What is U-Haul?
[[File:uhaul portsmouth.jpg|220px|thumbnail|right|U-Haul [[Ford F-350]] [[truck]]]] [[Image:GMC Savana Wagon U-Haul.jpg|thumb|U-Haul [[GMC Savana]] van]] '''U-Haul''' is a company that provides truck rentals and moving boxes. It has been active since 1945 and started from the need of it.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Media Relations {{!}} U-Haul|url=https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/Media-Relations-374/1/|access-date=2023-01-09|website=U-Haul International|language=en}}</ref> In 1945, Leonard Shoen and his wife wanted to move from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] and found out nobody would rent them an one-way trailer. Shoen, who had just gotten out from the [[US Navy]] from [[World War II]], found a need to have families move locations on their own. He started U-Haul at that year, with the company comparing the trucks to the covered [[Wagon|wagons]] of the early [[frontier]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-27|title=14 Things You Might Not Know About U-Haul|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70370/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-u-haul|access-date=2023-01-09|website=Mental Floss|language=en-US}}</ref> The trucks were originally painted black and were hard to see, but were later painted orange and white when Shoen got hit in a four-way [[Intersection (road)|intersection]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hanson|first=Dana|date=2018-12-22|title=18 Things You Didn't Know About U-Haul|url=https://moneyinc.com/u-haul/|access-date=2023-01-09|website=Money Inc|language=en-US}}</ref> People in California from 2021 had moved out so much that U-Haul ran out of trucks.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-08-09|title=Did U-Haul run out of trucks as Californians fled the state?|work=The Sacromento Bee|url=https://amp.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/california-elections/article264329566.html|access-date=2022-01-09}}</ref> There is a lot of business from [[California]] and [[New York (state)|New York]]. There are also a lot of people moving into [[Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=U-Haul Growth Index: Texas is the No. 1