Rental company Plant Hire UK has placed an order worth £11 million (€13.8 million) for more than 200 new JCB T4i telescopic handlers. The deal will push its JCB fleet size past the 1,500-unit mark.

Over the past handful of years, trends within the telehandler industry have typically surrounded weight – debuts of 80,000-pound-capacity monsters to super-compact machines that top out at under-3,000 ...