Is there a place to rent a pickup truck for camping? for Questionland Seattle

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Is there a place to rent a pickup truck for camping?

I'm planning a camping trip with some buddies on a BPL site in Eastern Oregon. None of us have that rugged a vehicle and ideally we'd pack it in with a pickup truck.

While they rent pickup trucks at places like Enterprise, I kind of doubt if they'd want me to return it all scratched up from the dirt and rock roads there.

My question is, is there any place that rents pickup trucks which are already beat up so that they wouldn't mind getting it back even more beat up?

John Bailo asked in Regional Trips 10 months ago | Report

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Is "BPL" bonneville powerline?

Rent a wreck, Handy Andy, Penske - all maybes that will tag you for damages and mileage.
If you need a camping truck, why not rent a camper or winnebago??
If you need an offroader, rent a jeep or 4x4 - maybe from Express4x4truckrental.com

But if you need a truck you can just beat the shit out of, buy one from craigslist, dude: much easier and likely cheaper:

I mean, here's a mazda 4x4 for only $1500, with a new engine!
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/2520978897.html (If I don't beat you to it)

RacerX answered in Regional Trips 10 months ago | Report

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Wow great option. At some of the rental prices, $1500 would be 3 weeks!

What we ended up doing was my friend used his Astro van...apparently the engine in these is the same as a F-350 (or so the AAA who came by when we ran out of gas told us).

It performed pretty well, but in the past he had trouble where the gas tank was dented and the hanger ripped loose and so on. It's got clearance, but not that much.

If I get serious, I think your answer of buying a cheapo pickup is best.

(BPL is Bureau of Public Lands...this is land that is owned by the Federal Government, but is open to "the People" for any kind of (legal) use. Washington and Oregon have some large areas that are BPL managed.)

John Bailo commented 10 months ago | Report

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"Is "BPL" bonneville powerline?"

No. I think John Bailo is referring to BLM - Bureau of Land Management. That is the Federal agency within the US Department of the Interior that manages public lands that do not fall into the other categories such as National Parks or National Forests. A lot of the West is big open space managed by BLM.

Not to be confused with BPA, the Bonneville Power Administration. The Bonneville Power Administration is the federal government agency that builds and maintains our region's electrical transmission infrastructure, and markets surplus power from federally-owned dams, primarily on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. BPA was originally part of the US Department of the Interior, but it was moved to the US Department of Energy in 1977

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What you need is to rent a pickup truck from an industrial equipment rental shop. No rental company is going to be hunky-dory with you beating the shit out of their pickup truck and returning it scratched to bits, but a construction rental place will rent you a heavier duty rig that will put up with abuse better.

Hertz Equipment Rental rents 4-Wheel-Drive 1/2 ton pickups for $135/day or $430/week for standard cab, $140/day or $475/week for 1/2 ton, 4WD super cab rigs. That's more what you're probably looking for.

Word to the wise: I've done a lot of off-road driving in my day, the most common big-ticket visibile damage item that will make life shitty for you out there on the trails is paint scratching from vegetation alongside trails. If you have the chance to crawl up a rockfield or a meadow instead of a narrow bush or tree-lined trail, do it. You get a couple headlight-to-taillight scratches in the paint of a rental truck, you're gonna have problems.

soundslikepuget answered in Regional Trips 10 months ago | Report

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Try Handy Andy. Their trucks come pre-beat up. You may also look into the optional insurance.

Like they say, "nothing handles better off road than somebody else's truck". Or maybe I just say that.

You're gonna get fucked on mileage, though.

A better solution may be to rent the biggest passenger vehicle they have at Enterprise with a Amercian Express Card. Contact Amex if you have the card and sign up for their rental car insurance program. It is cheap.

Tom answered in Regional Trips 10 months ago | Report

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Uh, what exactly are you planning to do with this truck? Just driving on a dirt road is not going to to cause any damage a carwash won't fix. If you're that worried about it, pay the extra $5 for the damage coverage.

Jack answered in Regional Trips 10 months ago | Report

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