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10 years ago my son was in High School Band. The band held its normal fund faiser of selling Christmas trees. I volunteered to drive over 350 miles, from the coast of North Carolina to the mountains of North Carolina over the Thanksgiving holiday to pick up these trees. I called U-Haul and reserved a truck for the Friday after Thanksgiving. We drove up on Wednesday, I called the local U-Haul dealer and everything was on schedule, we had Thanksgiving lunch at the Dan'l Boone Inn in Boone, N.C. on Thursday, which was excellent. On Friday upon arriving at the dealer, they had no truck for me. The nearest truck was in Hickory, N.C., and either I could wait until the next day for them to retrieve it for me, or I could drive to Hickory and get it myself. The Christmas tree farm needed the truck on Friday so they could have it loaded and ready for me to make the trip back on Saturday evening. I drove to Hickory and back to Boone in the oldest hunk of junk I had ever driven. One rear tire was flat, the exhaust leaked so much we had to drive with the windows down most of the way back. There was so much loose motion in the steering I could hardly keep the truck in my lane safely. This was a terrible experience, but it taught me a good lesson, NEVER RENT from U-Haul again. Each and every year since then we have used Budget and have been very satisfied.
By Terry
