Penske® Reviews
Our reservation was scheduled for 8:15 a.m. the person at the store did not show up until 8:47 a.m. our movers were scheduled to arrive at our home at 9 a.m. This was a massively stressful start to the move and we weren't able to get home with our truck until 9:40 a.m. Luckily our movers were great and helped make the process smooth despite Penske's screw up. To make up for the delay, Penske offered us a hand truck which we did not need. There was no discount for messing up our pick-up.
The truck was excellent, a nearly new truck. We had some hassle returning the truck, because fuel gauge was reading 7/8 even though tank was obviously full, with fuel sloshing in the filler tube. The check-in person persisted in trying to charge us about $90 extra, but eventually let us have the victory, which we justly deserved. However, the dispute wasted an hour of time and made us late for our next activity.
We rented a 26' Penske truck which we had arranged months earlier. We were scheduled to pick it up on Sunday at the local Home Depot at 6:30 PM because I had arranged to have the movers arrive at the house at 7:00 am Monday morning. We arrived at Home Depot and the truck was not there and the person at Home Depot said he had been on the phone all day with Penske and he said he had no idea when it would be there. That we would have to come back the next morning. The next morning we went back to Home Depot and they had a truck but there was two HUGE cracks in the windshield from the top to the bottom. We were left with no choice but to take the truck. The movers meanwhile were twiddling their thumbs at home waiting for us to come with the truck. There were no instructions given on how to operate the truck including how to "dump the air". All in all I would never rent another Penske truck and will not recommend anyone I care about rent one either.
Rented a 26 foot truck from local dealer in Boynton Beach, FL. The communication about rental was excellent. I found the truck storage area not swept clean. Driver seat had several small holes in the cushion. Fuel gauge was a little inaccurate. But, this is a truck designed for moving and overall the experience was fine. We drove the truck from Boynton Beach FL to NC, 905 miles on rental truck.
I chose Penske after U-Haul failed us completely a few weeks before. When I went to pick up my truck at Penske, I was quite happy with the experience. They did everything U-Haul did not: had my truck. had the correct size truck. had a person to help me check out the truck. had a person walk me to the truck, start it, show me the controls, double checked that the requested hand truck was on the damn truck (it was!), and gave me general tips on how to drive it. Wow. what good service. In short, never again U-Haul; hello Penske.
We had a delay with the size truck not being there when we arrived for pickup, which ended up being about 50 mins. extra waiting -- and they were very apologetic, and offered a discount for the inconvenience. We had moving help coming so that was my greatest concern, and as it turned out, everyone arrived (truck and moving help) at just about the same time. So, I DO suggest arriving a bit early for your rental, in case of any snags. I did call the day before to confirm, but ours is a smaller town, so the one we would be renting had to come in back to back from another rental a good distance away. I know they want to make revenue, but such tight scheduling can cause a bit of stress for the next person in line. Just a suggestion for other people, and definitely NOT a detriment to our renting again, if ever needed. Truck ran okay, served our needs, all equipment asked for was there as requested. No hidden charges or fees -- all explained up front and total cost was exactly as quoted!
The truck had some good features and was easy to drive once you got used to the size of the truck. But, man, was it a turd going uphill. The governor kicked in around 75 mph, but as soon as you hit an incline, you’d find yourself barely able to do 40 in some cases. Then, everyone you whizzed by on the highway would go whizzin’ back by.
