Sunoco Mini Mart (pictured) is now offering its customers a variety of moving equipment and supplies designed specifically for moving household furnishings, including moving vans, open trailers, closed trailers, furniture pads, appliance dollies, furniture dollies, tow dollies and auto transports.
It also will offer [image-nocss] sales items to protect their customers' belongings and make moving easier, such as heavy-duty boxes, which are made of up to 90% recycled content and are available in a variety of sizes.
"Customers were asking for U-Haul rentals in the community, and our [area franchise manager] approached me with the opportunity of joining the U-Haul network, so I decided to say 'yes'," Bushra said.
Meanwhile, Babu Thumar, owner of Ducktown Food Market in Cumming, Ga., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to his gas station, said Patrick Spencer, president of U-Haul Co. of Northern Georgia.
Also, Mosammat Akhter, owner of Elby's in Long Beach, Calif., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the c-store, said John Barnett, president of U-Haul Co. of Los Angeles East.
U-Haul was founded by a Navy veteran who grew up during the Depression. Tires and gas were still rationed or in short supply during the late 1940s when U-Haul began serving U.S. customers. Since 1945, U-Haul has served the do-it-yourself mover with a network of more than 16,300 locations in all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. It maintains a rental fleet with approximately 104,000 trucks, 80,000 trailers and 36,000 towing devices. It offers more than 406,000 rooms and 36 million square feet of storage space at nearly 1,100 owned and managed facilities throughout North America. U-Haul a leading installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. The company supplies alternative-fuel for vehicles and backyard barbecues as one of the nation's largest retailers of propane.
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