Good afternoon folks. Co worker was asking me this last night. I said probably an outside vendor like Goodyear, Firestone or others. Anyone here know?
Who services U-HAUL , Penske and other large moving trucks etc?
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I have a customer who services heavy trucks, and also rents Penske trucks from his shop. So I assume he, and shops like his, services them. He also works on county plow trucks and the like.
No one services them. Based on my rental experience.
Ryder has their own in-house maintenance, Penske should as well. U-Haul does maintenance at their bigger hubs, I’ve noticed “good” (Michelin or General) tires and some kind of a maintenance log on their trucks when I rented them.
https://www.uhaul.com/Tips/Company/...pair-Shop-Regional-Offices-IN-Glenwood-19794/
Else, everyone else sends trucks to the lowest bidder, Firestone/Jiffy Lube, etc.
https://www.uhaul.com/Tips/Company/...pair-Shop-Regional-Offices-IN-Glenwood-19794/
Else, everyone else sends trucks to the lowest bidder, Firestone/Jiffy Lube, etc.
As mentioned above - Ryder and Penske have substantial in house shop capacity and offer services to other fleets besides their own.
Where I used to live, I was told U-Haul had a regional corporate who rotated between sites, did maintenance when he was there, and might or might not ever service anything on a schedule. Ryder and Penske had a guy on site at their larger facilities that I knew.
I worked for U-HAUL around 1996. They had and May still have a large shop near Cincinnati Ohio where they serviced all their trucks. This place had a huge parts dept.
Everything was done in house and as fast as possible. For example Every 30k the trucks got new belts. They were still mostly v belts back then.
Instead of loosening things to RNR the belts they cut the old ones off and had a tool to roll the new belts on. Never adjusted them.
Engines were complete with everything mounted ready to go. Alternator,wp,belts etc all on Including the engine wire harness you would unplug the old harness at the firewall and plug the new one in
They had at one time an eBay site where they'd sell nos parts. The oil filters I have for my truck came from on them.
https://ebay.us/m/9Hdjbl
Everything was done in house and as fast as possible. For example Every 30k the trucks got new belts. They were still mostly v belts back then.
Instead of loosening things to RNR the belts they cut the old ones off and had a tool to roll the new belts on. Never adjusted them.
Engines were complete with everything mounted ready to go. Alternator,wp,belts etc all on Including the engine wire harness you would unplug the old harness at the firewall and plug the new one in
They had at one time an eBay site where they'd sell nos parts. The oil filters I have for my truck came from on them.
https://ebay.us/m/9Hdjbl
Budget has corporate locations where they service, but I believe they also use some 3rd parties throughout the country. Penske is in-house; they are the best run of all the moving truck lines and typically charge the most for that reason. Budget can be very hit and miss. They use a lot of "dealers," as they call them, sort of like a franchisee, and they aren't known for caring much about the condition or cleanliness of the truck, just getting it on rent.
Source: Our family had a Budget Car & Truck Rental franchise; we owned our cars and rented the trucks for corporate, receiving a rev share. We actually cleaned the trucks (almost always came in filthy) and made sure they were roadworthy. Did my share of running trucks due for service to the corporate maintenance facility to pick up recently serviced ones in exchange.
Source: Our family had a Budget Car & Truck Rental franchise; we owned our cars and rented the trucks for corporate, receiving a rev share. We actually cleaned the trucks (almost always came in filthy) and made sure they were roadworthy. Did my share of running trucks due for service to the corporate maintenance facility to pick up recently serviced ones in exchange.
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Impressive and very streamlined. Interesting to see such a large company with an eBay store rather than just throw their stuff out. Sounds like smart management to me.
They had other ideas I can't think of right now. As I said that was 1996 and they were still running 1973 f350's with an unusual 330 cuin Ford FE engine and a manual 4 speed. The big trucks were Chevrolet with the 366 and a 5 speed. Neither had AC.
Budget is part of Avis group, no?
I’ve been noticing with the rise of CRACs(Consolidated Rent-A-Car centers) at airports, the rental car companies(Hertz/Avis/Enterprise) are doing less work at their airport hubs and sending more cars to Bridgestone Retail Ops(Firestone/Wheel Works), Sumitomo Americas(Big O/Midas/NTB/Speedee Oil) or Jiffy Lube(SOPUS). Hertz has their hands more with the Uber/Doordash rental programs - more profitable than their usual business clients. There’s less space for a repair shop af the new consolidated airport hubs that serve all brands.
One of the local garages I go to does some fleet trucks as well, and I have seen the odd u-haul van based truck in there too. I imagine each u-haul location must have a local garage for the safety on the bigger trucks.
Back when I owned a business that I utilized MDT, and HDT trucks to accomplish, I occasionally needed and an additional MDT or HDT I didn't already own. I used Ryder trucks as the location was very close to my business, and they had a full service shop set up to work on those trucks.
Yes, but Budget still has some licensees left over from the pre-Avis days, e.g. Atlanta, Utah, etc.
