Comment by greenshackle2
7 years ago
You don't need to own a pickup truck just because you need to haul or tow things three of five times per year. You can own a more economical car and rent a pickup if / when you need it.
7 years ago
You don't need to own a pickup truck just because you need to haul or tow things three of five times per year. You can own a more economical car and rent a pickup if / when you need it.
fwiw I live in a place where everyone owns a pickup (I use mine to plow snow, pull a gravel dump trailer, and to collect large items from Costco) but I never hear of anyone renting a pickup. I'm sure it's possible somehow but I doubt you can just roll into Hertz and sign out an F-250..
At the Hertz down the street from work I can rent a cherry-picker or a forklift if I want (definitely not an airport Hertz). Pretty sure a pickup wouldn’t be asking too much. I’ll check next time I walk by. Me, I just rent my trucks from Home Depot.
Hmm. Around here I can easily rent telehandlers and excavators but not pickups. Perhaps because everyone already has at least one pickup?
I rent a pickup from Uhaul when I need one.
I can jam quite a lot of lumber in/on my Mazda Protege though, so it’s rare I need an actual truck.
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Not sure about Hertz, but everytime I go to Home Depot I see the F250s for rent in the parking lot.
https://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/load-n-go-truck-...
You can actually. Friends of mine rented one for a group camping trip a couple years back. Worked pretty well. A quick google search shows that Enterprise and Avis will both rent you one.
> I'm sure it's possible somehow but I doubt you can just roll into Hertz and sign out an F-250.
I don't know about an F-250, but the last time I rented a car it was a walk-in at an Enterprise in Harrisburg, PA and I walked out with a Nissan pickup 30-ish minutes later.
Also, your average Home Depot or U-Haul typically has pickups for rent, specifically for this use case.
If I had to rent a pickup truck on short notice, I'd hit up U-Haul, who has a bunch of them.
Last time I had to leave my car in the body shop after it was hit, my insurance got me a rental car from Enterprise. The only rentals available at the time were F-250s, so I drove a pickup truck to work and back for a week.
Why do you think that pick up trucks are unrentable?
U-Haul and HomeDepot is where I’d go to rent one.