Towing parts truck home... how to

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It will fit on a uhaul car dolly.its a tight fit, and you have to tell the uhaul nerds you're towing a Prius (won't let you rent it if you say you're towing a full size truck)
But it's doable. Brought on the parkway/interstate with no issues just tried to keep it under 65
 

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It will fit on a uhaul car dolly.its a tight fit, and you have to tell the uhaul nerds you're towing a Prius (won't let you rent it if you say you're towing a full size truck)
But it's doable. Brought on the parkway/interstate with no issues just tried to keep it under 65

Correction: You have to tell them you're hauling a Prius with an F550. Gotta make sure you have enough tow vehicle.
 
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Correction: You have to tell them you're hauling a Prius with an F550. Gotta make sure you have enough tow vehicle.
The uhaul computer wouldn't let them rent it to you then, because the f550 would likely break down and require a $1000 fuel injector once you hooked something to the trailer ball. But yes, they do require enough truck to tow their trailers, up until recently I have never had anyone come out and check...
picked up a cab last weekend near Kingston ny. Took me almost an hour to get the trailer and have the uhaul lady ok me to leave. She came out and checked any and everything required and then some. Hitch and receiver ratings, tire load capacity and condition and air pressure, all my lights.she even laid under the truck and checked my brake lines and wiring(luckily I have some shiny new cuni brake lines under there).looked up my vin # to make sure the gvrw was correct.i was unamused by her over thoroughness to say the least.but she was overly nice, and just doing her job I suppose, so I just went along with it.
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Wow, that was going above and beyond!

How did you get the cab on and off of the trailer?
 

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I guess that how U-Haul does it now. They denied renting me a car trailer to move a Dodge Caravan when mine was down due to paperwork issues.

On the verbal denial list was the clerk behind the counter stated my transmission in my RCSB 4x couldn't handle it. LOL I told him I regularly tow 6-7k half way up and down the East Coast with it. It didn't matter.
 
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I have never had a uhaul employee that was so unnecessarily through. She wanted to deny me that trailer soooooo bad. As soon as she said ok I stomped on it in a very unsafe manner. may have kicked up a few rocks on my way outta that place...time to find a trailer
 

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Could've been worse. Dropped off a uhaul after repair the other day and a lady had rented a truck and trailer to tow her mini cooper, well somehow the uhaul that loaded her car got her front bumper over the railing so when she went to reverse it caught the back of the bumper and abt ripped it off. Helped pick the front of the car up and over the bar so it wouldn't ruin her car. Goes to show some places will inspect every little thing while other will just bypass some protocols
 
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