Cheapest way to tow my car- Truck Rental?

[jos51700]

300 miles?

Call AAA, get the Premier plan. It's usually less than $100/year. It includes five tows, one of which is up to 200 miles. Tow it to a shop 200 miles away, then drive it five miles. Call em and tell em it quit again and use one of the 100 mile tows for the rest.

 

[sam69sat]

If you reserve a trailer from the assholes at uhaul, make damn sure you call the day before to make sure they actually have it. Was doing the same thing and they cancelled my reservation without telling me. I needed that trailer because one of the rear wheel seals on the car was shot and leaking all over the place and i needed to tow it 350 miles. Ended up having to use one of their tow dollys but first had to replace the wheel seal roadside in a town far away with limited tools and never having done one before. What a pain in the *** that was.

 

[George Jets]

Actually bought that trailer in Florida to get a '74 Dart Swinger back to Minnesota.

Used it in MN for 3 years and friends would borrow it too for various reasons. One person used it to haul rafters for his garage.

Sold it at the end of 3 years for 300.00 more than I bought it for as they had appreciated in the cost to buy a new one.

Morel of the story, no out of pocket expenses when the cards play out in your favor.

Trailers are expensive to buy right now, would not care to try that again in today's economic times.

Yeah... find a buddy.

Not quite sure what the big deal is... 300 miles is nothing.


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[abodyjoe]

Need to tow the Duster about 300 miles. What's the cheapest way to do it? Rent from Enterprise (truck with hitch and maybe a uhaul trailer) what are your thoughts? Thanks

if you rent a truck make sure it has a brake controller or the trailer has surge brakes.. lots of rental companies don't allow you to tow. uhaul is picky as hell as to what they approve you to tow with and what you are towing.

 

[WV64Signet]

Having put a car into the back of a box truck before, the real issue is the ~20’ ramps you need to get the approach and break-over angles to work. Uhauls might have a lower deck than the box truck we used, but it’s still gonna be a pretty long ramp…

Pretty sure the Uhaul trailers are just the 4 pin connectors. I was surprised

Agree with the above comment about making sure they no- kidding have it on site if you go rental.

There are also a few freelancers around here that rent trailers for 75 to 150 a day. But doesn't solve your tow vehicle issue

 

[JDMopar]

Enterprise rents 3/4 ton pickups with a hitch if it helps.

 

[abodyjoe]

Pretty sure the Uhaul trailers are just the 4 pin connectors. I was surprised

pretty sure they have surge brakes on the trailers so that makes sense.

 

[WV64Signet]

pretty sure they have surge brakes on the trailers so that makes sense.

They do, so no cab controller.

 

[bcschief]

Any of you all ever back a rear-wheel-drive car on to a car dolly and tow it that way, so you don't have to pull the driveshaft?

 

[WV64Signet]

Any of you all ever back a rear-wheel-drive car on to a car dolly and tow it that way, so you don't have to pull the driveshaft?

Risk of the front wheels not being perfectly in alignment....

Don't know how well advised that would be

 

[bcschief]

Risk of the front wheels not being perfectly in alignment....

Don't know how well advised that would be

Well, it worked for the 30 miles or so that I did it. Not even sure it's legal. In my area Uhaul is selling off car dollies for about $1100.00. No title but a bill of sale, they have a plate welded on the togue stating it was sold off by Uhaul.

 

[dadsbee]

Any of you all ever back a rear-wheel-drive car on to a car dolly and tow it that way, so you don't have to pull the driveshaft?

Towed my 90 T bird Super Coupe backwards on a tow dolly for probably over 5000 miles behind our '84 Southwind, summer after summer in the early 90's without issue. Being a standard I probably should have just nose it up, threw it in neutral and went. It would have been easier.

 

[bcschief]

Towed my 90 T bird Super Coupe backwards on a tow dolly for probably over 5000 miles behind our '84 Southwind, summer after summer in the early 90's without issue. Being a standard I probably should have just nose it up, threw it in neutral and went. It would have been easier.

The car I did it to was an 88 Tbird.

 

[33IMP]

If you haven't got an acceptable tow vehicle (probably 3/4 ton pickup/van, or more), rent a truck and trailer from the same agency.

I've heard of people buying a trailer, using it a few times and selling it. Making a profit doing it will be tough.
Trailers in Florida should be bunches cheaper than on the west coast. I recently saw a garbage flatbed car trailer here, asking $5k! I might have given 1k.

 

[44070dart]

Uhaul $55. for a transporter. It was .49 a mile for a pickup but we can't get a pickup in our area anymore. They told me they had too many stolen pickups so they got rid of them ...???