Top Questions Asked by Our Customers: Round Two! - My U-Haul Story (2024)

FAQs

What happened to the founder of U-Haul? ›

The takeover sparked a major family dispute that led to a $461 million judgment in favor of Leonard Shoen and others. In 1999, 83-year-old Leonard Shoen suffered fatal injuries when he crashed into a telephone pole near his Las Vegas, Nevada, home; it was later ruled a suicide.

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U-Haul is born

With a 1937 Ford and $5,000 in savings, Sam, Anna Mary and their young son moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. During the drive, they came up with the name and formulated the outline of what was to become the U-Haul Trailer Rental System. The Shoens launched U-Haul in the summer of 1945.

According to Forbes, Shoen has a net worth of $4.8 billion, as of August 2023.

Edward Joe Shoen holds the position of Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer for U-Haul Holding Co.

Here's the bottom line: Over the years, the U-Haul brand name has become a household word, but there are other options out there. Here are the top five U-Haul competitors — Budget, Penske, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Hertz.

"Using rental vehicles is a cost effective way of temporarily expanding our delivery fleet to address the increased package volume around the holidays," UPS spokeswoman Kim Krebs said.

The space above a U-Haul cab is called "Mom's Attic." Though the origin of the name remains a mystery, the company has a specific label for the small storage space that appears above the driver's cab on its trucks and vans: Mom's Attic.

About U-HAUL

Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 192,200 trucks, 138,500 trailers and 44,500 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 967,000 rentable units and 83.3 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities.

How many locations does U-Haul have? ›

Since 1945, U-Haul has been the first choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations in all 50 United States and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to more than 188,700 trucks, 139,400 trailers and 43,700 towing devices.

As for UHaul, they use these GPS tracking systems to serve multiple purposes: Location Tracking: For the safety and security of their vehicles, U-Haul can track the location of their trucks. This is particularly useful in case of theft or if the vehicle goes off the planned route.

U-hauling is a sometimes derogatory slang term that refers to two women who move in together very soon after they start dating.

Our core value belief

We work at never forgetting that our quality self-move, self-storage and closely related services and products are to improve human lives.

Answer and Explanation: The U-Haul story is an example of the irrational reactions that the author's father had to certain situations. While moving to Battle Mountain, the children were riding in a U-Haul along with the family's belongings.

LAST AUGUST, Eva Berg Shoen, 44, was shot to death in the resort town of Telluride, Colorado, where she lived with her husband, Sam, and their two children. The killer entered the Shoens' home during the night, evaded the family's six dogs, and, apparently using a silencer, shot his victim in the back.

4.5 billion USD (2024)

Joe Shoen / Net worth

Personal life. As of 2017, Shoen lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Sylvia, and two sons: Carty and Joseph.

Sam Shoen's wife, Eva, is murdered. Her young daughter, Bente, finds her mother's body at the top of the stairs at their home in the tony ski town of Telluride, Colo. She, her brother and a friend were all in the house at the time of the murder. So, too, were the family's dogs.