Van hire question

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ACCYSTAN

763 posts

121 months

Monday 23rd October 2023
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My pal hired a Luton van recently from enterprise flex e rent (not the same as enterprise hire cars you see at the airport, a different division of the same firm).

He had to give them 2 weeks notice to get it to the branch but I know he said they were by far the cheapest he could find.



psi310398

9,097 posts

203 months

Monday 23rd October 2023
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Another thought.

I had to take a load down to North Italy from London recently. Paying a bit more and getting an auto box saved my knees a lot of pain! Same for urban stop start driving.

It was a Renault IIRC, and surprisingly comfortable to drive long distance.

Tractor Driver

99 posts

30 months

Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Definitely get something bigger than you think you’ll need. My first move out of my parents house involved a borrowed cattle trailer behind my Dad’s Daihatsu Fourtrak.

Three years later I moved to the other end of the country and somehow managed to fill a 7.5t truck that I hired one way. Still not clear how I accumulated so much stuff over three years!

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,255 posts

235 months

Wednesday 25th October 2023
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It was in July, so I'd imagine the goods have been shifted biggrin

Snow and Rocks

1,891 posts

27 months

Wednesday 25th October 2023
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If you're travelling any significant distance it's worth noting that running flat out at 75/80 to keep up with motorway traffic in a luton van will result in a fairly serious fuel bill, cruise along with the lorries though and they're generally not too bad.

Enterprise up here tend to have sprinters which are usually half decent to drive.