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Once I got stranded and the only rental vehicle option for me was a U-Haul because I was too young to rent a car. Let that sink in.

Whenever there's a potential rental crunch (cancelled flights, etc) skip the fight at the car rental desk and head to a truck rental place ASAP.

My dad did this once. We drove from Chicago to NYC in a 20’ box truck in a snowstorm. The truck was shockingly comfortable.

Even better, we bought a couple of big coolers and took a few hundred Vienna Beef hotdogs home!

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