Whenever you see newish bands that haven’t quite got to the top of the charts yet you will almost always spot a small van outside of the gig that will contain both the band and all of their equipment. if you think about it, how important is the van to the bands?
Well believe it or not stars will often think back and name the van their best friend in the early days because it got them where they needed to go both on time and for an affordable price. The reason why the big bands have the huge tour buses is because they have the money to do so or they get sponsered by big companies who know they will get money out of it. However many of the smaller bands do not have the money to do this and of course sponsors are only interested in money and will not see a return out of offering a bus to a small group.
A lot of the time the van will be provided to the band by a member of one of the families or they will chip in towards the cost. Once again is can be very difficult to buy a van outright even if there are three or more people paying for it so more often than not bands will look into van leasing because it works out cheaper.
The band then have any damages or accidents covered too so they do not have to take out any extra things they do not need like the band that took out pick up truck leasing just to cover them if the worst case scenario happened.
Although cheap van leasing is likely to be the best option for your band, it is also possible to get a van to run on vegetable oil which of course will save the band on fuel costs. There is of course one bad side to having this on your van as that is you arent going to be able to refuel so you need to take a lot of the stuff with you.