Long term
Monthly van rental in Dubai
A van on your books from AED 2,500 a month, with insurance, registration, servicing and a replacement vehicle all included. No capital tied up, no workshop bills, and one invoice a month against your trade licence.
From AED 2,500 per month
Monthly invoicing
Maintenance included
No deposit on 3-month terms
Who it suits
Built for businesses that need a van every day
If you are hiring a van for more than about seventeen days a month, the monthly rate is already the cheaper of the two on every vehicle we run. Past that the gap widens with every extra day.
Delivery and e-commerce
Daily routes across Dubai with your own drivers. Scale up in a busy quarter and hand vans back when it quietens down.
Contracting and fit-out
A van or pickup tied to a project for its duration, costed into the job rather than sitting on the balance sheet afterwards.
Catering and food supply
Chiller vans on long-term contract for restaurant, cloud kitchen and wholesale routes where the run happens every single morning.
New businesses
A van on day one without a bank loan, a purchase, or the wait for registration and insurance to come through.
Rates
Monthly rates, and what the day works out at
The right-hand column is the monthly rate divided by 30. Compare it against the daily rate and the case usually makes itself.
| Van | Per month | Daily rate | Effective per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Ton Pickup | AED 2,500 | AED 150 | AED 83 |
| Toyota Hiace | AED 3,000 | AED 180 | AED 100 |
| Nissan Urvan | AED 3,300 | AED 200 | AED 110 |
| Ford Transit | AED 4,200 | AED 250 | AED 140 |
| 3-Ton Chiller Van | AED 6,500 | AED 380 | AED 217 |
Cost of one day’s hire, by how long you take it
1-Ton Pickup
Toyota Hiace
Nissan Urvan
Ford Transit
3-Ton Chiller Van
The monthly bar is what the day actually costs you on a month’s hire — the month price divided by thirty. On a Hiace that is AED 100 a day instead of AED 180.
3,500 km included per month. Running three or more vans, or committing to six months or a year? Those are priced individually and come in below this table.
What a monthly contract takes off your plate
We handle
- Comprehensive insurance and renewals
- Registration, Mulkiya and annual testing
- Servicing, tyres and wear items
- Breakdown recovery and a replacement van
- Depreciation and resale — not your problem
You handle
- Fuel and Salik
- Traffic fines your drivers incur
- Keeping the van reasonably clean
- Telling us before you exceed the mileage
- 5% VAT on the monthly invoice
Fleet contracts
Three vans or more
Once you are running a small fleet with us the arrangement changes shape: one contract, one invoice, and vans held in reserve for you rather than sold to whoever calls first.
One invoice
Every van on one monthly invoice against your trade licence, with a line per vehicle so your accounts team can cost each route.
Vans held back
We keep capacity aside for contracted customers, so a busy weekend does not leave you a van short.
No security deposit
On contracts of three months or more we normally waive the deposit entirely, so nothing is tied up.
Break-even
Where the monthly rate actually overtakes the daily one
This is the only number that decides whether a monthly contract is right, and it is worth doing exactly rather than roughly.
Divide the monthly rate by the daily rate and you get the number of hire days a month has to beat. On a Hiace that is AED 3,000 against AED 180, which is about seventeen days. On a 1-Ton Pickup, AED 2,500 against AED 150, also about seventeen. On a Transit, AED 4,200 against AED 250, just under seventeen. Across the whole table the answer lands in the same place: around seventeen days of daily hire and the month is already the cheaper way to buy the same van.
If you book weeks rather than days, the line moves out a little. Three weeks at the weekly rate costs more than a month on every vehicle we run: AED 3,150 against AED 3,000 on a Hiace, AED 4,350 against AED 4,200 on a Transit, AED 6,600 against AED 6,500 on a chiller. So the honest rule is that anything approaching three weeks in a month should be bought as a month.
Below about a fortnight the daily and weekly rates win, and they win clearly. There is no advantage in taking a month for twelve days of work, and we will say so if you ask us to price both.
What tips borderline cases is the days you did not plan for. Businesses consistently underestimate how often a van is needed for the unscheduled job, the second run, the delivery that slipped to Saturday. If your honest answer to “how many days next month” is a range rather than a number, the top of the range is usually closer to the truth, and that is the figure to test against seventeen.
Send us a fortnight of your actual diary and we will price it both ways. If daily comes out lower we will tell you that.
Mileage
What 3,500 km a month means for a real route
The rate is the easy half of a monthly contract. The mileage allowance is the half that catches people out.
Three thousand five hundred kilometres works out at roughly 117 km for every day of the month, or about 160 km on each of a twenty-two day working month. For a van doing a delivery round inside Dubai that is comfortable: a full day of drops across Deira, Al Quoz and Business Bay rarely passes 120 km.
It gets tight quickly once the route leaves the city. Dubai to Abu Dhabi and back is roughly 280 km, so two of those a week uses the whole month’s allowance on its own. Dubai to Sharjah and back several times a day, or a daily run to Jebel Ali from Deira, adds up faster than most people expect when they sign.
Overage is charged per kilometre, at AED 0.50 to 0.80 depending on the vehicle. That is a small number that becomes a real one at scale: a van consistently 800 km over is an avoidable line on every invoice for the length of the contract.
The fix is to say so at the quote stage. If your routes genuinely need 5,000 or 6,000 km a month, we would rather build that into the rate than bill it as overage, and a contract priced against the real route is both cheaper for you and easier for us to hold to.
If you are not sure what your route actually covers, take one typical week, read the odometer on Monday morning and again on Friday evening, and multiply by four. That number is more reliable than any estimate made from a map.
One more thing the allowance is not: a per-van figure you can average across a fleet. Each vehicle carries its own 3,500 km, so a van doing 5,000 km does not borrow the unused 2,000 km from the one parked at the yard. On multi-van contracts we can set a pooled allowance instead, but it has to be written that way rather than assumed.
Before you sign
The things worth settling in writing
A monthly hire is a contract rather than a booking, and the questions below are the ones that matter after the first invoice, not before it.
Named drivers. Every person who will drive the van should be on the agreement, with a licence and an Emirates ID on file. There is no charge for adding them on a monthly contract, and an unnamed driver is the kind of detail that only becomes expensive after an incident.
Notice. Our contracts roll month to month with 30 days’ notice on either side. Check when that notice has to land relative to your invoicing date, because giving notice on the first of the month and giving it on the twenty-eighth are not the same thing.
Fines and Salik. Traffic fines are issued against the vehicle and reach us as the registered owner, so they are passed through to you along with Salik. Decide in advance who inside your business reconciles that, because a fleet of three vans generates a steady trickle of small charges that nobody has been made responsible for.
Insurance and what you would owe. Comprehensive cover is included, but ask us what the excess is on the specific vehicle and what is expected of your driver at the scene of an accident. Both are ordinary questions and both are much better asked now than on the day.
Replacement vehicles. When a van goes in for a service we book it, pay for it and give you another vehicle so the route still runs. Ask how that works for your contract in particular, and if you run a specialist vehicle such as a chiller, ask what the replacement for it would be.
Finally, settle what happens at the end. Agree now how the vehicle is expected to come back, who inspects it, and what counts as fair wear after six months of site work rather than six days. On a long hire that conversation is straightforward at the start and awkward at the finish, and the businesses that never have a dispute are the ones that had it in writing on day one.
The honest case against
When a monthly contract is the wrong shape
It suits steady, repeating work. There are several common situations where it does not, and it is cheaper to know that now.
Seasonal peaks. A business that needs four vans for six weeks and one for the rest of the year is better served by a single monthly contract with weekly hires layered on top, rather than four monthly contracts carrying three idle vans for ten months.
Short projects. Anything under about a fortnight belongs on the daily or weekly rate, and a project that might run four weeks or might run ten days should start weekly and convert once it is clear which it is.
Changing requirements. If the job needs a pickup this week, a chiller next week and a Transit the week after, a monthly commitment to one of them is a commitment to the wrong one two weeks in three. Swaps are possible and subject to availability, but a business genuinely working that way is usually better off booking against each job.
And if the van will be on the road every day for years rather than months, the comparison worth running is not monthly against daily but renting against buying, where depreciation, resale, workshop bills and the capital tied up all enter the picture. That case is set out in full in the rent or buy guide, including the situations where buying genuinely wins.
Tell us how the work actually falls across the year rather than what you need next week. We would rather put you on the right arrangement once than move you off the wrong one in three months.
Monthly hire questions
What is the minimum term?
One month. Contracts roll month to month after that, and either side can end them with 30 days’ notice, so you are not locked into a year to get the monthly rate.
Do you invoice, or do I have to pay by card?
Companies with a valid trade licence are invoiced monthly, payable by transfer. Individuals on monthly hire pay by card or transfer in advance.
What happens when the van needs servicing?
We book it, we pay for it, and we give you another van for the day so your route still runs. Servicing is not a reason for you to lose a day’s work.
Can several of my drivers use the van?
Yes. Name them on the contract and send licences and Emirates IDs. There is no charge for additional named drivers on a monthly agreement.
What if we go over 3,500 km?
Extra kilometres are charged at AED 0.50 to 0.80 depending on the vehicle. If your routes are consistently longer, tell us and we will build a higher allowance into the rate instead — it works out cheaper than paying the overage every month.
Can we swap to a different van mid-contract?
Yes, subject to availability, and we adjust the invoice from the swap date. Businesses often start on a Hiace and move up to a Transit once volumes grow.
Price a monthly contract
Tell us how many vans, which type, and roughly how far they run each month. You will get a written monthly figure, not a range.