Trailering Model A

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by stevemclark

See which U Haul box truck it will fit in,find a dealer near where the car is and reserve one there.Fly there about 2 1/2 hours not 2 days to drive .Save money by not eating out 6 times, gas and a motel room.It took some convincing my wife it was cheaper for the 4 of us to fly the 1200 miles to Disney in 5 hours down and back instead of 4 days.You will still have to drive back.Drive safe,fly safer.

Not sure it is that easy to do hauling in a U-Haul truck, -or at least it wasn't with my U-Haul truck. You see, U-Haul truck boxes all use aluminum bed floors and aluminum wheel boxes over the rear wheels. To haul a vehicle requires cribbing or ramps. Also, no real way to tie a car down. Below are some pix on how we dealt with it on my U-Haul....

BTW, it used to be Penske trucks that were dock-high and had wood floors. Even those have changed.

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[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

BTW, it used to be Penske trucks that were dock-high and had wood floors. Even those have changed.

This may explain it better. This was taken back in 2006 and'07 of a customer bring, and taking delivery of his Model-A. Notice in the last picture the floor in the Penske truck was wood, ...and flat over the rear wheels. Unloading was fairly easy as we just used a roll-back wrecker to winch the truck onto the wrecker bed, -then tilt the bed over and lower it to the ground.

Ironically, even the customer chose a different (safer in his mind!) way to take it home since he could not easily strap it down inside the moving truck box.

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[Dodge]

Brent, your correct. It wasn't a U-Haul it was a Penske truck. We used the racks on the
sides and screwed wood blocks to the floor.
Once it was cinched down the sides of the truck box were actually pulled in a bit.
It jogged my memory when you said Penske....
Dodge

[Dodge]

Looking at your pictures I see wood down the sides, the truck we had actually had
metal tracks that tie downs hooked into.