Know any drivers with a van in Beijing?

[yonitabonita]

Hi guys,

I'm moving house and need to hire a van. Both my contact drivers are busy - I wondered if anyone else out there knows anyone that can do a one to two hour job?

Thanks in advance!

Yonitabonita

[trevelyan]

I know two places you can go to hire a truck on the spot. You have to haggle with the drivers for their time, but they'll help you move the stuff as well as drive it around. Usually difficult to find someone in either place after around 7pm:

(1) Two intersections north of Huajiadi on Jingshunlu (the road beside and below the airport expressway that runs between Beijing and Shunyi). There is a little clearing on the northwest side of the road (they all drive up over the curb into the un-developed area there) where the truck drivers park their trucks and wait for business.

(2) About a two minute walk northwest of the Xizhimen subway station. Leave the subway complex and walk north. You'll pass under the elevated subway line and be forced to walk west. A small park will wind its way north and you'll hit a road. Keep walking north along that road and you'll hit a parking lot usually filled with 4-5 trucks. If you come to the traffic light you've gone too far.

Both of these places have guys with vans, large trucks, etc.

[yonitabonita]

Trevelyan,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm now happily sitting in my new and happy home with boxes mostly unpacked and stuff put away.

Y