I'm going to buy a roofbox. I'm going to get the biggest one I can find. So far the largest I can see available is a Thule one but it's pretty expensive at the thick end of £600.
It's for work, so the "company" will be paying. We do lots of trade shows which involves taking considerable amounts of kit with us to exhibitions and we currently either need to hire vans, send stuff ahead by courier, or take at least two estate cars.
This kind of works, but for example, when we do Irish or Italian trips it works out expensive taking two vehicles and sometimes the timings are so tight that the stuff we have used in say, Milan, might be needed in Ireland two days later and sending a van isn't always quick or reliable enough.
For example an upcoming trip will mean breaking down a trade stand in Italy on a Wednesday night after 5 days there, transporting its contents to London for the Friday, breaking that down again on the Saturday night, driving it to Belfast on the Sunday....Well, you get the idea...
So, I already have about the biggest estate car going and if you have to cross continents overnight, it's not a bad thing to sit in while doing so. The addition of the biggest roofbox I can find will just add to the versatility for those occasions.
Anyway, it was just to see if anyone has anything they would add to my thinking, or a good, bad or ugly experience with the things to caution against, or knows of a thumping great big one which doesn't cost six hundred quid or whatever other useful suggestions....?
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