As travel surges faster than some rental companies can handle, people are getting creative.
By Hannah SampsonThe Washington Post
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With rental cars hard to find or extremely expensive – and travel numbers rebounding – some desperate tourists in Hawaii have turned to alternate forms of transportation: moving trucks.
Kaleo Alau, president of U-Haul Company of Hawaii, said in a statement last month that there had been a “considerable uptick” in rentals from visitors to the islands. Demand was mostly for smaller vehicles such as pickup trucks and cargo vans, and rentals were typically for a few days to a week.
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U-Haul has a New Year’s resolution: cut down on hiring people who smoke. The moving company said that it won’t hire nicotine users in the 21 states where it is legal to do so, saying that it wants to make its work environment “healthier.” The new policy will start Feb. 1, and won’t apply to those hired before then. The. Philadelphia Nov 6, 2019