Budget® Reviews
Local Budget Dealer gave me a truck with Engine Warning Light and told me nothing was wrong and ignore the warning lights based upon the maintenance shop they got the truck from. I had no choice as it was the only 26' truck on the lot. 800 miles into the trip - you guessed it - STOP ENGINE IMMEDIATELY Light/Buzzer. Roadside Assist did all they could. Took 2 maintenance actions and 3 failures in 100 miles, and they finally gave us a new truck (and load transfer crew). Lost 48 Hours, but Budget reimbursed us for 2 additional night hotel and per diem without question. I didn't appreciate the attitude of the local office. When I called to ask them a simple question (Not blame them) - the person got extremely defensive and started to read me the riot act. Even after I explained I just had a simple general question - he kept on & on. I couldn't get him to shut up and ended up hanging up on him. Budget would have gotten 5 stars - Nashua NH Local Office - 1 star due to employee attitude.
We rented a 12 foot rental truck for a move out of a college apartment online for a specific date and time. When we arrived to pick up the truck, they did not have it and offered to let us use a 26 foot truck! What?! We were never informed that they would not have the truck. We should have received at the very least, a courtesy call to let us know. We rallied and found a truck at Uhaul. Thank goodness they had a truck for us. They actually had what they said they had online.
They mistyped my email address at booking which caused some problems as I did not get a confirmation number. Took a couple more phone calls but they did resolve the issues. Had also ordered pads which were not delivered with the truck so had to rent them from U-Haul at the last minute. Truck was fine and pick-up and drop-off agents were very fast and courteous.
Budget called just before we went to pick up truck to tell us that they did not have a 26' truck that we'd reserved and only had a 16' truck. We had to make 2 trips instead of one, the second trip with no moving help as the HireAHelper workers had another job to go to after one trip. I will not be renting from Budget Truck Rental again. The person at the office did apologize but it was really inconvenient and double the time it should've taken to move.
Horrible experience this was my first time using Budget and they gave me a old truck that broke down multiple times it took me 6 days to get from phx to California, and charged me almost $1000.00 truck was noisy,old,shakes,pulls to the left and the ramp kept coming out of the rear. DO NOT USE BUDGET (WARNING)