I remember when the car rental companies in SO CA would pay us to drive cars from L.A., Long Beach and other large cities in SO CA to Palm Springs in the fall and again in the spring to drive them other places they wanted them in
When I called around to reserve a large 24 ft. box van rated under 26,000 Lb. GVW, to move my shop stuff from SO CA to Oregon it was much cheaper to rent it for a week and drop it back off at the same place than it was to rent it one way to Bend, OR and ride home with my wife in our truck towing my 24 Ft Pace car trailer that we used to haul more shop and parts in
It, the box van, had a Cummins diesel motor in it with a automatic tranny and wasn't to bad on fuel, empty or loaded. I had to stop at all the commercial truck scales both ways, it weighed 24,890 Lbs. here in Oregon loaded . Oregon laws on having a class B license to drive commercial trucks is different than CA, I was barely legal here in Oregon at that weight
Penske had the best rates and where the easiest to deal with