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My wife and I plan to move to Arkansas in a couple weeks. I am looking for some advice on the best/easiest/cheapest way to do it. We have a Kia Sorento and a Chevy Silverado and enough household goods to fill a large UHAUL truck as well as a 95 pound red lab. I had been thinking about driving a UHAUL truck back and having my wife drive the pickup with the bed loaded up with various items and then having her fly back to get the car and dog but she suggested maybe having the Chevy shipped back to Arkansas. Problem is that I need to have the bed of the Chevy loaded so that the other stuff will fit in the UHAUL and one of the items going in the bed is our chest freezer which I figured on trying to plug in each night at the hotel. A shipper would not likely do that I am guessing.

Anyway hoping some of you might have some bright ideas for me to consider.

Tow the car behind the uhaul. And Penske trucks were far better than uhaul when I moved, but that was quite a while ago.

+1 for Penske. U-Haul sucks.

That's a long haul from Oregon to Arkansas. Over 2,000 miles I believe. Be very careful at truck stops, rest stops, and at motels/hotels at night. Lots of thieves and bandits looking for the opportunity to steal your goods, especially at night when you are asleep and usually, exhausted.

I wish you and your wife the best of luck and a safe, UNEVENTFUL journey.

L.W.

I raced a toyota Yaris when I had a 20 footer last month


My advice: do you any friends that could drive one of vehicles full of stuff? Fly them back

I have several that could do it, ext family membs too

Sell everything you can, give away what doesn't sell, burn the rest.

Arkansas has freezers, Chevy's, and Kia's.

Shipping is pretty tight right now. It might be a longer wait and higher cost than you are prepared for to ship the truck. I'd put the Kia on a trailer behind the Uhaul and have the wife drive the truck.

Having moved many times, I agree with sell what you can and burn what you can't give away and don't need.

Pack the freezer with dry ice, all you can get it to hold, and duct tape all the seams tight. Back in 1980 we took a week getting from California to Tennessee, and still had stuff in the freezer frozen rock hard when we arrived. I was driving a 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood and towing an 18 foot 3-axle trailer, and my wife was driving a 59 Chevy Suburban and towing a Datsun station wagon. The Caddy and trailer weighed 16,700 pounds at a certified truck scale. The dry ice was gone, but the food stayed frozen. We were only able to plug in the box twice in 6 days, I believe. Sell the KIA (Killed In Action), tow the pickup behind the rental truck, and buy a real car when you get settled in.

Towing the car would be a good idea except that the dog will have to go in the back of the car and we wouldn't leave him back there like that.

When we moves from Michigan to Oregon we towed a UHAUL 6×12 trailers behind each vehicle but we have more stuff now which includes 2 Lazy Boy recliners. Both trailers were packed full. We had already gotten rid of a bunch of stuff before leaving Michigan.

Rent a big enough moving truck to put most everything in it. Lockit in there. tow the car on a dolly and let your wife drive the pickup. That way you don't have visible goods for someone to steal when you stop to sleep. Anything in a car or back of the pickup would be fair game for methheads while you are parked. Locked up in the moving truck it is unknown and not worth the chance for someone to break into it.

Another complication that I should have mentioned before is that we will need to store most of our stuff in a storage unit when we get to Arkansas since we haven't found a house to buy yet and will be renting a place.

On our last move we used PODS. Worked out well.

The main concern about having our dog in the car being towed on a trailer is temperature control. We wouldn't want it to get too hot for him. I don't think it would be a good idea to have the engine idling all day in order to have the air conditioner on. Does anyone know if that would be a problem? While it won't likely be very hot in early October it sure tends to warm up inside a car.

Pods are a good idea. Look into those.
Sell the Kia if you don’t need it.
Pull a uhaul trailer with essentials you don’t want damaged behind the Silverado.

The vision of this is hilarious! Probably took you a half an hour to clear an intersection! lol

Start looking for Storage, it seems it, like everything else is in short supply.

The dog complicates the move, running the AC on the KIA? I wouldn't do it, crack the windows and roll-out.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone called the cops about the dog riding in a towed car.

Solid advice....

Not sure how big your freezer is, but, we used a chest freezer plugged in to a 2K watt Honda generator to bring home our moose from Alberta. We ran it during the day while driving and shut it down @ the hotel for the one overnight.

Put a couple sheets or blankets on the passenger's seat of the pickup and let doggie keep momma company.

this is what my buddy did when they moved from PA back here to CC texas.

Leave the wife and Kia in OR. Pack the dog, guns, in the truck and move to Arkansas.