Help! How much for day's cheap hire of a Transit?

In message , Susan B writes

I hired a transit a year ago for £55 for a day.

Was breakdown included? Did that price include insurance?

Thank you.

A couple of months ago, I hired a Transit from East Midlands Vehicle Hire In Leicester for £45 including insurance and breakdown.

HTH.

Similar in Middlesbrough.

They all (well,any decent ones) include the breakdown cover and insurance.The price will be the same whether it is Saturday or Sunday, and most give you a weekend rate, as they arent open to receive them back on a Sunday. Where are you then? There is a bloke in Blaby who was the cheapest when we hired one for moving house, opposite the Black Horse pub/where Blaby garage used to be, otherwise Enterprise on Lutterworth Road, just up from Graham Goodes are OK, we use them for hire vans at work. Alan.

I guess that hiring for the weekend means it will cost more than the £45 to £55 people are saying in this thread. :-(

You seem to know the territory. My location is a few miles south of Blaby. It's on the A4304 (Lutterworth to Market Harboro).

Foley truck rental are open 24hrs days, there prices aren't too bad and include insurance etc.

The only complaint I have about them is they don't supply with a full tank of fuel so it's difficult to judge how much to put in as you have to return them with the fuel gauge reading the amount you left with. It would be much easier if they filled the tank then you could just return it full etc.

Standard trick, that. Remember ages ago hiring a car at Aberdeen Airport which was said to be full and checking it at the filling station about 100 yards from the carpark. Took a couple of gallons. On returning it I filled it up at the same filling station but they still surcharged my credit card...

In message , Susan B writes

I cant remember, but I am guessing it did.

Standard transit, cd player, power steering, electric windows etc.

Might not be the cheapest (from local Ford dealer) but they are always in like new condition, have at least a 1/3 tank etc. Will take the deposit on your card rather than a cheque or cash.

Daily rate is around £40.00 No milage limits, only requirement is bring it back with a similar amount of fuel in it that you picked it up with rather than the local hire places rule of emptying the tank themselves before you pick it up so there's never anything in them...

Mark S.

Yes, but that's a good thing in some respects, as you can get away with putting in a fair bit less than you've actually used when you return it!

How does that work then?

You obviously have never tried filling up to a specific point on the gauge.

I left the ignition on a van and watched the gauge go up and thought it was taking alot of fuel, only when I switched off then on again to start the engine did the gauge show alot higher then it was when filling the tank so they did well out of me.

Yes, but that's Aberdonians for you...

(c:

Douglas

I can get one near me for £35. The vans are dog rough though! I nearly offered to weld one when I took it back...

No, but I've thought around the problem to my advantage.

Well, admittedly what I've done in the past does involves a vague amount of knowledge, but it goes a little something like this:

Before putting any fuel in it, roughly work out how many miles you're going to be doing (not rocket science - you generally know roughly where you're going, and resources exist to work out the distance), then work out roughly how much fuel it'll use, deduct around 25%, fill up with that much, use it and the chances are no-one'll notice the difference on return.