If you need to hire a van between now and Christmas, we’d strongly suggest booking as soon as possible to avoid missing out — or having to pay a higher rate than usual.
What’s the problem?
In the run-up to Christmas, parcel delivery firms, couriers and much of the transport and retail industry needs more vans than usual, to meet the massive surge in demand associated with Christmas shopping patterns and home delivery.
Many of these extra vans come from daily van hire companies such as Europcar, Hertz and Thrifty, meaning that if you need to rent a van at short notice, you may find you cannot get what you need locally.
Here at vanrental.co.uk, we supply live prices from National, Europcar, Thrifty, Hertz, Sixt and Argus Car Rentals — and we’ve noticed a serious drop in quote availability over the last couple of weeks, along with a rise in certain rental rates.
Don’t leave it too late!
Van hire bookings are almost always made at the last minute: a large proportion of the bookings made through vanrental.co.uk are for hires that take place the same week, often the next day.
Normally this is fine, but as Christmas approaches leaving your booking to the last minute is a big gamble: our advice is to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Remember, our unique van hire search engine allows you to see live quotes from most of the UK’s biggest van hire companies: we don’t add anything to these prices, and your booking is made directly with the company concerned.