Talk:U-Haul

message: The last section "Safety Issues" needs to be cleaned up badly. I'd do it if not for the fact that I'm in finals right now and don't have time (or the knowledge about U-Haul) to do it properly. The Chief 16:41, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: With respect to the explanation that safety conditions in Canada are worse because of harsh climate, I think this counts as "original research" as it's not found elsewhere.  I've added citations and cleaned up the first Safety Issues paragraph, and tried to balance it by adding a paragraph of U-Haul's replies.
--- "safety conditions are worse because of "HARSH CLIMATE" " - that makes no sense - clearly if other vehicles are able to run safely in Canada - climate is of no issue.  I'm sure driving a truck in hot climates has an equal number of issues.  This is a biased comment.  
Because no one else has been active here for a while, I removed the neutrality and clean-up tags, but if someone thinks it's still not balanced, chuck away.
:Great that you added U-Haul's responses for balance. On the other hand, surely this line is biased in U-Haul's favour:Various news agencies have reported possible safety problems,The safety problems are real and serious, not "possible".
While that may be original research, any UHaul employee who has worked for a few years outside can tell you when a truck has spent a significant amount of time in Canada.  These trucks suffer from the heavy use of salt to melt roads.  The salt causes excessive rusting on the frame, underside of the carriage, and in some cases, the motor and transmission.  Canadian trucks are somewhat unique in that they should not be rented into the US, while US trucks are free to be rented into and around Canada.  Even though a US truck may spend some time in Canada, it is still more likely to spend a large portion of it's rental history in the US.  Our trucks are designed around an internal combustion engine, where there are thousands of small explosions per second that reach temperatures far above what might be experienced outside of the vehicle.  Heat is not an issue for UHaul trucks.  In the end, you're right.  That section I wrote had no business on Wikipedia.  TuckerIsGod 8/24/2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.96.67.143 (talk) 23:47, August 24, 2007 (UTC) 
The last paragraph of this section is a mess. For example the first sentence, "To U-Haul's credit, however, since there are over 15,000 dealers, their polices are difficult to enforce." How is a difficulty enforcing policy credit U-Haul in some way? Perhaps "One of the challenges U-Haul faces is that with over 15,000 dealers their policies are difficult to enforce" would be better. This sentence begins by defending U-Haul as if it were in an argument rather than an encyclopedia. I think a reference for this "common knowledge" is required; as well it's obvious an unrentable truck does not turn a profit and I would argue that the adjective "minor" when describing safety issues is subjective at best and contradictory at worst - when is safety minor? Why does the last sentence summarize the rest of the paragraph? This paragraph makes good points but looks like a high school essay trying to defend U-Haul rather than an encyclopedia trying to inform objectively.CoW mAnX (talk) 20:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Safety Issues" 

message: I have recently moved to Hawaii and notice that UHaul trucks here (while sparse) are not plated in Arizona.  Hawaii doesn't deal with auto registration like the mainland.  You wouldn't have an apportioned vehicle (like all mainland UHaul vehicles) registered in Arizona operating in Hawaii simply because to get a vehicle here, you have to ship it.  All UHaul equipment in Hawaii appears to be plated in Hawaii.  I have seen the newest livery on UHaul equipment here leading me to believe that it is all corporate owned rental equipment and not people that have purchased used equipment and are operating locally.
UHaul may operate a subsidiary for the Hawaii market.
I am working on getting details, but this might also be worth checking for Alaska.  They may operate differently than the 48 connected states and Canada.  
* Hawaii is in an independent marketing company.  All the equipment is built there and stays there. Naturally, no one will be getting a one-way rental from Maui to Cleveland.SammyU (talk) 02:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UHaul equipment license plates in Hawaii 

message: "Replying to the Toronto Star, the company's Canadian officials cited its inspection policies and procedures that employees and dealers are expected to follow, 
----and spoke of the fact that most of the equipment is shoddy, faulty, likely to explode in certain cases.---- citation?
In response to the CTV results, Canadian U-Haul vice-president admitted to not heeding earlier warnings to improve their vehicles' safety conditions, and said older trucks would be replaced even though the ones replacing them would be just about as bad, because they are basically the most greedy company since Satan."
If the above statements are to remain, shouldn't there be a citation? Which VP said "...the most greedy company since Satan"?
Websterwebfoot (talk) 03:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Vandalism removed from article Pendragon39 (talk) 11:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  OBJECTIVE? 

message: Is it just me, or does this section read kinda like a marketing piece? --64.128.166.250 (talk) 14:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It’s on the truck, it’s on the web 

message: I think the "rental rates" section needs to go.  1) The rates could change at any time;  2) The entire section as it exists currently is without citations or sources;  3) It doesn't belong in an encylopedia (Wikipedia is not a moving how-to guide).  —BMRR (talk) 20:20, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since it's been six months and there have been no objections or efforts to improve it, I've removed the rental rates section. —BMRR (talk) 02:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rental rates 

message: There is nothing on the Uhaul site to support the "Explorer ban".  The cite links to the FAQ which contains nothing regarding such a ban.
A call to Uhaul CS confirms the ban exists, but they have no interest in putting the information on their site.
I don't know how to proceed, so I did nothing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.209.250.147 (talk) 19:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad link/info 

message: Currently the article says some U-haul locations have "public storage lockers". To avoid confusion with the company Public Storage, I suggest changing it to "self-storage", which is what the source calls it.  CorporateM (Talk) 22:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  that was the source used in the current article, however I was eventually able to find U-Haul's profile in Vault here, which says “The company’s storage business includes room rental, self-storage related products and service sales and management for  non-owned storage facilities." It also appears U-Haul itself refers to it as self-storage. CorporateM (Talk) 05:48, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:35, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small request