Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Unoccupied Home Insurance


We should be clear here and state that we’re experts in home and office removals – not insurance!

However, due to the very nature of our business, we do have considerable experience as home and office movers plus associated insurance. As part of that, we’re sometimes asked questions by our clients about vacant properties and insurance cover. That might come about if you’ve purchased a home but can’t actually move into it for say a few weeks.

So, here are a few key points to keep: 
  • If you have insurance on your new property, it may cover a period of time where the property can stand unoccupied. That’s typically somewhere around 30-45 consecutive days and is designed to cope with things such as holiday and business trip absences etc. However, it’s NOT indefinite cover.
  • If your property will stand unoccupied for longer than that, you might need to take out what’s called “unoccupied property insurance” (the terminology might differ) if your cover is to be maintained;  Read more about.......Unoccupied Home Insurance.

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

The New Electric Supertruck Arrives

Well, after his recent shock announcement that such a thing even existed, Elon Musk and Tesla have announced and demonstrated their new electric "heavy rig" truck.

What does this mean for things like haulage and moving companies?

The original announcement

A few months back, Musk made one of his famous "oh, in passing... " type announcements. This delivered the news, with all the razzmatazz and drama that might be expected of someone saying "oh, I think it'll rain tomorrow", that he would be shortly showing an all-electric and high-tech haulage rig.

Virtually all the industry pundits were shocked and excited. Some were hugely sceptical that this was possible in the few short months between Musk's announcement and his target date for the truck being presented to the world.