Urgent Safety Question

They don't call it "Budget" for nothing, although, in all fairness, we did rent a VEEEERY tired 26 ft. U-haul once. Just got done loading it, FULL, start it up to go and power steering pump pukes. The U-haul guy said it would be 3 hours before anyone could show up. Even the guy said, "that's our city truck, why are you 100 miles away?" We drove it anyway. The only rental outfit I'd trust these days is Penske.

 

There's a reason they're called Budget.
Take the field tech's advice, next time use Penske. Their rentals are pretty well used, but a major step up from Budget, or especially U-Haul. And typically, they're much better at repairs and maintenance.
As far as what you have now, if you can, return the truck and get a refund, then go to Penske.

 

Never would of left the yard. Next.

 

Drive it like ya stole it!

 

Im half tampted to find a scale, walk in and tell them you are afraid of this truck what can they do to help you leaning on the rental pukes with the heavy arm of the law and a stack of OOS citations against Them?

That truck is fixing to break under that box. That right there should have never been taken out by you from the rental office. You should have gone back inside and said find me another truck.

I once pretripped a rather big minimum class B box truck (From a Uhaul independant) with airbrake and found it failed the basic leak test plus the alarm would not go away because it never built above 60 pounds. I told the owner, find me a different box truck and do not rent this one out until the air braking system is fixed.

Scraped up a rather big van with a nice V10 on it. Im really impressed with those little v10's with the torque on them.

 

I wouldn't wait, I would just call the hotline and tell them it isn't acceptable. Don't mess with the DOT people, just deal with the people on the phone and tell them you can not drive it. If they send the same clown out, call them right back and tell them he won't do a thing for you other than tell you to drive it and then rent it from Penske or Uhaul - that will get them pissed off.

 

You're paying for the rental you should get what you want.Take the pos back.

 

U Haul inspections consist of a walkaround to see if you crashed it.
A gas fillup.
pick up trash in cab, sweep box.