Europcar has launched a new hourly van hire service, available at all UK van hire branches except airports.

This is not the first time that Europcar has offered hourly van hire in the UK, but the service has not been available for some time.

Here are the details of Europcar’s new hourly van hire service:

• Available at all UK branches except airports
• Available for checkouts Monday-Friday (Mon-Wed only in Central London)
• Van hire prices start from £11 per hour (as of 24/01/2012)
• Minimum hire 2 hours, maximum hire 8 hours

Hourly van hire is a popular request by visitors to vanrental.co.uk and is an extremely useful service for quick local journeys – delivering furniture or DIY goods, for example.

Commenting on the new service, Ken McCall, Managing Director of Europcar UK Group said:

“… we know that some motorists may be put off by having to commit to the cost of a full day’s hire, which has always been the traditional way this service has been charged.

With our new Hourly Hire Service we wanted to break the rules to give motorists more flexibility – and take away the barrier of cost.”

This new service means that Europcar joins Hertz in providing hourly car and van hire services across the UK – for full details of both services, visit our Hourly Van Hire page.