Telehandler (Telescopic Handler) training in London
A telescopic boom on a rough-terrain chassis. Lifts pallets and materials up and out to where a mast forklift cannot reach.
Photo: Manitou MT 1335 telehandler.jpg by Bene Riobó, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
About telehandlers
A telehandler swaps the vertical mast of a forklift for a telescopic boom. That lets it place a pallet of blocks onto a scaffold lift, feed a hoist, load a skip over a hoarding or reach across an excavation. London is one enormous building site, and fixed-boom telehandlers are the staple of the housing schemes, tower blocks, rail and infrastructure jobs and refurbishment projects in every borough, as well as of the plant-hire depots and builders' merchants that supply them. Rotating (roto) telehandlers add a slewing turntable and are used more like a crane, which suits tight urban sites where a mobile crane cannot be parked.
Attachments are a big part of the picture. Pallet forks are standard, but buckets, sweepers, man baskets, crane jibs and grabs all fit the quick-hitch, and each changes the load chart. Reading a boom-angle load chart, and understanding how extending the boom slashes the safe working load, is the heart of the course. So is the ground: a telehandler lifts heavy loads to height on sites where the surface is anything but flat and solid, and on a London site the surface may be a temporary road over a basement.
Our instructors train on your machine at your site, whether that is a depot yard, a film studio backlot, an events site or a live construction site with its own induction and permit arrangements. Candidates usually hold a counterbalance or rough-terrain certificate already; if not, the novice course covers the full syllabus from scratch.
What the course covers
- Pre-use checks including boom, hoses, quick-hitch, tyres and stabilisers
- Load charts: boom angle, extension and attachment weights
- Ground conditions, outriggers and levelling
- Lifting to height and placing loads at reach
- Travelling with loads on rough terrain, slopes and temporary roads
- Attachment changes and the effect on capacity
On site, on your truck, anywhere in London
We bring an accredited instructor to your premises in any London borough or surrounding town. You provide the truck and a safe working area; we provide the theory material, test papers and the HSE-recognised certificate. Novice Forklift Training, Semi-Experienced Forklift Training, Refresher Forklift Training, Conversion Forklift Training are all available for this truck.
Other truck categories
Counterbalance Forklift, Reach Truck, Double Deep Reach Truck, 4-Way (Multi-Directional) Reach Truck, VNA Truck (Man-Up and Man-Down), Bendi and Flexi (Articulated) Forklift, Pivot Steer Truck, Powered Pallet Truck, Pedestrian Stacker Truck, Order Picker (Low, Medium and High Level), Rough Terrain (Masted) Counterbalance, Side Loader.
Telehandler (Telescopic Handler) training questions
Is this the CPCS or NPORS card?
We issue an RTITB, AITT or ITSSAR accredited certificate, which is recognised by the HSE and widely accepted off construction sites and by many principal contractors. If a site specifically demands a CPCS or NPORS card, tell us and we will advise.
Can you train on a live building site?
Yes, provided the site manager can give us a safe area and the candidates are inducted. We work around site hours, permit systems and the quiet-hours conditions that many London boroughs attach to planning consents.
Do you cover rotating telehandlers?
Yes. Roto telehandlers are treated as a separate category because of the slewing function. Ask for a quote for the specific machine.
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