What now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well first off is the boring bit \u2013 research and budget. It\u2019s not just the marquees you have to consider, it\u2019s the advertising, insurance, storage and transport. Today I\u2019m going to cover transport:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regular readers may know I went on a course to become a qualified electrician a few years ago, most people there were learning a new trade to set up in business (I did it so I could do up my house at weekends). Loads of guys there had bought their own vans fully sign-written and ready to go. Some took offence when I asked \u2013 what research did you do to decide on what size van? (none in most cases). Some had chosen a name but hadn\u2019t looked round to see if the name was already taken by someone else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So let\u2019s look at the options for marquee hire businesses: Lorries, vans (low, mid, high top or luton?) and trailers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lorries:<\/strong> You need an operators licence, regular maintenance and they can be awkward to back in to peoples driveways (though a marquee erecting mate points out that furniture removal companies use them so it can\u2019t be too far a walk). You can store a LOT of gear in a lorry but for starting out I certainly don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trailers:<\/strong> My favourite. As long as you know how to reverse properly and safely they\u2019re very manouverable, remember modern drivers licences don\u2019t include trailers -if you want to tow and you\u2019re under 30ish (check your licence) you have to take a trailer licence. The big positives in my book are \u2013 you can keep your own vehicle (as long as it can tow), a trailer doesn\u2019t need road tax etc and finally you can rack out a trailer so it acts as storage -this saves having to unload and load it for every job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vans:<\/strong> The most popular option for most hire companies \u2013 some will use trailers on the back of vans for good measure. The size of business you are depends on the size vehicle. If you\u2019re only going to transport 2 or 3 of our DIY Marquees around then a little Ford escort-size van will be fine. If you\u2019re likely to need some lighting, linings and the odd bit of furniture then a mid-size transit would be suitable. If you\u2019re going to transport a lot of furniture and\/or dance floors with your marquees then a luton could be your best bet (though I\u2019d prefer a van and trailer personally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the day if you want to change vehicles at a later date when you\u2019re expanding then you can do it, I\u2019d just encourage you to sit down for a minute and think about it. If you get it wrong then it could cost you money (especially if it\u2019s sign-written) and that\u2019s not what we\u2019re in this industry for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What now? Well first off is the boring bit \u2013 research and budget. It\u2019s not just the marquees you have to consider, it\u2019s the advertising, insurance, storage and transport. Today I\u2019m going to cover transport: Regular readers may know I went on a course to become a qualified electrician a few years ago, most people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}