Budget® Reviews
when i picked up truck ,it was filthy . Being that we are dealing with Covid , you would think it would be clean . when i took back and showed the person i turn it in to. He said i should call Corporate . I did and they said they could only take 10 percent off unbelievable . I showed the person who leased it to me . He gave me a pack of wipes .So I wiped down as good as i could, if my wife hadn't left ,I would have not rented it
I booked a 26' Budget Truck on 9/27/20. Planned to fly into Oregon, pick up the truck the next morning in Salem, then drive to the storage shed and load up. I received a confirmation email about my rental on 11/18/20 with a list of best practices. Budget left me a voice message while I was on the flight to Oregon, which was the day before my pick-up date and said they have no 26' trucks available so I would have to call Budget and find another one. Unbelievable! They were absolutely no help at all. When I called the main Budget customer service number, they said they would research where to find another truck and call me back within 2 hours. Since I was on a tight schedule, a friend called Uhaul. They found a 20' truck within 2 miles from the airport and had me on the road with my rental in 30 minutes. I would never use Budget again, but the folks at Uhaul deserve a 5 star review!
Reserved truck weeks in advance. I was called morning of reservation saying there was no truck available, and to call customer service. Spoke with customer service said truck would be shipped to location for pick-up. When we arrived for our pick up time - store was closed. Door said open until 6, but was closed and dark at 5:30. Called customer service and they were unable to help. Never got a budget truck - got a u-haul instead.
We called customer service the night before our move, they confirmed our truck, we went to pick it up, no Truck. Then we got a hassle from the company to replace it with another truck would be additional charges and a whole new contract. When we did manage to get a truck, it set us back 2 hours that we had to pay the movers for. The truck we got had a plastic bag shoved in as a replacement for a gas cap, both windshield wipers blew off in the rain which we had to replace, and during a 1500 mile trip the check light came on. Customer service did not offer to help or reimburse us.
Unfortunately, picking up the rental truck was an extremely stressful experience. We reserved the truck 3 weeks prior to the date we needed it. The day before we were supposed to pick it up, my husband received a call from the pick-up location saying that they weren't sure they were going to have the size truck we needed, and could we use a smaller one. We went to the agency to look at the size of available trucks and confirmed that we needed the size we originally reserved. The agent said that she should have one being returned that evening, but that she would let us know if it didn't come back in, else we could pick it up in the morning. We showed up to pick up the truck at the agreed time and the agent wasn't there yet. When she did arrive about 10 minutes later, the truck was not there. She had to go pick up the truck and bring it back, which nearly made us miss our move slot with the movers. I would never rent a truck from Budget in the future because of this experience.
We had trouble picking up the truck in the first place. When we showed up to pick the truck at the scheduled time of 8:30 a. m., we learned that the truck was not yet available. We were not able to pick it up until 11:45 a. m. Meanwhile we had helpers waiting to load the truck. Needles to say, this situation was a bit of a cluster. Once we were able to load the truck things worked out better, and the truck operated fine on our 1900-mile move.
If I could select zero stars, then I would. HORRIBLE - do not rent from Budget!! After the truck we rented broke down with 500 miles left to go, Budget kept us stranded for more than 48 hours in a motel room in an awful location with our entire possessions and our 3 cats. Budget kept giving us the run-around for over 2 days while they "checked inventory" for a replacement truck. I took the initiative on day number 3 and found our own replacement truck 20 miles away. It still took Budget another 8 hours to get us back on the road! I DO NOT RECOMMEND Budget Truck Rentals.
The truck was not serviced. We were left stranded on the road and had to do overnight stay in a hotel. The truck was dirty, driver's door banged up and does not shut completely so we had to tolerate loud street noise from Denver to Florida. The brake caliper from the trailer tire flew off, there was no oil in the truck. When I went to drop off the truck, I heard another customer complaining which confirmed my fears of not using Budget again.
First of all, Budget Rental only had a 16 or 26 ft. No in-between sizes were available. The 26 ft is MASSIVE! We went with the 16ft and we had to make two trips of just furniture and several trips for the boxes in the back of trucks and vans. We would go with Uhaul next time because they have more size options. At the time we used a Budget discount, but I don't think it saved us any money after all.
The only good thing about the truck was that it got really good mileage. The truck was filthy, the truck had to be swept out because of all the ash from the fires here, there were pallets that had to be removed. I rented two bundles of blankets, but was only given one bundle. I was very unhappy with this experience. I have beige furniture so some ash got on my furniture. The truck was a good size, plenty of room. I chose Budget because I had good experiences in the past. Pick-up and drop-off went well.
