Van hire excess policy - no commercial use
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seatbeltnoob
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Please square the circle for me. I hired a van from enterprise. I use it for my events business. Had to take it to one address to deliver loads of equipment. We do setup as well so I don't think this is for hire & reward (or multidrop courier).
Anyway, I tried to get cover for excess from a third party. Because enterprise wanted £25 a day (£50 for the whole hire). Quester (and others) do it for £20 for the whole hire - but they all have no commercial use clause on it.
How the **** does a van hire excess policy have no commercial use clause on it? Questor even have NO COMMERCIAL VEHICLES in their wording https://policydocuments.s3.amazonaws.com/153/Fortegra/GB/11191000.pdf (check page 10). Are they taking the P or what?
How do you distinguish commercial use from business use?
This seems like an outright scam, you take out a van hire excess policy in good faith that it's going to cover a van for typical van use. But then there have a no commercial vehicles policy which can be extended to cover a van. I didn't go for it because the enterprise hire named the van as a commercial vehicle. So you know, if you try to make a claim with questor they wil lsay "sorry we have no commercial vehicle policy" and the rental agreement lists the van as a commercial vehicle.
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Sounds like the policies are aimed at domestic use where a van would be hired for the domestic use of the hirer. I find nothing surprising about this state of affairs as commercial use is usually more intense and probably has a higher risk profile.2
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Questor make it pretty clear it's non commercial van hire, as they don't seem to offer *any* commercial insurance.
The 2nd paragraph in the van hire page is this:
"Our van hire excess insurance is perfect when renting a small or large van up to 7.5T to move house, transport large furniture or other non-commercial related uses."
Lots of people hire vans for non-commercial purposes; holidays, moving house, buying furniture and so on.
But really they can insure you under whatever terms they want; you don't need to agree to it.
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There is no practical distinction between 'commercial' and 'business'.
A van is a commercial vehicle. Your intended use is commercial.
I'm not sure how it is a scam, if it's all in the Ts and Cs.2 -
seatbeltnoob said:How do you distinguish commercial use from business use?
“Business Use” – The use of the rented vehicle for business, to solicit order or to deliver pre-purchased goods or to travel from customer to customer on a commercial basis.
“Commercial Use” – The use of the rented vehicle as a taxi, minicab, limousine or driving school or being used for commercial sales representatives to solicit orders.
They are however only excluded from annual polices0 -
If you are a regular hirer why not take out your own policy. You would get a reduced rate on the hire.
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Car_54 said:There is no practical distinction between 'commercial' and 'business'.
A van is a commercial vehicle. Your intended use is commercial.
I'm not sure how it is a scam, if it's all in the Ts and Cs.did you just ask how is that a scam?the name of the insurance product is van hire excess insurance. That makes it a scam because the T&Cs directly contradict the name of the title
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Grey_Critic said:If you are a regular hirer why not take out your own policy. You would get a reduced rate on the hire.
its not regular enough. Bleieve it it hurts to have to pay £140 to hire a van for 2 days, but I can get by with my car for most uses. This order was particularly big.
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DullGreyGuy said:seatbeltnoob said:How do you distinguish commercial use from business use?
“Business Use” – The use of the rented vehicle for business, to solicit order or to deliver pre-purchased goods or to travel from customer to customer on a commercial basis.
“Commercial Use” – The use of the rented vehicle as a taxi, minicab, limousine or driving school or being used for commercial sales representatives to solicit orders.
They are however only excluded from annual polices
Thanks I missed that, But I did email them pre-purchase and didn't hear from them for 2 days.
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seatbeltnoob said:Car_54 said:There is no practical distinction between 'commercial' and 'business'.
A van is a commercial vehicle. Your intended use is commercial.
I'm not sure how it is a scam, if it's all in the Ts and Cs.did you just ask how is that a scam?the name of the insurance product is van hire excess insurance. That makes it a scam because the T&Cs directly contradict the name of the title3 -
seatbeltnoob said:DullGreyGuy said:seatbeltnoob said:How do you distinguish commercial use from business use?
“Business Use” – The use of the rented vehicle for business, to solicit order or to deliver pre-purchased goods or to travel from customer to customer on a commercial basis.
“Commercial Use” – The use of the rented vehicle as a taxi, minicab, limousine or driving school or being used for commercial sales representatives to solicit orders.
They are however only excluded from annual polices
Thanks I missed that, But I did email them pre-purchase and didn't hear from them for 2 days.
I suspect the "commercial vehicle" is a similar issue, but it is not a defined term and so we have to fall back to plain english definition which means it will always be a bit woolly and as such has the potential for a complaint0
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