M O’Brien Achieves Platinum in Sustainability!
We are delighted to have been recognised by Supply Chain Sustainability School (UK) Plant Group and awarded with Platinum Status for their industry leading Plant Charter. The Charter is an outward declaration that organisations are serious about taking action to reduce air quality impacts and carbon emissions. Each signatory to the charter is assessed against […]
M O’Brien takes delivery of multi unit Komatsu PC490 order.
Always nice to get a delivery of new machines, even better when it’s heavyweight earthworks kit in the height of muck shifting season! This new batch Marubeni-Komatsu Ltd PC490 50 tonne excavators bolster our offering of earthmoving equipment which includes; Heavy Excavators, Dozers, Articulated dumptrucks, self propelled rollers. All available with the latest safety features […]
M O’Brien Fleet boosted by JCB Telehandlers
We’re really pleased with our recent delivery of new JCB Telehandlers, the first 15 units arriving last week and ready to be put to work! As always our range of equipment is available with the latest safety features including AI human form recognition cameras as well as hydraulic fork positioners to ensure best practice across […]
Crunching the numbers with Ashvale Haulage
M O’Brien Plant Hire and Ashvale Haulage working hand in hand on an infrastructure project, providing our clients with a full combined offering for Operated Plant hire, Haulage and material supply. A few facts about our haulage fleet that you might not know:• Over 90 FORS Gold compliant 8 wheel tipper vehicles and grabs on […]
M O’Brien Enhances Wheeled Excavators with Xwatch
M O’Brien has continued to integrate advanced safety features into their range of wheeled excavators. This initiative ensures that customers can confidently operate with the latest equipment, adhering to best practice standards. The fleet now boasts over 150 of the easy-to-use height, and slew systems from Xwatch Safety Solutions, complemented by Human form recognition AI […]
Making the Tideway connection!
Lowery Demolition were entrusted with delivering the works involved with creating the new connection for Thames Tideways new super sewer. The link from old to new being corked by a 15m heavily reinforced concrete plug, and steel plate liner, removing this creates the pathway for connection. The Lowery team worked 24 hour patterns utilising specialist […]
Get your 2024 Earthworks season underway with M O’Brien!
2024 is well and truly underway and M O’Brien are on hand to help our customers start the year with the best operators and best equipment available.Our equipment is available with the latest innovations as well as tried and tested features such as: •GPS Machine Control•Slew and Height restrictor systems•Safe Load indicators•Safety Shield Human form […]
M O’Brien Sponsor CPA Stars of the Future awards.
We are thrilled to be supporting the CPA – Construction Plant-hire Association Stars of the future awards once again. This year we are sponsoring both the Plant Mechanic of the year and Mentor of the year categories. The awards shines an important spotlight on apprentices within the construction industry that have been nominated for going […]
Employee Recognition – February
We are extremely proud of our team at M O’Brien Plant Hire, and the efforts of Matt throughout the month of January have landed him the monthly Employee recognition award. Matt has set an excellent example within the hiredesk to take on the M O’Brien values of going above and beyond for our customers! Well […]
Cutting Emissions with MachineMax!
With the use of MachineMax Telematic dashboard our training team have been visiting sites across the UK delivering our “Eco driver” module.Providing guidance and practical training so that our operators understand how to lower the emissions, and most importantly, why we need to lower the emissions produced by our construction activities. The feedback from these training sessions […]