Best rental trailer? (Page 1 of 2)

I have used the heavy steel U haul units and they tow/stop fantastic except for the rock hard bias tires, most of the Ryder units look to be aluminum but never tried one.

Oooo, I've got to call them and see what they say when I tell them I'm towing a '59 Humber Super Snipe!   

the answer is always 94 geo metro. don't tell them it's a limo. Totally not lying.

Rent one way from 4 miles south of your house, to 9 miles north. cheapest solution.

I'm not actually planning on renting from U-Haul, I just thought it would be fun to play with their tiny brains.   Sort of like my cat does with bugs she finds.   Yes, I'm easily amused.   

I know you're not seriously planning to rent, but as a public service announcement:  If they say it isn't in their computer, the next thing they'll say is that they won't rent to you, no matter what else you tell them.  This is why everything I've ever towed with their equipment (trailer or dolly) somehow winds up being a '74 VW Bug.

Random related, a smart car will comfortably fit on a single axle utility trailer.

I always tell them I am towing a bug with a 10,000lb class C RV. Even that one time I towed a 6,000lb 67 Dodge Polara with a Dakota. (Scary huge car in rear view mirror). There are very few approved combinations in their computers regardless of actual towing capacities, and the dudes behind the counter are occasionally as dumb as a box of rocks.

I started renting from a local equipment rental outfit and saved myself LOADS of frustration and money.

Have any of you tried to make online reservations with their web site?  Their database goes WAY back.  According to their site I can tow any of their trailers with my drum braked 1960 Chevy Parkwood wagon.  I have never had an issue. It seems their web site is smarter than their employees, though the site seems to think my Chevy Colorado 2wd has a lower tow rating than a 4wd, everything else being equal.  As far as I know none of the other chains will rent you a car hauler trailer to hitch to your truck, only to theirs.

The Uhaul web site only allowed me to reserve a trailer for a 24 rental, but it was no problem telling the guy behind the counter that I would have it for 3 or 4 days, depending on when I got back.  They also rent on a 24 hour day, so pick up Friday morning, drop off Monday morning is only 3 days.

That was my issue as well (website, which used to let you do it, now not anymore) so I called them and that was what they told me their policy was.  They did say that maybe I could get the local manager to give me an exception.  I tried to call him 6 times, never answered the phone, no call back.

I ended up borrowing a trailer.

Occasionally?!  I like how if you reserve online, you go through their little exercise of putting in your tow vehicle, then the vehicle you will be towing, then if it's all okay, they give you a res.  Then when you show up to pick it up, YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!

I am SO glad I finally got my own car trailer; no more FU-haul.

UHaul car transporters are pretty heavy, too.  I was surprised at how small the difference seemed between empty and loaded with our '80 RX7.

If it was a full deck, then yeah; UHaul will probably be lighter.  It was open between the wheel rails, with only some cross bars in between.