EWP Servicing & Scheduled Maintenance

Servicing is the routine upkeep that keeps an elevated work platform running well between inspections: lubrication, fluid and filter attention, adjustment, and replacing parts that wear. Across the machine that means looking after the hydraulics, the structure and its pins and bushes, the slew, the controls and interlocks, and the corrosion protection that keeps rust off the steel.

Servicing is not the same as a periodic inspection or a repair. A documented annual inspection by a competent person, and the major inspection that falls due at the 5- or 10-year point depending on the equipment class, are separate activities with their own scope and records. Faults found during a service that go beyond adjustment or wear-part replacement are quoted as mechanical or hydraulic repair work rather than absorbed into the service.

Servicing covers the access equipment classes most fleets run: truck-mounted EWPs including insulated units, self-propelled boom lifts and scissor lifts, trailer-mounted platforms, tracked spider lifts and vehicle-mounted cranes. For truck-mounted units the service can take in the vehicle side as well as the platform, so one visit covers the whole machine. If you run something unusual, tell us the make and model and we will confirm before booking.

Where practical, servicing is carried out on site so the machine is off the job for as little time as possible. Larger work is completed in the workshop. Tell us where the equipment is and how it is used and we will confirm which arrangement suits the work before anything is booked.

There is no single interval that suits every machine. The manufacturer's manual sets the baseline, and the schedule is then adjusted for how the unit actually works: its operating hours and duty cycle, the environment it lives in, and the condition found at each service. A busy machine in a harsh setting is looked at more often than a lightly used one in a mild one.

We build the schedule around your compliance obligations as well as your usage, so servicing lines up with your inspection dates rather than competing with them, and wear is flagged before it becomes a failure.

Every service is documented and added to the machine's service history, so the record stays complete for as long as you own the unit. A consistent, documented history is what supports compliance reviews and holds up the machine's value at resale.

Servicing is quoted per machine or per fleet rather than from a published rate, and a few things move the figure. The class and size of the machine sets the baseline, since a 16m truck-mounted unit has more to look after than a compact electric scissor. The service level due, whether a minor interval or a larger one with fluid and filter changes, matters, as does the condition found on arrival: a machine that has missed services usually needs more adjustment and more wear parts.

Location and access also count. On-site servicing avoids transport but depends on the site being workable; a workshop visit suits bigger jobs. Fleet servicing, where several machines are done in one visit, is generally more efficient per unit than one-off bookings. Any faults found that go beyond the service are quoted separately as repairs, so the service quote stays about the service.