Best Moving Truck Rental in Atlanta? We Compared U-Haul, Penske, Budget, Enterprise, Home Depot & Lowe’s

Last updated: July 2026 · Written by the team at Brown Thrasher Movers

Every month, our crews handle around 200 moves across Metro Atlanta. Some happen on our trucks. A good number happen on trucks our customers rented themselves — we get hired to load them, and sometimes we get called mid-move when a DIY day has gone sideways. After enough of those days, one thing becomes obvious: renting a truck is the easy part. Renting the right truck, at the right price, for the right kind of move — that’s where people get burned.

That’s what this guide is for. And unlike every national comparison site on this topic, we don’t earn a commission from any company on this page — no affiliate links, no referral fees — so when we tell you that some of the people reading this should absolutely rent a truck instead of hiring us, you can believe it. Our only stake is that you make the right call.

Prices below are typical ranges as of mid-2026. Rental rates change with season and demand, so treat them as context and always pull a live quote for your dates.

In a hurry? Jump to your situation:
Moving an apartment or house → which company · what size truck
Hauling one big item → Home Depot & Lowe’s
Leaving Atlanta one-way → Penske vs the rest
Wondering what it’ll really cost → the real bill
Deciding between DIY and movers → the honest math

Full guide:
The short answer · What a truck really costs · When we’d recommend each company · What size truck you need · The costs nobody budgets for · What’s different in Atlanta · What surprises us about DIY rentals · When renting stops making sense · FAQ

The short answer

If you just want the verdict, here it is. Each of these companies is the right answer for a different situation:

The rest of this guide explains the why behind each of those calls — and, more importantly, the costs and mistakes that don’t show up on any company’s website.

And here are the specs at a glance — the facts you’d otherwise dig out of six different websites:

Not sure yet whether to rent at all? We give free moving estimates every day — even to people who end up renting the truck themselves. Knowing both numbers costs you nothing: get a free quote.

What a moving truck really costs in Atlanta

Every rental company advertises a base rate. Almost nobody pays it.

The number on the billboard — U-Haul’s famous “$19.95” is the classic — is the daily rate for the smallest truck, before a single mile is driven. Your actual bill is built from five or six line items:

Base daily rate. For local rentals, this typically runs from around $20 for the smallest trucks to $40+ for a 26-footer at the budget-friendly companies, and meaningfully higher at premium ones. It’s the smallest part of most bills.

Mileage. This is where local moves get expensive. In our July 2026 Alpharetta quotes, per-mile rates ran from $0.35 (Enterprise) up to $1.09–$1.29 (Budget, Penske, U-Haul). On a 40-mile Atlanta round trip, that spread alone is the difference between about $14 and about $52 — before anything else.

Fuel. Box trucks get roughly 6–12 miles per gallon, and less when loaded. You’re required to return the truck at the same fuel level, and a “quick top-off” on a 26-footer can be a genuinely painful pump receipt. Large Penske trucks run diesel, which prices differently than regular gas.

Insurance/damage waivers. Optional, but check whether your auto policy or credit card actually covers a rental box truck — many don’t, even if they cover rental cars. Waivers typically add $15–$40 per day depending on truck size and coverage level.

Equipment. Furniture pads, appliance dolly, hand truck — each a separate line item at most companies, usually $7–$15 apiece per rental.

The small stuff. Environmental fees ($1–$5), taxes, and — the one that surprises people — late-return or extra-day charges when loading takes longer than planned. It almost always takes longer than planned.

Put together, a “cheap” local Atlanta move with a mid-size truck typically lands in the $80–$200 range all-in, and a long-distance one-way move out of Georgia commonly runs $1,000–$1,700+ for a two-bedroom home. The advertised rate is maybe a third of that.

We priced it: one Atlanta move, every company

National comparison sites publish national averages. We priced one specific, identical move with every company that could do it — same truck class, same date, same route — so you can see what Atlanta actually costs.

The scenario: a 15’–16′ truck (or nearest size), picked up in Alpharetta, local round trip, ~40 total miles, on a mid-July weekday (all quotes pulled July 2026 from each company’s own reservation tool).

*Base + 40 scenario miles, one day, before fuel, coverage, equipment, and tax. U-Haul/Budget quoted for Jul 18; Penske/Enterprise for Jul 23. Rental pricing is dynamic — treat this as a snapshot and pull your own for your dates.

Four things this snapshot taught us that the national averages don’t:

The big four landed within $50 of each other on a mid-size local move — much closer than the aggregator data suggests. Budget won on total, but only by single digits over U-Haul; the “dramatic” spreads show up at the edges, not the middle.

The weekday discount is real money. Budget’s own date picker showed the identical 16′ truck at $29.99 midweek vs $39.99 on Saturday — and $99.99 vs $129.99 for the 26′. That’s a $10–$30/day difference for moving your date two days.

Enterprise’s math flips on long days. Its day rate was the highest, but at $0.35/mile against everyone else’s $1.09–$1.29, Enterprise becomes the cheapest option once your day involves roughly 85+ miles of driving — multiple runs, a cross-metro loop, a Marietta-to-McDonough kind of day. And its quote was the only one with a liftgate included.

U-Haul owns the big-truck bargain. Its 26′ quoted at $49.95/day against Penske’s $99.99 and Budget’s $99.99–$129.99 — half the price for the largest truck, which matters most for exactly the big moves that need it.

(Home Depot and Lowe’s are excluded here — their time-based, unlimited-mile pricing isn’t built for this kind of move; see their section for that math.)

When we’d recommend each company

We don’t do “reviews.” Reviews imply a winner. In our experience, the right company depends entirely on the shape of your move — so here’s the situation where each one earns our recommendation, and the situation where we’d steer you away.

When we’d recommend U-Haul

The case for: availability. U-Haul’s network across Metro Atlanta is in a different league from everyone else on this list — dozens of locations in the city plus neighborhood dealers everywhere from Marietta to McDonough, riding on the largest rental fleet in the country (21,000+ locations nationally). If you need a truck this Saturday, or you need a specific size in a busy month, U-Haul is usually the company that actually has one. Their size range (pickup, cargo van, 10′, 15′, 17′, 20′, 26′) is also the broadest, so you’re less likely to get forced into a truck bigger than you need.

The honest downside: the mileage rate. At $1.29 per mile in our July 2026 metro quotes — the highest of the big three — it quietly doubles or triples the advertised price on any move with real driving in it. And because many U-Haul pickups are independent dealers — gas stations, storage lots — truck age and condition vary more than at the corporate-fleet companies. One genuine bright spot from those same quotes: U-Haul’s 26-footer priced at $49.95/day, half of Penske’s and Budget’s — so for a big move with short mileage, U-Haul can be the bargain.

We’d choose U-Haul when: the move is short-distance, the timeline is tight, or you need an in-between truck size nobody else stocks.

We’d look elsewhere when: your local move involves a lot of miles (Budget’s rate structure will beat it) or you’re going long-distance one-way (compare Penske before booking).

Bottom line: If you called us because your mover canceled and you need a truck tomorrow, we’d tell you to grab the nearest U-Haul — and in Atlanta, there’s always a nearest U-Haul.

One thing our crews notice on the job: U-Haul trucks customers show up with are usually clean, but rarely new — and occasionally one clearly wasn’t cleaned out after the last move, so give the box a quick look before you drive off. Also, a detail that surprises people: if you rent U-Haul’s moving blankets, they expect them back folded the way you got them — return a truck with a pile of crumpled blankets and you can get hit with a fee at drop-off.

When Budget saves you money

The case for: Budget is usually the cheapest sticker price in the category. In our July 2026 Alpharetta quotes it had the lowest per-mile rate of the big three ($1.09 vs Penske’s $1.19 and U-Haul’s $1.29) and the lowest weekday base — and its own date picker showed the midweek discount in hard numbers: the same 16′ truck at $29.99 on a Thursday vs $39.99 on a Saturday. Budget also runs the most aggressive discount program of the big three — AAA, military, student, and general web codes regularly take 20% or more off the base rate, and they’re not hard to find. If your dates are flexible and you’ll spend ten minutes hunting a promo code, Budget frequently produces the lowest total in the market.

The honest downside: two things. First, the fleet is thin — 12′, 16′, and 26′ trucks only, so if your load falls between sizes you’re paying for a 26-footer you half fill. Second, and more important: Budget does not guarantee reservations. This isn’t rumor — it’s in Budget’s own rental terms, which state that a reservation “only guarantees the rate,” while your pickup location, date, time, and even the truck itself are “a preference only” that Budget can substitute. Their terms also carry a $150 fee if you cancel less than 48 hours out or don’t show, and local deposits run $150 or more. That risk is manageable for a flexible local move; it’s a serious problem if your closing date, lease end, and elevator reservation all depend on that truck existing.

We’d choose Budget when: it’s a local move, the budget is the priority, and your schedule could absorb a hiccup.

We’d look elsewhere when: your moving day has zero slack in it.

Bottom line: If price is the priority and your dates can flex, Budget is hard to beat — just have a plan B for the truck itself.

When we’d choose Penske instead

The case for: Penske is the premium option, and for one specific kind of move the premium is worth every dollar — the one-way, long-distance move. Penske includes unlimited miles on most one-way rentals, its trucks are consistently the newest in the industry (they cycle out of commercial fleets), and 24/7 roadside assistance is included rather than an upsell. Penske also guarantees reservations — per their own policy, the vehicle you reserved (or an equal or larger one) is guaranteed at your chosen time and location, as long as you book more than 24 hours before pickup. That’s the exact opposite of Budget’s biggest weakness, and worth real money when your closing date can’t move. If you’re driving a fully loaded truck 500 miles with your entire household in the box, truck reliability stops being an abstraction. A typical two-bedroom long-distance move runs roughly $1,200–$1,700 with Penske as of mid-2026 — often only modestly more than the cheaper brands once their mileage caps and fees land.

The honest downside: local pricing at the edges of the fleet. National averages long painted Penske as dramatically expensive for local moves — but when we pulled real Alpharetta quotes in July 2026, Penske’s 16-footer ($39.99/day + $1.19/mi) was actually mid-pack, within $15 of Budget and U-Haul for the same day. Where Penske local does get expensive is the fleet’s edges: its cargo van quoted at $79.99/day against roughly $20 at U-Haul and Budget, and its 26-footer at $99.99 against U-Haul’s $49.95. Small local jobs and big local moves are where the premium bites; mid-size, it’s a fair fight.

We’d choose Penske when: you’re leaving Atlanta one-way, especially over 200+ miles, or you’re hauling a heavy load and want a newer diesel truck under you.

We’d look elsewhere when: the move is local. Almost anyone else will be cheaper.

Bottom line: Leaving Georgia with everything you own in the box? Pay the Penske premium. Moving across town? Don’t.

When Enterprise makes sense

Enterprise Truck Rental is a different animal from the moving brands — it’s a commercial fleet company that also rents to households. That produces a distinctive combination: daily rates that look high (typically ~$90–$230/day depending on size) paired with some of the lowest mileage rates in the market, often in the $0.25–$0.40/mile range. The trucks are newer and better maintained than average — of all the rentals our crews load, Enterprise trucks are consistently the cleanest and the newest models — many have liftgates, and the fleet range (pickups, cargo vans, 15’–26′ boxes, stakebeds) is the broadest anywhere.

The honest downside: with rare exceptions, Enterprise is round-trip only — the truck goes back where it came from. That rules it out for one-way moves entirely, and it means every mile you drive counts double if your route isn’t a loop.

We’d choose Enterprise when: it’s a local move with meaningful mileage (the low per-mile rate pays for the higher daily rate fast), you want a liftgate for heavy appliances, or you’re a business needing a truck for days at a time.

We’d look elsewhere when: you’re not coming back.

Bottom line: The sleeper pick for a high-mileage local move — a low per-mile rate and a newer truck, as long as your route ends where it started.

When Home Depot or Lowe’s is all you need

Here’s the truth the moving companies won’t tell you: a lot of “moves” aren’t moves. If you’re hauling a sectional from a Facebook Marketplace seller in Sandy Springs, picking up a fridge, or running lumber to a job site, you don’t need a moving truck — you need 90 minutes with something big, and the home improvement stores have built exactly that product.

Home Depot’s Load ‘N Go starts around $19 for the first 75 minutes (about $29 for the box truck), with roughly $5 per extra 15 minutes, a $150 refundable deposit, and — the key feature — unlimited miles. Daily rates run around $129–$139 if you need the whole day. Pickups, cargo vans, flatbeds, and small box trucks; first-come, first-served; same-store return only. (Anything bigger than their in-house fleet at a Home Depot is actually a Penske truck rented through the store.)

Lowe’s is even simpler: pickups only, around $19 for the first 90 minutes or roughly $89 for the full day, unlimited miles, same-store return.

The honest downside: the clock. That 75–90 minute window disappears fast — loading, driving Atlanta traffic, unloading, refueling, returning. Overtime charges stack in 15-minute increments, and neither store does reservations or one-way rentals. These are errand trucks, and they’re brilliant at exactly that.

We’d choose them when: the job is one or two large items, round trip, under a couple hours.

We’d look elsewhere when: it’s an actual household move. The math flips against you almost immediately once the clock runs.

Bottom line: For one big item and a round trip under two hours, nothing on this page beats a $19 Home Depot or Lowe’s truck. For anything you’d call “moving,” rent from the moving companies.

What size truck do you actually need?

This is the decision people get wrong more often than the company choice — and it’s the more expensive mistake, because renting too small means a second trip (doubling mileage, fuel, and often rental time), while renting too large means paying for air and wrestling a bigger vehicle through Atlanta streets than you needed to.

The industry’s rough consensus, which matches what we see in the field:

The Brown Thrasher truck-fit matrix

Cubic feet don’t answer the question people actually ask, which is “will my stuff fit?” So here’s the item-by-item version — built from truck dimensions and standard furniture sizes, and checked against what our crews see when they load these trucks. (Assumes the rest of a typical load around each item; “Tight” means it fits but forces trade-offs elsewhere.)

Still not sure what fits? Send us your inventory — a phone photo of each room works — and we’ll tell you what truck size you need, free, whether or not you hire us: free estimate.

Three field notes that the online truck calculators won’t tell you:

Bedroom count is a starting point — inventory is the answer. The number one thing our estimators have learned: two homes with the same floor plan can need completely different trucks. We’ve seen a 2-bedroom apartment that fit comfortably in a 15-footer, and a 2-bedroom apartment that needed a full 26-foot truck because of how much the customer owned. The size charts (including ours above) are calibrated for typical inventories — if you’re a minimalist or a collector, adjust accordingly, and when in doubt count the stuff, not the rooms.

The size-up usually costs less than the second trip. The daily-rate difference between adjacent truck sizes is typically $10–$40. A second trip costs you double mileage, another hour or two of fuel and loading, and — on a per-mile plan — real money. The most expensive sizing mistake isn’t paying an extra $30 for the bigger truck; it’s standing in your old driveway at 8:30 p.m., friends exhausted, with half your furniture still not in the new house. If you’re on the fence, take the bigger truck.

Check the deck, not just the length. An armoire or a king headboard cares about interior height and door opening, not cubic feet. U-Haul’s over-cab “Mom’s Attic” counts toward their advertised volume but only fits certain shapes.

The costs nobody budgets for

If you’ve read this far, you already know the base rate is a fraction of the bill. These are the specific line items that generate the “why was my final bill so high?” searches:

Mileage on a round trip you didn’t map. Your move isn’t point A to point B — it’s your house to the rental lot, to your house, to the new place, back to the lot. On a same-store return (Enterprise, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and any local rental), you pay for every leg.

Fuel, times two surprises. First: loaded box trucks can burn nearly double their advertised MPG. Second: the refuel-before-return rule means a gas stop at the end of the most exhausting day of your month — skip it and the company refuels for you at a steep per-gallon rate plus a service fee.

The insurance decision you make at the counter. Standing at the counter at 8 a.m. on moving day is the worst possible moment to decide on damage waivers. Call your auto insurer and credit card company the week before and ask specifically about rental trucks over 9,000 lbs GVW — the answer is frequently “not covered,” which changes the math.

Equipment à la carte. A dolly, a dozen furniture pads, and straps can add $30–$50, and you’ll want all of them. (If you hire loading help — ours or anyone’s — crews typically bring this gear, which is a small hidden economy of labor-only help.)

The extra day. Loading always takes longer than planned. The pattern our crews see constantly: a customer budgets two hours for the whole move, and then drive time, stairs, long apartment hallways, and an elevator nobody reserved turn it into four or five. One reliable rule from the field: loading takes longer than unloading — so if your schedule is built around the unload going quickly, the front half of the day is where it falls apart. Late returns trigger extra-day charges, and at the home improvement stores the meter runs in 15-minute increments.

Peak-date pricing. Rates are demand-priced everywhere. In Atlanta that means summer, month-end, and weekends cost the most — a mid-month Tuesday in October can price 30–50% below a June 30th Saturday for the identical truck. If your dates are flexible, this is the single biggest lever you control.

What’s different about renting a truck in Atlanta

National comparison sites can tell you Penske’s mileage policy. They can’t tell you what it’s like to drive a 26-foot truck through this specific city. A few things we’d want to know before our own move:

Traffic shapes everything — especially timed rentals. A Home Depot 75-minute window that’s comfortable in a small town is a coin flip here. Our crews’ working rule for routes touching GA-400 or I-285: schedule the move to start between 9 and 10 a.m. on a weekday — after the morning rush breaks, with hours of buffer before the evening one. Weekends have lighter traffic, but they’re also the busiest days for moving, which means peak truck pricing and thinner availability. A weekday mid-morning start is the quiet arbitrage most DIYers miss.

Summer is the double whammy. June through August is simultaneously peak pricing season and 90°+ loading weather. If you’re set on a summer DIY move, book the truck 3–4 weeks out and load at dawn. Your rate and your back will both thank you.

Street parking a truck intown may involve the city — plan a week ahead, not a day. The City of Atlanta’s Department of Transportation (ATLDOT) manages on-street parking, commercial loading/unloading zones, and permits through an online application system — and applications are processed on weekdays only, not weekends or holidays. Several intown neighborhoods also sit inside Restricted Parking Permit districts where on-street parking requires a valid permit, and city code generally prohibits parking commercial vehicles in residential districts while still allowing active loading and unloading. Translation for a DIY mover: a truck actively being loaded at the curb is normally fine, but if your street is permit-restricted, narrow, or metered, sort it out with ATLDOT the week before — not the morning of, when nothing can be processed.

High-rises have rules the rental company won’t mention. From our crews’ regular work in these buildings: most Midtown and Buckhead high-rises require a certificate of insurance (COI), a reserved loading dock, and a booked elevator slot for move-ins — and DIY renters usually discover this standing in the lobby with a loaded truck. Call your building management the moment you pick a date. One genuinely useful piece of news from the field: most of these buildings are physically accessible with a 26-foot truck, so the dock and paperwork are the constraint, not the truck size.

OTP is a different move than ITP. Suburban moves — Alpharetta, Roswell, Marietta, and similar — are generally where DIY truck rental works best: driveways, wide streets, easy 26-footer access, short hauls. Intown apartment and high-rise moves are where the truck rental is often the easy part and the logistics are the real cost.

What surprises us most about DIY truck rentals

At roughly 200 moves a month, our crews see a lot of rental trucks — booked in advance for loading help, and sometimes mid-move, when a DIY day has gone sideways. A few patterns show up over and over:

The garage causes more second trips than any room in the house. People inventory their bedrooms and living room carefully, then discover on moving day that the garage is a whole extra apartment’s worth of stuff. If you have a garage, walk it first when picking a truck size.

Time gets underestimated more than money. The classic DIY plan is “this’ll take two hours.” Then drive time, stairs, long hallways, and an elevator nobody reserved happen, and two hours becomes five. We’ve seen it across hundreds of moves — the budget usually survives the day; the schedule rarely does.

The truck-size misses can be dramatic. We’ve been called to load a 10-foot truck someone rented for a full 2-bedroom apartment. It doesn’t fit. It was never going to fit.

Driving is the skill nobody prices in. Most customers have never driven anything bigger than an SUV, and it shows in the parking — trucks angled across driveways, backed nowhere near the door, adding fifty carrying-feet to every trip. Our crews regularly end up repositioning the truck for customers before loading a single box. If you rent big, practice backing it up in an empty lot before you point it at your house.

The dolly is the best money in the whole transaction. Of everything customers skip to save a few dollars, the appliance dolly and hand truck save the most time and backs. Rent them. Always.

And the meta-lesson behind all of it: the cheapest truck isn’t always the cheapest move. The distance between your two addresses, the size of the home, the stairs, the parking — those decide what your day actually costs. The truck is just the vehicle.

When renting a truck stops making sense

We’re a moving company, so you’d expect this section to end with “hire us.” It doesn’t — not always. Here’s the honest version.

Renting a truck is genuinely the right call when: the move is small (studio to modest 1-bedroom), the distance is short, you have at least one able-bodied helper, there are no stairs-and-piano situations, and your schedule has slack. For that move, a $100–$150 DIY day beats any full-service quote, full stop. Do it, size up one truck, and take the pads.

The math starts flipping when the move gets bigger. Walk through a real scenario — a 3-bedroom house going from Roswell to Alpharetta:

The truck side of the ledger: a 20’–26′ truck for the day, mileage on every leg, fuel, the damage waiver (because your sedan policy doesn’t cover a 26-footer), pads and dollies, and — the costs nobody prices — a full Saturday of your life, favors owed to three friends, pizza, and the physical risk of moving a washer down stairs without training. If anything runs long: extra-day charges. Realistically, the hard costs land somewhere in the $150–$300 range for the day — before you value anyone’s time or lower back.

Now the other columns, with real numbers. Hourly loading labor in the Atlanta market typically runs around $150–$165 per hour for a two-person crew, usually with a 2-hour minimum (some companies run 3-hour minimums on weekends), plus a transportation fee — so a typical 2–3 hour job lands around $300–$500 for the crew, on top of your truck costs, and takes the hardest part of the day off your hands. Full-service moves — truck, crew, everything — start around $500–$700 minimum and scale with your inventory; a full 3-bedroom home will run well above the minimum.

For the same move, the price order never changes: full DIY is cheapest, your truck plus hired labor is the middle, and full service costs the most. What you’re buying as you climb that ladder isn’t mystery — it’s time, backs, and insurance. Full service compresses a 10-hour day into a few hours with the heavy items handled by people who do it daily and are insured when something goes wrong; the truck-plus-labor middle path captures most of that benefit while keeping the cheaper truck, which is why it’s the option we think more Atlanta DIYers should know exists.

One more honest data point from our side of the counter: a meaningful share of the DIY customers who call us for loading help are either first-time movers or people burned by labor booked through online gig marketplaces — crews that canceled last-minute or simply didn’t show. Whoever you hire for moving-day labor, us or anyone else, book a company that answers its phone and confirms the day before.

Our actual advice: get both numbers. Pull a live truck quote for your dates, add the real line items from this guide, and then get a moving quote for the same job. Sometimes the spread is $800 and DIY is obviously right. Sometimes it’s $150, and you’re deciding whether a Saturday and a friendship are worth $150. That’s your call to make — our job was to make sure it’s an informed one.

(There’s also a middle path a lot of Atlanta DIYers don’t know exists: rent the truck yourself and hire loading/unloading labor by the hour. You keep the cheap truck; pros handle the part that wrecks backs and furniture — and a professionally loaded truck often fits a size smaller than a calculator says you need. That’s labor-only moving help, and it pairs with every rental company on this page.)

Frequently asked questions

What’s the cheapest moving truck rental in Atlanta?
For most local moves, Budget typically produces the lowest total thanks to low per-mile rates and stackable discount codes — provided your schedule can tolerate its non-guaranteed reservations. For a single large item rather than a move, Home Depot’s ~$19/75-minute unlimited-mileage rental is the cheapest thing on wheels.

Is the $19.95 U-Haul real?
It’s a real base rate for the smallest truck — before mileage ($1.29/mile in our metro Atlanta quotes), fuel, fees, and optional coverage. A typical local U-Haul move totals in the low-to-mid $100s.

Which company is best for a one-way move out of Atlanta?
Penske, in most cases: unlimited miles on one-way rentals, the newest fleet, and included roadside assistance. Budget is often the lowest sticker on the same route; U-Haul wins when you need flexible pickup/drop-off locations.

What size truck for a 2-bedroom apartment?
A 15’–16′ truck is the standard answer, but inventory matters more than bedroom count — we’ve loaded 2-bedroom apartments that fit a 15-footer and 2-bedroom apartments that needed a 26′. Count your stuff (including the garage and closets), and if you’re near capacity on paper, take the next size up.

Can you rent a Home Depot or Lowe’s truck one-way?
No. Both require same-store return, and both are first-come, first-served. They’re built for local hauls, not moves.

Do Lowe’s and Home Depot rent box trucks?
Home Depot rents small box trucks, vans, flatbeds, and pickups in-house (larger trucks at Home Depot locations are Penske rentals). Lowe’s rents pickups only.

Prices and policies referenced are typical ranges as of July 2026 and vary by location, date, and demand — always confirm with a live quote for your dates. Policy details (reservation guarantees, mileage terms, rental windows) are drawn from company policy pages and industry research current at the time of writing; policies change, so verify anything decision-critical directly with the company before booking.

Brown Thrasher Movers is a Metro Atlanta moving company. If you’d like the other half of the comparison — what your move would cost with a crew, or with hourly loading help for the truck you rent — get a free estimate here. And if you’ve decided to DIY, we mean it: good luck, size up, and load the heavy stuff first.

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