Van Swap Starter Toolkit
Everything you need to organise a van swap properly — from checking the insurance to handing over the keys.
A van swap involves more than agreeing on dates and exchanging keys. There’s insurance to clarify, expectations to agree, and all the practical details of your van to pass on before someone else gets behind the wheel.
The Van Swap Starter Toolkit brings together three practical resources designed to help you work through the swap from agreement to adventure:
Insurance Conversation Toolkit
Helps you review your existing vehicle insurance, explain the proposed swap clearly and ask your insurer or broker the right questions about third-party drivers, operator requirements, geographic restrictions, exclusions and available cover.
Van Swap Agreement
A practical written record of what both parties have agreed, including authorised drivers, dates, mileage and geographic limits, running costs, tolls and fines, damage and responsibility, breakdowns, roadside assistance, insurance, cancellation and return expectations.
Van Handover Toolkit
Helps you document the van’s condition and walk another user through how it actually works — including driving quirks, fuel and starting readings, electrical and charging systems, water, gas, toilet and waste systems, heating, appliances, safety equipment, storage, emergency information and the final return handover.
Together, they give you a simple framework for the practical side of a swap:
- check the insurance
- agree the terms
- hand over the van properly.
They don’t make a van swap risk-free or replace insurance, legal advice or good judgement. They help make sure the important conversations happen — and that everyone knows what’s been agreed.
A reusable toolkit for campervan, motorhome and RV owners arranging van-for-van swaps, time-in-lieu arrangements and other private exchanges.
