U-Haul® Reviews
I rented a uHaul truck to move myself from SF to LA. I had a team on either end to help me load / unload. All went swimmingly—save my "guaranteed" reservation with uHaul. Despite reserving a truck 1 week in advance—I received a call 3 hours before my scheduled pick up informing me that there was no 15' truck available in town. Instead, I would have to make my way (with no car!) to Berkeley for another truck, and then return across the Bay on Black Friday! Traffic much?! I am still working with uHaul on compensation for the broken reservation. To date, they granted me an additional 50 miles for the drive, 12 moving blankets and a dolly, but no financial compensation for the broken reservation. This mix up proved to be very costly, as the time lost cost me half a day of planned moving and I'm having to do it all over again in order to get the balance of my things down south. When coordinating a huge move across a state, with two sets of landlords, two moving teams and holiday traffic in two towns—there simply wasn't wiggle room for this type of blunder! My review of the customer service in this regard remains tbd as I'm still in-process—but essentially, I've simply been given a 1-800 to call and complain. :( Doesn't look good, uHaul!
I made a reservation for a 26' truck and auto transport to be at my near by Uhaul for a specific date (2 weeks in advance). On the night of the move, I was informed that the truck was located over an hour away and that the trailer was at another dealer 20 minutes away from that one! Neither was where it was supposed to be. Having already organized a moving crew, made hotel reservations at the other end AND had a closing to attend, this was a major problem. After much discussion, they were able to locate a truck and trailer that were just an hour away, but the whole mess added 4 hours (time that I didn't have) to the day and it had to come from the early part since the movers were on their schedule... Thanks a lot Uhaul... Maybe you should hire some software engineers to rewrite your scheduling application.
Uhaul screwed up big time. I have used them several times before but never had so many issues. The uhaul in auburn hills, MI was where the mistakes were made. Everyone else in uhaul, especially Pontiac were helpful. I got a smaller truck, a 20' instead of 26'. Then when I went to go get the truck, it was not at the location specified in the email I received. This made my move start over an hour late and the packers had a tougher jog. To their credit uhaul did compensate me some but still not a pleasant start to a move.
I reserved a 26 foot truck and they called me last minute to pick up a smaller truck in another town. They gave me a little money back and extra mileage, so I guess it wasn't too inconvenient. I wish it would've just said upfront there wasn't one available so I could've gone to another company for a bigger truck so I didn't have to make a second trip. Seems dishonest to make someone pay for a product you know you don't have.
The truck was great and moving supplies were handy and not over priced. However, at drop off I think they use third party vendors to drop off vehicles and the one I went too was very unhelpful and made me travel 15 miles out of the city to drop off at another location. would probably just hire a full service next time