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It's been a while since I hired a van, but the best I can find is £120 for a single day for a lwb transit type. I'm sure when I last did this it was less than £50! Any ideas? Tried all the usual national hire firms.
Cheers,
[url= http://www.northgatevehiclehire.co.uk/our-branches ]Northgate Van Hire[/url] although I think you use your own insurance
Where are you?
Last time I hired a van, I booked a couple of weeks in advance and played around with the days (I was flexible).
Ended up with a mahoosive LWB transit for £32 from Enterprise - a Tuesday if I remember rightly.
I recently had a 7.5t truck with tail lift (biggest possible on old car licence)for a day at about £140 from a local company linked with Sixt. LWB Transit size is around £75, so your deal sounds dear.
My friend hired a luton style van with tail lift last saturday for £65. As spacemonkey says your location would be useful.
Ended up with a mahoosive LWB transit for £32 from Enterprise
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Enterprise (and more locally, Kendall Cars) can be very competitive on van hire. I paid £111 for 2 days with a LWB high-top Transit last year.
Hmm. I'm in Sheffield. Perhaps it's expensive because I was only looking for a Saturday - I'd rather not take a day off work. I have found a cheaper place in Manchester but they only do 2-day hire over weekends.
I hired a Luton van with tail lift for about £50 from Arnold Clark in Sheffield. It was through an online broker type thing
If you check your local B&Q they usually do a van hire by the hour service.
I have used my local one (halifax) a couple of times.
I guess it depends on the time/miles you need it for.
You should definitely be able to get on overnight / weekday for around £40
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Slight aside, anyone estimate roughly how much would a fully loaded luton style cost in fuel today for say, 400 mile round trip (mostly Motorway)? I have nooo idea... 😳
You'll only get around 20mpg in a fully loaded Luton van, maybe up to 25 if you drive like a vicar but low teens if you try to cruise at 90...
So around 20 gallons of diesel which is about £100 at the moment.
What about getting a Man-with-a-van, if it's just a 'delivery' trip?
Cool, Arnold Clark are winning so far at £70 for 24hrs of LWB transit. I expect that can be beaten down a little though if I go through a broker.
The best man-with-van prices start at £190 for a day - I'm doing about 300 miles.
I've always found AC very good for car / van hire. Usually pretty cheap and, surprisingly, not total scum. I've never taken out their damage waiver and never had any bother returning vehicles.
[i]Cool, Arnold Clark are winning so far at £70 for 24hrs of LWB transit. I expect that can be beaten down a little though if I go through a broker.
The best man-with-van prices start at £190 for a day - I'm doing about 300 miles.
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After taking the fuel off it'll 'only' cost an extra £80, so really depends on how much you value you're own time.
Thnks bikemike, much appreciated!