{"id":2603,"date":"2011-11-22T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2011-11-21T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T11:35:10","slug":"72-of-people-choose-van-hire-to-move-house-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2603","title":{"rendered":"72% Of People Choose Van Hire To Move House &#8211; New Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/press.php?pressrelease=10\">new survey<\/a> carried out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> website has found that 72% of drivers chose to take the DIY removals option and hire a van last time they moved house.<\/p>\n<p>Driving a van held no fear for most drivers, with 66% saying that they felt &#8216;comfortable&#8217; driving a van or that it was &#8216;not too bad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, hiring a van is such good value that even the 21.3% of drivers questioned who refused to drive a hire van would still hire one, relying on friends or family to do the driving.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, most people identified either loading and unloading (35.8%) or paying the bill (37.6%) as their least favourite elements of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van hire<\/a> &#8211; although none disputed the cost savings when compared to using a removals company.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that hiring a van is a pretty rare activity for most people &#8211; of the 2,600 people questioned, only 52.2% had hired a van at all in the last five years &#8211; and just 3.5% had hired a van more than once a year in that period.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/press.php?pressrelease=10\">click here to see the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring a van remains the most popular way to move house, according to a new survey by VanRental.co.uk which found that 72% of people hired a van last time they moved house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[401],"tags":[77,1960,1228,1229,18,34,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}