If your throughput doubles for ten weeks a year, buying a forklift to cover that peak means paying to park it for the other forty-two. Renting is not always cheaper, but the maths is usually clearer than people expect.
Rent when the need is short, seasonal or uncertain; when you want a specific unit for one job; or when you are testing whether a different class of truck suits your operation before committing capital.
Buy when utilisation is steady and high, when the unit is core to daily operations, or when you have a service programme that keeps residual value up.
A lot of fleets end up with both: owned units for the baseline, rentals layered on top for the peak. Call us with your throughput numbers and we will help you work out where the line sits.