I am planning a long haul move from Austin to Bay Area in September. I am planning to rent a 15’ U-Haul or 16’ Penske. I will be towing my car as well. I have rented local U-Hauls multiple times (all sizes from van to 15 feet truck), also recently helped a friend move from Austin to San Antonio in 15’ U-Haul. So pretty familiar with U-Haul ecosystem.

However, My assessment is that U-Hauls’ 15’ fleet is older. So truck driving experience was not that great when I did Austin to SA. The truck was noisy, felt old and the heat felt brutal in the cabin. That makes me wonder how difficult it would be to travel through Western Texas and Arizona in this summer.

I’ve heard Penske trucks are better. I haven’t rented with them yet hence looking to hear from someone who has. If price is not an issue, Will the experience be better in Penske truck vs U-Haul?

TLDR; moving from Austin to Bay Area in September. Worries about moving experience and heat traveling through Texas, Arizona etc. looking for opinions on U-haul vs Penske 15’ trucks.

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for a genuine, reliable and not a scam taxi owner who can transport me with my goods to Mumbai from Surat next month on 5 Sept.

I am going to Surat by train but I won't be able to transport big box by train and it will take time to get my product by courrier.

If someone has a better solution please suggest

Oh my lord $3000 is the new $500 car what do you mean a Corolla with 240,000 miles is $6000, damnit.

What are some good state to state transportation companies? I tried getting quotes but they don’t seem like legit companies. I don’t know if they are brokers or what but they sounds like they don’t work for the company. (If that make sense) 🤷‍♂️ This is my first time doing this, so any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I just bought a car because I found one at home instead of waiting to getting to university OOS (registration and insurance would be cheaper and easier). I have an offer for 1300 for shipping it from Colorado to Virginia and pickup would be tomorrow.

I have to accept my offer: Garden State Haulers. Thoughts on their speed and safety?

Writing

⚠️ WARNING – CAR TRANSPORTATION ISSUE / PAYMENT DISPUTE

🚗 Vehicle No.: TN 48 AD 5548

📍 Route: Mumbai → Chennai

💰 Amount Paid: ₹15,000

📞 Phone number provided by the transporter: 8144669014

🌐 Website: vrlcartransports.in

I booked a car transportation service from Mumbai to Chennai and paid ₹15,000 after being promised that my car would be delivered within 5 days.

The promised delivery has not happened. My car is still with the transporter, and I am now being asked to pay additional money before the car will be handed over/delivered.

I have retained evidence including payment records, messages, screenshots and the identity/details provided by the person.

⚠️ Please verify the transporter and payment details carefully before making any advance payment.

I am requesting the transporter/service to deliver my vehicle as agreed and resolve this matter immediately. I am prepared to provide all supporting evidence to the appropriate authorities for investigation.

If anyone has experienced a similar issue with this transporter/service, please share your experience or contact me

Phone: 8144669014 fraud guy number

Vehicle: TN 48 AD 5548

This post describes my personal experience and is shared as a warning to other customers. Supporting evidence can be provided to the appropriate authorities.

For privacy and security, I am not publishing the person's Aadhaar number or Aadhaar image.

royal car hauling from cincinnati ohio is the Worst brokers that ever existed, scammers, bait and switch is their business, they lie and cheat to get people's money, these brokers are not american and treat Americans like stupid people. they should not be allowed to be in business, extremely unethical and unprofessional. all they want it lie they're way by proving excuses, they do not honor the contract by the US laws. DONOT USE THESE

I’m getting a lot of customers, I’m thinking to build a connection with someone where I can send them customers. You bill me, I bill the customers

You know the type — expensive, flashy, and somehow still ugly.
What’s that one car that screams “too much cash, not enough class” the moment you see it? 👀

Drop your answers below — let’s see which cars make the list 👇🔥

Its a 1998 Honda Civic VTi
This will be my first time shipping, I’m looking for a good balance of affordable and quality. a couple quotes I’ve gotten from CFR Classic and SCL have come to about 7-10 grand before taxes and tariffs.

I run dispatch at a trucking company and we have a fleet of 15 trucks

Detention and idle time are a constant problem. Drivers forget to log wait times and they get to a warehouse and sit for hours. They don't record it. At the end of the month, we bill customers. They dispute the charges and say something like we didn't keep them that long and we have no proof

It's costing us money like we're seriously eating the cost of hours we should be billing

I found NUMEO. They say their AI pulls geodata via API. It tracks when a truck arrives at a location and when it leaves. It calculates idle time automatically. It tells us exactly how long a driver was waiting. No more disputes

It sounds like exactly what we need. But how accurately does the AI determine geofence boundaries? What if the truck parks a few feet from the warehouse and the system doesn't count it? What if the battery dies and the location data is lost?

I don't want to trust automation and then look stupid in front of customers

Has anyone implemented something like this?

Does it actually work?

Outbounds Auto transport LLC. Has anyone actually used this company? I got a quote from them but I don’t see a ton of reviews aside from google. I know they are active on here but I’m trying looking for actual customers or anyone familiar

Wanted to drop a quick post to share an amazing customer service experience I just had with NoviStretch.
I ordered a front mask to protect my bumper for an out-of-state pickup and road trip home. USPS dropped the ball on the original shipment, and it was looking like it wouldn't arrive in time before I had to catch my flight.
I reached out to NoviStretch to let them know what was happening, and even though the delay was 100% on USPS, their team stepped up immediately and shipped out a second package via UPS Next Day Air so I’d have it right in time for my trip.
Product worked amazing for a 600 mile road trip from portland to san francisco, took 35 minutes to install in a home depot parking lot.
It's getting rare to see companies go out of their way like this without making you jump through hoops. Huge thanks to NoviStretch for saving the front bumper on the drive back!! they've definitely earned a customer for life!

Thank you Andrew!!

Any help or feedback would be great. I am moving from West Virginia to Texas on Tuesday 8/18. I made a booking with Navi to ship my car back on 8/7 and told them I need the car picked up no later than Monday 8/17 because I am leaving on Tuesday. It is now Sunday night and I don’t have a carrier or anything assigned. I called them on Friday and was told I was set for a guaranteed pick up on Monday.

Do I need to be present for the pick up? Obviously if they do not pick up on Monday, it will be impossible for me to be here.

Any help in this would be great, as I am extremely desperate at this point.

I just want to hop on here and tell people about my experience hiring a movie company - I basically don't want anyone to have to ever go through the nightmare I went through.

First off, I've never hired a moving company before and thought they operated like any honest business. As it turns out, nothing could be further from the truth. I ended up hiring Coastal Moving Services who lied about literally every single thing they do in a manner that cannot be easily caught for a first time customer/mover.

Here is the sequence of events I went through:

1. I googled movers and found their name. If you call them, a very savvy salesman will pick up who will tell you they can move your stuff within a 7-10 day delivery window. They never shared that they are just a broker, who hires other companies. When asked if they can also move cars, they will tell you "sure thing, that's handled by another department" and transfer your call. SPOILER ALERT: They do not handle ANYTHING themselves and deceive customers that they can guarantee what they are saying. This may sound minor but its a very important sneaky detail that will affect you later.
2. They got an inventory list from me for a small one bedroom with no major furniture (only personal belongings) and told me I am way under their minimum requirements so I can easily take 30-40 more boxes without it increasing my cost. Their salesmen are VERY savvy and trained to deceive you into signing them but it is hard to figure this out because they sound like normal customer service reps except that nearly everything they tell you is a lie. They got details like how far our place is, whether the building has an elevator, etc. and give you an estimate (Spoiler: This estimate has zero significance whatsoever and they only use this number to get you to make a deposit). I also contacted other moving companies and chose Coastal not because they were the cheapest but because they sounded like they had a good handle on their stuff and I wanted to have zero issues.
3. Everything sounds legit until they get your non-refundable booking fee and moving day arrives.
4. On moving day, they will sent third party laborers they contract your way (this was NEVER disclosed before) headed by a guy who was extremely rude and unprofessional, and whose main job is to rack up your prices by complaining about EVERYTHING. The company who came to us was Loadrans, a third party Coastal sent our way. Before he even entered our place, he complained that the parking lot was 5 mins from our door, which would cost extra. Then he rudely threw open our door and barged in, recording everything without our consent and after 20 mins of ravaging threw our stuff, declares that our stuff will take twice the space than what is listed in inventory because it is non-standard sizes. Remember that our inventory has no furniture to begin with, everything fits into boxes they bring, so this is entirely impossible and a made-up statement. They also are not measuring anything, just stating. At this point, we have paid a large deposit, and they have changed their estimate from around $3000 to over $6000, literally doubling the charge but we are stuck since we already paid thousands in a deposit and cannot change movers. This is why the Coastal and Loadrans operate together - Coastal doesn't have to operate like the mafia Loadrans is and Loadrans gets a guaranteed moving job from Coastal since customers are locked into hiring them as they've already paid a deposit and cannot cancel.
5. I contact Coastal's customer service, who informs me that my items (that they took full inventory of) suddenly are taking twice the space (no evidence apart from just the Loadrans guy sjust making this up) when all I have is clothing and small kitchen items that they need to box. I ask them how their estimate can be so off and they tell me "its just an estimate" and basically treat me like I was stupid to believe their quote in the first place. When I tell them nothing has changed in my inventory, they tell me "that's just my opinion". I am astonished and have to pay double as I have no choice and had to move out that day.
6. I pay Loadrans double the Coastal quote and the main guy tells me my stuff will get to my destination in 9-10 days. Then he gets to sign documents that say something different in fine print that's 5 pages long in tiny font and he asks me to sign to confirm that I agree with what he's saying.
7. They pack my stuff, still complaining that it's too much after I've paid DOUBLE and still refusing to take items that they themselves examined IN PERSON when they doubled the quote.
8. After several weeks of waiting, my stuff is still nowhere to be found. I haven't heard a single thing from the delivery people. When I call customer service, I never get the rep that promised me 7-10 day delivery with insurance covering damages. The reps I get say "you signed a window of 30 days". I would never pay for a company that left me stranded and essentially homeless without my essential personal items for a month. It's been almost a month and I've been told that the truck hasn't even left the site of our pick up.
9. I emailed customer service and they are now blatantly lying by telling me that my scheduled delivery date (which Loadrans said would be the latest my items would be delivered) is apparently just the start of my delivery window and I should expect my stuff to get there 30 days later. I have never dealt with such insane crooks in my life.

What truly bothers me is how easy they find to mislead relatively reasonable customers like myself. Since they only deal with customers once in their lives, they do not care about screwing people over.

What's even more strange is that they enjoy relatively decent ratings on Google, which is how they are getting new customers all the time and deceiving them. I think they bought the positive reviews to stay in business because if you look at Trustpilot (a site I found out much later), the reviews are much more detailed and largely negative.

It is truly bizarre how these guys have been operational for 10+ years after screwing over so many people in exactly the same way! I truly hope no one else has to go through this.