Checking online recently, he noted that trucks going from Phoenix to San Francisco were only $311, but going the other direction it cost $2,500 – roughly eight times more. Also explains why Biden won AZ.
There's a big regional U-haul center near my work that I drive by several times every day, for decades now.
Middle of the month, lot always packed full of trucks. End/beginning of the month, lot always cavernously empty. It's as predictable as the tides, even when there's going to be a king tide of rental demand. One way rentals are ALWAYS priced according to fleet supply and demand. Sometimes they can price return trips so a renter will drive it back, otherwise they own fleets of flatbed big rigs to deadhead multiple rental trucks and trailers to high demand origin cities.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/leaving-california-exodus-move-out-movers