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Hi everyone
My name is Yan and I am a new member at UK business forums.
I came across few articles related to the topic I am going to ask ,but I couldn't find the answers I need .
From what I found out , members opinion is that this is very competitive area and most of the people was discouraged from their idea.
Well most of the people were start ups and the case for me is slightly different ,because we already have an existing business in a similar area which could be an advantage for starting a small renting company in a niche area.
I've only had the idea recently and I am not completely sure if it will work yet and is it worth the effort , but I am hoping I can get some professional opinions here ,and eventually get everything moving.
I will try to explain what is our current situation , and what the plans are ,what I know so far ,and what I am hoping to find out.
So we are a taxi company based in a large touristic area in England with a huge demand for transport even without the foreign tourists in past 2 years .
Unfortunately Covid 19 break made it very hard for us to find licensed drivers to drive our cars and we end up in a situation where we have several vehicles and only a few drivers to drive them.
We've already paid for the vehicles and there is no point for me to sell them ,so I thought I may rent them to the public.
Initially I felt like I found a genius solution of what to do with our cars ,and started dreaming about working more social hours , but not long after that I've decided to make a quick research about it and it doesn't look so straight forward now.
Of course I wanted to find out what the right cover insurance will cost me , as that was always expensive with taxis ,but I couldn't even get a quote.
Obvioуsly insurance companies don't fancy start ups ,and most of them don't even bothered to reply to me.
That's my first question .Is there any well known brokers that specialise in pay as you go self drive insurance that I am missing out there?
As I mentioned earlier I've only started the research recently ,and I am combining that with my 7 days working week ,so I will stop with only one question for now.
Let's see if anyone has something to say ,and I am sure I will have a lot more question once everything starts moving.
Thanks to everyone that will take some time to leave his comment.
Regards Yan
My name is Yan and I am a new member at UK business forums.
I came across few articles related to the topic I am going to ask ,but I couldn't find the answers I need .
From what I found out , members opinion is that this is very competitive area and most of the people was discouraged from their idea.
Well most of the people were start ups and the case for me is slightly different ,because we already have an existing business in a similar area which could be an advantage for starting a small renting company in a niche area.
I've only had the idea recently and I am not completely sure if it will work yet and is it worth the effort , but I am hoping I can get some professional opinions here ,and eventually get everything moving.
I will try to explain what is our current situation , and what the plans are ,what I know so far ,and what I am hoping to find out.
So we are a taxi company based in a large touristic area in England with a huge demand for transport even without the foreign tourists in past 2 years .
Unfortunately Covid 19 break made it very hard for us to find licensed drivers to drive our cars and we end up in a situation where we have several vehicles and only a few drivers to drive them.
We've already paid for the vehicles and there is no point for me to sell them ,so I thought I may rent them to the public.
Initially I felt like I found a genius solution of what to do with our cars ,and started dreaming about working more social hours , but not long after that I've decided to make a quick research about it and it doesn't look so straight forward now.
Of course I wanted to find out what the right cover insurance will cost me , as that was always expensive with taxis ,but I couldn't even get a quote.
Obvioуsly insurance companies don't fancy start ups ,and most of them don't even bothered to reply to me.
That's my first question .Is there any well known brokers that specialise in pay as you go self drive insurance that I am missing out there?
As I mentioned earlier I've only started the research recently ,and I am combining that with my 7 days working week ,so I will stop with only one question for now.
Let's see if anyone has something to say ,and I am sure I will have a lot more question once everything starts moving.
Thanks to everyone that will take some time to leave his comment.
Regards Yan
