Moving advice

[DeanMoriarty]

Any good advice on getting someone moved from Ohio to St Louis on the cheap?
The thing is, I have to find a way there... then drive the truck or w/e back while she follows in her car, if we do it that way. So I have to figure that cost into the equation. She deosn't have a lot of stuff, maybe enough to fill a cargo van, but I don't trust my truck to make it there and back. Anyones ideas or experiences with different moving companies would be great.

 

[hihoslvr]

Lemme see if I understand the situation: Can you rent a U-Haul Cargo Van for a one way haul? Check into it, actually I think they only rent those for local stuff... anyway, if you can rent a vehicle that you could drive to St. Louis, and leave/ dropoff there, maybe you could just take the Greyhound back the Ohio? or wait do you mean vice-versa? bus it to Ohio rent the truck, then drive back?

 

[kaskirov]

maybe consider http://www.uship.com/ ? its like ebay, but for shipping

 

[dude772]

Rent a uhaul cargo van and car hauler? put all the stuff in the van, then load up the truck on a car hauler, or a car dolly?

 

[DeanMoriarty]

I've been contemplating hopping a train to there and renting a cargo van for the trip back, problem is, they only rent the cargo vans out round trip, or local as you said. (All the places I've checked anyway), so the expenses would go back up having to pay for a big 12' or 16' for a one way trip, plus the extra gas it'll eat up. Cheapest thing I've found is to rent a cargo van here and drive it round trip, and that's still close to a grand.
The car hauler costs as much as it would to rent a small car to drive out there and drop off. Checked it.
I've got someone I could probably borrow a small trailer from... I just don't have complete faith in my truck making the trip, plus I'm not sure how much weight I could really expect it to pull from there to here.
Thanks for the Uship tip... I hadn't come across that one. I'll have to check it out.

 

[kunar]

I've been contemplating hopping a train to there and renting a cargo van for the trip back, problem is, they only rent the cargo vans out round trip, or local as you said. (All the places I've checked anyway), so the expenses would go back up having to pay for a big 12' or 16' for a one way trip, plus the extra gas it'll eat up. Cheapest thing I've found is to rent a cargo van here and drive it round trip, and that's still close to a grand.
The car hauler costs as much as it would to rent a small car to drive out there and drop off. Checked it.
I've got someone I could probably borrow a small trailer from... I just don't have complete faith in my truck making the trip, plus I'm not sure how much weight I could really expect it to pull from there to here.
Thanks for the Uship tip... I hadn't come across that one. I'll have to check it out.

u-haul will let you get a truck in ohio and drop it back off in missouri

check this out
http://reservations.uhaul.com/ReservationsWeb/Quote.aspx?rateID=569083758

 

[97RangerXLT]

u-haul will let you get a truck in ohio and drop it back off in missouri

check this out
http://reservations.uhaul.com/ReservationsWeb/Quote.aspx?rateID=569083758

Yep. I just moved from central IL to Indianapolis a few weeks ago. rented a 17' uhaul one way for about 206 bucks. cost me 75 bucks for gas on it. your move will be a little pricier, but you should be able to do it fairly cheap. If you got nice furniture, rent a dozen or two dozen furniture pads as well. it will keep your furniture from getting dinged to hell.

Oh, and after moving my sister to eastern Ohio last year with a uhaul, I will say this if you are doing I 70 To st Loius, road construction around Dayton sucks very bad. you might deeply consider an alternate route. I would see if you can hop I 74 to Indy, and then catch I 70 from there.

AJ

 

[chittybangbang]

Talking from previous moves.If you pay someone (moving co.)Double or triple the price that they have given you.Its the biggest racket around.
Try this link. ABF Freight.They drop off a pup and you have 3 days to load and 3 days to unload.
http://www.upack.com/