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Why U-Haul trucks all have Arizona license plates
CNN Business ^ | April 23, 2022 | Nathaniel Meyersohn,

Posted on 04/24/2022 6:00:13 AM PDT by deport

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To: Old Yeller

Also Maine has a good deal for commercial trailers.


21 posted on 04/24/2022 7:02:30 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: deport

That’s what I figured. I looked it up, costs between $1K - $2K or so to ship. Not as much as I would have thought.


22 posted on 04/24/2022 7:13:49 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: SeekAndFind

my sis has been waiting for the movers for 2 weeks and counting to get her stuff from Boise to Jacksonville. house was loaded on the truck almost a month ago.

they claim they dont have drivers.


23 posted on 04/24/2022 7:24:19 AM PDT by digger48
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
I rented a U Haul Trailer 2 weeks ago, had Washington State plates.

May be a franchisee-owned trailer and not corporate-owned.

24 posted on 04/24/2022 7:25:04 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Tupelo

It’s a small fee because it hasn’t yet been adjusted for inflation...


25 posted on 04/24/2022 7:26:21 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: PeterPrinciple

Years ago, here in Virginia I would see a lot of hispanics driving cars with North Carolina tags.

I think the reason was, at the time, North Carolina made it very easy for “undocumented” people to get a license and register a car.


26 posted on 04/24/2022 7:28:14 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: brianl703

easiness and source of cash for counties go hand in hand.


27 posted on 04/24/2022 7:29:50 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Phinneous

Why U-Haul trucks all have Arizona license plates

It's a miracle!

It starts off with "do-it-yourself movers" using trucks registered in Eretz Yonah -- Eretz Tziona, the last contiguous state (Feb 14, 1912). Therefore it paradoxically pays off big to take a look back, because objects in the mirror are closer than they appear:

By 1955, there were more than 10,000 U-Haul trailers on the road and the brand was nationally known. The corporate offices were in Portland, until a 1967 relocation to Phoenix, Arizona.[5] While distracted to some extent by growing his business, Shoen also managed multiple marriages after the death of his first wife from a congenital heart defect, and eventually had a total of 12 children, each of whom he made a stockholder.

Shoen married Suzanne Gilbaugh in 1958, and they had five more children.[5] Shoen divorced Gilbaugh, and married Suzanne Whitmore in 1978 to have one last child.[4] Some observers say that Shoen saw it as his duty to confer upon his children the fruits of his labors, others say it was to avoid taxes. In either case, he had transferred all but 2% of control to his children when two of them, Joe and Mark, launched a successful takeover of the business in 1986.[1]

In the 1960s, Shoen diversified his holdings by creating Amerco Inc., from Advanced Management Engineering and Research Company. He pronounced the acronym, "a miracle."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Shoen

And to think, the etymology of America is still a matter of theory and conjecture.

It's... a miracle!

I'd call that kind of advanced INTEL, "Sehr schön."

28 posted on 04/24/2022 7:57:01 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️.)
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To: P.O.E.

Active duty military plate their vehicles in the state or territory that is their legal residence. I’ve seen Guam, Hawaii, and Alaska plates around Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio


29 posted on 04/24/2022 8:04:56 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Never thought of that. Thanks.


30 posted on 04/24/2022 8:10:49 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: SeekAndFind
I am more interested in the PRICE of moving from one state to another.

I have moved my family from Connecticut to Illinois, Illinois to Wisconsin, Wissconsin to Georgia, Georgia to Arizona.

It all depends on how much stuff you must move, and how much work you are willing to do yourself. U-Hauls cost more going to popular places like Arizona or Texas, and less go to places where people are moving from, like California.
31 posted on 04/24/2022 8:24:04 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: SeekAndFind

I rent uhauls here in Washington state and I can tell you there are more people leaving than coming in. Getting harder and harder to find 26 foot trucks. Uhaul is giving big discounts to people who rent one way, say to Montana, if they will ddrive it back to Washington. Obviously if you’re moving to Florida that’s not gonna happen, but some will take the discount and drive it back.


32 posted on 04/24/2022 8:31:20 AM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: beaware

A travel agent friend told me he once had a client who asked him about booking Amtrak to Hawaii.


33 posted on 04/24/2022 8:54:42 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: IYAS9YAS

“May be a franchisee-owned trailer and not corporate-owned.”

Rented the Trailer in Alabama dropped off in Michigan.


34 posted on 04/24/2022 3:39:15 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: deport

I’m retired and live in Texas. I know a local U-Haul manager, so I asked him about a job driving U-Haul trucks and trailers back to California. He said the company does not have a need for that.

I really am surprised. Why not? Seems to me there would be an intense shortage of U-Hauls there.


35 posted on 04/25/2022 11:23:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good question about people leaving. I have no idea the needs
across the country. I’ve used one a couple to times to move
but never thought about how they keep vehicles apportioned.


36 posted on 04/25/2022 1:43:51 PM PDT by deport
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To: brianl703

North Carolina made it very easy for “undocumented” people to get a license and register a car.

********

Don’t know about the license/registration but I’ve noticed a
lot of migrants are around during crop planting/harvesting
time. Then they disappear over the winter and return in early
spring. I’m amazed that they have that many laborers in the
fields with all the mechanized equipment.


37 posted on 04/25/2022 1:56:18 PM PDT by deport
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