[Keith True]

Where I am we have been pretty lucky with the condition of U-Haul equipment.One,the big U-Haul shop is in Manchester and they had several mechanics right out straight.Two,they had the road mechanics,I knew two,one of them quite well.He lived here in town until he passed a couple of years ago.He drove an F700 Ford,(one of their old trucks)with a sleeper and a wrecker boom.He went from store to store,and would go through everything one by one until they were fit for use.It was a never ending battle,and most of the trailer problems were brakes and lights.He didn't have the wrecker boom for towing,it was to pick up things to be worked on.He changed dozens of engines in hardware store parking lots over the years.Back when he did it things on their equipment was pretty well standardized so he always had the right bearings,lights,brake parts,truck tune up parts,tires,wiring,etc.The problems were not with the trailers that stayed around here,it was with trailers that came in from across the country and dropped.He said the one way car trailers were notorious for coming in with four skins for tires.Guys would rent a trailer one way to bring a car up from the south and the tires would find their way to another trailer before it got dropped.