Motorhome insurance with business use

[Tentpeg]

I need class I business insurance on my motorhome if possible. Although I own a separate car for work I will on occasion wish to drive away for the weekend camping direct from work. As I work from a variety of locations this means I need insurance for business use.

Can anybody suggest insurers that allow this because it is proving time consuming at the moment searching

[Guest]

I need class I business insurance on my motorhome if possible. Although I own a separate car for work I will on occasion wish to drive away for the weekend camping direct from work. As I work from a variety of locations this means I need insurance for business use.

Can anybody suggest insurers that allow this because it is proving time consuming at the moment searching

It depends what type of job you do but the CoOp used to be very accomodating unles you carry tools or are in selling or entertainment.
Colin

[karenw]

This is something I needed - but also to include 'carriage of goods in connection with the policyholder's business'. It was possible to find Class I with a few insurers (eg Comfort) or 'SD&P plus commuting to a fixed place of work' but I couldn't find any insurer who would also include carriage of goods.

It's worth shopping around - the policies do exist but they're not quite as easy to find. I wish I'd retained my quotes because one insurer included 'commuting' (but not Class I) at no extra charge.

[Tentpeg]

Commuting I can find but is often very limited... there are all sorts of odd situations it does not cover... such as driving on the odd occasion to a trainning venue.... (immediately class one business by my understanding).

[karenw]

This is the problem I had - camper policies were too restrictive and would only allow SD&P plus commuting; no Class I use and no carriage of goods. I had to maintain two vehicles as a result. Now I've given up with a motorhome policy and just run my van (which I camp in).

[Aileen]

Hello Tentpeg,
I have business use with Safeguard. I use my van as my main vehicle and Safeguard simply matched what I had with my car insurance. My husband also uses his car for business, and he is insured on the van as a named driver also with business use.
Aileen

[glenw]

You could give campton insurance brokers a ring, they were extremely helpful when we used them a few years back, it wasn't for business use in our case but they were very good at looking for a policy that was perfect for our unusual request.

[Vanderella]

We went through this last week as we want to sell our car and have the campervan as our main vehicle - which means having business insurance on it. Most motorhome insurers will not include business use.

The C&CC were very helpful and suggested Adrian Flux (they gave us quite a high quote) and Comfort (their quote was less than our existing policy that did not include business use).

Business use is possible, it just takes a bit of persistence!