{"id":10868,"date":"2018-02-09T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:03:27","slug":"whats-the-minimum-age-for-van-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/10868","title":{"rendered":"What’s the minimum age for van hire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Volkswagen<\/p>\n

It’s well known that young drivers often find it difficult to rent a van (or a car). But the actual minimum age varies widely with different hire companies.<\/p>\n

Although it’s usually somewhere between 21 and 25, we understand that a couple of years can make a big difference if you’re a young driver who needs to hire a van. To help you work out which van hire suppliers might be able to help, we’ve gathered up age limit information for most of the major van rental firms in the UK.<\/p>\n

All information was believe to be correct as of February 2018.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

How old do I need to be to hire a van?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Van hire company<\/strong><\/td>\nMinimum age for van hire<\/strong><\/td>\nAdditional fee for under 25?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Europcar<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n22<\/td>\nYoung driver surcharge applies to under-25s. At the time of writing (9 Feb 2018) this was listed as \u00a332.50 on Europcar’s website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hertz<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n23<\/td>\nYoung driver surcharge applies to drivers aged under 25.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thrifty<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n21<\/td>\nDrivers under 25 can only rent compact and short wheelbase vans. A young driver surcharge also applies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sixt<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n\u00a021<\/td>\nDrivers under 23 must not have any endorsements on their licence. Restrictions apply to van choice for under 25s. A young driver surcharge applies to under 25s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enterprise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n25<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Avis<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n25<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Budget<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n25<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
National<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n25<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northgate<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n21<\/td>\nDrivers age 21-24 must pay a young driver surcharge of \u00a310 (last checked on 9 Feb 2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

P.S. If you’re looking for information about\u00a0maximum<\/em> age limits for van hire, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/strong>\u00a0vanrental.co.uk accepts no liability for any damages or losses suffered as a result of errors or omissions in the information provided on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How old do you need to be to hire a van? We have details of minimum age requirements and other young driver restrictions for all the major UK van hire companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2071],"tags":[2136,1678,1431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868"}],"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=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11000,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/11000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}