eeboater
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I typically hate posts like this... but I had to do it anyways 
I've been a lurker the past 3 days or so because I had about 2.564 million things to do after my trip to New Orleans. I experienced enough stuff in that 1 week trip to create about 300 threads, but I'll sum them up here.<br /><br />First, I booked a 26' moving truck from Penske for the move. When I booked it, I was promised that the truck would be 3 years old or newer, cd player, and just a nice and decent truck. Well, I get there at about 10:30 (the time I told them I would be there) and all they have for me is a 6 year old 26' Box truck that USED to be a Sears truck or something. It was an International with a black cab and a white box. The guy assured me up and down, left and right that this truck would get me to New Orleans and back without issue. When I protested and asked if there was any way to get a newer truck like the ones they promised me when booking, I was told "Well yes, but you will have to wait until early this afternoon because we will have to transport one from a different location." Well, I needed to stay on schedule because I still had to load up the truck and drive to the southern tip of Illinois before the end of the day - thats where I had my hotel reserved.<br /><br />This forced me to take this truck. All-in-all the truck drove quite well. And I will admit, I did not have any mechanical problems per se, but I did have a MILLION other problems. Since this truck was a plain black and white truck with no indication it was a moving van, I had to stop and get out at every... single.. stinking weigh station from here to New Orleans. I got out, showed them my rental agreement and they sent me on my way.<br /><br />But that wasn't the worst... About 60 miles into Mississippi my brother was driving. We were about 5 miles from the exit we were going to stop and swap duties allowing me to finish out the trip driving to New Orleans. When all of a sudden my brother says "There's a cop pulling us over!" I'm like WTF is going on... This is the LAST place I want to be pulled over. Turns out, it was a Mississippi Department of Transportation officer... not a cop. He stated that he recently pulled over a truck that LOOKED JUST LIKE OURS and found 4 POT plants between the driver and passenger. He proceeded to search our pockets, wallet, socks, Truck cab, bags, glovebox, truck box, and suitcases for anything "illegal." <br /><br />Now, I knew I didn't have anything and I know my brother wouldn't have anything either. But we were driving a 6 year old piece of sh*t which has been driven by who knows what and has been who knows where. I was nervous as h*ll that he would find something that we had no idea was there. Which would in turn get us thrown into some backwater Mississippi jail. For the next 1.5 hours we stood on the side of the road as this yahoo dinked around. After not finding anything he wrote us a citation stating that we did not have our medical certificate and driving logs. Which is bullhonkey because Penske said I didn't have to keep any of that. We didn't get fined but the president of my company had to sign something and mail it to the MDOT.<br /><br />All in all I estimate that that screwing around added about 3 hours to our trip. So, here's the deal. If you are in the IL/WI area, do NOT under any circumstances rent from this business:<br /><br />Penske Truck Leasing<br />28 W 533 North Avenue<br />West Chicago, IL 60185<br />(630) 231-4200<br /><br />And thats that.<br /><br />Sean
I've been a lurker the past 3 days or so because I had about 2.564 million things to do after my trip to New Orleans. I experienced enough stuff in that 1 week trip to create about 300 threads, but I'll sum them up here.<br /><br />First, I booked a 26' moving truck from Penske for the move. When I booked it, I was promised that the truck would be 3 years old or newer, cd player, and just a nice and decent truck. Well, I get there at about 10:30 (the time I told them I would be there) and all they have for me is a 6 year old 26' Box truck that USED to be a Sears truck or something. It was an International with a black cab and a white box. The guy assured me up and down, left and right that this truck would get me to New Orleans and back without issue. When I protested and asked if there was any way to get a newer truck like the ones they promised me when booking, I was told "Well yes, but you will have to wait until early this afternoon because we will have to transport one from a different location." Well, I needed to stay on schedule because I still had to load up the truck and drive to the southern tip of Illinois before the end of the day - thats where I had my hotel reserved.<br /><br />This forced me to take this truck. All-in-all the truck drove quite well. And I will admit, I did not have any mechanical problems per se, but I did have a MILLION other problems. Since this truck was a plain black and white truck with no indication it was a moving van, I had to stop and get out at every... single.. stinking weigh station from here to New Orleans. I got out, showed them my rental agreement and they sent me on my way.<br /><br />But that wasn't the worst... About 60 miles into Mississippi my brother was driving. We were about 5 miles from the exit we were going to stop and swap duties allowing me to finish out the trip driving to New Orleans. When all of a sudden my brother says "There's a cop pulling us over!" I'm like WTF is going on... This is the LAST place I want to be pulled over. Turns out, it was a Mississippi Department of Transportation officer... not a cop. He stated that he recently pulled over a truck that LOOKED JUST LIKE OURS and found 4 POT plants between the driver and passenger. He proceeded to search our pockets, wallet, socks, Truck cab, bags, glovebox, truck box, and suitcases for anything "illegal." <br /><br />Now, I knew I didn't have anything and I know my brother wouldn't have anything either. But we were driving a 6 year old piece of sh*t which has been driven by who knows what and has been who knows where. I was nervous as h*ll that he would find something that we had no idea was there. Which would in turn get us thrown into some backwater Mississippi jail. For the next 1.5 hours we stood on the side of the road as this yahoo dinked around. After not finding anything he wrote us a citation stating that we did not have our medical certificate and driving logs. Which is bullhonkey because Penske said I didn't have to keep any of that. We didn't get fined but the president of my company had to sign something and mail it to the MDOT.<br /><br />All in all I estimate that that screwing around added about 3 hours to our trip. So, here's the deal. If you are in the IL/WI area, do NOT under any circumstances rent from this business:<br /><br />Penske Truck Leasing<br />28 W 533 North Avenue<br />West Chicago, IL 60185<br />(630) 231-4200<br /><br />And thats that.<br /><br />Sean
