U-Haul® Reviews
Amazingly, U-Haul gave us a brand new 26' truck with 6,500 miles on it. They were easy to work with and pleasant. I wish we had known the 26' truck wouldn't be big enough to hold all our stuff, but how can anyone know until you try to fit it all in. We had to rent a trailer to tow behind the truck (another good reason to have a newer truck!).
Not even a 3/4 full 20’ foot truck and had a tire blow out. 2.5 hours on the side of the road in the rural Arizona desert. Made for a long, hard move. Then they called me to change the drop off location to much further away for $25 off. It was now rush hour, at the end of a long hot move and then this. I get that tires blow, but to add that on at the end? Was not happy.
The Uhaul was clean and ready. There is an app option you can get on your phone. I called 2 days before because I had reserved a 20 foot - which I was afraid to drive. The guy said I could do what I needed with a 10 footer - which I was relieved about. We ended up making 2 trips in the same town. The only glitch was a light came on at one point and trying to get someone to talk to us about our concerns was a little daunting.
Scheduled my truck over a month in advance. However they called me less than 24 hours before I was supposed to pick it up to tell me the closest one was over an hour away. I live alone and had no one to drive me for a 2hr plus trip to get it. Don't know the purpose of reserving in advance and then not having one available to me. UHAUL maybe the cheapest but they are not reliable.
Truck was great, Uhaul contractor was very helpful, but Uhaul's lack of flexibility on one-way moves and price discrepancies between markets leads me to believe they have the most complicated algorithm running the show. It was cheaper ($1400) to do a local, 700 mile move, than it was to do a one-way. We round-tripped the truck and flew back to our new destination just to save.