Truck Rental Booking Failures Leave Customers Stranded Mid-Move With Punitive Fees
A U-Haul customer's confirmed truck reservation fell through twice during a scheduled move, with the company using an "over the water" distance calculation to justify offering a farther pickup location, then charging a $902 "wrong destination" fee for returning the truck near the customer's new home. The pattern of unhonored reservations, opaque distance rules, and punitive fees points to a structural reliability and transparency gap in truck-rental logistics, not a single user's mistake.
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