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Sometimes you need a rental truck not a hire van, it’s just that you don’t know it!

Having worked in the Commercial vehicle rental business in Dublin, Ireland for over 15 years I have seen pretty much every type of truck rental customer. To me, the most interesting ones are the people who ring up for a van and do not know that they really are truck rental customers.

Typically the phone rings and a voice asks"how much is a van for a day?" To any truck hire operator in Ireland this phrase is the one that chills their blood. The reason is simple;it’s going to be a long conversation. In this modern age of internet bookings and online specification, you can be pretty sure that the customer has a webpage open in front of them. Now on this webpage you can be also pretty sure that there are pictures which show the vehicle in detail with a description of the rental van below. "So how much is that rental van?". Which one? , thinks the rental desk operator and the dance begins.

Typically, it goes like this. The caller makes light of the amount of house hold furniture or appliances that they have, "there really is only a small few bits in our eight bedroom house, and your smallest van should do". At this point the astute truck rental agent points out that the vehicle is not a Tardis but rather a van that he thinks is too small for the job.

Now it’s time to talk practically about choosing a rental vehicle fit for purpose. The sole reason that people have difficulty with a move is that they choose a rental vehicle that is too small for the job and end up doing multiple runs and wasting a lot of time. The picking of a rental van that is too small goes back to the price per day thing. A large van does cost more to hire than a small van, this is a pretty obvious statement, however they exist because there is a requirement for them. We used to do a wide range of car van size units to the public. We had to stop the supply. The reason was simple, despite our best efforts, they kept being rented to do house moves all around Dublin and people we wrecking both the vans and themselves in the effort to save a few Euro.

Now let’s move on to the saving of some Euro’s. If we take the given that the larger rental truck is more expensive, where are the savings for the customer. This is pretty easy to sum up. Firstly, you will do less travelling and probably get your house move done in one run with the correct size truck. Secondly by doing this single run you are going to see a good diesel saving, currently in Dublin diesel is running at almost €1.50 per litre and all rental vans in Dublin run on diesel. The next factor is time, your own and you should value it. Forget about doing 4 runs when one would have sufficed. The other consideration is that the more runs that you are trying to cram into a 24 hour van rental, the higher the chances of you damaging the van.

So, sometimes you actually need to rent a truck but you think that is a van you need.





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