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U-Haul Holding Company is an American moving truck, trailer, and self-storage rental company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, [1] that has been in operation since 1945. The company was founded by Leonard Shoen and Anna Mary Carty in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in a garage owned by Carty's family, and expanded it through franchising with gas stations.
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U-haul *does* have a reputation for not fulfilling reservations, after taking an online reservation and charging a $5 reservation fee. This practice can be especially annoying to movers who are depending upon a truck and are told that they cannot have one due to someone else's fault, no matter how far in advance the reservation was made.
A U-Haul truck in 2006. In 1945, at the age of 29, Shoen co-founded U-Haul with his wife, Anna Mary Carty (1922–1957), in Ridgefield, Washington, just north of Vancouver. Anna Mary was the mother of Shoen's first six children. The company was started with an investment of $5,000.
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Most often, Uhaul Car Share vehicles were operated in communities with colleges and/or universities nearby. "The goal of [Uhaul] Car Share [was] to give people an alternative to owning second and third cars, and to increase the use of public transit." [4] UhaulCarShare's primary competitor was Zipcar (which, since 2007, includes the former ...
Joe Shoen is the third son of U-Haul founder Leonard Shoen. [3] He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.He attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), and then received a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Harvard Business School. [4]