U-Haul® Reviews
Did this transportation option work well for the size and distance of your move? No, I needed three trips to complete move. What was the condition of the truck, trailer, or container? Dirty, smelly, and old. I think the truck also had a fuel injection problem. How was their customer service during booking, pick-up, and drop off? In the store at pick up and drop off, it was good. Corporate on the phone...good. The guy I spoke with to extend my rental, though, assured me that all was good but failed to update their system...fail. The guy that called me to threaten that I needed to return the truck or pay for someone else's move across the state because they had rented it out based on the aforementioned fail by their employee...not good. This second employee was accusatory and in denial; I have phone records showing I spoke with their store twice on the day I was moving in order to extend my rental by a day. In the end, everything worked out. However, this was a stressful move made worse by one employee's incompetence and then unnecessarily inflamed by one a-hole employee. Why did you end up choosing this company? I have used them a dozen times, albeit through another subcontractor. Would you use them again? No.
The local store did their best to be helpful, but the regional truck scheduler was really disrespectful and unhelpful in telling us—with only one hour notice—that we couldn't have the truck we booked months in advance until at least six hours AFTER our reservation time. We ended up with a much larger truck than we had reserved, which we had no choice but to accept, but which really wasn't safe for us to drive. Beware, if you're moving on a busy day in your region, it's evidently common for UHaul not to have a truck available at all—no matter how far in advance you reserved.
Normally UHaul does great, but this time around they kind of dropped the ball on a few things. A lot of it goes back to their website and having to reserve some things through the regional coordinator instead of online or over the phone. Our normal preferred office was completely un-helpful. Three stars for the website, five stars for the regional coordinator who pulled things through for us, for a four star average.
The truck experienced a tire problem towards the end of the trip. One of the rear tires kept losing air pressure. I aired it up and a few miles down the road, the air pressure warning light came on again. I was able to make it to the hotel and contacted roadside assistance then. The service provider came by the next morning, removed the tire and took it to a tire shop. He was told the problem was with the valve and the truck needed to come it. He came back, remounted the tire, told me where the tire shop was and then left. Now the tire problem was mine again. So much for assistance. Then I noticed one of the headlights was out. Contacted the Uhaul rental location in Ft Worth about these issues, received a voice mail from the assistant manager, returned his call and left word with an employee and never heard anything else. Customer service is lacking.
