A friend of mine had an experience like this with a U-Haul when he was moving. He parked it in front of his old place, we helped him load everything into it–and then it wouldn’t start. After trying unsuccessfully to get the rental place help us out, we borrowed a pickup truck and used that and our cars instead. It was an enormous pain in the ass.
After some unpleasant conversations with the rental place, they admitted that the last person to drive the U-Haul had filled it up with regular gasoline instead of diesel, and that he was “lucky” to have gotten it to his old place.
On the bright side, they apparently refunded his credit card several times by mistake.
I hope the storm passes them by.
