The good news is that trailers are el cheapo. I looked at one that’s called the 4’x8′ trailer, it’s $14.95 a day, plus tax, period.
Yeah, if mileage charges are involved, no way can we spend that kind of money. At least, not unless a wealthy benefactor decides to sponsor it… but we can handle ~$20/day, I think. I might have a lead on a similarly sized trailer from one of my parents’ friends; we could probably offer him some cash (maybe $10/day so it’s cheaper for us than U-Haul but still gives him some compensation… I have a feeling he’d decline it, but it’d be the right thing to do anyway) and he’d probably let us use it for the weekend. I’ll look into that; do we have any other active rental / borrowing leads that might be cheaper than Ben’s U-Haul trailer research? Or, that might be possible to purchase within the next few weeks at a reasonable price?
So then it would be who’s driving it… Anybody else who wants to do it needs to bear in mind that you’ll need to get the tables from Josh’s house and drop them off as part of your route. And also that Thursday is prime setup time, so if you’re not leaving Pgh til noon Thu and arriving in Philly at 6pm, you’re not the ideal candidate for hauling, since setup can’t really get going until the tables arrive. (Also worth noting, Uhaul recommends you don’t go over 55mph with a trailer, so this’ll slow you down on the Turnpike if you like to drive right up to the speed limit.) I’m still planning on arriving at the convention hall around 1pm that Thursday afterooon.
All good points. There’s a place called Young’s Auto Service 2 miles from Josh’s house that apparently has trailers you can reserve through U-Haul (see attached); that might be easiest to just pick it up there and head over to Josh’s to load up. They open at 7, so if it were picked up first thing Thursday, and you had enough folks there to load it quickly and be on the road by 8 or 8:30, it might be possible to get to the convention center by 1 PM (Google says 4.5 hrs from Josh’s house.) They do allow 24 hour dropoff, so we have that going for us… which is nice…
We’ve had several volunteers ( @bengood921 / @solscud007 / @laura, if I’m not mistaken… were there others?) So yinz can duke it out and give us a final answer.
