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Van hire in the UK & Ireland
Real companies, checked by us. Every company on LiftSorted is a real business. Its details come from its own website or a current business listing, and the date we checked is shown on the listing. Companies marked ✓ Partner have joined LiftSorted: you can book and pay them online. Companies marked Listed only haven't joined yet: book with them directly, and where no price is published online you'll see Price on request with a typical range for the area.
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Van hire by area
Every London borough, every council area in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and every county in Ireland has its own page: local companies, nearby areas, and the parking and clean-air rules that apply there.
How LiftSorted works
Stop opening twenty tabs. Every van hire company near you, side by side.
1
Tell us where
Type your postcode and the size of van you need, or choose a man & van if you'd rather not lift anything.
2
Compare local firms
Filter by price, under-25 drivers, one-way hire and weekend opening, then compare chains and independents together. No paid placement, ever.
3
Book online or direct
Partner companies can be booked and paid for here, with live availability. Our £19.99 company fee is shown separately, before you pay. Everyone else is listed with their phone number so you can book with them directly, at their own price.
The first 250 companies to join get LiftSorted free, for good. After that it's £14.99 a month.
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Join while places last and you'll never pay a subscription. Full listing, online bookings, dashboard, calendar sync and photos, all included for life.
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From company 251
Once the founding places are gone, new companies pay £14.99 a month for the same package. Cancel any time. Still no commission on your price.
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Company fee, paid by the customer
When a customer books you online, they pay a £19.99 company fee on top of your price. It never comes out of your money, whichever plan you're on.
No card needed. Places are counted in sign-up order.
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Moving checklist
Everything to do before, during and after your move.
Tick things off as you go. Your progress is saved on this device.
Booking too small means two trips. Too big costs more and is harder to park. Here's what fits in each size, drawn to scale.
Still not sure?
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Licence rules in plain English
Everything up to 3.5 tonnes (small, medium, large and Luton vans) can be driven on an ordinary car licence (category B). Hire companies set their own minimum age and years-held rules, shown on each listing.
7.5 tonne lorries need category C1. If you passed your car test before 1 January 1997 you have C1 automatically. If you passed after, you don't, and you'll need a man & van company instead.
Automatic-only licence? Most hire vans are manual. Filter or ask for an automatic before booking.
Moving house shouldn't start with twenty open tabs.
LiftSorted is a directory of van hire and man-and-van companies across the UK and Ireland, including the small independent firms the big comparison sites leave out.
Why we started
Around 1,500 households move home in London alone every day, and tens of thousands more across the UK and Ireland each week. Almost all of them go through the same routine: search "van hire near me", open a dozen websites, ring round for prices, and still wonder whether the little garage down the road would have been cheaper.
The big comparison sites list only the national chains. Thousands of independent van hire firms and local movers, often the cheapest and most flexible option, are nearly invisible online. LiftSorted exists to put them all in one place.
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Every company, one list
Chains and independents side by side, filtered by area, van size, under-25 drivers, one-way hire and weekend opening.
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Honest prices
We show each company's own price and the date we checked it. Our fee is always shown separately, never hidden inside their price.
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Book or call, your choice
Partner companies can be booked online with live availability. Everyone else is listed with their number so you can call them directly, with no fee.
How LiftSorted makes money
Searching is free and always will be. We earn in two ways, both shown openly:
A £19.99 company fee when you book a partner company through LiftSorted. It covers running the site and the payment protection that comes with booking online. It's shown on the listing before you click anything, and it never comes out of the company's price.
A £14.99 monthly subscription for companies that join after our first 250. The founding 250 companies are free for good, because they're the ones taking a chance on us early.
No paid placement, no "sponsored" results, no commission taken from companies. Paying companies don't rank higher than founding ones; the order you see is the order the filters produce.
Our promises
No hidden fees. What you see on the listing is what you'll pay.
Real companies only. Every partner is checked before they can take bookings.
Real reviews only. Ratings come from customers who actually booked.
Independents welcome. A one-van family business gets the same listing as a national chain.
Who's behind it
LiftSorted was started in London in 2026 by Andrew Eccleston, a Cyber Security and Digital Forensics student at Kingston University, after he noticed how hard it was to find anything other than the big chains when hiring a van.
Search works for any postcode in the UK or Ireland, and every council area has its own page. Every company listed has been checked against its own website, with the date shown. We started in London and now list verified companies in every nation of the UK and in Ireland, with more added every week as companies sign up. If your area looks empty today, a free founding place is the fastest way to fix that.
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Get in touch
Questions, corrections to a listing, or a company we've missed? Email [email protected].