Huge moving truck imbalance
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11/16/20 07:59 AM
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...s=3yci4dukcsn1zrull8hh&ocid=BingNewsSample quote U-Haul changes truck prices regularly, but Perry has noted the pattern over time. Checking online recently, he noted that trucks going from Phoenix to San Francisco were only $311, but going the other direction it cost $2,500 – roughly eight times more. He checked cities in other top destinations for Californians, including Texas, Washington and Nevada, and found all outbound rates to be exponentially higher than inbound ones. The high demand and high prices have created perfect market conditions for exploitation. Scammers are cashing in. End quote
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: Mastershake340]
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11/16/20 09:48 AM
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That is crazy high, but in a way it is simple logistics.
You don't make any money moving an empty truck--only a full one. So when 1-way moves are out of balance, rentable vehicles "pool" in certain areas and get scarce in others.
The only options they have is to have employees drive empty trucks back to the needed areas which is 100% money loser, or adjust prices to try to influence the trucks to "flow" where they are needed.
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: wingman]
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11/16/20 01:47 PM
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That is crazy high, but in a way it is simple logistics.
You don't make any money moving an empty truck--only a full one. So when 1-way moves are out of balance, rentable vehicles "pool" in certain areas and get scarce in others.
The only options they have is to have employees drive empty trucks back to the needed areas which is 100% money loser, or adjust prices to try to influence the trucks to "flow" where they are needed. Yep, doesn't sound like a scam at all. Sounds like business!
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: Bad340fish]
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11/16/20 11:30 PM
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Happens with cars too, just on a lesser scale. Places like Vegas may charge more to drive in and drop ff than pick up and go
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: DirectSubjection]
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11/17/20 12:05 AM
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The bad thing about this is the moving truck is full of the same political opinions they are running from. I live is a state they already did this to.
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: 360view]
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11/17/20 06:24 PM
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...s=3yci4dukcsn1zrull8hh&ocid=BingNewsSample quote U-Haul changes truck prices regularly, but Perry has noted the pattern over time. Checking online recently, he noted that trucks going from Phoenix to San Francisco were only $311, but going the other direction it cost $2,500 – roughly eight times more. He checked cities in other top destinations for Californians, including Texas, Washington and Nevada, and found all outbound rates to be exponentially higher than inbound ones. The high demand and high prices have created perfect market conditions for exploitation. Scammers are cashing in. End quote So let me guess, this was written by some snot nosed college graduate that wants his student loans forgjven. I suppose they procured a $100,000 government grant to research this too when anyone with two brain cells to rub together could have figured this out years ago for free.
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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11/17/20 06:28 PM
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So just curious, do Uhaul trucks in Cali have Prop65 warnings on them?
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
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11/17/20 08:23 PM
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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
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Re: Huge moving truck imbalance
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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11/18/20 02:54 PM
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So just curious, do Uhaul trucks in Cali have Prop65 warnings on them? I would think not, as U-Haul vehicles are registered in AZ.
Peter
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