I have orders to move from South Texas to Philadelphia in the coming months. I want to move my own personal goods but haven't seen a good option on how to do it. I only have a 2br apartment that I need to move so a 16ft enclosed would work perfectly, unfortunately everything U-haul offers seems to be considerably smaller. Is there anyone out there that rents a trailer I'm looking for? I'd hate to buy a trailer to move just to sell when I get up there.
I'm trying to avoid the killer fuel costs of a straight truck and having to rent both a truck and a trailer. It might be wishful thinking, but I thought I'd ask.
There probably is no one that rents the type of trailer you're looking for, certainly not one-way across the country.
Here's an option, you decide how good it is: Buy a 16-20 ft flat bed trailer, build the enclosed box for it out of materials you are comfortable working with, make the move, disasemble the box, sell or keep the flatbed trailer.
I'd think selling a large utility trailer would be easier than selling a cargo trailer, and they tend to be cheaper to buy in your current area than they are in Philly. You might even make a few dollars on the deal.
The biggest U-Haul trailer is 6x12. If that's not big enough, then your best bet is to buy a 7x16 cargo trailer and sell it at the other end. You can drive over to Alexandria LA and pick up a new 7x16 cargo trailer for about $4,400. You can probably sell it easily for over about $3,500 as a nearly-new unit. Click here.
I have tried to buy used cargo trailers off E-Bay with no success. You have to be there at the last few minutes of the auction with a high enough best and final bid to "win" the auction. I guess I never bid quite enough. So apparently there is a good market for used cargo trailers.
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Last edited by SmokeyWren : 03-19-2008 at 12:12 PM.
uhaul has 16x6 enclosed usualy need reserved and sometimes delivered and then youll need to rent the truck too because they will not rent it without the truck so if you can get them to admit they have it (like the cdl trucks) then rent it and truck and have the trailer returned 2 days before the truck have a friend return the truck to its home when the trailer is in your new home
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