Corporate
Corporate fleet rental in Dubai
Two vans or twenty, on one contract and one invoice. For companies that need vehicles working every day without owning them, servicing them, or losing a day when one goes off the road.
Contracts from 3 months
One invoice, monthly
Replacement vehicle if one fails
No deposit on long contracts
Why companies rent
What owning a fleet actually costs you
The purchase price is the part finance sees. These are the parts operations lives with.
Downtime is the real cost
A van in the workshop is a route not run. On a contract, a replacement arrives — the problem is ours, not your delivery schedule.
Maintenance you do not manage
Servicing, registration, insurance and, on chiller vehicles, the refrigeration unit’s own schedule. None of it lands on your team.
Capital stays in the business
No depreciating assets on the balance sheet, no resale to worry about in three years.
Scale up and back down
Add vehicles for a season or a contract win, hand them back when it ends. Owning makes that decision permanent.
A vehicle you own goes off the road
A contract vehicle goes off the road
This is the part of fleet renting that never shows up in a price comparison, because a price comparison only counts the months when nothing goes wrong.
How it works
What a contract includes
- The same vehicles every day. Your drivers learn them, and chiller vehicles stay set to your temperature.
- One invoice, monthly, against your trade licence, covering the whole fleet rather than one per vehicle.
- Named drivers you can change. Add or swap drivers during the contract as your team changes.
- A replacement vehicle if one goes off the road, so a breakdown does not become a missed route.
- Normally no security deposit on contracts of three months or more.
- Drivers if you want them, at AED 250 a day, or self-drive against your own licensed staff.
Contracts of three months and longer are priced individually against your actual routes, not off the day-rate card. Shorter than that, see monthly rental.
Who runs them
The contracts we see most
Food distribution and catering
Chiller vans on fixed morning rounds from a central kitchen or cold store. See chiller van rental.
Retail and e-commerce
Last-mile delivery fleets that flex with the season rather than sitting idle in the quiet months.
Contracting and facilities
Vans and pickups on site for the length of a project, then handed back when it completes.
Logistics and freight
Trucks on standing routes into Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and the Northern Emirates, priced per route.
Pharmacies and clinics
Temperature-controlled deliveries where a documented range is part of the supply contract.
Events and production
Fleets that scale for exhibition season. See event van rental.
Getting a price
What we need to quote properly
We do not quote fleet contracts off a rate card, because the honest number depends on how hard the vehicles work.
How many, and what type
Vans, chiller, trucks, or a mix. Send what you think you need — we will say if a different mix costs less.
The routes and distance
Daily kilometres is the single biggest factor after vehicle type. City rounds and Abu Dhabi runs price very differently.
How long
Three months, six, a year. Longer contracts price better because the vehicle is not sitting between hires.
Drivers or self-drive
With drivers we handle licensing and cover; self-drive needs your named staff and their licence categories.
Fleet sizing
How many vehicles you actually need
The most common mistake in a fleet requirement is not the vehicle type. It is the count, and it is almost always too high.
Businesses size a fleet against their busiest week, because that is the week everyone remembers. The result is a fleet that is right for six weeks a year and carrying idle vehicles for the other forty-six, on a contract that pays for them whether they move or not.
The better shape is a contracted core plus a flexible top. Work out how many vehicles are genuinely working on an ordinary Tuesday, contract that number for the term, and take the peak on weekly or monthly hire when it arrives. The core is priced properly because it is committed; the peak is bought only when it exists.
To find the core, count journeys rather than vehicles. A van that leaves at six and is back by eleven has most of a day left in it, and a second round in the afternoon is often cheaper than a second van. Two routes that each half-fill a vehicle are usually one vehicle and a rethink of the sequence.
Then check the days you cannot move. Some fleets are limited not by vehicles but by loading: one dock, one forklift, one person who can sign goods out. Adding a van to a fleet that is already queuing at its own warehouse door buys nothing, and that is worth establishing before the contract rather than after.
Tell us the routes and the daily volumes and we will tell you the number we think it takes. If that is fewer vehicles than you asked for, we will say so.
Pricing
What actually moves the number on a fleet quote
We do not price contracts off the day-rate card. These are the four things that decide what the figure is.
Distance comes first, once the vehicle type is settled. A van doing 100 km a day and a van doing 350 km a day are different costs in fuel, in tyres, in servicing intervals and in how quickly the vehicle uses up its life, and pretending otherwise just means the difference arrives later as excess-mileage charges. Give us real kilometres and the rate is built against them.
Term is second. A vehicle committed for a year is a vehicle we never have to hold idle between hires, never have to clean and re-present for a new customer, and never have to price with a gap built into it. That saving is real, and it is why a twelve-month contract prices below four three-month ones.
Mix is third, and it is where most savings hide. A uniform fleet is simple to buy and often the wrong answer: a round with two heavy drops and eight small ones may want one Transit and two smaller vans rather than three of the same, and chiller vehicles cost more to run than dry ones, so a fleet carrying chillers for routes that do not need them is paying for cooling nobody uses.
Drivers are fourth, and they change the shape of the contract rather than just the total. Self-drive against your own staff is the lower figure; putting one of our drivers on a vehicle adds AED 250 to the day and moves licensing, cover and the cost of an absent driver off your side of the line.
Seasonality sits underneath all four. If your year has a genuine quiet quarter, say so, because a contract that lets vehicles go back for three months is a different contract from one that does not, and it is better designed in than negotiated later.
Day to day
What running the fleet still involves on your side
A contract removes the workshop, the renewals and the resale. It does not remove the fleet, and these are the parts that stay with your team.
Fines and Salik. Both are issued against the vehicle, reach us as the registered owner, and are passed through on the monthly invoice. On a fleet this is a steady stream of small charges, and it needs one named person who reconciles them against drivers and routes. Fleets that skip this discover eighteen months of unattributed fines in an audit.
Mileage. Each vehicle carries its own allowance, and on a fleet the averages hide the outliers: two vans well under and one van consistently over still produces an overage bill every month. Read the odometers monthly rather than annually, and if one route has outgrown its allowance, tell us so we can reset it instead of billing it.
Drivers. Named drivers can be added or swapped during the contract at no charge, but the swap has to actually happen on paper. The gap between who is on the agreement and who is behind the wheel is the single most common compliance problem we see on corporate fleets, and it only matters on the day it matters.
Condition. Vehicles working sites and markets come back harder than vehicles doing office deliveries, and that is expected on a long contract. What is worth agreeing at the start is who inspects, how often, and what counts as fair wear over six or twelve months, so that nothing about the end of the contract is a surprise.
Branding. Ask before anything goes on a vehicle. Removable branding is usually workable on longer contracts and permanent vinyl is a separate conversation, but both are far easier to agree in advance than to resolve once a van is already wearing your logo.
Drivers
Your staff, or ours
This is the decision that changes the contract most, and it is worth taking on its own terms rather than on price alone.
Self-drive suits fleets where the work is already inside somebody’s job. Your staff know the customers, the buildings and the order in which things get delivered, and the vehicle is simply a tool they use. What you take on is licence categories, working hours, absence cover and the consequences of an incident.
Licence category is the practical constraint. Vans up to the Transit are covered by an ordinary car licence; once a vehicle is built to carry more than two tonnes, which takes in the chiller vans and every truck, a heavier licence is required. A fleet plan that quietly assumes existing staff can drive a 3-tonne chiller is a plan that stops on its first morning.
Our drivers at AED 250 a day cost more per vehicle and remove all of that. They also remove the cost you never see on a spreadsheet, which is the day one driver is unavailable and a route does not run. On fleets where the route is the product, that risk is usually worth more than the difference in the rate.
Many contracts end up mixed, and that is often the right answer: your own staff on the routes that need product knowledge, our drivers on the vehicles that need a heavier licence or that must run every single morning regardless of who is on leave.
Tell us which routes must never miss a day. That answer usually settles the driver question faster than any comparison of rates.
Corporate contract questions
What is the minimum contract length?
Three months. Below that, monthly hire is the right product and is priced from the rate card.
Do we pay a deposit?
Normally not on contracts of three months or more. Shorter hires carry the standard deposit of AED 1,000 to 3,000 depending on the vehicle.
What happens if a vehicle breaks down?
We recover it and get a replacement to you. That is most of what you are buying with a contract rather than owning.
Can we brand the vehicles?
Ask us before you apply anything. Removable branding is usually workable on longer contracts; permanent vinyl is a separate conversation.
Can we add vehicles mid-contract?
Yes, and that is common when a client contract lands. Tell us as early as you can so the vehicle is available when you need it.
Do you invoice against a trade licence?
Yes. One monthly invoice covering the whole fleet, against your licence, with the documentation your accounts team needs.
Send us your requirement
Tell us how many vehicles, what routes and for how long. We will price the contract on the work, not on a day rate multiplied out.