Fred:
A number of years ago I had to move my British Car junk from
Colorado to California. I found out that rental rates varied dramatically
depending upon how much equipment had to be relocated from the pickup to
dropoff locations.
My first quote was $500 for truck, $200 for trailer. After putting
my name down on a contact list I ended up spending $260 for the truck and
the trailer was free.
This was during the time of the great California to Colorado exodus
in the early 90s. On the way out there I saw convoys of empty trucks and
trailers heading back west driven by paid U-Haul and Ryder drivers.
The point is that the difference in rate may be due to the need to
relocate equipment.
I found that if you have a flexible time table you can put your name
down on a contact list and may get better rates when the company had
equipment they needed moved.
YMMV.
Kelvin Dodd
Ventura, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Thomas [mailto:vafred@erols.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net; british-cars@autox.team.net
> Subject: rental comp.
>
>
> A few weeks ago we had a thread about tow rentals & U-Haul,
> well heres a
> interesting fact == 1 way truck w/flatbed hauler == "U-Haul"
> $899.00,==
> Penske $299.00,== same size van, same hauler, different
> profit structure,
> figure this one out. "FT"
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