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I said to Matt you need to rent me a car I can pick up in Eastern Maryland and drop at Dulles Airport DC........ but weirdly Hertz has shut down here?...... and Enterprise will not do any one way rentals from here?....... so Matt ends up telling me the only people that will do a one way rental is uhaul trucks....... hehehe........ OK thats fair enough....... so a Uhaul truck it is then...... its sort of good cos I have a pile of gear....... not so much that it will not fit easily in a small van or just about fit in a Mustang Beast car........ I really do not need a Uhaul truck....... but hey if thats all that is available...... Matt drove our little van back to Atlanta and the Beast is in NYC......... OK Uhaul truck to the Dulles airport it is then..........

For the benefit of anyone who does not know....... the above is the ubiquitous Uhaul truck......... they are everywhere....... driven by sobbing women alone with all their possessions as they leave their boyfriends and take the cat........ or driven by families all stuffed in the front cab the back bursting with all their furniture and all their worldly possessions or even driven by bunches of weed smoking students with all their guitars and homework, trendy jeans and a packet of sandwiches each from their moms............. Im not sure how the guy in the picture fits into this silly stereo typing and ridiculous broad brush labeling of the huge self drive rental trucking business that is dominated by UHaul.......

I photographed this particular truck on my long overnight drive to Atlanta....... I dont know why I photographed it? ......... I've rented a few of these things one recently to empty R street storage when clearing out of DC....... anyway I guess this one looked vaguely generic or something so I made this image from the drivers seat of our little van.

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXX