commando1
Old Man with a Hat
That trailer is over the top. Nice job, Peter!
Pulling a Fusie home this weekend...
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Never, ever, tell them what you are really towing.
BTW, my F150 magically becomes an F250 SuperDuty when punching in the tow vehicle to the computer. Ooops.
No kidding Commando.. They said the width of the fury would not clear the fenders of the trailer . No matter I believe you and had it shipped. Today was the first day I got to drive the old gal. I just got it registered today. What a nice ride ,,love to just put around in it!
AGREED! I towed a 78 full size buick home on a uhaul dolly... just for the driveline (wrecked of course, previously built 73? 455). I told them it was an 90 sentra on the contract. My half ton pickups and suburbans have always been listed as three quarter tons...
I can tell you one half ton 6 banger c10 went to the crusher with a pucker still in the seat from me pulling my 75 impala home with it on a uhaul tow bar (back when bumpers were steel) and on a down hill left turn she started pushing me into a jack knife... quick down shift and floored it... but what really saved me was the curb and mailbox I ran over gave me enough traction to pull out of it. Never buy that corner house on a busy street. Some dumbass like me will eventually ruin your landscaping.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
With U haul you tell them something smaller, I tell them a Dodge dart of 71 vintage.
A C body fits but tightly I drove over 1200 miles with one on a U haul trailer straight through from Missouri to Jersey, easy ride.
And Stan, you can punch in all the Un truths you want on the home computer. When you arrive to pick it up, they decide weather your wiring is good enough, your hitch is good enough and if your tow vehicle is good enough. If not then you don't get to take the trailer. So enter what they're gonna see factually or you'll be in for a disappointment when you arrive.
A C body fits but tightly I drove over 1200 miles with one on a U haul trailer straight through from Missouri to Jersey, easy ride.
And Stan, you can punch in all the Un truths you want on the home computer. When you arrive to pick it up, they decide weather your wiring is good enough, your hitch is good enough and if your tow vehicle is good enough. If not then you don't get to take the trailer. So enter what they're gonna see factually or you'll be in for a disappointment when you arrive.
I have always dealt with some kid who couldn't spell "F250". Once you clear the counter and the computer system, it has always been stupid in my experience... I have even had to wire the lights for the kid who was trying to sell me something.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I've never encountered that problem the several times I've rented U-Hauls involving two separate locations. Never been turned away.
In all cases, I simply arrived, did the paperwork at the desk, and a different person supervised the hookup without giving a damn on anything on the paperwork.
Had these places actually done their job as required, yes, I would have been up the creek. I was relying on the lassaiz-faire attitude of small "authorized" locations rather than U-haul rental centers. I rolled the dice several times and won. Maybe next time I won't.
But... I think my towing days are over anyway....
The truck's work duties mostly consist of mulch or mattress transport for frieds and neighbors now. Can't see any engine blocks rolling around in the bed in my future. AutoZone parts maybe.
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65sporty
Old Man with a Hat
What about some 4-speed pedals? Or was once enough?But... I think my towing days are over anyway....
The truck's work duties mostly consist of mulch or mattress transport for frieds and neighbors now. Can't see any engine blocks rolling around in the bed in my future. AutoZone parts maybe.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
An alternator core or dead battery maybe. That's about it. My shoulder and legs are trash now.
Addendum...
Formals do squeeze into U-Hauls.
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polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Then they must be much more savvy in Jersey. Whenever I get a trailer from there they check the type of truck, year, make and model. They also hook up the wiring and check the ball ratings.
You're not getting out of there without a thorough inspection and it's been more than one location I've rented from, I guess it's 3 now.
You're not getting out of there without a thorough inspection and it's been more than one location I've rented from, I guess it's 3 now.
Never buy a house on a corner of a not so busy street either. They get busier over the years. Here's just a couple from my place.
I rented a Uhaul trailer once... and that will be the last time. It was from a Uhaul store too... Not some corner lot. No inspection of anything except the trailer ball size and electrical hookup. This is what it looked like when I got it.
The trailer developed some electrical problems with the lights on the way home... Blew a couple fuses in my old Suburban.... Then it started pulling hard to the right on braking...
I got the car and trailer home and dropped it off after hours. I called the store the next morning just to say that they might want to check the trailer out before it got rented again. Turned out to be already rented.... and they didn't want to hear that the trailer was screwed up.
Never again....
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
The one " corner lot" I rented from did put a bad trailer on my truck.... I had to take it to a U haul store to swap it out before I left the state. That's when I got the nice new aluminum never used trailer.
Boiled down to them checking out my stuff but not their own
Boiled down to them checking out my stuff but not their own
My first experience with U-haul was in 1966. I was living in Hamilton On, got married and decided to quit my job as an Electronic Technologist with Westinghouse to follow my new bride to Kingston where she was finishing a nursing degree at Queens' University. I managed to get admitted in Electrical Engineering so we need to move from Hamilton. Money was extremely tight, I'd bought a 64 Fury before the marriage idea came to pass and the university expected tuition up front. For those of you putting your kids through university, engineering tuition was $450/yr, books were about $100 and a basement apartment was $75/mth. Anyways, I digress. I talked to the U-Haul dude in Kingston and discovered I could rent a 5x10 box trailer with bumper hitch for $12 a day if it was used locally within Kingston. His hours of operation 8am to 10pm so a plan was hatched. Hamilton to Kingston is about 210 miles (330 km) so I left Hamilton at about 5am and had a clamp-on hitch mounted on my '64 Fury (318) grabbed a trailer (for local use only) and was back in Hamilton by noon. I single handedly dragged all our furniture and junk down three flights of stairs and loaded the trailer. My wife was writing her RN exams that day so once I was loaded I waited for her to finish. We rolled out of Hamilton around 5pm and discovered rush hour traffic over Toronto and that the trailer was now much heavier and the poor 318 was working hard. Everything was working great until about 20 miles out of Kingston I acquired a heavy duty vibration in the ear end. The time was approaching 9pm so we had to get into Kingston, unload the trailer and get it returned by 10pm or we would have to pay another $12. I pulled over, my left rear tire had a big ballooned out tread separation. The trunk was full so I decided to go for it and continued on to Kingston. Well we made it, unload down 3 steps straight into the basement apt. I rolled into U-Haul at 9:55pm.
Looking back I can't imagine doing all that for $12. But back then $12 was two tanks of gas or two weeks of groceries. BF Goodrich replaced the bad tire under warranty! Getting married that year was the catalyst for a lot of changes in our lives. This year we will have our 50th anniversary, but there definitely won't be any $12 U-Haul moves.
Looking back I can't imagine doing all that for $12. But back then $12 was two tanks of gas or two weeks of groceries. BF Goodrich replaced the bad tire under warranty! Getting married that year was the catalyst for a lot of changes in our lives. This year we will have our 50th anniversary, but there definitely won't be any $12 U-Haul moves.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
... but there definitely won't be any $12 U-Haul moves.
You probably will spend that on gas just to get the trailer
I have had some bad trucks from uhaul... but there are times when they have what you need when you need it.
I have wondered about this before... I must have spent ten minutes at least deciding if I could fit one into a 24' box and one on a trailer (not the Imperials) before I decided to check cross country rentals charges... price alone makes a carrier worth it.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I just went thru my brain cells to come upwith my U-haul rentals.
NYB's (2)
60-sumthin Power Wagon.
60 sumthin Buick Electra
Early 80's Lincoln
59 Ford.
The Electra was scary. The rear tires were right on the lip at the end of the trailer.
Each were one day rentals, return to same location ( both corner lot stores) and they were all around $55.
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Rates for Des Moines, IA to Orlando, FL on 7/2/2016
- Rates include up to 5 days of use and 1673 miles.
Trucks:
26' truck:
$1,937.00
Auto Transport:
$304.00
Subtotal:
$2,241.00
IDK if they are busy or slow on the 4th weekend... this is the approximate trip I looked at for the Imperial I lost at auction a year ago. I figured I better find a parts car while I was were the cars are.
BTW they will accept a 74 Imperial on the trailer if it's behind their truck.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
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