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Topic: 'new' D-14 woes

Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: 'new' D-14 woes
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 2:46pm

Sold my original '55 CA last week,got sad, found a real nice '59 D-14 and bought it. Only have to haul it 30 miles so I called UHaul to rent a car hauling trailer to pull behind my '97 F-150.They REFUSED to rent me the trailer! Said it was a safety issue!! The tractor, not the F-150.I'm still fuming MAD as a hatter over this.Called up 3 levels in the company,got the same response.Yeesh. Now I have to cancel all my 'loading buddies',regroup,hire a 'tilt and load' hauler at 4 times the UHaul trailer rate.

I'm in southern Ontario,so my question is , has anyone else had this problem????

Thanks for letting me vent......

Jay

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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 2:51pm

Well you gave them too much information. Go rent one and if they ask, tell them you are hauling a 1927 model T car or just a riding lawn mower. More than one way to skin a cat.

Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 2:53pm

I just tell them I am hauling an Escort or a Corolla.

No problem.

Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:04pm

I dont understand why this would be a saftey issue. All of us on here haul tractors all the time, just as safe as hauling a car.

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Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:13pm

Uhaul will not rent you a trailer to haul with a Ford Explorer for any reason.

It is just their rules. Not knowing hasn't hurt them as far as I know, because their butt is covered if they follow their rules.

Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:27pm

I knew a guy that used a Uhaul to move firewood. They won't rent it to ya if they know you are going to haul firewood, just don't give them that much information.

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Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:49pm

Jay I ran it to it a few yrs back .I too gave them too much information .It was a matter of company policy I really don t know what you would haul on the trailors because I wanted to haul a b home and the said it would be to heavy ,I took pictures to them to show what the size was but it didn t matter .I ended up hireing a club member which I think it cost me a little more by the time I bought the gas and his food but we had a good time getting it

Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 4:23pm

I stopped at a large rental lot that rented construction equipment and U-Haul trailers, to see about renting a trailer for moving a tractor. They told me just don't tell U-Haul what your hauling. When it came time that I needed a trailer I stopped at a lot that was closer. They wanted to know what make, model, and year car I was hauling. I tole them I'd have to go and check what year it was and left. And went back to the first lot.

Which is worse, driving/towing a U-Haul trailer over their 45 mph or driving below the minimum on a express way?

Dusty

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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 5:06pm

some of my relatives used to rent an enclosed U haul every year to pull a load of cow manure home to suburbia. They cleaned it good before they returned it...