Stories on Finance

I moved to Australia with my business in camper van hire. I took over an established camper van hire company. I had bought ten of the newest camper vans. I looked on the Internet at motor trade insurance policies. The wording was very important to me because I was living in a yet to become familiar country. I didn't like many of the motor trade insurance policies that I had seen. I needed to consider my liability in case one of my customers had a serious accident in one of my camper vans. I went to see a solicitor and he said he had a folder of motor trade insurance policies to avoid. He pointed me in the right of a really decent company that were able to insure me for a good price.

Three days later I got three packs of motor trade insurance policies: one for my camper vans, one for my buildings and one for break downs on the road. It had been so wise of me to compare that insurance market and to get professional advice because at first I had found it all rather confusing.

My camper van hire business was based in a suburb in Perth. I bought two four-wheel drive jeeps with trailer tents for my business. I thought that they would be perfect for the more adventurous customer. My first couple of customers were Mr and Mrs Lake. They hired a two berth camper van and headed down to Albany. My next customer was Mr Jon Hope and he was an Irish tourist. He hired one of the Jeeps. Oh boy, he had so much luggage that he had difficulty putting it in the jeep.

My best customers were Diane Book and Peter Frost and their three children. They hired a six berth camper van for two months. I got so much money from that deal that I had been really delighted. They had sent me three post cards from their travels. They had traveled up as far as Darwin.

My worst customer had been a group for four men. They had been Tony Wood, Julian Jones, Tim Map and Dave Kelly. They had rented a six berth camper van and had crashed it on a road just south of Margaret River. I had been phoned by the police to say that Tony Wood had crashed into a tree. He had been over the legal limit of alcohol. That incident had cost me dearly with my insurance. The next year the cost of my insurance went up. It hadn't been as rosy a life style as I had imagined.