipment, and the right machine to rent for each stage of the build.
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If you’re not sure which telehandler suits the job, our friendly team will talk you through capacity charts, transport dimensions and attachment combinations so you’re only paying for the right equipment, not more unit than you need.
Our telehandler rental fleet is built around late-model Merlo machines, one of the most reliable names in access equipment for a reason. Every unit is workshop-serviced between hires, fitted with load moment indicators, and delivered with current compliance plates, logbooks and pre-start checklists. Customers get a machine that holds its calibration under weight and doesn’t quit halfway through a pour, which is exactly the service business owners expect when hiring telehandlers for hire.
Every telehandler leaves our yard in line with AS 2550.10 and AS 1418 requirements, which sets the licensing requirements for every operator who needs to run the telehandler on site. Upon request, we can supply the logbook, safe working capacity chart, pre-hire inspection record, attachment certification or an engineer-signed lift plan for a specific attachment with your delivery. If your site requires additional documentation, such as an, our team can provide it before the machine arrives on site upon request.
Telehandlers are bigger and heavier than most people estimate. Our in-house transport fleet handles delivery, on-site positioning and end-of-hire pickup from our Sydney yard in St Marys, plus a depot in Brisbane, which means fast delivery into every major location on the east coast of Australia.
Transport in Sydney is quoted upfront as a fixed fee by postcode and included in your hire confirmation, so there are no surprises on the invoice. We schedule around your site traffic management plan, and can deliver outside standard hours.
Every telehandler hire comes with our 24/7 breakdown service line and a support crew that backs the machine for the full rental term. If a fault triggers on site, our field technicians attend across greater Sydney within hours, not days.
Any planned maintenance work inside your hire is scheduled around your site hours rather than ours. It’s the kind of exceptional service that keeps customers coming back hire after hire, and the efficient, reliable support our business customers depend on.
Not every site can take a 10-tonne machine on a green pad, and not every task needs the reach you first assume. Our sales representatives can visit your location before the hire begins, review the lift zone, photograph access routes and recommend the smallest telehandler that safely does the job.
If your crew doesn’t hold a current certification to operate a telehandler, our Gold Card training courses run regularly from our Sydney branch. For short term jobs, we can also arrange a qualified trainer to attend your site, which is often cheaper than holding up an entire trade while someone gets certified.
Choosing the right equipment for your project comes down to four practical questions:
Rated Capacity at Full Reach
The capacity printed on the nameplate is the maximum lift at a short boom extension. Always check the capacity chart for your actual lift distance, because the same 4T model can be rated well under 1T at full extension when lifting heavy loads at height.
Working Envelope
Measure how high and how far forward you need to place each pallet. Telehandlers lose forward reach as they lift, so a 13m lift height usually means 8 to 9m of usable forward reach at that height.
Ground Conditions
Soft fill, sloping pads and reinforced suspended slabs each change the equipment you should book. Share your site photos with us and we’ll match the tyre pattern, turning circle and axle weight to the surface you’re working on, even across uneven ground.
Attachment Pairing
A telehandler is only as useful as what’s on the end of the boom. Ask about extension tines, buckets, jib hooks, wheelie bin attachments and rotators early, so we can reserve the right accessory alongside the base machine and save a second delivery.
Uphire offers competitive rates and flexible hire options across a wide range of equipment suitable for every site across the full telehandler range, with short term, weekly and long-term rental agreements available. The minimum hire period is one full day, and we offer rolling weekly and monthly rates that reduce the daily cost as the project runs longer.
There’s no upper limit either, with several of our compact telehandlers currently on long-term contracts running past the twelve-month mark, often on civil construction and infrastructure projects.
For dry hire, the operator on your site needs to hold a current Gold Card Licence to operate the machine, and your crew is responsible for managing daily pre-start checks and keeping the supplied logbook up to date during the hire.
The machine must be returned with a full diesel tank and cleaned of mud, concrete spatter and other foreign matter, otherwise a refuel surcharge or wash-down fee will apply. Hire periods don’t end automatically when the job finishes, you simply call our office to log an off-hire number, which stops the meter and triggers the collection.
If you’d prefer not to manage any of that yourself, our wet hire option supplies a licensed operator with the machine. Customers get the lifting capacity, reach capabilities and efficient material handling productivity without taking a tradesperson off the tools to operate it. It’s a practical way to rent a Sydney telehandler for a one-off lift without organising licences or logbooks.
Most of our business customers hire telehandlers alongside other lifting gear across different industries. If you also need scissor lifts for interior fit-outs, boom lifts for tower work, or additional forklifts for the laydown yard, our team can combine the quote into a single rental contract with coordinated delivery. It saves paperwork, reduces transport movements and gives you one point of contact for the rest of the job. Explore our wider range of Sydney telehandler, forklift and access equipment options in one call.
Whether you need a compact unit for a day of landscaping or a high-reach 17m machine for a six-month commercial build, Uphire makes the telehandler hire experience straightforward. Submit a quick quote online and we’ll get back to you within four business hours, even when it’s a telehandler hire in Sydney arranged late Friday for a Monday morning start.
Ready to lift, reach and place? Contact Uphire on 1300 874 473 or submit your quick quote on this page for the best telehandler hire Sydney has to offer, with any telehandler hire in Sydney tailored to your specific needs. Our Sydney and Brisbane teams will have your telehandler for hire on site when you need it, even on weekends or at short notice.
Our most compact unit, the Merlo P27.6 AU, has an overall width of approximately 1.8m and an overall height under 2m with the boom lowered. That clears the majority of standard 2.1m side gates and single-garage roller doors. For openings narrower than 1.8m, we can recommend a fork lift to walk the machine through.
Daily hire is only one part of the comparison. A telehandler typically carries a lower base rate than a crane truck, doesn’t require a separate operator if your crew is licensed, and stays on site for repeated lifts rather than billing by the hour. Crane trucks are still the right call for more complex lifts. For most multi-lift days under that envelope, a telehandler is the more cost-effective machine on a per-lift basis.
Most of our telehandlers are rated to travel on gradients up to 15 degrees and lift on gradients up to 5 degrees from level, provided the capacity chart is applied with slope factored in. Anything outside those figures becomes an engineered lift that requires a levelled pad or outriggers. We can supply the specific stability envelope for the model you’re hiring before you plan the lift sequence.
Every unit in our fleet runs reverse alarms, retractable three-point seat belts, amber beacons and reverse cameras as standard. Load moment indicators give the operator a live reading against the safe working limit, operator presence sensors prevent boom movement when the seat is unoccupied, and the current capacity chart is laminated inside the cabin so the operator doesn’t have to guess.
For single-day or weekend tasks where putting your own operator through a half-day refresher doesn’t make sense, our wet hire option supplies a licensed operator with the machine at a combined hourly rate. The minimum engagement is eight hours and the operator brings their own PPE and HRWL paperwork.
Our high-reach Merlo 40.17 and heavy 60.10 units are in near-constant demand, so we recommend booking those with as much notice as possible. Compact and standard telehandlers for hire can generally be delivered next-day across Sydney metro, subject to transport scheduling.
