About Plant Hire Rates

What is on this site

One question, "plant hire rates", answered with a quote form that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.

• Operated versus self-drive plant hire: what actually transfers: Operated hire supplies the machine and the operator. Self-drive supplies the machine only, and the training, competence and supervision duties stay with you.
• What a plant hire day rate includes, and the six things it does not: A plant hire day rate is the machine only. Delivery, collection, fuel, damage waiver, minimum hire periods and idle time usually sit outside it. How to compare quotes.
• Mini digger hire rates: what changes the price on a small machine: Mini digger hire rates step by machine weight, hire duration and depot distance. Why a 1.5 tonne machine and a 3 tonne machine are different hires, not sizes.
• Plant hire transport costs: the biggest hidden cost on a short hire: Delivery and collection are two separate charges priced from the depot. On one and two day hires transport often exceeds the machine rate. How to cut it down.

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Contact for a question about the site, or quotes@planthirerates.co.uk. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.

Plant Hire Rates is a free introduction service operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd; we pass your details to plant hire companies who quote you directly. We may receive a fee from providers; you pay nothing and are under no obligation. We are not a hire company and we are not affiliated with HSE, the Construction Plant-hire Association or any body named here. Nothing here is health and safety or legal advice: duties are summarised from HSE guidance read on 14 August 2026 and must be followed in full from the source. We publish no rates because there is no official UK plant hire rate schedule.