How to figure out what size moving truck or trailer you need
People struggle to estimate how much space their belongings will actually take up, leaving them torn between sizes or worried that things won't fit. This uncertainty leads to the anxiety of either not having enough room or having too much empty space where items can shift around during the drive.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Going a size up from what was initially assumed or calculated
- 2Squeezing smaller items into the truck cabin if needed
- 3Stacking boxes and furniture tightly to the ceiling and securing items with straps
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I can't decide between the 20 ft U-Haul or the 26 ft U-Haul.”source ↗
“I worry about not everything fitting in the U-Haul and then on the flip side I worry about having too much left over space and things shifting in the 30 minute drive.”source ↗
“We had so much more to move than I had assumed and thankfully went a size up.”source ↗
Where this came up
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