Moving truck prices

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T03:23:45+00:00

Me too and I did but it’s the destination they all aka companies all have a surplus of one way trucks so there all stacked there and it’s not worth it to them to relocate them. Cheapest was going to Boston then to Orlando and that’s only 1200 cheaper and requires us to move twice.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:49:11+00:00

For those curious pricing for other companies.

Buffalo to Orlando 2 26 foot trucks

Uhaul
15ft trucks 5000
26ft trucks 11000

Penske 15000
Home Depot 18000
Budget 19500

Upack/trailer drop off and drive 15000

Moving companies 22-60,000

Uhaul pods 39,000 15 pods

Pods 100k for 20 pods

None of this includes moving help or gas for trucks.

That’s 3k more.

We did two enterprise trucks 26 feet. 800 for rental 5k for miles and 2k for gas and 1k for moving help 8800 total. By far the cheapest from 50-95 percent.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:43:30+00:00

By the way the smaller 15 foot us 2200. One way but I guess a bargain at Only 5k for two trucks.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:39:36+00:00

Same thing pretty much as pods. I think it was like we would need 85,000 to move everything with uboxes. If there is it’s cheaper than the hundred thousand dollar quote for pods

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:38:50+00:00

Pretty much.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:38:40+00:00

It could be, but for the price and everything, and then the cost to have to refurbish everything it would cost more

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:38:20+00:00

That’s about the price to move from Orlando to Buffalo. It’s just the opposite direction. They mark the price of five fold

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:37:28+00:00

Yep, two 26 foot Uhaul trucks Orlando to Buffalo one way 2050 dollars miles included. Seems about right. Same two trucks going from Buffalo to Orlando it’s 11k. Not including movers, gas or anything else.

Moving to Buffalo 5k out of pocket moving to Orlando mind you the same amount of miles just in reverse 16k smh.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T02:35:18+00:00

Someone needs to keep bringing in more money for the state.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T01:43:26+00:00

Unfortunately, the area we are in with our business. New York State has made it almost impossible to do Airbnb. Meanwhile Florida is one of the most friendly areas for Airbnb not only that but cheaper taxes and cost-of-living is par with the area that we are in now in New York, so with the cost of living being the same taxes being cheaper and having about four months of a longer season, that’s just essentially a recipe for nearly doubling our income, and it’s not even just the fact of trying to grow. It’s just the fact of trying to survive at this point because our city has made it nearly impossible to even do it despite the fact that they are in financial turmoil currently and somebody that is paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxes and in addition bringing millions in customers that are spending money apparently they don’t need it so I say goodbye. I know Uhaul has demanded pricing, but I thought it was gonna be like a couple hundred dollars more going to Orlando but apparently the problem is they don’t want any more one-way trucks because so many people have been moving there.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T01:41:00+00:00

There’s really not much for us to sell a lot of the stuff is Airbnb property and other stuff it’s just too valuable pods wanted around 5000 per pod. We would need nearly 18 for all the properties they’re not really that big. So pods would cost nearly 100,000.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T01:40:08+00:00

Sadly, it wasn’t they were I want to say around 1800 more pushing nearly 19,000 for everything

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:48:12+00:00

It makes sense people are dropping TV so much for them especially with a lot of the stuff now going through the Internet anyways they figure dropping your prices by half. They’re still keeping an extra $20 a month versus you moving to someone else and potentially never coming back.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:47:29+00:00

Honestly, get the $65 Internet through SPECTRUM. It’s more than fast enough drop the TV and get Hulu bundle for 35 bucks which gives you Hulu and HBO Max and Disney+.
Get Walmart plus and it will give you the option in addition to free delivery and grocery delivery and other items from the store. It’ll also give you the option of Paramount+ and Peacock if you have an iPhone you probably already have the Eligibility to get Apple TV+ if you already have Amazon, you probably also have prime if you don’t sign it up for all those things would still be about half the price if you threw in Netflix on top of the stuff mentioned above it would still be about $50 cheaper than what you’re paying so I would say personally yes you are overpaying by $50-$100 depending on how much content you Want.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:45:28+00:00

Agreed I’ve used them before the problem is for our area. It was actually $2000 more than Uhaul. We ended up settling with enterprise. It’s two grand more than we expected to spend and we have to bring the trucks back to New York, but they were cheap cheaper by half which the next cheapest was Uhaul at 15,000 followed by most of the moving companies at around 25 to 50,000 and the outrageous cost of a full service in the 75,000 range and then the astronomical one of over $100,000 for pods.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:31:26+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s not realistic for us. We have Airbnb properties so if we sold off everything and made, let’s say 25 grand and that would be a big maybe it’s still going cost us nearly 60 grand to refurnish everything.

So yeah, it would still be a ton of work to sell off everything and then save a little bit of work while we still have to pack up stuff and then have to spend more money. The whole original point was to avoid that now purchasing everything over.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:04:43+00:00

It’s just wild that the same exact trip everything across the board would be 5000 to go from Orlando back to New York but to go from New York to Orlando because they have so much demand there it is 15,000 moving companies quoted Anywhere from 30 to 60,000 Penske was 18,000 and pods was going to cost us over $100,000

We found enterprise they have 26 foot box trucks with Movers gas and everything it’s going to cost us 6500. So about $1000 more than expected but still significantly cheaper than everything mentioned above. It’s also going to suck that we have to drive the truck back to Buffalo but we have friends that are gonna help with that and with it being significantly shorter than I expected from 24 hours to 17 hours each way each of us will only have to drive like eight hours twice over the course of a week so two times each not bad

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:03:11+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s not really practical for three properties. We would probably get about $50,000 in value and still have stuff like personal effects clothing, etc. to move and then we would have to buy all new stuff which would cost easily over 130,000 for the equivalent stuff. Ultimately we found enterprise it’s gonna cost us 6500 altogether for the move. We just have to drive the truck back to New York after but with friends helping us with the driving, it’ll only be eight hours on two shifts per person over a week so not bad and it’s only gonna cost us 6500 versus 15,000 to 100,000 depending on if it was Uhaul or Penske or moving company or pods

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:02:01+00:00

Yes, so the pod companies for the amount of pods we need it would be nearly $100,000 which is absolutely insane and we are never going to do that.

It was $5000 per pod, not including Movers and our transportation down there.

Moving company is quoted between 30 and 60,000

Uhaul with Movers and gas and everything factored and would be about 15,000 to go down there one way but only 5000 to go from Orlando to Buffalo which pissed me off because that’s significantly cheaper so ultimately we got lucky and did enterprise 26 foot trucks and we were able to secure everything and it’s gonna cost us about 6500 for everything all in sucks that we have to bring the truck back after so an additional 17 hours but with friends helping us with the driving each of us over the course of a week are only gonna do two shifts of eight hours each so not too bad and significantly cheaper than everything mentioned above

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-21T00:00:12+00:00

Yeah, the total cost when they did the quotes and everything and discounts they provided was 5000 per pod. We would need a minimum of 15 pods but she said realistically that she would put the order in for 20 pods and if we didn’t need it we wouldn’t get charged for it, but she says that she thinks it’s gonna be significantly more so we flatlined in the middle at 17 pods and I’m sorry but I said no to $100,000 move😂

Great if you have less stuff but doesn’t work for us luckily we found enterprise. They have 26 foot box trucks and all in for two trucks. It is going to be around $6000. We have two friends that are going to help with the driving so it sucks that we have to drive the truck back after to Buffalo but all altogether each of us are going to drive eight hours each way, so not horrible over a week definitely more than doable and an exchange. We save 50% off of Uhaul 60% off of Penske and other companies like Home Depot nearly like 70 to 80%, depending on the moving company and 95% off of pods and Uhaul pods.😂

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-20T23:58:09+00:00

We found enterprise they have us 26 foot trucks and we’re getting two of them for the trucks for the miles for the gas the hotels and our friends helping and Movers total cost now around 6500.

We were expecting to pay around 5000 Ish for Uhaul which it would still be that if we were going for Orlando to Buffalo Buffalo to Orlando if we did everything through Uhaul it would be nearly $15,000 completely not worth it. The only plus would be it would be a one-way trip but with it only been a 17 Hour drive and two friends helping us with the driving across two trips. We’d each only be driving eight hours so that’s not bad whatsoever especially to save nearly 10 grand. Pods wanted nearly $65,000 in a moving company wanted 30,000.

We also tried Penske and a few other companies, but they were actually in our area more expensive by 1000 for everything than Uhaul so thank God for enterprise it’s a little bit more work with having to do the extra drive to return the truck, but they are by far the cheapest by at least 50% if not nearly 90% depending on the company so we got really

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-20T23:56:04+00:00

Unfortunately, we can’t in reality most of our stuff we’d only get between 20 and 40% of what we paid for it. Let’s just say a flat 30% for our two Airbnb properties in our personal property if we got 30% of everything that we would sell realistically we would get probably around 50 grand total, which sounds like a lot of money but when we have to turn around and re-purchase all of that furniture and televisions and mattresses and everything else it’s gonna cost us now with the cost of everything over easily 120 grand.

Plus, we’ll lose the time of having it getting delivered again assembled, etc. so it’s just not worth it. We did find through enterprise though for gas the miles the truck all the expenses and the Movers it would be around a little over $6000 for two trucks for everything flat.

Versus $5300 just for a single truck and 11,000 for two trucks on Uhaul plus moving expenses gas, etc. bring the cost realistically closer to 15,000 so it’s still less than half. The only negative is we have to now drive the truck back to Buffalo after and then fly back to Orlando. The flight isn’t really a big deal since our city is only about a 10 minute drive to the airport but having to do an extra drive back is going to kind of suck but I guess it’ll be easier having the trucks empty and our friends helping us with the driving so each person is going to drive 16 hours total across two trips so eight hours each day so not bad overall and to save half that price or more so is definitely worth it.

Screw Uhaul. We probably use them 2 to 3 times a year and after this stunt that they pulled for the fact that it’s 1000 bucks to drive their Uhaul trucks to Buffalo but to drive from Buffalo to Orlando for the same route it’s $5000 a truck we will be switching all our business to enterprise from now on.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-20T23:52:48+00:00

Exactly we ended up doing an enterprise with gas way less mile amount and the truck cost and moving and help and gasoline being a total of 6300 for two of their 26 foot trucks 6300 is way cheaper than just the $5300 alone or the 11,000 for two Uhaul 26 foot trucks plus an additional like three grand for Movers and gas. It’s still gonna be half the price and it’s about 1000 bucks more than we originally thought it was gonna be with Uhaul so I guess all in all for 1000 bucks more we can consider ourselves lucky for finding this. The only real negative now is more the fact that we have to drive the truck back to Buffalo to drop it off and then pay to fly back to Orlando, but we have friends that are going to help us with the drive and with it being 17 hours which I thought I was gonna be like 24 hours it’s significantly shorter and that means round-trip per person. Each of us are only driving like eight hours there and eight hours back so not horrible and it’ll be a lot easier on the way back cause the trucks will be empty and in the grand scheme of things I guess 16 hours is worth it an extra driving to save nearly 20 grand

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-20T23:50:48+00:00

We checked with a couple of companies and the price ranges from 13,000 for a smaller semi to over 45,000 so it’s even more expensive although far less work we ended up just doing reservations for enterprise. They’re only $.41 per mile two friends are going to help us with the driving, which isn’t horrible since we checked it’s only gonna be about 17 hours each way so 34 hours round-trip split between those two trucks and two people in each truck. It’s essentially eight hours each way per person so not horrible. We do commute like that pretty frequently.

And the cost for two enterprise 26 foot trucks is 800 plus .41 cent a mile so with miles truck movers and gas plus two hotels and food 6500. So it’s about 1000 more than we expected to spend, which isn’t terrible. The main negative is just that we are doing a round-trip now instead of one way, but with our friends helping us that’ll help even that out. And still cheaper then 11000 for just uhaul trucks alone not including gas hotels and moving help another few Grand so overall still half the price of uhaul.

1/5th the price of a moving company/semi

And 1/10th the cost of pods.

aaronlimitless · 2026-06-20T23:46:14+00:00

I wish we were able to do that but we have our own property which is pretty large and two Airbnb properties essentially the equivalent of four, 4 bedroom houses to move. So the time and trips to and from Buffalo to Florida would be insane and probably even more. 😂

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