Will U-Haul rent for a Gladiator with a hard top?

[XJADDICTION]

Rent trailers often from them, no problem with hard top on the JT renting any trailer.

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[spectre6000]

It varies from franchise to franchise. They SHOULD, but it doesn't mean they WILL.

I was once on a cross country road trip in a new-to-me '62 VW bus. It was me, my fiancee, and my two younger siblings on spring break from college. We broke down cresting the last hill into... I forget which town in New Mexico... It'll come to me in an hour or so when I'm working on something important and can't break away to update this. Anyway, we Little Miss Sunshined it, and coasted down the hill under gravity power into town, and there was a UHaul right at the end of the first exit. What Luck! Unfortunately, we were pretty gross looking from having lived out of a bus for however many days, and I guess the UHaul people didn't take kindly to "dirty hippies" (this was ca. 2010, and I ran an energy investment company at the time). They absolutely refused to rent us anything for anything to tow anything. Period. Get fucked. We also got hassled by the cops as we tried to push the bus up the road to get out of the UHaul parking lot (it was pretty hostile). A local guy jumped out of his car, started to help us push, and warned us that the cop that was hassling us was an incredible asshole, and pull over here, it's his buddy's place, and he'd vouch for us. I ended up calling on the VW community aura of awesomeness, and someone from a ways back in Arizona drove out to lend us a tow bar, and we flat towed it back to Dallas.

Moral of the story: fuck UHaul.

 

[anavrinIV]

I have twice rented trailers with my JT with a soft top. Never a question asked. One a 5x9 utility, the other a motorcycle trailer to tow a tool box home

 

[jpjpjp]

I've rented trailers from U-Haul with a panoramic sunroof with no problem. They never mentioned a state brake controller requirement for loads greater than 3000 lbs so it doesn't seem like they know their ass from their elbow.

I also swore off of them for a while as I had a string of breakdowns in their trucks. However, the last four or five rentals, the trucks were fine, but the manager showed up to the store at least 90 minutes after it was supposed to open and also the day before my move! I built in the extra day cushion as I expected some sort of drama. A couple moving down south were supposed to rent a small trailer that morning, but decided to bail after an hour as they needed to meet the movers at their apartment. They were not very happy.

A U-Haul truck broke down within spitting distance of the U-Haul center when I went to return it. The U-Haul folks refused to help take the truck back, but instead made me wait for their tow truck service. Pretty crappy.

 

[eaglerugby04]

I've rented trailers from U-Haul with a panoramic sunroof with no problem. They never mentioned a state brake controller requirement for loads greater than 3000 lbs so it doesn't seem like they know their ass from their elbow.

I also swore off of them for a while as I had a string of breakdowns in their trucks. However, the last four or five rentals, the trucks were fine, but the manager showed up to the store at least 90 minutes after it was supposed to open and also the day before my move! I built in the extra day cushion as I expected some sort of drama. A couple moving down south were supposed to rent a small trailer that morning, but decided to bail after an hour as they needed to meet the movers at their apartment. They were not very happy.

A U-Haul truck broke down within spitting distance of the U-Haul center when I went to return it. The U-Haul folks refused to help take the truck back, but instead made me wait for their tow truck service. Pretty crappy.

I know their larger trailers have surge brakes on them. Though the small ones don't and their capcity puts them over the limit technically. Never really thought of it till now. I have had to go with the dual axel on on my van before just to have the brakes. Thinking about it they for sure are missing many manufactures specks when they rent them out.

 

[Blade1668]

It varies from franchise to franchise. They SHOULD, but it doesn't mean they WILL.

I was once on a cross country road trip in a new-to-me '62 VW bus. It was me, my fiancee, and my two younger siblings on spring break from college. We broke down cresting the last hill into... I forget which town in New Mexico... It'll come to me in an hour or so when I'm working on something important and can't break away to update this. Anyway, we Little Miss Sunshined it, and coasted down the hill under gravity power into town, and there was a UHaul right at the end of the first exit. What Luck! Unfortunately, we were pretty gross looking from having lived out of a bus for however many days, and I guess the UHaul people didn't take kindly to "dirty hippies" (this was ca. 2010, and I ran an energy investment company at the time).

Moral of the story: fuck UHaul.

Wow we have found a surviving hippy... When I read that I just thought of Clint Eastwood's movie Heartbreak Ridge.

 

[spectre6000]

Wow we have found a surviving hippy... When I read that I just thought of Clint Eastwood's movie Heartbreak Ridge.

I wouldn't say that... The bus was about an appreciation for clever engineering and having some fun with a baddass car. I was in my mid-20s at the time, and it was only a little over a decade ago. To wit, I'm apparently not old enough to get the Clint Eastwood movie reference.

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