{"id":10352,"date":"2017-11-13T18:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:52:41","slug":"150000-miles-per-year-in-a-van-buy-cheap-you-buy-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/10352","title":{"rendered":"150,000 miles per year in a van: “buy cheap, you buy twice”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RH<\/p>\n

Where vans are concerned, if\u00a0“you buy cheap, you buy twice”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That’s the view of RH Logistics Managing Director Richard Hindle, who operates 12 Mercedes-Benz Sprinters alongside six French-built vehicles, delivering high-value hospital equipment throughout the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n

The company’s Sprinters are a mix of panel vans and streamlined Lutons featured Eco Box bodies supplied by Manchester’s Alloy Bodies. These are built on long wheelbase Sprinter 316CDI chassis cabs and are — according to Mr Hindle — returning 32mpg on long distance work that sees the vans clock up 150,000 miles per year.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of miles by any standards. Such a testing usage cycle has enabled Mr Hindle to sort the wheat from the chaff in the van market. He says that after giving into the temptation of buying vans with a lower upfront price, he came to regret the decision:<\/p>\n

Where vans are concerned, \u2018You buy cheap, you buy twice\u2019. We\u2019ve tried various other makes of van and found that we get two-and-a-half, maybe three years\u2019 use out of them, then they die. Whereas after the same period a Sprinter is still fresh and good to go again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s also happy with the brand image provided by Mercedes vans, saying that even after three years (and perhaps 450,000 miles),\u00a0“they still look new”<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RH Logistics owner Richard Hindle has found that Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans prove highly cost effective over the company’s demanding 150,000 mile per year usage cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1935,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}