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I wonder if you can purchase insurance for this? I know some things can't be replaced, but as least you would have something.
Our rental insurance covers us during moves, even during our previous cross country moves (3 with military, 4-5 while still single). If you still have a homeowner's policy in place when you move, the contents should be covered, but if not, you can get a short term rental policy through most reputable major insurance companies.
If you are traveling with the van and a car, try to back the truck toward the motel room door (so thieves cant unload it) and park the car in front of it (so It can't be pulled out of the parking space)
If so many of their trucks are stolen *my sister's was this month. Why doesn't U-Haul have a responsilbity to put tracking device on truck? How many people have lost their truck and either their auto or homeowners have basically supplied this company with another truck? The person who has had their posessions taken have not only lose many irreplaceables, but their homeowners insurance too. Auto rates raised and thus are twice stolen from. Why? In a Google search the stolen trucks are constant. Where is the trucking company liability? Why always the consumer. Most who have never been robbed do not consider purchasing MORE insurance. Seems to me the company is making out like a bandit *pun intended and the consumer is robbed again and again.
Moonlight, what happened to you wasn't near as bad as a family friend a few years back. His brother passed away about 3 states away. Instead of sending the Hearse, the funeral homes sends their van to pick up the body. Back end was equipped like a Hearse and the cab was partially enclosed. Driver picked up my friend's brother and had to stop for the night coming back. Woke up the next morning, you guessed it, the van, with it's contents, were gone! He called the police who said he had nothing to worry about. The van had been reported deserted on the side of the road about 3 am. When police got there, the driver's door and the back door to the van were open and they said you could see by the dew on everything, that the thief took out across the fields...away from the road!
I'm sorry, but that is really kind of funny. Ok, so I have a real warped sense of humor. I'm just picturing it in my mind.
at least your things were not taken by a private moving company like mine were and you had to go in front of a pa.corrupt judge that was related to the moving company and asked me for witnesses to the theft(better not knowing who has your stuff sometimes)
Well, it is starting all over, with no possessions. Yes, it is devestating. But possessions are just things...maybe expensive things, or things that can't be replaced...but if you are still young, healthy, you can live without those things...people put too much emphasis on matieral poseesions. It is a violation, that is proably the most devestating aspect, someone took everything you own...and is going thru that stuff...for money...
But people have llost everything before, and survived. Even without insurance coverage, it just takes time to get that stuff again...
Well, it is starting all over, with no possessions. Yes, it is devestating. But possessions are just things...maybe expensive things, or things that can't be replaced...but if you are still young, healthy, you can live without those things...people put too much emphasis on matieral poseesions. It is a violation, that is proably the most devestating aspect, someone took everything you own...and is going thru that stuff...for money...
But people have llost everything before, and survived. Even without insurance coverage, it just takes time to get that stuff again...
Stuff is just stuff, but they could also lose every family photo they own, handwritten letters from deceased loved ones, and many more items that cant be "re-bought". I wouldnt be devastated to lose regular stuff, but if I lost the old table that still has the tape on the leg, that my Grandpa put on it in the 60's, or the original pictures of my family, or the little chair that I used as a child, etc., etc. I'd be inconsolable. I did a move last Sept. from Ca. to Mo., and after reading this thread, I now know how lucky I was to get everything here. Op, good tips here, and I wish you the best on your move.
Jasper, forgot to say you have a excellent rep. count vs posts! I havent seen that often. Congrats!
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I havent seen that often. Congrats! 
