Making the correct hire van choice in Ireland
When people choose to rent a vehicle it is usually because they require to do something that their own vehicle is not fit for. The principle reason that people in Ireland hire a van is to move home. There are a number of factors to take into account when choosing a van to do the job.
What always amazes me about house movers is how little consideration goes into what they require in terms of volume and weight. A common theme is that people in Ireland tend to refer to vans simply as transits and reckon that a transit is the biggest van that they can drive. If we get into vehicle specific there is a lot more that the typical Irish driver can use even on the normal car licence.
A standard Ford Transit comes with a 3.4 metre wheelbase; this is the everyday white van that we are all used to and is the most popular van that can be found traversing the roads of Ireland. Just because a vehicle is very popular does not mean that it is the best van for the job. Let me clarify a little, over the last 20 years in Ireland, people have had a large increase in the number amount of possessions that they have. The standard family home is Ireland is the three bed semi and this furnished has around 25 cubic metres of belongings. If we get back to the transit hire van we have volume around 10 cubic metres, this will mean that 2.5 trips will be required to do the move. This is fine if the customer is living near the new home but if the rental entails a move from Dublin to Cork, the hire van of this size will not be sufficient.
This is where jumbo hire vans and the Irish licence come into play. With a jumbo high roof hire van we can get up to 16 cubic metres of volume. This enables fewer journeys to be made and still be below the requirement for a truck licence.
The real issue for many movers is cost, but there are quite a few elements to consider aside from the cost of the vehicle hire. Foremost is fuel economy. In Ireland at the moment a litre of diesel is coming in at €1.50. If we take a Mercedes sprinter it will normally have a 80 litre tank so the vehicle will cost around 120 euro to fill. This tank will give a range of around 750 kilometres, so each litre will give around 9 kilometres of travel to the user of the hire van. The cost of fuel should act as a guide to how large a vehicle that the end user needs to hire. In general the larger the volume of goods and the distance required increase the size of vehicle the customer needs to hire. A quick example would be a private user who needs to hire a van to move from the south side of Dublin to Cork. The volume of goods is 22 cubic metres and the return trip is 590kms. If the customer used a sprinter hire van, 2 trips will be required and the customer will use around 200 euro of diesel in making 2 return trips. If the customer hires a car licence truck it will yield about 6.5kms per litre and be around 30 euro more expensive to hire and take the goods in a single run. Fuel cost this way would be around 135 euro and also half the driving time.
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