So you need to rent a UHAUL, you would expect to not stand around in the lobby for 10 minutes by yourself before anyone came out to check you on wouldn't you? Would you also expect it to be reasonably cleaned out? Not just me having unfair expectations?
Because when I get the truck on E (which they forewarned me about), I rush to the gas station because I'm in a hurry to move and the dash said 2 miles to E. I get to the gas station and put nearly $100 worth of fuel in the tank. Then go to hop back in, when I go to get the door open I look for a second and realize there's a pipe in the drivers seat. Not a pipe of the herbal variety, oh no that would be too reasonable. No it's a pipe for the crystalline/tar variety of mental degradation sitting right behind where I was sitting on the seat. Then I turned on the defroster and the overwhelming smell of cooked heroin brutalized my nostrils. I call the location and all I get is "sorry our guy must have missed it, we just picked that truck up off the side of the road a couple days ago. It was abandoned on E" no attempt at rectifying the situation, just an, oops, my bad. I'm moving, I carry, I own guns. What happens when I get pulled over and charged for paraphernalia or possession with the added little gold star of while in possession of a firearm and go to prison....
Mind you this is all after I was told I could pick up a car trailer and a 20 foot box truck, already got a call and confirmed over the phone, already planned well ahead of time. Then I get a call the day before I pick it up that plans changed, I can only get a 15 foot truck at the biggest anywhere near me unless I want to drive to Anacortes or Bellingham like an hour or more drive away just to pick up a bigger one. Oh and I have to go to marysville to get the trailer, thats cool right?
The corporate customer service rep we called was plenty nice, but I have to say I'm more than a little pissed they didn't do anything to help me out after I spent close to 2 hours trying to sort out the situation other than give me a different truck and give me miles to go get the trailer. Oh can't forget the 50 dollar uhal credit for if I ever stoop low enough to use them again after this terrible experience that they're now claiming is my refund for the nearly $100 in fuel I put in the crack pipe truck. Thanks for turning my moving day into a shitshow UHAUL....
Now after having dropped off the truck I have yet to see any refund of my fuel, the customer service rep I called had to re open my claim but said I may have to wait 3 business days for them to hear a reply and if I don't hear anything by next Friday to call them back. Im moving, 100 bucks is a lot of money when you're trying to cobble together a move over 3 hours away over the mountains with a truck that's way too small and unsafe feeling going down the pass with a jeep on the trailer (they said it was rated for it). Not to mention how much the truck pulled itself all over the road like it wanted to change lanes everywhere and that was before it got windy. I had to have a chase vehicle with its 4 ways on the whole way so I could wrestle the van all over the road and Im used to towing very heavy trailers far bigger than the auto transport with trucks bigger than the 15' box van for work. He'll when I dropped off the uhaul I even backed the van and trailer into their row of vehicles neatly and out of the way. I've never felt so upset and disrespected by a company like I have with UHAUL. Go to united rentals or anyone else other than uhaul. Uhaul has treated me like garbage throughout this entire experience. I'm absolutely sickened by this whole experience, what happened to customer service? I don't feel like I'm asking for too much just the fuel I put in the uhaul. Not asking to be comped for the truck or trailer. Just want my gas money back. This is appalling. read more