U-Haul Double-Booking and Self-Service Pickup Failure
A customer's early-morning U-Haul reservation was disrupted by a double-booked truck and a broken self-service pickup flow, delaying pickup by over an hour, followed by a truck with no working air conditioning and a receipt that didn't match the original reservation. The stacked failures suggest a possible weakness in U-Haul's reservation and self-service systems, though only one detailed report exists.
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