{"id":7310,"date":"2015-04-08T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:05:35","slug":"budget-uk-launches-new-van-rental-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7310","title":{"rendered":"Budget UK launches new van rental service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/budget-van-rental-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Budget van rental in London\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/budget-van-rental-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/budget-van-rental-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/budget-van-rental-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Well-known car rental firm Budget has launched a new van hire service in London, extending its existing national van rental operation.<\/p>\n<p>The new service is aimed at small and medium business users and is backed by a new fleet of 100 Volkswagen Transporters, based across London.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles will be packed with handy features including Bluetooth, folding mirrors and parking sensors; making it the perfect partner for moving large loads with minimal stress through the busy capital.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Servodidio, Managing Director, Northern Europe, Avis Budget Group, commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re confident the new service, which will offer small and medium businesses across the capital a truly flexible and cost-efficient alternative to a permanent fleet of vehicle, will further strengthen our position as a partner to London\u2019s businesses using Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Budget also offers a van rental service to personal\u00a0customers from branches across the UK, and as part of a\u00a0wider fleet renewal, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will also supply a further 300 Transporters and 100 Caddys to bolster this\u00a0national van rental fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget UK has launched a new 100-strong van rental fleet in London targeting SME customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[100,658,1678,1431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310"}],"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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}