Moving Truck Rental in Birmingham, AL at Graymont Groceries

I inquired to pick up at an address much closer to my residence and u-haul sent me to a location far from my area, in an unsafe neighborhood. The check-in experience took over 30 minutes and I may have been charged twice. The truck itself was fine and everything I had control over went very smoothly, but I was unimpressed by the services provided otherwise.

My original contract was with a uhaul company on Ave. E in Ensley, Alabama. It was for 8am. I arrived at 7:57am the gate was closed so i called the number given to me when i made the reservation.. The man said he would be right there, then called me back within 2 mins., and stated his wife was sick so i need to give him 20 minutes or more to get there. So i called the 5 points store. The uhaul answering service answered the phone and honored my reservations and directed me to the nearest uhaul store and they directed me to another uhaul store which had the correct truck size i needed. The graymont customer service was terrible. Store Safety horrible.. 3 women came in running and fighting, the worker didnt know where anything was and the truck was dirty. I had to wait for it to be cleaned out and they charged me for insurance and i explained i have my own full coverage. Then after returning the truck. It took over 45min. To get my cash deposit back. What a big delay, for my planned day ..

No contract was given

We rented originally from the Vestavia Hills location, and then discovered we had to drive 15 miles out of the way one way to receive the truck at this location. Not quite sure what the point is in reserving a truck at a location if you still have to go to a completely different location for a truck. The man at Graymont Groceries was very helpful and nice to us and we enjoyed working with him. However, the staff at Vestavia Hills (close to Red Lobster) was unreasonably rude to us and provided terrible customer service. We would not use that location or recommend it.

This is not the location I wanted to pick up the uhaul truck. It was supposed to have been available st s closer location

The location was dirty, spent 30 minutes to return a trailer, staff was slow and didn't seem to care, staff did not check trailer, would have rather drove 30 minutes out of the way to return the trailer than go back to that location. Would recommend having someone look closely at this location.

The uhaul was at an gas station the customer service was terrible. The cashier stop attending to me to take other customers. And i never recieved the keys because he told me he couldnt help me after trying to get the uhaul for 2 hours of going back and forth with putting money on my card to taking it back off.

The man running the store was very helpful and very polite. I had no issues dropping of my rental trailer. The only thing I would say is that the location itself is in a 'sketchy' area, some customers may not feel as comfortable as I was going there. But, again, I had no issues.

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