U-Haul is a company that provides truck rentals and moving boxes. It has been active since 1945 and started from the need of it.[1]
In 1945, Leonard Shoen and his wife wanted to move from Los Angeles to Portland and found out nobody would rent them an one-way trailer. Shoen, who had just gotten out from the US Navy from World War II, found a need to have families move locations on their own. He started U-Haul at that year, with the company comparing the trucks to the covered wagons of the early frontier.[2]
The trucks were originally painted black and were hard to see, but were later painted orange and white when Shoen got hit in a four-way intersection.[3]
People in California from 2021 had moved out so much that U-Haul ran out of trucks.[4] There is a lot of business from California and New York. There are also a lot of people moving into Chicago.[5]