UHaul charging 4x more to leave California that go to it
(twitter.com)
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Would be significantly cheaper to just rent the truck TX->CA, pick up the truck, drive it to CA, load it up, drive back to TX, unload, and then drive it back to CA again to drop it off.
Assuming that the time spent isn't a deal-breaker.
The tweet suggests this wouldn't be possible. The prices he checked were for Santa Monica, CA and Phoenix, AZ. The rental agreement has maximums for days used and miles traveled. The agreement allows for 455 miles and the trip between the two cities is about 390 miles. I suspect they're going to charge an additional fee for going over that limit and for going over triple the limit, I would suspect that limit is going to be pretty hefty.
For one-way rentals they include a certain amount of mileage and days in the rental and charge $0.40/mile for every mile over and $40/day for every day over. Then of course there's the extra gas, and those trucks even empty don't get very good gas mileage.
I did some quick calculations on Santa Monica to Austin, and the numbers ended up being a wash assuming a 1400 mile trip and 8 mile/gallon mileage @ $3/gallon. Not accounting for the extra hassle and risk of getting into an accident.
For trailers this can work, because they don't charge mileage on those. I know someone who did an in-town rental and drove it to another state to pick up some stuff because it was cheaper that way.