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Nottingham van hire: Arnold Self Drive

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Arnold Self Drive logoI’m very pleased to welcome Arnold Self Drive to vanrental.co.uk.

Arnold Self Drive is based in Arnold, Nottingham, and is an independent family firm with more than 20 years’ experience in the hire business.

The firm offers van and minibus hire along with servicing and MOTs from its base on Darlton Drive, Nottingham. Here’s a full list of vans available at Arnold Self Drive:

  • Small vans (e.g. Vauxhall Combo/Volkswagen Caddy)
  • Short wheelbase panel vans (e.g. Ford Transit SWB)
  • Long wheelbase panel vans (e.g. Ford Transit SWB/Peugeot Boxer)
  • Extra-long wheelbase panel vans (e.g. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter XLWB)
  • Luton vans with tail lift
  • Removal vans (Loloader/maximover) — these are like larger lutons to provide maximum space for lightweight/bulky items like furniture

All vehicles are fully insured and out of hours drop-off is available if required.

Here’s the firm’s full address including postcode, for sat nav users. Arnold Self Drive is located at the Rolleston Drive end of Darlton Drive:

1, Darlton Drive,
Arnold,
Nottingham,
NG5 7JS

To find out more or get a quote, contact Arnold Self Drive direct:

If you’d like to add details of your self-drive van or minibus hire business to vanrental.co.uk, visit our advertising page — click here.

[EXPIRED] SAVE up to 10% on Hertz Van Rental — EXCLUSIVE!

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Hertz Van RentalIt’s the June 1st which means summer is officially here!

To make it extra special, we’ve got an exclusive 10% discount code for Hertz Van Rental!

If you’re moving house, planning a big DIY project or having a clear out, you can cut the cost with vanrental.co.uk and Hertz.

Here are the details:

*** THIS OFFER HAS NOW EXPIRED ***

  • Offer: 10% Off Hertz Van Rental + collect Nectar points
  • Start: 1 June 2015
  • Expires: 7 June 2015
  • DISCOUNT CODE:   778647
  • Valid for pick up period 1st June – 28th June 2015

 

 

 

Terms and conditions may apply: see Hertz website for details.

Bracknell van hire: Limesquare Vehicle Rental

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Limesquare Vehicle RentalI’m very pleased to welcome out latest advertise, Limesquare Vehicle Rental of Bracknell, to vanrental.co.uk.

Limesquare offers a comprehensive car, van and minibus hire service and has expanded from a background in long-term hire to offer daily rental to corporate and retail customers.

The firm’s fleet extensive fleet of rental vans includes:

  • Small/car-derived vans — e.g. Vauxhall Combo
  • Short wheelbase panel vans — e.g. Volkswagen Transporter
  • Long wheelbase low roof van — e.g. Vauxhall Vivaro LWB
  • High roof medium wheelbase van — e.g. Volkswagen Crafter MWB
  • High roof long wheelbase van — e.g. Volkswagen Crafter LWB
  • Luton van w/ tail lift — e.g. Volkswagen Crafter Luton
  • 3.5t dropside vans
  • 3.5t tipper vans
  • 3.5t double cab tippers

Limesquare also offers 7, 9 and 17 seater people carriers and minibuses, for customers seeking a self-drive hire vehicle that can handle larger numbers of passengers.

Limesquare’s Bracknell branch is also the firm’s head office and is located at Continuity House, on London Road in Bracknell (postcode for sat navs is RG12 2XH).

Limequare Vehice Rental also has daily van hire locations at Chertsey, Grantham, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Peterborough and Swindon.

For more information contact Limesquare Vehicle Rental directly on:

If you’d like to see your van hire company listed on vanrental.co.uk, click here for details of our advertising options.

How to get a UK driving licence check code for hiring a car or van (illustrated guide)

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On 8 June 2015, the paper counterpart to the UK driving licence is being scrapped, and will no longer be accepted by vehicle hire companies in the UK or abroad.

This is being known as the paperless licence change — your licence will now be made up of your Photocard and the DVLA’s online records of your entitlements and convictions.

As the Photocard doesn’t carry details of penalty points, hire companies will have to carry out an online check on every driver to see if their licence is valid when they pick-up a hire vehicle. This will require a driving licence check code.

Hire companies are advising all drivers to obtain a driving licence check code from the DVLA using a new gov.uk online service.

I thought I’d give it a try to see how well the new system works. The answer, happily, is that it’s quick and simple, assuming you have internet access.

You will need your driving licence number and your National Insurance number to get a licence check code.

How to get your driving licence check code

Here’s an illustrated guide showing how to get the code you will need for a hire vehicle licence check from 8 June 2015:

(please note these images were taken on 19 May 2015 — the actual pages may change as the system develops)

1. Start here: www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence

View your driving licence info

Click the View now button to continue.

2. You’ll then be asked to enter your driving licence number, National Insurance number and the postcode on your driving licence into a short form:

Enter licence and NI details

That’s it!

3. You’re then shown a page with several tabs, on which you can view your licence details, your current penalty points and disqualification history, and a complete list of vehicles your are entitled to drive.

Click on each tab to see the information:

View your full driving licence info

4. However, the fourth option (right-hand side) is the one you will need for hiring a vehicle: Share your licence information

How to get driving licence check code

Click on the Create a code  button to create a licence check code to use when hiring a vehicle.

Remember:

  • These codes are only valid for 72 hours (3 days) 
  • You will still need your driving licence photocard when you collect your hire vehicle

Here’s what you get:

Example of a UK driving licence check code

5. I’d suggest you use the ‘View, print or save your licence information‘ link to print out full details of the check. This opens up in a new window as a PDF file (Acrobat Reader file).

You can then print this out and show it to the hire company, who can choose whether to go online and use the check code or accept your print out.

Who needs to do this?

If you are planning on hiring a vehicle using a UK driving licence after 8 June 2015, you need to do this. This applies whether you are hiring in the UK or abroad and for all types of vehicle.

All hire companies will ask for this information unless they already have a computerised alternative system in place (most don’t, yet).

Discount code: SAVE up to 5% on Hertz Van Rental [EXPIRED]

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Hertz Van RentalDo you need to hire a van in May?

We have a 5% discount code for Hertz Van Rental which is valid until 31 May.

Simply enter the discount code below when making a booking on the Hertz website.

** THIS OFFER HAS NOW EXPIRED **

Here are the details:

  • Valid from: 18 May 2015
  • Expires: 31 May 2015
  • DISCOUNT CODE: 778636

 

 

 

Terms and conditions may apply, see Hertz website for details.

EXCLUSVE DISCOUNT: Save up to 10% on Sixt Van Rental [EXPIRED]

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We have an exclusive Sixt Van Rental discount code this week

SAVE up to 10% on Sixt Van Rental.

Sixt has van rental locations all over the UK, including many smaller towns — there’s sure to be one near where you live.

**THIS OFFER HAS NOW EXPIRED**

Here are the details:

Valid from: 11 May 2015

Expires: 17 May 2015

Visit discount book page: CLICK HERE

 

 

Terms and conditions may apply, see Sixt website for details.

Why van hire companies may refuse your UK driving licence without online access code

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Update 19 May 2015: We’ve produced a step-by-step guide showing how to get a driving licence check code.

Anyone planning to hire a van (or a car) in June, including overseas, needs to remember that the paper counterpart of the UK driving licence will no longer be valid from 8 June.

Currently, details of any endorsements and convictions are kept on the paper part of your licence, which you need to show when you hire a vehicle. However, from 8 June, this information will only be available online, so hire companies will need to check drivers’ details online when checking their licences.

This applies when for car and van hire abroad, as well as for car and van hire in the UK.

How will it work?

Although it’s possible for a hire company to phone the DVLA and check your licence details, they won’t be keen on this, as it costs around 51p per minute and is not a 24/7 service.

The only practical solutions will be online — and that means that you, the hire customer, will need to be prepared to help.

1. Share My Driving Licence

Most hire companies are going to be relying on hire customers providing them with access to their online details using a new DVLA system called Share My Driving Licence.

You will need to visit this site within 2 days of picking up your hire van or car in order to generate a unique access code that the hire company can use to view your driving licence details online.

Share My Driving Licence is free to use, but to generate your access code, you will need to provide the following information:

  • Your driving licence number
  • Your National Insurance number
  • The postcode on your driving licence

(this system doesn’t work for licences issued in Northern Ireland)

If you try to collect a hire vehicle without providing a Share My Driving Licence code, you may be able to do it on the day — but only if you have your National Insurance number with you and are able to get internet access. It’s definitely going to be easier to do it in advance.

2. Surely there’s a better way?

LICENCECHECK RealTime

LICENCECHECK RealTime is the first product to provide real-time UK driver licence checks for companies ahead of the abolition of the paper counterpart.

Obviously, the sensible solution to this problem is for hire companies to be able to check your driving licence details online for themselves, without you needing to jump through hoops beforehand.

This will be possible, but the DVLA is relying on commercial partners to develop new systems to provide real-time driving licence checks, and at present, there’s only one such system available in the UK, to the best of my knowledge.

What’s more, that system, called LICENCECHECK RealTime, was only launched at the start of March, so it won’t be in widespread use, yet.

I suspect that all the big companies will rapidly develop or buy in real-time licence checking systems like this, to avoid huge disruption to their business, and to ensure that licences are all checked properly — not just nodded through with a look at the photocard only.

However, many of these systems aren’t ready yet, and smaller van hire companies may take longer to adopt these solutions. In the meantime, you will be required to provide access to your own details using the Share My Driving Licence system, which you can find here: https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence.

You can find more information in this article on the gov.uk website.

Moving House? SAVE up to 10% on Hertz Van Rental [EXPIRED]

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Hertz van supersiteAre you moving house or planning a big DIY project — and need to hire a van?

Hot on the heels of the launch of our new mobile-friendly website design last week, we’ve got a great vanrental.co.uk exclusive offer lined up for you this week, thanks to the good people at Hertz Van Rental.

** THIS OFFER HAS NOW EXPIRED **

Here are the details:

  • SAVE up to 10% on Hertz Van Rental
  • Valid from: 27 April 2015
  • Expires: 3rd May 2015
  • DISCOUNT CODE: 778648

Bookings made with this discount code must start between 27 April 2015 and 24 May 2015.

 

 

 

Terms and conditions may apply, see Hertz website for details.

Thrifty Car and Van Rental now offers hourly hire

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Thrifty Car & Van RentalHourly van hire is a popular service in urban areas, where you may only need a van for a couple of hours in order to move a few pieces of furniture or collect a bulky item and deliver it locally.

Not all companies offer this service, but the good news is that Thrifty recently launched its own hourly hire service, which could lead to big potential savings for anyone needing a van for less than half a day.

You can book hourly hire rates on Thrifty’s website by simply setting the pick-up and drop-off dates to be the same, and then choosing collection and return times.

I tried a couple of quotes and found that the rates for smaller vans especially can be significantly cheaper — I found that a short wheelbase van like a Ford Transit SWB hired for a couple of hours could be around 35% cheaper than the same van hired for 24 hours.

For some reason, the hourly rate savings on larger vans were less, or sometimes non-existent — but availability and rates on different dates and locations are likely to vary, so I’d suggest trying a quote for yourself if you only need a van for a few hours and are close to a Thrifty branch (you can see a list of Thrifty branches here).

Other choices: It’s worth noting that Hertz and Europcar also offer hourly van hire and have done for a while. You can see full details on our hourly van hire page (click here), where I’ll also add details of the Thrifty hourly hire service shortly.

Save 5% on Hertz Van Rental with vanrental.co.uk [EXPIRED]

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Hertz Van RentalHertz Van Rental already offers some of the most competitive online van rental rates in the UK.

The good news is that for the next two weeks, those rates have got even cheaper!

The team at Hertz have provided us with a discount code that means you can save up to 5% on Hertz standard rates until 26 April.

**THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE**

Here’s the deal:

Discount Code: SAVE 5% on Hertz Van Rental

Valid from: 13 April 2015
Expires: 26 April 2016

>>> DISCOUNT CODE: 778636 

 

 

Terms and conditions may apply: see Hertz website for details.