{"id":496,"date":"2008-12-11T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:30:36","slug":"van-rental-increasingly-popular-as-recessions-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/496","title":{"rendered":"Van Rental Increasingly Popular As Recessions Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">Van Hire<\/a> firms are reporting strong business as the UK economy moves into recession.<\/p>\n<p>According to several major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">van rental<\/a> companies, rentals are up and durations and frequency are increasing, as many businesses start considering short-term van hire as a serious alternative to owning or leasing vans.<\/p>\n<p>As uncertainty over future business prospects increases, the attractions of on-demand van hire with no future financial commitments are also increasing. Van operators are choosing to delay replacing vehicles or even to sell their fleet and rent when necessary instead.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Lawrence, Managing Director of van rental firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-5373532-10778870?sid=blog&amp;url=http:\/\/banner.nonstoppartner.net\/common\/banner.php?i=click&amp;client=sixt&amp;camp=linkgen&amp;nw=89ri&amp;l=uk&amp;uci=99999\" target=\"_blank\">Sixt<\/a>, says that the company has already seen customers saying that &#8220;they&#8217;re thinking of cashing in their fleets and want to rent a CV from us on a long-term basis.&#8221; He also comments that renters are &#8220;returning vehicles immediately after the job is done&#8221; &#8211; a sentiment echoed by Chris Sharp of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnt-tree.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burnt Tree<\/a>, who says that &#8220;over the last three months we&#8217;ve seen a marked increase in the number of enquiries regarding flexible fleet arrangements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtransport.com\/Articles\/2008\/11\/28\/132382\/business-is-strong-for-van-rental-firms.html\" target=\"_blank\">RoadTransport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are increasingly turning to short-term van hire as a way of meeting their fleet requirements without entering into long-term commitments. We take a look at this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[541,540,33,18,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}