I get a good quote from Anyvan.com, but they wont let me travel with the driver, so I have to drive behind them (well not quite) in order to let them in at the other end (and to help with the unload). (is that daft or what?)
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will let me travel with the van, but their cheapest quote is 100 pounds more. And their website also doesn't show you busy dates so you have to fiddle with the date and re-quote if your date is flexible (as mine is)
Oh and cos I didn't book and left the site inactive, they popped up a discount voucher code for 5% off, so only 90 pounds more expensive now :-)
Do factor in the savings in your fuel if you travel with the driver, so the convenience is 90 minus saved motoring costs, which may not be much if the journey is short, but could be substantial for longer journeys (both ways).
Last time I looked Enterprise did a Merc Sprinter for a day for around ? ?100. At the other end of the scale there are usually folk with clapped out old v ans willing to move things.
If you can hire/drive a van, logic would say it would be cheaper to do that yourself and hire a helper? Perhaps a couple of teenagers before the holidays end?
I had a *very* bad experience with Anyvan. Having phoned in an inventory of what we wanted moving from one house to another, I expected them to send a large enough van to take it all - or else to send two vans that could load up and travel together. They sent a Luton van which had to make two journeys. For a journey that takes about 90 mins each way by car, they started loading at about 10 AM and finished unloading the second run at 10 PM, by which time everyone was very tired and one of the men was getting careless and short-tempered. They also damaged (eg scraped or dented) a lot of the furniture, either while loading/unloading or else through careless packing in the van. I'd taken out insurance with AnyVan, but it was useless because I didn't get my claim in soon enough because we were both ill immediately after moving. The drivers blamed Anyvan for booking the wrong size van for the job; Anyvan blamed the drivers (who are all self-employed, not employed by Anyvan) for accepting a job that was beyond their capabilities. My feeling is: the buck stops with Anyvan because my contract is with them since they are the point of customer contact.
Since a lot of the furniture went to a storage unit, as opposed to the temporary house we're living in, I dread to think what additional damage we'll find when we eventually get a new house and the storage unit is unloaded.
My heartfelt advice is "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING ANYVAN".
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