Crane Hire & Transport Specialists
Tell us about your project and we'll handle the planning, the coordination and the paperwork. One team and one phone number for the whole job, on time, anywhere in the UK.
From compact city-class cranes that fit your restricted-access space to heavy cranes for long-reach or heavy-lifting jobs — each supplied with a qualified operator. Hire on CPA terms, where your team plans the lift, or hand the whole job to us as a full contract lift, where Altida takes full control, end-to-end.
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For all your transport needs — from general haulage to abnormal loads and Hiab vehicles. Route planning, movement orders, police notifications, and escort vehicles all handled in-house, filed before the lorry leaves the yard.
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Scheduled inspections and servicing to ensure adherence to the government's Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness — plus repairs and full overhauls for all commercial vehicles. Run from Altida's Chesterfield workshop, with experienced in-house engineers handling each job from booking through to sign-off.
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The Altida Difference
Every crane firm says it's the best. Every transport firm says it's reliable. What actually sets Altida apart is how the business is run — six deliberate choices, set out below.
The six differences
Most crane firms don't haul. Most transport firms don't lift. On a contract lift, Altida do both — one team, one contract, end to end. The usual setup is two firms and two handovers: once when the crane loads the lorry, again when the lorry meets the crane on site. Miss either window and a full crew stands idle. With Altida, the planning, the machines, the route and the paperwork all stay in-house. That's less for you to manage, and one chain of responsibility for the whole job.
Our crane fleet spans four categories — All Terrain, City, Böcker and Difficult Access — lifting from 2.3 to 150 tonnes, with tandem lifts where the load calls for it. Alongside it runs a specialist transport fleet: artics, step-frame low-loaders, extending rear-steer trailers, plant trucks and Hiab vehicles, moving anything from a single pallet to an abnormal load — with our own fabricators for a bespoke trailer when a load needs one. Tight access, soft ground, heavy loads: we own the machine for the job.
We maintain the fleet ourselves — for quality control, timelines and reliability, and to hold the standard end to end. Altida runs its own workshop in Chesterfield, where experienced in-house engineers handle each job from booking to sign-off: scheduled inspections, servicing, repairs and full overhauls, all to the government's Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness. High standards behind the scenes mean high standards on your site — and we maintain other operators' fleets to the same standard.
Altida is family-run, with years of experience behind every job — operators, planners and engineers who've handled restricted-access lifts, abnormal loads and multi-crane jobs across the UK. We've worked across rail, domestic, utilities, retail, power, petrochemical and plant — moving what each sector relies on, from PAUs and air separation units to transformers and rotors. On an abnormal load, we plan the route, file the movement orders, notify the police and arrange the escorts — all in-house, before the lorry leaves the yard.
Safety comes first, to LOLER and BS 7121. Every lift is planned and run by qualified people — our operators hold CPCS or NPORS cards as standard, and we're fully insured. On a contract lift, the lift plan, method statement, risk assessment and CAD drawing are all drawn up in-house, signed off by one of our experienced Appointed Persons. If conditions change between the survey and the day — wind, access, load weight — that same Appointed Person makes the call on site. On CPA hire, you plan the lift; we supply the crane and a qualified operator to work to your plan.
Our base in Chesterfield sits near the centre of the UK, right on the M1 — within reach of most sites, north or south, from one location. We run crane hire and transport across the country, so a nationwide job still means one quote and one team, wherever the site is.
Big or small projects? We've got you
covered.
Crane hire, or contract lift?
Hire a crane on its own and, by law, the lift plan, the Appointed Person and the liability are yours. Choose a contract lift and they're ours — we plan it, insure it, and sign it off.
Crane hire
Yours to carry
Contract lift
Ours to carry
Recent Work
Our 140-tonne all-terrain crane raising and dismantling a towering steel art installation at Forbidden Forest Festival, Belvoir Castle — on CPA hire, with a qualified operator and 20-tonne endless slings.
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A tandem contract lift, all the transport, and a bespoke engineered bracket to raise 20-tonne grow-light brackets on a tight corner of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium — one team, no third party.
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A 38.5-metre rail moved from Nottingham to Portlaoise on an abnormal-load Special Order — route survey, permits, police escorts and ferries, all planned in-house.
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Common questions
Yes — anywhere in the UK. One of our planners walks the site with you. What they find shapes the quote and, if we're running the lift end-to-end, the lift plan.
Crane hire — we supply the crane and operator. Your team plans the lift, carries the insurance, and takes responsibility on the day.
Contract lift — we deliver the lift end-to-end: planning, crew, insurance, and sign-off all under our contract.
Site visit, lift plan, crane and rigging, qualified operators, insurance, sign-off — all delivered end-to-end. The lift plan is drawn in AutoCAD, in-house.
We are. The lift plan, the operators, the sign-off — all under our contract, all to LOLER and BS7121.
Yes — all of it, in-house. Movement orders, route surveys, police notifications, escort vehicles — managed start to finish.
Yes — cranes that pass through doorways or work indoors, multi-crane operations on a single load, and over-building reaches with long-boom cranes.
That's exactly what Altida does. Most crane firms don't haul, and most transport firms don't lift — so most projects need two suppliers and two handovers. Altida do both, in-house. One contract, one team, one number, and one team responsible for the whole job.
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