camper towing rental trucks??
I went out this morning to go run some errands. My truck was gone. Must have gotten stollen last night. Well, fudge. So I have quite a few questions, but I'll limit this discussion to: We have ...
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So it's been a week since Labor Day. Sorry for now just replying but life's been busy. We were able to rent a truck from enterprise truck and commercial division. My insurance covered 25 bucks a day. We had to cover the rest. They do give an insurance rate. I asked for a 3/4 ton. I started out with a ram 2500 diesel quad cab. That would have worked out fine. After picking up the camper I noticed I didn't nt have trailer lights. Then realized I didn't have trailer breaks neither. I was impressed that the truck stopped the trailer as well as it did, but wasn't going to try them in the mountains especially with no break lights. I found the problem. The trucks wiring harness conector to the trucks trailer plug was disconnected. I tried to reconnect but it wasn't reconecting easily. That's when I stop. I don't want to be the one that breaks/buys it.
I went back to enterprise (trailer in tow). They swapped trucks with me. Unfortunately they only had a f350 dually long bed. A little more truck than I needed or wanted, but I new it could handle the camper
We rented it on Friday morning and returned it on Monday night. The salesman comped me a day for the inconvenience. After insurance i was in it for $150 or so. I'm good with that.
Another positive was that I was able to tow my camper to the locksmith. An initial quote for a mobile lock smith was $150-$175 to show up plus a hundred per hour thereafter. (I didn't try any other mobile units, I would have drilled the cores out for that). Instead the lock smith that I towed it to picked it, printed 2 new keys and made 6 copies for under 70 bucks.
I think we made the right decision with the rental. We had a good time. Plenty of truck to tow the camper. I didn't have to hide the fact that I was using the truck to tow. I'm just hoping that the trip doesn't cost me 40k this winter.... If the wife wants to trade the 6.0 for a 6.7.
Thanks again for all of the replies.
I went back to enterprise (trailer in tow). They swapped trucks with me. Unfortunately they only had a f350 dually long bed. A little more truck than I needed or wanted, but I new it could handle the camper
We rented it on Friday morning and returned it on Monday night. The salesman comped me a day for the inconvenience. After insurance i was in it for $150 or so. I'm good with that.
Another positive was that I was able to tow my camper to the locksmith. An initial quote for a mobile lock smith was $150-$175 to show up plus a hundred per hour thereafter. (I didn't try any other mobile units, I would have drilled the cores out for that). Instead the lock smith that I towed it to picked it, printed 2 new keys and made 6 copies for under 70 bucks.
I think we made the right decision with the rental. We had a good time. Plenty of truck to tow the camper. I didn't have to hide the fact that I was using the truck to tow. I'm just hoping that the trip doesn't cost me 40k this winter.... If the wife wants to trade the 6.0 for a 6.7.
Thanks again for all of the replies.
