Customer Reviews for Trout Creek Centex
(U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer)

366 reviews

6011 Hwy 97   Summerland, BC V0H1Z9

(250) 494-4350

Office Hours

  • Mon-Fri: 9 am–4 pm
  • Sat-Sun: 10 am–3:30 pm

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(250) 494-4350

6011 Hwy 97
Summerland, BC V0H1Z9

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Office Hours

  • Mon-Fri: 9 am–4 pm
  • Sat-Sun: 10 am–3:30 pm
  • 24 hour customer return

Testimonials From Recent Customers

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Rating:
3.0

Interior was filthy - the wiper blades were useless - it did have a dolly which was appreciated

Anthony Hopkins 
Rating:
4.0

Super easy to find the location and staff were friendly and helpful Only reason I rated this 4 stars and not 5 is tajt it would be great if they were open longer hours.

Brian Jones 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

ROBERT TOSH 
Rating:
1.0

Get your computer service running properly. Get your staff organized.

sherwood brocke 
Rating:
1.0

Extremely under informed staff need mega training

joseph giesbrecht 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Paul Manhas 
Rating:
5.0

In and out quickly. Staff very friendly and accommodating

JAMES MCCALLUM 
Rating:
1.0

Employees need to be trained properly & better communication skills, like English would help

Mark Mainprize 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

RUSSELL ASHTON 
Rating:
2.0

There was no clear indication on where to park the truck so I just had to "guess" and hope for the best. I asked the store clerk where to park and he didn't know. I parked in the spot I thought was correct and used their app to return the truck. The app was laggy and didn't want to accept my photo of the mileage and gas indicator to show that I filled it up. Then the app told me to put the keys in their orange lock box (they even showed a picture). I walked around the lot but couldn't find the lock box anywhere. I went back into the store and the clerk said oh you can leave them with me. Again, hoping for the best! They didn't send me a receipt so the next day I logged into my account and it was still showing that I had to return the truck! I had to phone someone to tell them that I returned it and they questioned me like they didn't believe me. If there was another do-it-yourself moving company then I would use them over U-Haul next time.

Tina Tongue 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

josh lucier 
Rating:
1.0

After a hassle of a time trying to pick up our reservation, we are now stuck with a bill that we didn’t rack up. Uhaul drop off attendants tried to charge our cards for $700 of unauthorized charges. After many calls to get this resolved how we were treated when picking up and dropping off the rental, all we got from a uhaul rep on the phone was that he didn’t care about our problem. We won’t be using uhaul again or recommending it. We feel scammed by this company.

Catherine Hood 
Rating:
3.0

Good location because it was near Summerland for us.

David Vybiral 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Gurpreet Sidhu 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

ken mcraae 
Rating:
5.0

Grate customer service and rate

Robert Burke 
Rating:
3.0

All good. Simple self serve drop off.

Gordon Jack 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Bob Serre De Stjean 
Rating:
5.0

Great service. The website was a little confusing. Due to the address change from Maple Ridge to Surrey. Just a 1 hour detour.

Richard Scott Robbins 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

EmmaLee Freistadt 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

marnie durksen 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

dave steele 
Rating:
3.0

When we dropped the truck off there wasn't anyone there with knowledge of signing off on the truck and doing a walk around.

Daryl Anderson 
Rating:
3.0

Systems should be available at site so I don’t have to contact customer support. The agent I spoke to was amazing.

Tony Braga 
Rating:
2.0

The rental agent should be aware if the equipment is good working order. Ours was not.

caroline dunn 
Rating:
5.0

Have a sign for a drop box for keys. I had to go around and inside the gas station to drop off the key as I didn't see a box anywhere.

Elizabeth Stoffer 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Daniel Trevena 
Rating:
2.0

Don't promise equipment before you call to confirm with the location. I did not receive what I ordered.

Aviree Huebert 
Rating:
1.0

Ditto

Michael Luckhurst 
Rating:
2.0

The person who helped me at the Summerland location was great. Friendly, super helpful. Sadly, no moving pads which I had ordered online. I also decided on the spot to rent a dolly. No dolly. I had trusted Uhaul when I purchased 10 moving blankets online because I had family heirlooms and antiques to move 380 kms. I ended up using hand towels and diapers to pad the load. I had ordered a 10' truck weeks before. Uhaul's Website gave me a pop-up message that there was not a 10' truck but essentially that Uhaul was there for me and had my back. ( I was not too worried at the time. There are several neighboring cities like Penticton or Kelowna). Two days before my move I called Uhaul to add the car carrier that is suggested online for 79 dollars and up. The nice person was happy to take my order. I got a call on my voicemail later that day that there were no trucks and no car dolly's available but the message was unintelligible. I called back three times from work but was on hold so long that I had to go. I finally called a different Uhaul number and was comforted from the not so pleasant employee that I could relax because the number (Vancouver I think) was 24/7. I got home at 7:05 pm and called. It was closed. I went to their 1-800 number and got an employee 2000 miles away in a call center. They could see my order but had no information for me. I checked my email and WOW, Uhaul had notified me that they had a truck and car dolly for me. It would be ready for pickup the next day which was the date I had requested. This is where the real nightmare begins. The Uhaul they "reserved for me" was about 5 km's down the road from where I live in the lower mainland of BC. I couldn't believe it. That would mean that Saturday morning, I would drive 5 Km's with my car to Pitt Meadows. Rent the truck and car carrier. Load my car on the car carrier....and drive 380+ Km's to Summerland BC. Unload the car. Unhitch the car carrier. Load the Truck. Re-attach the car carrier. Re-load the car. Drive 380+ Km's back to Pitt Meadows....all within 24 hours and have the truck back by Sunday according to Uhauls "We got your back" policy!!! Oh, and according to that quote and those instructions, I would be paying additionally for every Kilometer driven above 400 so I would end up owing a huge bill on top of the ridiculousness Uhaul was suggesting. I did reach Uhaul the next day and asked, "Are you insane!!??". Uhaul did find me a truck in Summerland but it would be a 15' truck, not a 10' and of course I was given the 15' price with no concession. And by the way, there is no car carrier in Summerland but 60+ km's away in Kerimeos is the car carrier. Again no concession. As stated above, no blankets, no dolly in Summerland. After loading up in Summerland, we drove to Keremeos. The employees there were nice to me. However the trailer was no in what I would call "rentable" shape. The straps were encrusted and the strap ratchets were ceased with grime and dirt. An employee helped me for about a half hour with half a can of WD40 and tools to pry the ratchets loose. The Left taillight was broken and the right tail light had no turn signal or brake light. What was I to do? I am on the Hwy in the middle of nowhere and I have to get home. In the canyon I have no data service but that didn't stop Uhaul from getting a text to me to review the condition of the equipment...but I couldn't do that and by the time I could....I got "sorry the time window for you to do this has expired". Thanks Uhaul! In fact, all this is going here because most of the "tell us what you think" requests from Uhaul seem to "expire" really really fast. It's as if they hope you don't review. Of course once you unload your truck, you want to organize, not run to your computer before it's too late! I had to "reason" with the original Uhaul vender. I explained that it was UHAUL which ran me around. It was UHAUL which gave me 2 different pickup locations which were OVER 60 km's apart and that since I would be all the way in Keremeos, I would be forced to take another hwy back and that I needed more "courtesy" Km's free because it was no fair that I pay for Km's that were not my fault. They gave me 100 more "free" km's Later after a dangerous drive through the canyon with unsafe equipment, I got another text. The truck was to be dropped off in the Municipality of Port Coquitlam but the car carrier was to be dropped off in Port Moody! I tried to call but they close early on Sunday. Uhaul attempted to charge me a "25 or 29 dollar fuel charge" ( sorry, I forget which). The problem is that I returned the truck with more fuel than where I rented it from and had photos to prove it! Also, I did speak to the nice employee on the phone about my nightmare and they conceded to have me drop off the truck and car carrier at the one Port Moody location. That call was about 40 mins long. I would have preferred to drop them both off Sunday evening but I had the two destination message. I did get a phone call from Uhaul Monday morning. Not the management call I had requested to complain about the terrible service, booking, confusion, and safety issues. No!, it was Uhaul requesting that I get the truck back to the Port Moody location " because I have a customer here that has booked your Uhaul and is here waiting for it". BS! I first rented front that Uhaul location over 25 years ago. They are a major Uhaul location and have dozens of trucks. My point being is that Uhaul is wanting me to think about their poor next customer? What about me? I think Uhaul cares about making money and the hell with anything else. I made about a half dozen calls, a couple of emails, several texts, and received at last count, 18 texts from Uhaul. Most of the links where I have attempted to "review" the service have "expired". Pardon me, I just dropped off the truck yesterday! In terms of the employee who told me that when I booked, the website did inform me that no truck is available, I can tell you that I, just out of curiosity, booked a half dozen other "one way" trips from other cities. All but on gave me the same popup. As it turned out the 15' truck I rented in Summerland was parked beside the 10' truck I was told was unavailable. Personally I think Uhaul uses that popup, "truck may not be available" as a cover our butts coverall. I can't prove it but this has been a nightmare of frustration and double talk. Uhaul has reached out and given me 50 dollars off..."but that's it". Never mind the hassle, the fact that I paid the larger fee for the larger truck I didn't need, never mind that they wanted me to drive over hell's half acre to get the job done. Here's 50 bucks, go away. Are you kidding me? Buyer Beware!

Don Pinkam 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Amber A Inglis 
Rating:
1.0

Have actual Uhaul employees service the customer

Victor Faria 
Rating:
3.0

The manager was helpful as we had issues with the ‘share 24/7’ and he was not on site but called the store to make arrangements for the truck to be released to us. The 24/7 truck share was brutal to activate on my phone

John Jarego 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Erhard Pedde 
Rating:
1.0

Second time I’ve had a horrible experience dropping off at this location, staff are very rude and do not care to help you in anyway

maeve conn 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

lorne harbor 
Rating:
1.0

The attendants hardly spoke English. Gave me a faulty truck without giving me paperwork.

Sean Huffels 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Tyrone Ryder 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

COLLEEN ASHE 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

CENNET ISIK 
Rating:
2.0

When picking up the auto hauler there was no one to help hook up. I had to come from a hour and a half away to pick it up even though reserved it a month prior. And there was no 7 to 4 way trailer plug adaptor to hook up to my vehicle so I had to drive back to Vernon without trailer lights. And then when returning the truck and trailer the Valemount location of drop off told me they wouldn't take it took longer to return the truck and trailer than it did to drive from McBride to Valemount.

Kyle Reis 
Rating:
5.0

Make sure truck has a full tank of gas upon rental

Kadence Raeigh 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

beth watt 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Gregory Barker 
Rating:
4.0

Drop off only

beth watt 
Rating:
1.0

They are a gas station and had one employee. People were waiting and there was nooone to do anything else. My whole experience was terrible. I was suppose to pick up at a location 80 km away and they didnt have my rental. I got a discount but the gas I spent was not ok. This has happened more than once.

Michael May 
Rating:
4.0

Nice people running the U-haul. good location as can fuel up at the same location.

Robin Nymeyer 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Josh Scott 
Rating:
2.0

Had to wait 10 minutes until I was able to be helped... the back of the truck was dirty and sticky...

Brent Dolfo 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

PAULA COLLETT 
Rating:
1.0

I had reserved my Uhaul with furniture dolly and pushable dolly as well as 2 dozen moving blankets, for 8am Monday morning April 25th morning at Trout Creek. I rented a 15' Uhaul because the site recommended that for a 1 bedroom apartment. We barely fit all our furniture for our one bedroom apartment in there, so we had to do 2 trips from summerland to Kelowna racking up WAY more Km's than anticipated, which is resulting in an INSANE amount of cost for extra mileage. To top it off, I couldn't even get my rental until 9:30am, an hour and half past when I was supposed to pick it up. they weren't available before hand for some reason even though I had pre-booked and reserved with my card online for mobile pick up to make it easier. They start to tell me "it's cause our system has been down for days". then why did I not receive a phone call/email/text msg? Instead I had to call around and figure it out with your 1800 number. To top it off, the truck had NOTHING I had requested, no moving blankets, no dollies. Oh and the truck had less than a quarter tank in there, so before I could do ANYTHING I had to go fill the truck up at the Gas station. This move cost me a fortune for the absolute WORST experience and WORST service I have EVER had from Uhaul. I have used your company many many many times with no issue. For the stress it caused me and the amount it cost me, I should have just booked a moving company. I would very much like ANY form of compensation or refund, because you made an incredibly stressful day even worse than I could have imagined. DO BETTER.

Michael Hewat 
Rating:
3.0

Windows were filthy, RHS mirror cracked. We booked the unit for pick up in West Kelowna. Had to drive quite a distance to pick up in a different city. Also booked a a trailer but had to drive almost 2 hours in the completely opposite direction wasting a lot of time and gas. The truck, although very thirsty, did its job. Would be nice to have some floor tie down points

Robert Pollock 
Rating:
1.0

Their computer system was down and we had to do all our transactions through the online set up. The trailer we reserved was not available.

Eric StPierre 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Laurie Milsted 
Rating:
2.0

Again, would only recommend because it’s the only one. It was clean. Not very organized. No signage pointing to the key drop box, which is around the front by the gas station door not anywhere near the rental yard.

madeline gibbard 
Rating:
1.0

The whole experience picking up the truck was a total inconvenience. I wanted pick up in Kelowna and had prebooked 2 months in advance. This caused a 2 hour delay with my move. I ordered a dolly and a dozen blankets which they didn’t have. Very disappointed in the whole experience.

Catherine McMillan 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

carfrey gerstel 
Rating:
1.0

Have a pepresentative come out to lot and inspect and advise on hookup, not just send you out to do everything yourself.

Ross CAMPBELL 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Ken Manweiler 
Rating:
1.0

Give your employees better training. I was told that the rate would be $20 a day and I was charged double that. I was also told that if I returned early I would be refunded the unused days and that did not happen either.

Vernon Lee Mackey 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Joseph Brisson 
Rating:
3.0

Did not like that there was no personel on site. return was handled by a phone app.

JIM BECKERLEG 
Rating:
5.0

Hello : ) I had a wonderful experience at the Summerland Uhaul location. Very friendly and sharp service, everything was organized and ready for me upon arrival. The staff was incredibly helpful and answered all the questions I had as this was my first time renting with UHAUL. Truck was clean, fueled and performed well. overall great service! Couldn't have drawn it up better!! Thank you : )

micheal betz 
Rating:
3.0

The trailer was still hooked up to the moving truck. Was not clean and all the lights didn’t work. The young person working had Zero idea what to do. Had to unhook and move the moving truck. Then hook ourselves up.

ted Gibbs 
Rating:
5.0

Very friendly, helpful and professional.

amanda rahkola 
Rating:
2.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Garry Humphreys 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Brad Farrell 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Lisa Lawlor 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

jarrod hansen 
Rating:
4.0

The signage for the place is a bit small and locating the key box wasn’t easy since it is a very different location than the trucks. Maybe you could have more details about where to find it in your instructions?!

KATHY NICHOLS 
Rating:
2.0

The person working did not seem to know we were coming. The truck was ready and fine but we had to go through the entire check in process again, even though we had done the online check in.

Cory Taber 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

DENNIS FONTAINE 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Christine Harbor 
Rating:
1.0

clean and maintain your equipment. it was disgusting.

don gies 
Rating:
4.0

what I was told on the phone was not what I was told when I got there. I was told that I would get a 20ft van for the price of the 10ft van I requested. That was not what I was charged!

Randy Mitchell 
Rating:
3.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Michael Burrows 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Tammy Kidd 
Rating:
1.0

I originally booked a truck for kelowna but was told a day before our move that we had to pick it up in summerland at a much later time and being overcharged from the original quote for the rental rate that was agreed upon. Overall the whole experience was bad and will not be using their services again.

trevor gonzato 
Rating:
5.0

Padding for mattress would have been nice to have for purchase of course

Amin Suzani 
Rating:
1.0

No help from representative. Had go to find and hook up our own truck and trailer. Did not note the trailer number so there were many issues on check-in. Did not have the items available we requested (moving blankets) handy so we were asked to look through all of their trucks to find enough.

Trevor Shandley 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

GURPREET SIDHU 
Rating:
5.0

I don't like having the fuel tank at "E" (Empty) when I rent a vehicle, I would prefer starting with a full tank, it made returning it difficult as I was again close to empty on my return...

Lindsey Pelletier 
Rating:
3.0

The lock box for key pickup in the penticton location was stuck closed and no one was in the are that could help. I had to wait on hold for 45 mins then i had to drive to summerland to pick up a different truck. It was a lot of time wasted. They should replace that lock box.

Shoshana Wilson 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Breck Matheis 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Peter Cambridge 
Rating:
2.0

After driving over 4 hours to pick up the ‘trailer’ I was thoroughly disappointed that it wasn’t the ‘motorcycle trailer ‘ that had been reserved. With it being a Sunday and BC day was to follow I had no alternative. In addition, and after having my hitch approved prior to leaving at AAA Auto Electric, I was even more put off by the experience with UHaul when I had to go another hours drive to get the appropriate adapter to legally and safely connect electrically. With the trailer not being the correct one more ratcheting tie downs were needed adding to the overall cost.

Laureen Klaassen 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

David Finnis 
Rating:
4.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

SHAWN POPE 
Rating:
5.0

have truck fixed no wiper on pssagener window. staff at location was excellent. Nav help me for pick up and return she was awesome

WALTER SCOTT 
Rating:
4.0

The only problem we had was picked up was 8 pm and we did moble pick up but when we said pick up truck it said go at 9am and store worker did help us but said i should of been there at 5 pm. so not sure why this happened

Clifton Martins 
Rating:
1.0

Stop out right lying to your customers,

Wade Nelson 
Rating:
1.0

Took me 20 minutes or more to check trailer out as the cashier also had to deal with everyone that kept coming in for gas,smokes,lotto and other things. I am 60 with back issues so I asked for help to hook up,guy Sid be out in a bit,he wasn’t. I finally got it loaded and had to go back inside twice to get him to check my hook up. He finally did. Brought trailer back about 4 hours later and asked for help to unhook and was told there isn’t anyone working other than the cashier and I would have to do it myself....I struggled and got it done with no help from that useless company. On a scale to 10 these idiots are a zero

Byron Peddle 
Rating:
3.0

Gas was not filled to the level of the contract

Kevin Barry Hotson 
Rating:
4.0

Make sure you check in prior to ensure documents are current.

Perry Lidster 
Rating:
3.0

i would sooner pick up the unit with a full tank of gas instead of only half. that way you can be sure that you replace the gas that has been used.and to me that makes more sense.any other time i have rented a unit thats how it was done.

david troyer 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

GURPREET SIDHU 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Anthony Linssen 
Rating:
1.0

Train employees at this location customer service and to clean the trucks. We have rented twice from this location and both times trucks were filthy. 1st time there was not enough gas to even start the truck. Employees make customers head to back lot and take pictures of gas gauge and milage then have to run back into store to show the picture then back out to the lot to pick up the truck. Seems like making the customer do their work for them. And i know they don't clean the trucks at all. When we showed her a picture of the filthy state she just said yah ok. Not happy with this location at all

Jennifer Ollen 
Rating:
3.0

I got "next available" from a location, less than ideal. Cost more than expected. Wanted smaller trailer.

Daniel Braithwaite 
Rating:
5.0

Customer did not leave a comment.

Chris Warren 
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