Penske® Reviews
I always use Penske because of the excellent condition of the trucks. The one I received had only 5000 miles on it and operated flawlessly. I accidentally locked the keys in the truck and the road side assistance group got someone out to me in short order. It could not have been a better experience.
I had a great experience with the whole rental process at Penske (telephone-agents, online system & truck guarantee.) Unfortunately, two drawbacks: 1) I rented TOO BIG...did not believe their info and took a 26ft when we only needed a 22ft. A well packed truck holds what they say on their estimator - huge amount - especially if lots of boxes and less oddly shaped furniture. Live and learn. 2) Penske gave me an older truck for a very long one-way drive; bad luck of the draw. Though she made it fine, the truck was loud & bench seat uncomfortable. Our hopes of play books-on-tape through sound system abandoned immediately. NOTE: I cancelled a Budget truck because their truck rental system is a frightful mess with no ability to guarantee your truck size. (Budget received this feedback directly. I even turned down the discount they offered to win back our business. Discount was a pittance compared to money lost if they screw up your whole move from day one with "no truck"! )
Penske is usually good however they goofed on a couple of items: 1. their website says rental of blankets was $15 for a pack, the Home Depot agent gave me only 1 blanket and said that is all for $15 rental. The other goof: it was a one way rental and the drop off was to a Storage. I drove 30 minutes and found out that the Office was closed and did not have a drop box. It turns out the Storage place had been shut down so I had to drive another 30 minutes to another location with a drop box to drop off the key.
The truck was adequate but it was clear it had been smoked in which was not great. Also the engines are governed back so much that it is almost dangerous trying merge on the interstate. I chose Penske specifically because I wanted a big diesel engine so that I would have the power needed for a 26 ft box truck towing a car but it was clear that the computer was throttling everything back. I understand throttling back some but they have it to a level that is unsafe. The equipment was new (2019 truck) and clean. The only other comment I have is that at pick-up they had the truck attached to the car carrier in a place that made it impossible to pull out. It was in a storage unit yard and luckily I have experience driving big truck because otherwsie I would have never gotten out. In tight areas like that, Penske should be offering to pull the vehicle out or don't set it up so it is impossible to do anything but go into tight quarters.
Rented a 16-foot truck through Penske this worked great for our local move. I like the trucks Penske offers because they're often newer and better-taken care of than the other guys. We had to make a couple of trips with this size truck for the amount of stuff we had but we were able to get all of our furniture in a single load (king bed set, queen bed set, nursery, LR set with sectional). For a cross-town move, this wasn't too much of a problem. We used our Hire-A-Helpers for the furniture and took another trip on our own.
