Multimodal gets a lift from Briggs Equipment

Briggs Equipment UK is the sole national distributor of Cat Lift Trucks® and warehouse equipment in the UK, providing a wide range of equipment for a broad customer base. With its headquarters and national support centre in Cannock, Briggs people assist and advise in the delivery of long-term solutions that enable customers to develop more efficient and results driven businesses.

Briggs Equipment UK provides innovative, tailored and cost effective solutions for new or used lift trucks, to buy, lease or short-term hire along with comprehensive customer support services. It offers a range of trucks suitable for all applications – over 130 types of materials handling equipment in total.

Briggs Equipment UK is part of Sammons Enterprise Inc. Based in Dallas, Texas, Sammons is one of the world’s largest privately owned companies with assets approaching US$40 billion.

Products and Services

Briggs offers a full range of materials handling equipment designed to provide a total solution to customers materials handling needs Briggs is a company that is customer driven as opposed to being manufacturer led. By taking this approach, Briggs is able to offer the flexibility to match and meet its customer’s needs. So whether the customer wants to make an outright purchase on a new piece of equipment, secure a lease or short-term rental deal, purchase from a stock of quality used equipment or even a mixture of these offerings, Briggs is best positioned to tailor a package that suits.

Asset Management

Briggs Equipment has recently launched a new asset management tool. ‘Speedshield’ is an asset management tool that promotes optimum safety and efficiency, giving customers complete control over their fleet. Speedshield encourages best-practice driver behaviour by enforcing a tailored HSE checklist on start-up. This standard feature gives users a perfect, paperless, online HSE compliance record with exceptions locking out a unit and informing appropriate supervisors. Speedshield is the second instalment of innovative management tools developed by Briggs to works alongside ‘BE Fleet’.

BE Fleet UK, also a division of Briggs enables customers to manage their fleet service costs and monitor real-time data from any internet PC through an innovative web-based application. Easy to set up with no software installation, BE Fleet offers complete fleet visibility including real-time reporting, consolidated invoicing and the ability to review vital fleet statistics across multiple sites. All of these features allow fleet managers to make more informed decisions and facilitate strategic decision making, essential for today’s marketplace. With electronic service dispatch, customers can also book service and dispatch across multiple service providers without having to pick up the telephone.