Penske® Reviews
Penske is good as always. I had trouble with the truck though when I rented it, but I had to switch it with another one as the prior one was causing a lot of cabin noise. Penske also do not provide any EZPass facility and as I tried to use mine, someone had already registered in EZPass with that same plate. So registering your ezpasses is going to be hard. I wonder why Penske cannot simply provide an EZPass service like other car rental do. Not a good experience, but I have gone through EZPass lanes anyway and I'm expecting Penske to send a bill with 25$ additional charge for violating EZPass.
Penske called and cancelled my reservation 30 minutes before I was scheduled to pick up. Then told me that I could go get another truck over an hour away. Zero compensation. Coincidentally, when I finally got the truck it had Indiana plates on it which is exactly where I was going. Abhorrent customer service and even worse business practices. I will never use Penske again.
Penske corporate was VERY easy to work with and went out of there way to keep the cost affordable. When I asked to keep the truck for extra time between closings they gave us most of the time for free. This may be a factor of slow business during COVID, but they could have charged me $100/day for it and I would have had to pay it. They gave me a near new truck for my 1000 mile move and coordinated with one of their corporate locations to allow me to leave the truck parked with our stuff in it while we waited to close on our new house. The only complaint I have is that the franchise where I picked it up took the 3 dozen moving blankets I ordered and gave me 1 dozen of their own. They removed the charge but didn't give me a choice. I was left without enough blankets for my move.
We reserved over a month in advance. budget truck only did they not have a 26 foot truck available, they played games and were piss poor on the phone. We were driving to pick up the truck when they called and stated they "Have been looking for a truck for almost 5 days"... why didnt they call us immediately? We were surcharged by their competitors which cost us an extra 1000 since it was last minute.Penske did cut off 250 to help us on the cost originally 1713 after their mistake 3000
Gave us the wrong truck. I ordered a truck with a lift and was forced to change my reservation from a one way with unlimited mileage to a double back to same drop off as pickup, for limited mileage with a charge of .79 mile. When I went to the Wesley chapel location, they did not have the correct truck, I was forced to take that truck because my paid movers were enroute to my house. Penske reservation/customer service was NOT open to address the issue. The Home Depot worker could not do anything till after 0800, my reservation was for 0600 with movers to be there at 0700.
