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Note to those considering moving & doing it with rental trucks:

U-Haul ‘26 foot “ truck is really 23 on the floor & the other 3 feet is above the cab. Also, the wheel wells obstruct part of the floor for packing.

The PAYLOAD —what you can load the truck with—is ONLY 7400# in a U-Haul truck.

The Penske 26’ trucks are really that——a full 26 foot long, and they have a flat floor with no wheel wells to pack around. The payload in a Penske truck is 17,000#, fully 215% of a U-Haul truck.

I am trying to sell my small horse ranch property in N Nevada & move to the Midwest. I am doing so with rental trucks.

I had drawn out to scale packing the U-Haul vehicles. I would have needed 2 U-Haul “26’” trucks & 2 6 x 12 enclosed trailers for all my household & ranch goods. Mostly because of the weight allowed for the payload. Neither truck would be full. NOT even close. Those 4 rental units were going to cost me $5200 to rent PLUS sales tax of 7.1% for a total of $5569. That doesn’t include the actual costs of the trip or the loading & unloading labor.

The 2 Penske trucks with the larger space & larger payload will allow me to make this move with only the 2 trucks. The quote for renting them one way was $1634 per truck which included ALL the appliance dollys & all the insurance....2 trucks will cost me less than $3300 to drive off the rental lot. I will have about 12,500 # in one truck & about 8,500 in the other truck.

I have drawn all of this out, weighed every single box I can pick up & weigh & I have measured every item going into the trucks. I am using ‘bankers boxes’ as much as I can for compact packing & easy loading. My books & magazines & other items in bankers boxes will be the first part of the load in 1 truck, and it will be 3 boxes deep==6 boxes wide & 7 boxes high. Just those boxes add up to over 3300# because of the weight of my books.

My furniture is old—and solid wood. I have 58 years of accumulation & I am not leaving anything behind. 10 — 100 gallon Rubbermaid tanks for feed & water for my horses—2 tack boxes with contents—washer & dryer ( a couple of the LAST real MAYTAGS)-kitchen table-dining table & 6 chairs of solid oak. 2 desks- one walnut & one oak. My grandmother’s twin wedding beds—mahogany. The weight piles up. But I am on Soc Sec & I cannot replace what I am taking.

The cost to replace those 10 tanks is more than the cost of ONE rental truck.

I can heartily tell you that the Penske people have been aces with all my questions-—and I intend to rent from them for my trip when I get this place sold.