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Vehicle rental with drivers, across all 34 provinces.

Zhikal provides 4x4s, pickups and vans with drivers for NGO, UN, company and project field teams in Afghanistan — for a single field mission, a survey round or a deployment lasting months — with regional coordinators supporting the vehicles wherever they work.

Vehicle Rental & Fleet in Afghanistan.

Field programmes need mobility they can plan around: the right vehicle class for the route, a driver who has been briefed on the programme's conduct rules, and someone in the region who deals with a breakdown or a closed road before it stops the team. Zhikal provides vehicles and drivers as a service, so a programme has that mobility for as long as it needs it without buying, registering or maintaining a fleet.

Vehicles are drawn from owned and contracted units and deployed for short assignments, field monitoring, surveys, distributions and long-term project operations. Drivers are engaged for the assignment, vetted and briefed on the client's code of conduct before deployment, and each deployment has a named coordinator in the zone where the vehicles work.

On our largest deployment, Zhikal deployed and coordinated a rental fleet across all 34 provinces for more than seven months, supporting a countrywide education-supply survey. Regional coordinators managed driver rotation, fuel, maintenance and route changes as access conditions shifted from week to week. The assignment is listed among our projects, and the vehicle rental guide sets out what to specify when requesting quotations.

Moving people, or moving goods?

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    Vehicles and drivers for field teams

    4x4s, pickups and vans with drivers for surveys, monitoring visits, distributions and project staff, for a mission, a season or a full deployment.

  • Or

    Goods between provinces

    Relief items, equipment and materials moved by road, with a waybill at dispatch and a signed delivery note at handover.

    Road Transport & Freight

What this service covers

  • 4x4s, pickups and vans

    Vehicle classes matched to the route, the team and the equipment carried, individually or as a mixed project fleet.

  • Drivers briefed before deployment

    Drivers engaged for the assignment, vetted, briefed on the client's code of conduct and signed to it as a condition of engagement.

  • Short missions or long deployments

    Vehicles for a single field mission, a survey round or project operations running for months.

  • Several provinces at once

    Concurrent deployments coordinated through the five regional zones rather than dispatched one by one from Kabul.

  • Regional coordination

    Zone coordinators handle driver rotation, fuel, maintenance and route changes as access conditions change.

  • Route and field-risk checks

    Routes assessed before deployment, with go/no-go authority held at zone level and disruptions reported within 24 hours.

How a vehicle deployment runs.

  1. 01 Requirement

    Confirm vehicle classes and numbers, provinces and routes, dates, working pattern and any conduct or reporting requirements.

  2. 02 Route and risk

    Assess routes and field risk for the areas of operation, with go/no-go authority held at zone level.

  3. 03 Vehicles and drivers

    Assign vehicles to the routes and brief drivers on the client's code of conduct before they start.

  4. 04 Mobilise

    Deploy to the start locations, with a named coordinator in each zone the vehicles work in.

  5. 05 Run and adjust

    Manage driver rotation, fuel, maintenance and route changes; report disruptions within 24 hours with a proposed alternative.

  6. 06 Close out

    Reconcile the deployment against the agreement and hand over the records the contract requires.

Who it is for.

  • NGO and UN programme teams that need vehicles and drivers for field missions without running a fleet of their own.
  • Survey, monitoring and evaluation teams working in several provinces at the same time.
  • Distribution and project operations that need staff mobility alongside the goods being moved.
  • Commercial and institutional clients needing vehicles for a defined deployment, released when the assignment ends.

How this works by sector

Coverage across Afghanistan.

Vehicles are deployed from Kabul and coordinated through the five regional coordination zones, reaching every provincial capital and district-level locations. On one assignment, a rental fleet was deployed and coordinated across all 34 provinces for more than seven months.

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Track record.

  • ZALA — rental vehicles for a nationwide survey

    A deployment of more than seven months across all 34 provinces, supporting a countrywide education-supply survey of 33 provincial and 354 district education warehouses and 4,537 school stock locations, with monitoring related to 22,685 students. Regional coordinators managed driver rotation, fuel, maintenance and route adjustment throughout.

Assignments are summarised from contracts and completion records supplied by Zhikal. Client names show who the work was for and do not imply endorsement.

Case study: Nationwide vehicle deployment

Common questions.

Which vehicle types are available?

4x4s, pickups and vans, individually or as a mixed project fleet, drawn from owned and contracted units. Availability for specific dates, numbers and provinces is confirmed in the quotation rather than assumed.

Are drivers included?

Yes. Vehicles are provided with drivers, who are engaged for the assignment, vetted and briefed on the client's code of conduct before deployment.

Can vehicles work in several provinces at the same time?

Yes. Vehicles for several provinces are coordinated through the regional coordination zones rather than dispatched one by one from Kabul. On one assignment, a rental fleet was deployed and coordinated across all 34 provinces for more than seven months.

How are breakdowns, replacements and liability handled?

On the nationwide deployment, regional coordinators managed maintenance and route changes as conditions changed. Replacement arrangements, liability and any insurance position for a specific deployment are set out in the quotation and the contract, not assumed from a general description.

Can vehicles be contracted under a long-term agreement?

Yes, one can be quoted: classes, provinces, rates, replacement times and records are agreed once, and each call-off confirms the vehicles, places and dates in writing. The framework agreement guide sets out what it should fix.

Is this the same as road freight?

No. This service covers vehicles and drivers for people and field teams. Moving goods between provinces is handled under Road Transport & Freight.

Guides for planning this work.

Written from delivered assignments, for the person who has to plan, specify or audit the work.

Related services.

What to send for a quotation.

  1. 01

    Vehicles and team

    How many vehicles of which class — 4x4, pickup or van — how many passengers each carries, and any equipment or cargo that travels with the team.

  2. 02

    Places and routes

    The provinces and districts the team works in, where each vehicle starts, and the routes it will drive. Vehicles for several provinces at once are coordinated through the regional zones.

  3. 03

    Contract, dates and terms

    One deployment or call-offs under a long-term agreement; start date, duration, working days and hours; driver duties and conduct rules; and who covers fuel, maintenance, replacement times and trip records — stated in the quotation, not assumed.

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