man and van quotes

In message , tim... writes

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).

Suppose it depends on whether you'd expect the van driver to take you back home if needed?

Factor in putting up with his driving, halitosis, and a lecture on his favourite topic? :)

Where are you going from and to, and when?

Bill

I'd already factored in that he wont.

tim

somewhere just outside the M25 to somewhere in South London about 60 miles apart (defined places that I see no need to reveal)

some time within the next 3 weeks (genuinely flexible)

tim

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.

NT

but in these dumbed down dates of internet comparison sites

how do you reach them?

No longer do you find add in local papers or on supermarket notice boards (not round ere, anyway)

tim

try a local facebook selling page or gumtree

NT

B&Q van rental? £20 per two hours (plus diesel) need to find your own man though ...

Oh, can't help you then. If it had been round here I could have.

Bill

I need a minimum of 6 hours

tim

I guess that was the offer

and I also know that you don't live near me :-)

tim

Perhaps different for you, but I get an estimated price of £50 for 6 hours with B&Q van rental.

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?

Oh I didn't try

I assumed that as a "take your purchases home" service they didn't rent them for that long

Though it's going to be 8 hours after I have driven back :-(

thanks for the idea

tim

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".