I’m looking for a moving van that is not U-Haul where I can drive across a few provinces.
Rona offers moving vans and trucks but not for this distance.
Enterprise Trucks as well but not for this distance.
Budget Rental offers this distance if you can find a location with vans. But you have to bring the van back since the van is assigned to a city. Its about $100-$125 per day depending on the team of the year. Every day rented includes 100km included, anything over is $0.14/km.
I’d be looking to drop off the vehicle at the location, unless there is a huge savings to bring it back.
Look in to container companies. They can drop off a cargo container with a truck, you load it yourself, and it rides a train to wherever the closest terminal is while you drive yourself and the daily essentials in your own vehicle. (Or fly or whatever) There, another driver will deliver it to your new place.
It might be pricey, but renting a truck for that kind of a drive you’re looking at $250+ a day with gas and their mileage charges on top of the rental fee. I used to drive from Edmonton to Toronto regularly, which took 3.5 days at around 1000km/day. It’s not close.
I’ve never heard of container companies. Is there a link of some sort?
I’m just going off the top of my head. I spent 20 years in the transportation industry.
Disclaimer: I’ve never actually used one of these companies for this purpose.
Not knowing where you’re from it would be hard to pick a specific one, but I believe Big Steel Box is one of the bigger ones.
Or try CN or CP, they’ve got the rail lines and the containers. Not sure if they’d do residential pickup and delivery though.