Van Hire Franchising
the way it should be.
A
franchise in a nutshell
Herd Franchise is a refreshingly straightforward, easy and profitable
way for you to start your own van hire franchise.
With an established brand, very low start-up costs, market-beating finance and insurance
deals, and our marketing and operations infrastructure you can be up and running fast.
The secret of our success is our dedication to
providing exceptional customer care.
We know from our customers - both private and business that this is what sets us above our competitors. A real
dedication to customer care is the key quality we look for
in our franchise partners.
I have used Herd Hire for many years and
I have always received exceptional
service. Everyone is so helpful and they
regularly go beyond expectations to
accommodate what I need.
Becoming a
franchise
You will have:
We’ll provide:
• a passion for Customer CARE
• an established and respect brand
• an entrepreneurial attitude
• new vehicle fleet (Your Herd) branded and delivered to your door
• a love for working with people
• buy or rent - both at excellent market-leading low prices
• willingness to go the extra mile
• opportunity for volume rentals into your business at no cost
• a respected and well known
business in your region
• a good credit score
through our Herd Business commission scheme
• market-beating insurance package for your fleet
• fully integrated rental system
• highly competitive funding options
• industry developed tracking system for you and your customers
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• cutting-edge, mobile-friendly booking website
• signage & site branding package (financed)
• marketing programmes developed by our team for your area
• total support and assistance from the Herd Franchise team
A complete one stop shop for all your van hire franchising needs
franchise business case
Unlike other van hire brands, we do not want a slice of your profits. Or, even worse, your turnover.
The profit you work hard to make is yours to keep. Our way is better because it’s so simple:
US
We sell or rent brand new,
Herd Vanimal branded vans
to you at market-beating
low commercial rates.
We call this Your Herd.
YOU
You rent Your Herd to
customers at competitive local
market rates (you set them)
and keep the difference.
In essence, that’s it!
Additionally, we provide our support products and marketing clout for a monthly charge that is
less than you would get anywhere else. This includes fleet insurance, back-office booking system
and vehicle tracking system as well as the main Herdhire website, marketing support, site
branding and signage, and operational resources.
Your
Part of the Herd customer care guarantee is making sure our
customers enjoy the use of lovely new, clean, fuel efficient vans.
So when you become a Herd Franchise
you’ll receive a fleet of sparkling new
Small Herd
vans - Your Herd - ready wrapped with
eye-catching Vanimal branding.
We have two standard sizes of Your
x1
x2
x2
x3
x3
x2
x1
Large Herd
Herd. You get to choose which size
you think is best for your area and
customer demands.
x3
x1
x2
x1
Franchise Products
Control Your
Track Your
Protect Your
Control Your Herd is a complete 360º busy
Our vehicle tracking system is configured
Accessing affordable insurance can be one
front desk and back office software solution
exactly to your needs and provides the vital
of main barriers to starting a vehicle hire
for vehicle rental branches, powered by
information to enable you to improve vehicle
business. Protect Your Herd takes that
industry leaders Prohire. Linking directly
utilisation and fleet management.
barrier away completely. Herd has teamed
with our retail website, Control Your Herd
Track Your Herd features:
up with Martinez and Partners insurance
send bookings directly into the back office
• Real-Time web based vehicle tracking
brokers - long established in the vehicle hire
system of the hire branch the customer has
• Fully configurable system alerts
sector - to provide a comprehensive,
requested. Additionally, you can easily
• Driver use and style management
market-beating, no hassle insurance
create bookings, generate rental
• Configurable GPS data update
solution for our franchisees.
agreements and invoices, detect bad risk
• Comprehensive reporting suite
hirers, and run reports to see exactly how
• Award winning support
Your Herd is performing. Getting the system
• Vehicle route replay
set up is quick and easy.
• All your vehicles types on a single platform
• Satellite and road maps with journey overlay
Herd Business gives you get the opportunity to boost your profits significantly further by earning
cost-free, risk-free commission on any volume, long-term business rentals that you introduce to us.
Again, the way it works is simple:
YOU
You find the customer and sign them
up. Tell us how many vans they need
and any extras (branding, equipment
etc.) You maintain the relationship but without any of the admin - and
receive a commission from Herd HQ
each month.
US
We organise and provide the vans and
other Herd Business products that your
customer requires. We take care of all
the invoicing and admin - and carry the
asset costs or risks associated with the
customer cancelling or reducing their
size of fleet.
Herd Business helps our customers
leave the costs of fleet ownership behind.
Herd Business van hire is a low cost, flexible and scalable alternative to long term hire and leasing.
It enables businesses of all sizes to release cash and increase or decrease their fleet size at will.
SIMPLICITY
Brand new
fuel efficient vans
No contract
or commitment
FLEXIBILITY
No nonsense, single
monthly payment
As many or as few
vans as you need.
Wide choice of
van types and sizes
CARE & SUPPORT
CUSTOMISATION
24/7
365
Track Your
Servicing and
maintenance included
Dedicated Call
Centre Support
Replacement
Loan vehicles
Signwriting
and wrapping
Find out more at:
herdhire.co.uk/business
“Track Your Herd”
vehicle monitoring
Long term or
short term
Specialist
Equipment
Vanimals
It all started with Jumbo. We wanted our vans to
Customers just love the Vanimals! You’ll find they soon
really stand out, in a way that was memorable and,
become a local talking point and customers in your
ideally, that would make people smile.
area think of Herd Vanimals first. So as well as being a
bit of fun, those Vanimals are even smarter than they
Jumbo vans have been around for years but we got
look, giving our Herd franchises a crucial competitive
to the ‘pun-chline’ first with Jumbo as our first
advantage in their area.
Vanimal and the rest of the gang quickly followed.
The Herd was born!
About
Herd van hire has firmly established itself as a local
The Herd team is headed up by MD, Nigel Schroder with
provider of van hire in the Epsom and South West
Carol Baldwin leading our franchise team, Michelle Green
London area.
running Herd HQ in Epsom and Rebecca McBride,
HerdBusiness National Sales Director
Focusing on van hire only (no car hire) for personal
and business rental, and fleet management, we
provide a professional service with an exceptional
customer care ethos that is second to none in the
van hire sector.
This approach has been borne out with rapid growth
and an established, diverse client portfolio across
the South East of England with Herd Business
customers including:
Contact
For all franchise enquiries please contact:
Carol Baldwin
[email protected]
01372 747333
Van Hire Franchising
the way it should be.
Contact
For all franchise enquiries please contact:
Carol Baldwin
[email protected]
01372 747333
Herdhire.co.uk