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I recently tried to rent a Budget truck to move my stuff out of San Francisco, the quotes were between $2,000-$3,000 [1] for my particular weekend (normally it'
by vincentmarle 6y ago
I recently tried to rent a Budget truck to move my stuff out of San Francisco, the quotes were between $2,000-$3,000 [1] for my particular weekend (normally it's only about $400). It seems that everyone is trying to flee the city at once.
[1] I just checked again, it's now $3,000-$7,000
- topkai22 6y agoFly to Reno, pick up a uhaul truck. $140 for a 1 way ticket, about $300 in gas and mileage to get a huge truck back to SF. Of course, its also about 6 hours of your time, but hey.
- serjester 6y agoThis seems insane. Are other people having this issue? Seems like a massive Uhaul arbitrage opportunity.
- sct202 6y agoIt probably depends on the pricing model. The rental truck company has to balance costs of relocating trucks back into SF after one is removed on top of the lost business of local moves where that truck could have potentially been used for multiple local moves during the time it's being repositioned to better markets.
- jjav 6y agoI just checked on https://www.uhaul.com/Reservations/RatesTrucks/ https://www.uhaul.com/Reservations/RatesTrucks/ for a few weekends in November, pick up in San Francisco, drop off in Sacramento. Rates vary from $300 for a 10' truck to $395 for a 26' truck.
- cvhashim 6y agoI’d just sell everything and start fresh somewhere else.