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Old 08-09-2012, 06:44 AM
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Priced Pods and rental trucks. Every rental company was $800-1,000 cheaper using $3.89/gal for gas. We needed to put our stuff in storage for about 3 months and wanted access to it. If we used a Pod we would have to go to Ocala and get them to get the Pod out of the warehouse for access. We used a local "self store" and had access 7 days/week. We used U-Haul after getting prices from the others and asking the U-Haul dealer to beat it. The cost for a 17' truck, a car carrier(all 4 wheels on trailer), gas and 1200 miles was $1,690 in Sept. 2011. If you subtract the $100 in gas it would have cost me to drive my pickup that was on the trailer it brings the cost down more.