How Do You Drive A Rental Truck When Moving Cross Country?
• Estimate the load size as best you can – e.g. use a bathroom scale as you pack each box. • Check a truck rental website for the size of truck required for that total weight. • Call your insurance agent who will likely confirm that your regular car insurance will cover you even in a large truck. • Consider getting an AAA membership which will discount the cost substantially with some rental companies. Once you’re an AAA member, they provide members with free maps and hotel recommendations. • If considering towing a car, find out how much it costs to ship it separately first, which may be cheaper than the extra fuel you’ll burn to tow it, let alone the difficulty of backing up occasionally with a trailer Book your hotels in advance (figure your daily distance by number of hours per day you can manage times 50 miles per hour average) – there’s nothing worse than continuing to drive when you’re exhausted because hotels have no vacancy. You can cancel most hotels up to the last minute if
