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Hi
Has anybody ever bought a truck and sold it after the move instead of renting?
Seems like a good idea if you are able to sell. You would recover the money, provided all goes well.
I'll be moving from Vancovuer to New Brunswick
thanks
If I was going to drive from BC to NB, I for sure would not buy a truck. Rent a truck from Hertz, or Penski NOT U Haul. The reasons why...…..Newer ( usually 5 years or less since new ) road service if it breaks down, commercial insurance, and the real biggie......You are not tying up thousands of YOUR money in a untested USED vehicle.
Lets play along with your idea of buying a used truck. You have to FIND one that is mechanically sound, and buy it ( either with cash or a bank loan ) then have it tested to pass the Provincial safety inspection. If you are buying it in BC, you MUST buy insurance from BCIC and for a commercially registered truck, that's going to be expensive. NOW you have to load it carefully, and drive it to the east coast, about 6,000 kilometers. The chances of it breaking down are about 3 out of 10. If it does break down, guess who gets to pay to have it towed ? A fully loaded commercial sized truck that is immobile ...Towing starts at about $ 300, just to hook up to it, and about $3 a mile to tow it to a garage that can repair it. Now you have to sit and wait for it to be fixed. All of that is coming out of your pocket.
A rental truck contract includes road side services, such as towing, to a facility that the rental company has a agreement with, to repair THEIR truck. Remember that they own it, so repairs are on them, not you. If the repairs are going to take days, especially if waiting for parts to be shipped to Blind River. Ontario, you maybe able to get the rental company to send out a empty truck, to replace the one that is broken down. You would have to repack your stuff ( hire a couple of locals to help you ) and get on the way east.
My experience stems from operating my own towing company, based on the Trans Canada highway, in Northern Ontario. I had towing contracts with Hertz, Penski, National, and U Haul. The U Haul fleet is most likely to break down ( poor maintenance by local franchise owners ) and their fleet is older than the other ones
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If it were me I would go with a rental, but not U Haul.
thanks for that. It's really good to hear from a pro. I;m looking at truck rentals now, and Penske doesn't offer one way rentals in Canada. SO that's out.
Please read this Hertz Canada website. Scroll down to the commercial truck rental section. They have units from 14 foot cube vans to 26 foot 5 tons, with hydraulic brakes, that do not require a commercial license to drive.
Sorry, I misspoke. At Hertz, they have trucks, but no option of renting one way. You can rent one way in the US, but when you enter a Canadian address, the one way option disappears, and you can only "return to the same location". Which would be crazy to drive the truck back to Vancouver from NB after moving.
Personally I'd hire a moving company to do the job for me.
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