U-Haul® Reviews
I am sorry to say that we were renting a trailer. We had no experience with that sort of rental. The last minute, we by chance, found out that we needed a light system installed in our car. After that was installed in Maryland and not until my daughter arrived in Toms River, New Jersey, she found that her hitch was not appropriate. This all should have been mentioned by the Uhaul representative when we reserved the trailer. A sort of check list for new rentals of trailers.
I showed up at the Temecula, CA, U-Haul to pick up my rental at 8:00 AM, their hours posted state they open at 7:00 AM. Anyway, I showed up to get my rental and no one was there at their business to wait on people. I had to go to another U-Haul store down the street to get my rental. It has taken weeks for U-Haul to take off the first rental charge which I couldn't pick up cause the guy never showed up to open his store. It's been a disaster dealing with U-Haul but it's been finally taken care of now.
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.
