News Item: HSS Brings Back Printed Hire Guide
The Hire Service Company returns to printed catalogues in response to demand
The HSS hire guide has been loved and trusted as one of THE industry’s go-to sources of information for decades. But for the last 5 years, it’s only been available in a digital format.
Now, for 2025, HSS – the UK’s original tool and equipment hire company – has decided to return to old-school ways and is bringing back a printed catalogue.
CEO Jon Overman explains why: “For a long time, our hire guide has been a kind of comfort blanket for tool hire, a valuable reference tool for customers and colleagues alike. It’s always been available digitally but both our customers and colleagues have told us they’ve missed having an actual catalogue.
“They said that digital is all well and good but that they like having a printed copy to thumb through, to scribble notes on, to have to hand in the office or in their glovebox. So much so, that some people are still using old printed copies from 2019 held together with tape! And when we mentioned to customers that we might be bringing it back, we actually ended up with a waiting list!
“With that much love for our hire guide, and with our focus on service and delivering what customers want, we felt it was only right to put it back into print this year”.
The 130+ pages are bursting with the kit customers hire most often, along with detailed technical specifications and important safety considerations. You can pick up your free copy from any of HSS’s local branches, nationwide.
During January, HSS is also offering “random acts of breakfast” and giving out Greggs, Birds Bakery and other local café vouchers to customers in a drive to help make the cold mornings a little more palatable.