{"id":9446,"date":"2016-11-24T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2016-11-24T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:31:01","slug":"volkswagen-crafter-gets-out-there-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9446","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Crafter gets Out There in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s largest grounds maintenance and landscaping contractor, Out There, has taken delivery of its first batch of 13 Volkswagen Crafter vans. The delivery is part of an ongoing\u00a0refresh of its 70-strong fleet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9447\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/out-there-vw-crafters-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Out There Volkswagen Crafter vans\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/out-there-vw-crafters-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/out-there-vw-crafters-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/out-there-vw-crafters-sm-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/out-there-vw-crafters-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out There&#8217;s new Volkswagen Crafter vans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The vans will be used by the Out There staff to cover various grounds maintenance and landscape contracts all across Northern Ireland and soon in London, where they have secured their first mainland UK contract.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose built vehicles have been modified to ensure that each is able to carry the firm\u2019s plant equipment.\u00a0 All panel vans have been fully ply-lined, feature bulkhead protection and are fitted with a heavy duty towbar. In addition, a number of the vehicles have been converted to accommodate further crew members with a second row of seats installed and glazed side windows fitted.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Thompson, Managing Director at Out There said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is an exciting time for everyone at Out There and it\u2019s great to finally unveil the new brand and fleet to everyone. We have around 70 new vehicles that are going to be renewed over the next 18 months, and we are pleased to have partnered up with Donnelly Commercial Vehicles for this first phase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Out There\u2019s fleet also includes a number of Volkswagen Caddy vans, as well as flatbed and tipper variants of the\u00a0Crafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s largest grounds contractor, Out There, has taken delivery of its first batch of VW Crafter vans, as part of a comprehensive fleet refresh programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[403,2044,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446"}],"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=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}