5 Cheapest Moving Truck Rentals (2023 Guide)

U-Haul

U-Haul offers competitive pricing on a wide selection of moving trucks, additional services, and packing supplies. U-Haul provides flexibility in your cost, allowing you to pick and choose additional services during the booking process. This includes options for moving labor.

Pros and Cons

Below are some of the benefits and drawbacks of using U-Haul:

✔ Offers assistance with packing, unpacking, loading, and unloading
✔ Available in all 50 states
✔ Provides a wide selection of coverage plans at affordable prices

✘ Customer reviews mention reservations being changed to a different location on short notice
✘ No unlimited mileage for one-way moves

Services

U-Haul offers many add-ons for your moving truck rental. Add-ons include storage services, packing supplies, and assistance for packing and loading services through U-Haul’s own online platform called Moving Help. The company asks which of these add-ons you would like as you go through the online reservation process.

U-Haul provides a variety of moving protection plans. Its basic plan, called Safemove eliminates your financial liability for any damages that occur to your rented equipment.

More comprehensive options, like the Safemove Plus plan, offer coverage on your cargo, while the Safetrip plan provides roadside assistance for jump starts, lock-out service, lost keys, fuel service, stuck vehicles, and trailer hook-up problems.

U-Haul Services:

• Truck and van rentals
• Car trailers
• Trailer hitches
• Moving supplies
• Storage services
• U-Box portable moving and storage containers
• Packing and unpacking services (via third party)
• Loading and unloading services (via third party)
• Mobile app
• Moving checklist
• Damage protection coverage plans
• Roadside assistance

U-Haul Moving Truck Sizes:

• 8-foot pickup truck
• 9-foot cargo van
• 10-foot box truck
• 15-foot box truck
• 17-foot box truck
• 20-foot box truck
• 26-foot box truck

Cost

We simulated the booking process to rent a 20-foot box truck (enough for a three-bedroom home) from U-Haul. To go from Boston to Miami, we received a quote for $4,747. This price includes up to six days of use, 1,770 miles, and $98 for a Safemove plan.

U-Haul accepts payment in the form of credit cards, debit cards, and cash. You may either pay in advance on your truck rental reservation, or you may pay for it upon pickup. The company also includes a $50 reservation guarantee. If U-Haul through its own fault fails to meet your selected time, place, and equipment size, you receive $50 back.

For a local U-Haul truck rental in Boston, a 20-foot box truck would cost $40 per day, plus $1.59 per mile.

State Availability

U-Haul provides its services in all 50 states.

Why We Chose U-Haul

U-Haul offers competitive rates on a nationwide customer service network. The company provides a streamlined booking process that offers multiple locations, and you can also arrange pick-up 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through U-Haul’s mobile app. U-Haul features a large collection of truck sizes, and it offers one of the largest selections of add-ons on this list.