Well as someone moving out of California I’m having a hard time finding a moving truck, even 3 months out. uHaul and Ryder are having a hard time fulfilling demand because so many trucks are leaving California and so few are coming back.
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There's also a lot of demand for moving trucks being used locally as delivery vehicles, since there's a surge in deliveries. Usually not the big trucks, but when a delivery service rents a small truck or van, someone who was going to rent that to move has to rent something bigger.
It's riskier, but you might see if you can buy a used moving truck and plan to sell it at the destination. I've seen a few reports of people doing that with good results, although I can imagine many ways it might go bad.
Or pod style boxes, or load a trailer and a trucking line drops it off at the new place might have better availability.
The pod-style boxes had an even greater rate imbalance in my experience a few months ago. In fact, I couldn’t even get a pod from PODS and had to use a different company.
I've also heard of people renting the smaller (and even some of the larger) moving vans/trucks because they want to rent a car, but car rental services have crazy low inventory due to a lot of shedding they had to do during the pandemic.
It seems crazy to rent a box truck just to be able to drive around town (parking has to be a nightmare), but people are doing it, or so I've heard, at least.
You may find luck with Estes Sure Move. They provide a commercial truck trailer that they truck for you and you save money the less space you use in it (they fill the rest with commercial shipping). I used them to leave the Seattle and they were significantly cheaper than the competition.
I recently had to do this (oakland -> vegas) and was able to get a Budget truck a few weeks out. I paid a lot but it worked out at least.