For tradespeople and sole-trader fleets
The van should work for you, not the other way round.
You didn’t start a trade to become a fleet manager. Vehicles are one of the largest, least visible costs in a trade business — and one of the easiest places to win back time and money once the data is in one place.
Open the calculatorThe numbers
Every hour on paperwork is an hour not on a billable job.
17.7%
average overspend on vehicles that most businesses never detect.
CarCloud data
7 hrs
a week lost to admin by the average UK tradesperson.
PoweredNow survey, 2026
9,522
vans recorded stolen across the UK in 2025 alone.
Direct Line / DVLA data, 2025
The problem
Four things that keep the van off the road.
Compliance you can’t keep on top of
MOT, tax, insurance and driver licence checks — tracked in your head or not at all, until something lapses and you’re off the road.
CarCloud digitises licence checks and key dates, monitored continuously and flagged before they lapse.
Spend you can’t tie to a job
Fuel, tolls and repairs sit scattered across receipts and cards, so you can’t tell which van is actually making you money.
The CarCloud Pay Visa card allocates every pound of spend directly to the vehicle that incurred it.
Claims that drag on and cost you jobs
A knock or a break-in means calls, forms and chasing, while your van sits off the road and work gets pushed back. 56% of tradespeople have had tools stolen from their van.
CarCloud tracks claims and incidents on one platform, so you’re back on the road faster. (Coming soon)
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A van worth more, or less, than you think
Book values and insurance cover are usually guesswork, not what the van is actually worth today — costly if you write off or trade in.
CarCloud gives live, market-based valuations, so cover and equity are accurate, not assumed.
What changes
Less time on the van. More time on the job.
Compliance, insurance, valuations, claims and cost data in one place, built for tradespeople.
Running it yourself
Key dates in your head
Receipts in the glovebox
Claims by phone and paper
Van value guessed
Evenings lost to admin
With CarCloud
Licence checks and key dates monitored
Every pound on one card, tagged to the van
Claims and incidents tracking
coming soon
Live market valuation
Less time on admin, more time billing
How it works
One live view of every van, cost and compliance record.
A single digital platform for the whole lifecycle of vehicle ownership — one live view of every van, cost and compliance record, live market-based valuations, digitised driving licence checks, claims and incidents tracking (coming soon), and one CarCloud Visa card that allocates every pound of spend to the vehicle that incurred it (coming soon). So you always know which vehicles are making you money, not just costing you time.
Less time on the van. More time on the job.
See how CarCloud runs the paperwork so you don’t have to.
JUST YOUR OWN VAN OR CAR?
CarCloud Personal covers up to 10 vehicles owned by you or your family — costs, renewals and value, £4.99 per vehicle, per month.
See CarCloud PersonalCommon questions
Frequently asked questions.
I only run two vans. Is CarCloud for me?
Yes. CarCloud works for a single van or a fleet of hundreds. With one or two vehicles the biggest gains are usually the key dates you no longer have to remember and the spend you can finally see by van.
What happens when a van is broken into?
The claim is raised and managed on the platform, with the vehicle’s documents and valuation already attached, so there is less chasing and the van is back on the road sooner.
Do I still need to keep receipts?
Spend on the CarCloud Visa card is attached to the vehicle at the point of payment, so fuel, tolls and repairs are recorded by van without a receipt in the glovebox.
Does it help with the accountant?
Every cost is already allocated to a vehicle, so running costs by van are a report you can share rather than a pile of receipts to sort at year end.
Drive your business with CarCloud DRIVE.