05-25-2008, 05:15 PM
Harpers truck rental in Hilo rules over U-Haul. I second Rob's opinion on a Lift.
I spent Less on UHaul going about 15 miles then I did using Harpers going about 44 miles during my move from Oahu to Puna.
The lift alone paid off in itself. UHaul only has ramps.
Two peoples labor and less then 2 hours transferring stuff from a 20' Young Brothers Container to the Truck and out to Pahoa cost me less then $100. (that is only the Trucking cost's from the Docks to Pahoa)
Harpers charge was going to be 109.00 or something like that for the day... when I returned the truck w/in 4-5 hours... they only charged my I believe $.79 cents per mile.
P.S. be careful, many of these trucks have "Hand Trucks" in them... If you don't read the small print closely.... they will charge you extra for breaking the seal on the hand truck and using it..... EVEN if you have your own handtruck....OR Paid for a rental of one.....(I ended up getting charged the cost of two hand trucks simply because I broke the seal on the hand truck inside the truck to give more room moving stuff in and out.... ended up costing me an extra $8.00 [V]
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Lower your expectations and be ready for anything.
I spent Less on UHaul going about 15 miles then I did using Harpers going about 44 miles during my move from Oahu to Puna.
The lift alone paid off in itself. UHaul only has ramps.
Two peoples labor and less then 2 hours transferring stuff from a 20' Young Brothers Container to the Truck and out to Pahoa cost me less then $100. (that is only the Trucking cost's from the Docks to Pahoa)
Harpers charge was going to be 109.00 or something like that for the day... when I returned the truck w/in 4-5 hours... they only charged my I believe $.79 cents per mile.
P.S. be careful, many of these trucks have "Hand Trucks" in them... If you don't read the small print closely.... they will charge you extra for breaking the seal on the hand truck and using it..... EVEN if you have your own handtruck....OR Paid for a rental of one.....(I ended up getting charged the cost of two hand trucks simply because I broke the seal on the hand truck inside the truck to give more room moving stuff in and out.... ended up costing me an extra $8.00 [V]
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Lower your expectations and be ready for anything.