A new survey carried out on the vanrental.co.uk website has found that 72% of drivers chose to take the DIY removals option and hire a van last time they moved house.

Driving a van held no fear for most drivers, with 66% saying that they felt ‘comfortable’ driving a van or that it was ‘not too bad’.

Interestingly, hiring a van is such good value that even the 21.3% of drivers questioned who refused to drive a hire van would still hire one, relying on friends or family to do the driving.

Unsurprisingly, most people identified either loading and unloading (35.8%) or paying the bill (37.6%) as their least favourite elements of van hire – although none disputed the cost savings when compared to using a removals company.

The survey also found that hiring a van is a pretty rare activity for most people – of the 2,600 people questioned, only 52.2% had hired a van at all in the last five years – and just 3.5% had hired a van more than once a year in that period.

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