ABF offers a curb to curb trailer service where you fill up or partly fill up one of their big trailers, and they take drive it for you to your destination. This would run us from $1700 to $1100 depending on how much of a discount I can negotiate. (Student discounts, taking the stuff to their service center for loading, etc.) I'm not a huge fan of the price, but not having to drive a giant truck or trailer would make the move a lot easier in many many ways, including not needing a 3rd person to drive one of our cars.
The other option I've been looking at is a U Haul truck. The 10' mini mover or the 14' mover run right around a grand. What I hadn't budgeted before was the egregious gas milege these trucks get. The 10' mover gets around 15 mpg, and if gas is $2.50, (a hopeful estimate) fuel costs alone will run around $300. Add in $100 insurance and we're looking at $1350 to $1450. U Haul doesn't offer student discounts, by the way.
Still looking into other furniture shipping services.
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The other thing to consider if you drive a rented truck is a lot of times they have a speed governor on them.
There are a lot of mountains (Camp Verde, and 11 Mile Hill outside of Flagstaff) between here and the New Mexico state line and again once you hit Joplin, MO, through to St. Louis.
Not being able to adjust your speed to go up these hills is a royal pain, especially if you are inexperienced driving something so big.
Something else to keep in mind.
Sally
Wait! Jonathan said the way new trucks are being made, you still would have the umph and the power needed to go up the hills wouldn't be as much of an issue. S--
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