Independent Retailer Month: Supporting Small Business is Our Business

July is Independent Retailer Month, when consumers are encouraged to support small businesses and the important role they play in the community, economy and retail industry. U-Haul does this every day of the year through the U-Haul Dealer Network. It’s been at the...

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Win a Tee! A Seven-Tee!

Win a Tee! A Seven-Tee!

Now is your chance to win a 70th anniversary U-Haul t-shirt. A Seven-Tee! Get it? (I'll stop.) Wouldn't you just love to hang one of these limited-edition shirts in your closet?...

Cullen Holyoak: 50 Years With U-Haul

Cullen Holyoak: 50 Years With U-Haul

For Cullen Holyoak, the dream of operating his own service station popped into his head when he was still a kid. “My father ran a service station when I was growing up,” Holyoak...

Meet the Team: Shannon Papa

Meet the Team: Shannon Papa

In 1984, when U-Haul was still renting anything and everything, U-Haul Pioneer Shannon Papa began her career with the Company. She was hired to answer the phones at U-Haul Moving...

Wear U-Haul 70th Anniversary Apparel with pride

Wear U-Haul 70th Anniversary Apparel with pride

WWII veteran L.S. “Sam” Shoen and his wife Anna Mary Carty Shoen co-founded U-Haul in 1945 and created the do-it-yourself moving industry. They shared the hard work and put every...

U-Haul Dealer Pioneer Mary Hayden

U-Haul Dealer Pioneer Mary Hayden

Just nine years after U-Haul was founded, the Little Store and U-Haul Dealership in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, opened for business. Doyle “Chuck” Hayden became a U-Haul Dealer on...

Walker’s Service: 55 Years and Counting

Walker’s Service: 55 Years and Counting

Back when U-Haul rental equipment carried the message “ONE WAY ANYWHERE,” Lovell was just about as “anywhere” as you could get. Located in the north-central U.S. not far from the...

Meet the Team: Phil Schnee

Meet the Team: Phil Schnee

Phil Schnee joined the U-Haul Team in 1953. During the years that have followed, he has amassed enough stories to fill a book—maybe two. Here, in his own words, he recounts some...

Top 5 Questions Asked by Our Customers

Top 5 Questions Asked by Our Customers

On the social media customer care team we encounter a wide variety of questions every day. Some we encounter on a daily basis, while others are a bit more uncommon. For instance,...

Packing Peanut Concerns? Not at U-Haul!

Packing Peanut Concerns? Not at U-Haul!

Traditional Packing Peanut Many people come in contact with Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPS) on a weekly basis. EPS, also known as Styrofoam ® is commonly used to create insulated...