U-Haul® Reviews
Although my reservation was confirmed the day before, when I went to pick up the truck, the man at the store didn't seem to know what was going on. The truck was there but he had trouble getting the info straightened out. It took a half hour to get it settled. I would have preferred I picked up the truck at a different location.
Although my reservation was confirmed the day before, when I went to pick up the truck, the man at the store didn't seem to know what was going on. The truck was there but he had trouble getting the info straightened out. It took a half hour to get it settled. I would have preferred I picked up the truck at a different location.
The Uhaul truck was clean when I picked it up but the windshield was dirty and I had to ask the team to help me clean it a job they should have automatically been done after the previous rental. The manager at the Uhaul store was very nice and professional more so than the customer reps I talked to on the phone. It all got done but customer service with appreciation for the customers business could have been better. I am of the opinion that U-haul is nearly a monopoly but that could change with ever evolving transportation services such as Uber. Uhaul will have to sharpen their business a little or find themselves a vicum of complacency and the changing times
Very helpful in finding the best closest/cheapest location to drop off. The only thing I recommend is do not detach the hitch once u-haul installs unless you know what you are doing. Mine came detached (luckily when I was entering the haul location for drop-off). This happened because I listened to some people that I needed to detach from my car while unloading at my daughter's apartment complex. I thought I knew what I was doing when I put it back on and I didn't do it correctly. Fortunately, nothing happened, but it could have.
I've only ever used Uhaul for renting trucks and I'm never disappointed. The customer service is wonderful and they answer all of my silly questions thoroughly and kindly. We got the larger truck because we were worried about being too tight in the 16ft truck and we had plenty of space. My husband drove the 20ft truck across 3 states and said it was totally easier than anticipated. Uhaul is great and we will be using them again as we have used them before.
Did this transportation option work well for the size and distance of your move? No, I needed three trips to complete move. What was the condition of the truck, trailer, or container? Dirty, smelly, and old. I think the truck also had a fuel injection problem. How was their customer service during booking, pick-up, and drop off? In the store at pick up and drop off, it was good. Corporate on the phone...good. The guy I spoke with to extend my rental, though, assured me that all was good but failed to update their system...fail. The guy that called me to threaten that I needed to return the truck or pay for someone else's move across the state because they had rented it out based on the aforementioned fail by their employee...not good. This second employee was accusatory and in denial; I have phone records showing I spoke with their store twice on the day I was moving in order to extend my rental by a day. In the end, everything worked out. However, this was a stressful move made worse by one employee's incompetence and then unnecessarily inflamed by one a-hole employee. Why did you end up choosing this company? I have used them a dozen times, albeit through another subcontractor. Would you use them again? No.
The local store did their best to be helpful, but the regional truck scheduler was really disrespectful and unhelpful in telling us—with only one hour notice—that we couldn't have the truck we booked months in advance until at least six hours AFTER our reservation time. We ended up with a much larger truck than we had reserved, which we had no choice but to accept, but which really wasn't safe for us to drive. Beware, if you're moving on a busy day in your region, it's evidently common for UHaul not to have a truck available at all—no matter how far in advance you reserved.
Normally UHaul does great, but this time around they kind of dropped the ball on a few things. A lot of it goes back to their website and having to reserve some things through the regional coordinator instead of online or over the phone. Our normal preferred office was completely un-helpful. Three stars for the website, five stars for the regional coordinator who pulled things through for us, for a four star average.