U-Haul recently released its yearly report showing Texas netting the largest number of one-way movers in 2023, marking the third consecutive year it came in first. Florida ranks right behind Texas, followed by North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. For the fourth year in a row, California had the largest net loss of one-way movers. […]
The 19-year-old man accused of driving a U-Haul truck into security barriers near the White House on Monday night told police he wanted to “seize power” and kill President Joe Biden “if that’s what I have to do.” Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri, was charged by the U.S. Park Police on May 22 with […]
A 19-year-old man driving a rented box truck was arrested by the Secret Service on Monday night after he crashed the vehicle into security barriers near the White House, according to officials. In a statement on May 23, U.S. Park Police said Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri was arrested on charges of assault with a […]
NEW YORK—Three years ago, YiJie Ye was on a routine delivery run in Brooklyn on his motorized scooter when he was in a crash with another vehicle. The collision left the father of three injured and unable to work, but soon he was back on the road supporting his children. On Monday, he was hit […]
NEW YORK—The driver of a U-Haul truck that barreled through a New York City neighborhood, killing a food delivery worker and injuring eight other people, will have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation while in custody, a judge ordered Wednesday. Weng Sor, who was charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with Monday’s deadly rampage, […]
NEW YORK—A 66-year-old man who saved himself from a rampaging U-Haul truck driver with a frantic leap on a Brooklyn sidewalk said he doesn’t know how he managed to escape. Mohamed Abdelmagid, a car service driver, was strolling to his dispatch office Monday morning when he looked up from his phone just in time to […]
NEW YORK—A man driving a U-Haul truck swerved onto sidewalks and plowed into cyclists and scooter riders in New York City on Monday, killing one person and injuring eight others before police were able to pin the careening vehicle against a building following a mileslong pursuit through Brooklyn. The driver was arrested and taken to […]
Texas is the top destination for one-way U-Haul rental trips in 2021, while California topped the list for outward migration and even ran out of U-Haul trucks for people wanting to leave the state, a new report from U-Haul shows. The moving and storage rental company has a “U-Haul Growth Index,” which calculates the net gain or […]
Americans are moving to Tennessee in droves. According to U-Haul’s numbers, the Volunteer State had the highest net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a state in a calendar year. This speaks to a larger trend—more and more people have been moving to southern states like Florida and Texas. The President of the Pyramid Real […]
U-Haul’s 2020 migration list has Tennessee at the top for the first time ever. A year ago, it was number 12 in U-Haul’s growth rankings. And it’s the first time since 2015 that Florida or Texas haven’t topped the list. After Tennessee, U-haul’s top ten destinations to move to include Texas, Florida, Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, […]
Three adults were arrested after three children under eight were discovered locked-up in the cabin of a U-Haul on Interstate 40 in Cocke County, Tenessee.
A Maryland man inspired by a 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France, has been detained for allegedly plotting to drive a stolen truck into a crowd of pedestrians at a busy shopping and entertainment complex alongside the Potomac River in hopes of creating “panic and chaos,” the U.S. Justice Department said April 8.
Airbnb is encouraging hosts to share their housing units for free to displaced neighbors and emergency relief workers affected by Hurricane Florence. As of Sept. 13, more than 500 hosts opened their homes to evacuees for free in metropolitan areas in North Carolina (Charlotte and Greensboro), South Carolina (Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg), Georgia (Atlanta and […]
