U-Haul® Reviews
The trucks they give you for local moves are always super old. Mine was 11 years old and had 160,000 miles on it. That said, it ran fine and nothing major was broken on it. It got the job done and I'd use them again, but don't expect a truck fresh from the factory unless you're doing a one-way move.
This was a good experience. We chose the 26' truck which is the largest they offer. We were only moving out of a 1900 sq ft home and still was unable to get everything in the truck (we do have quite a bit of storage boxes though). Truck was in good condition. Customer service was great and we would definitely use them again.
We used two different places to reserve and to pick up our truck. It was obvious they could have used further training. They had to change our pickup location and although helpful, the lady did not comprehend completely. Told us the truck would not be available until 4pm but the pickup place closed at noon.
Uhaul worked well for the the size and distance I moved. The truck and trailer were in good condition. Customer service during booking was fair. I was not told the booking location would not have the equipment I needed until I arrived to pick up the equipment. I chose Uhaul because I have used them successfully in the past. I would use them again in spite of the difficulty I encountered at one location. Telephone customer service is great. I even had a follow-up call the next day to see if everything was going well with my move.
U-Haul is a nightmare. Truck was not at pickup location. When U-Haul was contacted, they told me that my pickup location had changed to a place 10 miles down the road. On the way to the new location, they sent me a text telling me this. Drop off was just as bad. They said it was a truck rental place. It turned out to be a pawn shop in a strip mall.
I rented a small enclosed trailer. The tongue of the trailer was waaay to long. It did not have a wheel to drop in case I had to take the trailer off the hitch of which I had to on a few occasions. I had to purchase a jack in order to take the trailer off my trailer hitch. I have a fairly large truck and a trailer with a 6 foot tongue (waste of parking space) made it difficult to park/back up in a fairly tight driveway. Had the tongue been shorter, parking/backing up would have been so much easier. The gentleman that I rented the trailer from complained that he had thrown his back out on a number of occasions having to lift the trailer to put on the truck hitches. Being of small stature there is no way I could lift the trailer without the jack I had to purchase.
The rental truck was confirmed for pick up in Castroville, California in the early afternoon of July 7. However, late that day I was notified by phone that the truck would be ready in Gilroy the next day. When I got to Gilroy, there was no truck. After much time spent on the phone talking with management, I had to drive to Fremont, a 3-hour round trip from my home, to pick up a truck. All of this caused me not only a great deal of stress, but it also delayed my move by over 24 hours, which caused me additional problems. I will never use U-Haul services again.
The U-Haul location was pretty mom and pop. Nothing fancy. Facility grossly unkept. Reservation system was terrible. My reservation (despite doing check-in prior to arrival) had to be cancelled and re-done because the U-Haul location didn't have an updated system. I waited almost 30-minutes to get out the door despite me doing the check-in before arrival.