Avis announces van rental expansion with TLS

Avis Rent A Car has announced a new deal with van rental giant TLS to offer a comprehensive range of light commercials to its corporate customers.

This Avis service is now available and will access the TLS fleet of over 20,000 light commercials, ranging from car-derived vans and panel vans, to specialist dropsiders, tippers and 7.5 tonne box vans.

Avis will offer a wide range of rental service options on its commercial vehicles, similar to its car rental fleet. In addition to short-term rental, customers can take advantage of its Maxirent long-term rental product as well as other services such as online booking.

All business customers with a corporate rental agreement with Avis will be able to extend it to include vans, thus benefiting from the great service they already receive on car rental. As part of the service, Avis offers informative management reporting, proactive rental cost control and online booking through corporate Microsites that sit on a customer’s Intranet.

This move provides Avis with a commercial fleet of significant nationwide scale and means it can provide corporate renters with a more comprehensive rental offering beyond cars.

“Our corporate car rental customers have been asking us to provide them with a more robust commercial vehicle offer that sits alongside their car rental requirements,” explained Daniel McCarthy, Commercial Director of Avis Rent A Car.

“We have responded to this by partnering with a very strong commercial vehicle player in the UK market. We chose TLS as it already offers high levels of service to the corporate rental market and has a quality nationwide fleet of commercial vehicles for our customers to choose from.”

“TLS has a strong focus on safety, which is vital as companies pay more attention to Corporate Liability laws. It also has a similar approach to our ‘total cost control’ approach as Avis, constantly helping fleets proactively manage their rental costs,” he added.

Sean Welham, Marketing Director from TLS said: ”We are always pleased to win new business, but the Avis deal is particularly gratifying as we beat some strong competition and were selected based on our operational and service excellence. As one of the biggest names in rental, Avis is in a unique position to evaluate our offering and their response supports our significant and ongoing investment in this important area.”