Inexpensive truck rentals?
 

Besides rental places like Penske, Ryder, etc., are theyre other places to rent cheaper trucks out there? I live in Connecticut.

Thanks :)

Buy a truck for $15,000 grand. A lot less then renting. When your done with it is yours to keep. :wink: I do not know any places that rent cheap.

Check with your local heavy towing compaines. I know we end up with a tractor or two and a few trailers a month we have to get rid of. Just a few weeks ago we sold a 03 KW T2000 with around 300k for right around 10,000. It needed some work but the drivetrain was in great shape.

You may check with some of the dealers in your area. I know we have one locally that rents trucks and trailers. Renting is never cheap. Unless this is a very short term thing, you would be much better off just buying a truck. You should be able to get a good deal on one. There are a lot of owner operators who have been hauling cheap freight and are losing their truck's.

By the way: It will save you $200 per week to rent from Ryder/Penske in Maine, rather than Connecticut. :wink:

Why is that, Rawlco? Taxes? :shock:

I have yet to figure it out. :? It can't be taxes because Maine is one of the highest taxed states, Massachusetts is also highly taxed. I was looking into it one time and Maine was $100 cheaper per week than New Hampshire, $150 cheaper than Massachusetts, and $200 cheaper than Connecticut per week. I think that was Ryder I was looking at specifically, but Penske was similar.

My best guess is that it might have something to do with available real-estate. Land is cheap in Maine so the rental companies can store a lot of extra trucks. Land is expensive in Connecticut so the rental place may only store one or two trucks and bring in others as they are ordered, so you are paying an extra $200 for some driver to deliver it to you from rural Maine to Urban Connecticut on the right day.

I also don't know if perhaps some of the Ryder rental locations are independently owned and the exact price can be determined locally. If that is true then the Connecticut locations are taking an obscene profit. :lol: Everyone else has to profit before the trucker, right? :lol: