Jul 17 2007
We’ve Rented the Truck
So I went ahead and rented the moving truck yesterday. I looked at several different rental companies and Budget worked out to be the cheapest, especially when you throw in the 10% discount through the USPS Address Change website. We’ve rented the truck for Saturday through Tuesday of this coming weekend. The plan is to pick the truck up Saturday morning and load the contents of our storage unit into it. Then we have a Going Away party Saturday night and church Sunday morning. After church, everything but the bare essentials for sleeping Sunday night goes into the truck. My brother, She, and I will then be heading to Portland first thing Monday morning. I have no idea how long it will take with a moving truck, but I’m hoping it’ll be around 5 hours, so we’ll have the afternoon to unload and then return the truck Tuesday morning.
Total truck rental cost, before taxes and gas, breaks down as follows:
Days included : 2
Estimated miles: 250
1 days added : $56.00
40 miles added : $22.40
Total extra added : $78.40
Truck Size: 16′ Truck
Truck base price: $228.00
July 07 Mover’s Guide - 10% Fri - Sat $22.80
Furniture pads: $13.00
Hand trucks: $0.00
Cost Recovery fee: $9.00
Due at drop off:
Refundable deposit: $150.00
Total estimated price: $305.60
Taxes, at the New York rate, will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $25.00. I’m budgeting $200 for gas and tolls (hopefully it won’t be quite that bad, but I’d doubt this thing gets more than 8 or 10 miles per gallon, so we’re looking at probably 35 gallons, minimum). That brings the total cost to $550.00, give or take. Not great, but much better than the $2000, on average, we were quoted by moving companies.