Parking a Uhaul - Safe Place?

Where is a safe place to park a U-Haul (unattended) in South Slope/Gowanus for a few hours? I called 311 and they said that it cannot be parked on a residential street.

I'd like to park it somewhere and not worry about it being empty when I return!

4th Ave isn't a residential street.

Is there fairly safe parking there? I've never noticed. Third seems sketch. And I was thinking about those factory areas in Gowanus. There are always trucks there.

Yeah, you should be okay on 4th. If you can find a spot to park it.

u-haul should have given u a lock with the truck to lock the back door. why not use that?

Locks are easily cut...

I rented a U-haul from the place on 4th Ave. They did not give me a lock and told me no place is save from tickets overnight. I garaged it. The overnight garage for an over-sized vehicle cost more than the 24 hour rental.

Scary but true story....when I was getting ready to move into my old co-op on Prospect Park SW, the people who sold it to me were getting ready to move out early on Saturday morning. Since I lived on 11th Ave previously, I walked over Friday night to make sure everything was set for me to get in and start cleaning/painting on Saturday morning. They said "sure", because they had loaded the truck and were leaving at 5:00 am or something ridiculous like that.
Saturday morning I'm getting ready to head over and they call me asking for some more time because they needed a place to stay until the police got back to them...someone stole their U Haul with all their stuff in it when it was parked right by the building!
The odd thing was that it was parked on Terrace Place, which is a residential street and the cops didn't say anything about that.


My advice is just be careful if there's anything in it and make sure you're insured.

Are you afraid of getting a ticket on a residential street? Just suck it up... chances are you won't get one. But I don't understand why it would be illegal. The only issue I can see is that it is a 'commercial' vehicle... and there are commercial vehicles parked all over the city at all times... overnight and otherwise.

Oh wait -- do you have a trailer?! Yeah, they have to be attached to the car/truck.

Commercial vehicles, any vehicle with a commercial license plate, regardless of the size of it, are not allowed to be parked on residential streets overnight. If a commercial vehicle is parked on a residential street after 9 pm at night, it can be ticketed and/or towed. You will be ok (ticket wise at least), if you pakr it on a commercial street (4th Avenue, 5th Avenue, etc.), but, I wouldn't chance it since it is a Uhaul, people are going to break into it thinking there are goodies inside.

My husband drives a car (SUV size) with commercial plates for work and he keeps it in a garage.

tybur6 wrote: Are you afraid of getting a ticket on a residential street? Just suck it up... chances are you won't get one. But I don't understand why it would be illegal. The only issue I can see is that it is a 'commercial' vehicle... and there are commercial vehicles parked all over the city at all times... overnight and otherwise.

Oh wait -- do you have a trailer?! Yeah, they have to be attached to the car/truck.

Feel free to risk it, but I learned my lesson last time I left a rented Penske parked overnight...

The stuff survived! I parked on a residential street too.