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Moving Part 1: Driving my own truck

May 11th, 2015 at 05:03 pm

OMG I can't believe how expensive it is to move on our own. Getting a Penske Truck (cheaper than uhaul and budget) is $3049 for 10 days assuming we rush and pack and move and drive. It's closer to $4k if we add extra days.

Now everyone who suggested moving using the rental truck, it's expensive because of the cities we're moving between. If I were to flip the cities and drive from where we are moving to where we are, the exact date and rental rate is.....$1389 for the same size truck. Also moving the dates around doesn't help, it actually goes up. Basically no moving company has enough trucks where I live because a lot of people are using them and they need people to bring trucks to our city.

So packing a truck will cost me at a minimum $3049. This does not include gas, hotels, or food on the driving trip over.

So my next step is research PODS and movers myself. From tentative work it appears that it will be cheaper to use pods or full service movers (the price differential won't be so great) since our rental truck is so expensive.

5 Responses to “Moving Part 1: Driving my own truck”

  1. alianora Says:
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    When we moved from NC to CO 4 years ago, we went through a big company that did something similar to PODS. I can't remember which, but it was cheaper than hiring a moving company or driving it ourselves!

  2. creditcardfree Says:
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    alinora, was that company ABF, or UPack. That would be one I would suggest calling. Good luck, LAL. Sorry the cost is so high. This is the one thing I don't have to worry about with the move.

  3. scfr Says:
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    Sounds like supply and demand is NOT going to work in your favor this time around. I wonder what the net outflow will mean for the RE market down the road?

    Have you tried checking prices from nearby cities? If there is a big difference in price it might be worth a little drive to go pick up a truck.

  4. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
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    I have checked close cities within an hour drive and the price drops to $2500. No where near the $1400 it'd have to be to make it worth it. Even at $2500 it's pushing into the range of using movers might be worth it. Crazy.

  5. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
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    It means moving is much better to be moving here than leaving right now. Plus also with rising gas prices we are quickly heading into much more expensive to drive if you add on 3000 miles at 15 miles per gallon is 200 gallons at $2.50/gallon we are looking at $500 minimum fill up and I don't know if 15 miles per gallon is overly optimistic or realistic.

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