16/10/2026
Here I am on the side of the motorway fixing a float whose brakes locked on 😅
Luckily, it’s not my float! But I did come to the rescue, made it driveable and towed it home, where we repaired it for her, then towed it back to her storage place.
It just reminded me about our lease floats and how good a service we provide to people who lease and hire with us.
The unpredictable can happen every day. You don’t know what’s going to happen or how it’s going to happen, so I think one of the best services we provide with our hires and leases is our roadside assistance.
We don’t just show up, fix a float or tow it away for you, because in most cases you have horses on board that you need to get somewhere safe or get home.
So we bring a courtesy float. We’ll tow it to you wherever you are in New Zealand, so you can unload your horses from the injured float and onto the safe, sound float to continue on your journey.
You essentially leave us with the problem float, and you get to carry on your merry way! Except for maybe a bit of a wait for us to drive to you.
We then sort the problem and return your lease float to you once it’s repaired.
If you owned your own float and your brakes locked up while you were in Taupō competing, have you ever thought about what might happen? Who’s going to come rescue your horses? How are you going to get your float back to Auckland?
Most tow companies won’t do anything with a float.
When I literally broke down an hour out of Taupo 3 years ago, tow companies couldn’t do anything about the float, especially if it had horses!
And, it was $1500 just to get my ute alone to our place in Westgate.
This is just one of the little bonuses of leasing with us. Yes, ownership is great in its own way, but leasing has such a deeper benefit than you realise.
That repair to your lease float doesn’t cost you anything. If you owned the float, in my friend’s particular case, it would’ve been $850–$950 for the repairs we did.
Plus, you would’ve paid someone to come rescue you and paid for fuel. You probably would’ve had to borrow a friend’s float and pay their gas, or hire another float, find another tow vehicle and someone to tow it.
It all sounds like a nightmare and a very expensive endeavour. And you have to foot the bill!
With that being said, if you’re outside a certain radius, we will charge for gas and mileage on the vehicle, but that’s it.
So someone might say to you, “Why lease when you can finance it for the same price per week or slightly cheaper?”
But with financing, you don’t get our roadside assistance, courtesy floats, free repairs and maintenance, and free warrants and registration.
Plus, with leasing, there are no surprise repair bills when something breaks!
We take the stress & hard work away from a stressful situation, making even the scariest and toughest moments easy 🥰
