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'Man and van' is a phrase used in the United Kingdom to describe a light removals service. A man and van company typically consists of just one or two self employed workers with a light commercial vehicle with which they carry out a wide variety of transportation work.

Overview
The average citizen of the United Kingdom moves house 8 times during their life, with a average distance between the two properties being 32 miles. Many of these moves are carried out by large removals firms, using heavy goods vehicles constructed specifically to deal with the relevant work. Such firms tend to have significant overheads, with employees, large vehicles, professional subscriptions and offices to pay for. This results in high prices for the consumer with the average price in 2014 coming to around £600. Man and van firms are a cheaper alternative as they use smaller, cheaper vehicles and they do not tend to have premises to pay for. This results in the workload of a man and van firm being quite different to that of a traditional removals company. The lower cost, combined with the ability of the smaller vehicles to get into places that would not be possible with a lorry, mean that man and van firms will frequently be used for collection and delivery of single items, pallets of various industrial products and materials and for the moving of relatively small amounts of domestic belongings. A standard removals company, by contrast, will usually only engage in larger scale domestic and office moving.

Vehicles
UK panel vans. Weights. Types. etc.