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Material handling
Telehandlers
A telehandler picks, carries, and places material. It is not an aerial lift. If people need to leave the ground, order a boom or a scissor, or ask the yard whether a manufacturer-approved platform is actually part of the rental.
What to specify
Tell us the load, the height you need to place it, and how far out from the tires that spot is. A telehandler’s capacity falls as the boom extends. “We need to put a unit on the roof” is not enough for a yard to pick a size.
Also say whether you need forks only, a bucket, or a truss boom, and whether the ground is a slab or a jobsite. Rough-terrain telehandlers are common on open construction. They are a blunt tool inside a finished building.
People in the air
Do not plan to stand on the forks. If the work is a personnel platform, that has to be the manufacturer’s platform and the operator has to be trained for that use. A forklift card is not the same thing as aerial-lift training. See the safety page for the OSHA and ANSI names that apply to aerial lifts.
We did not find a sourced published rate for this category in the 22 October 2026 research. The rental company sets the price.