How 2 Brothers Made U-Haul Successful By Scamming Their Father

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  • Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
  • Nothing can prepare you for the shocking story behind U-Haul.
    Filled with lies, murder, harassment, greed, a staged coup and much more, the history behind this company is definitely a wild ride.
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  • @tonywalker2334
    @tonywalker2334 Рік тому +263

    This is absolutely worthy of a movie.

  • @mr.hanger
    @mr.hanger Рік тому +22

    This actually makes me glad I grew up blue collar with a strong love for family. I can't imagine something like this happening between my father and I while he was still living. Thanks, Pops!.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Рік тому +93

    It is better to have a happy family with a problematic business than the other way around.

    • @tomasacevedo3095
      @tomasacevedo3095 Рік тому +3

      The problem was that as father gave everything to his kids.

    • @MichaelMulin
      @MichaelMulin Рік тому +2

      100%. Can’t put a price on mental stability and inner peace. Sadly many families I know of don’t have a business or peace. Pray for my family please, we are going through very tough times right now. God bless you ❤

  • @annwilliams6438
    @annwilliams6438 Рік тому +83

    He has 13 kids and doesn’t think there is going to be hassles…

    • @LKre-vi5oq
      @LKre-vi5oq Рік тому +5

      Exactly.

    • @faithingod9554
      @faithingod9554 Рік тому +8

      Too many kids is the problem

    • @MLGtroll365
      @MLGtroll365 Рік тому +1

      Thinking with his dck 😂😂 kids might be a good thing but f that

    • @MLGtroll365
      @MLGtroll365 Рік тому

      ​@@faithingod9554to many sons!!

    • @SpdyMarun44.1
      @SpdyMarun44.1 5 місяців тому

      On goddddd 😤

  • @davidpeterson5930
    @davidpeterson5930 Рік тому +14

    Their savings of $5,000 in 1945 has the same buying power of over $84,000 today

  • @terrallputnam7979
    @terrallputnam7979 Рік тому +38

    What a terrible situation. The love of money is the root of all evil. The Bible makes it clear.

  • @SuperFrank6666
    @SuperFrank6666 Рік тому +61

    I worked for U Haul for 16 years and saw this first hand. I was laid off and offered my job back a year and day after my layoff at HALF pay.

    • @chevyhead7274
      @chevyhead7274 Рік тому +10

      Sounds about corporate America

    • @Joshua-uq2pn
      @Joshua-uq2pn Рік тому +3

      As long as the money flows in, they don't care who they hurt or what they effect.

    • @chrissantos1379
      @chrissantos1379 Рік тому +3

      Worked there for 10 years. Should've spent my time elsewhere. Complete waste of time.

    • @MLGtroll365
      @MLGtroll365 Рік тому +1

      10 billion 😮sheesh

    • @princessmarlena1359
      @princessmarlena1359 4 місяці тому

      Not cool.

  • @TheModernPainter
    @TheModernPainter Рік тому +80

    This is even worse that the Gucci family story.

  • @randomnamewhenyoucantthink7016
    @randomnamewhenyoucantthink7016 Рік тому +25

    Man I never expected u haul to be a tragic parody of game of throne

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno Рік тому +37

    This is why Andrew Carnegie vowed not to leave the business to his wife and daughter.

    • @LKre-vi5oq
      @LKre-vi5oq Рік тому +3

      Except in this case it was his scummy sons who destroyed everything.

  • @LionheartedDan
    @LionheartedDan Рік тому +16

    What a sordid tale - it reminds me of the Walt Disney family story. It’s clear that ambition and “success” doesn’t rid us of our demons; God have mercy!

  • @kevinluschak5241
    @kevinluschak5241 Рік тому +18

    Greed will destroy anyone even family!

  • @justincooper5189
    @justincooper5189 Рік тому +18

    I bet those two are responsible for the death of that woman. Of course they are going to deny. No one wants to go to prison when they are making that much money. Deny, deny, deny. Guaranteed,if it got investigated today, there would be a whole different outcome.

  • @jefeking2117
    @jefeking2117 Рік тому +16

    Wow one of the greatest ideas destroyed a family being a father is a thankless job but he literally gave them everything no good deed

  • @p2a0p2e0r1
    @p2a0p2e0r1 Рік тому +10

    This is why you don't give your kids anything. You either let them earn it or let them create their own.

  • @bobmahnamahknob
    @bobmahnamahknob Рік тому +15

    I had to sue this shady business for several thousand dollars.

  • @chibitsubaki271
    @chibitsubaki271 Рік тому +20

    That was a darker story... 😢

  • @Leto85
    @Leto85 Рік тому +14

    What a sad story. And all of that over greed.

  • @frankmckinley1254
    @frankmckinley1254 Рік тому +11

    Glad I didn't take the U-Haul job back in the day.😨🤑

  • @daskritterhaus5491
    @daskritterhaus5491 Рік тому +4

    after a few interactions with U-haul my opinion became 'what an unreliable mess starting with reservation process'

  • @Daidoro
    @Daidoro Рік тому +9

    This is so scary AND horrible at the same time...!
    😨😨😨

  • @commenter621
    @commenter621 Рік тому +24

    Why they got to do the dog like that 😞

  • @jamielancaster01
    @jamielancaster01 Рік тому +4

    I’ve used U-Haul since the early 80’s and I’ve never heard of these people.

    • @sv6306
      @sv6306 Рік тому +2

      you have probably never heard of Trump doing anything bad either

  • @XLessThanZ
    @XLessThanZ Рік тому +20

    This family is brutal, even on each other. Maybe Steve Wallis better stop using their vans in a way they say not to on the contract.🤪

  • @DennisSullivan-om3oo
    @DennisSullivan-om3oo Рік тому +5

    Wow! I can't believe I've never heard of any of this.

  • @sergiocoto1812
    @sergiocoto1812 Рік тому +5

    THERES HAS TO BE A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH YOU CAN REPRODUCE YOURSELF….

  • @TalonID
    @TalonID Рік тому +7

    I worked with Mark 20 years ago. He was my worst experience with a potential client ever! Their business practices are horrid.

  • @adrianmobley6805
    @adrianmobley6805 Рік тому +36

    How did they "scam" their father? They just got rid of him and were pretty straightforward. They certainly betrayed the father, however.

    • @pkmnan00bis
      @pkmnan00bis Рік тому +11

      LS stepped down on the condition that Sam stay as CEO; a promise Joe and Mark had no intention on keeping.

    • @larrybaygaming
      @larrybaygaming Рік тому

      Their tactics was about as straightforward as pride month 😂

  • @michaeltaylor4271
    @michaeltaylor4271 Рік тому +2

    That’s sad.. it really is sad when people greed gets to them this badly..

  • @mariosorrenti482
    @mariosorrenti482 Рік тому +3

    Now UHaul just has renters arrested for switching plates...then the co. Takes their stuff

    • @superflip1729
      @superflip1729 9 місяців тому

      Yeah because you can’t change the license plate, it’s not considered your property

    • @JV-mw7gv
      @JV-mw7gv 3 місяці тому

      No, what actually happens is that a legitimately stolen vehicle’s driver swaps plates anywhere and everywhere.

  • @raptorskilltor4554
    @raptorskilltor4554 Рік тому +6

    This is like game of throne but with uhaul as the throne

  • @victorcontreras9138
    @victorcontreras9138 Рік тому +2

    Yeah, that's the way things turn out many times when lots of money is involved😖

  • @greatPretender79
    @greatPretender79 Рік тому +21

    If you had a car and *FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS* in the 1940s, having no other posessions was a choice

  • @bigbearfive5
    @bigbearfive5 Рік тому +3

    The book called Birth right pretty much covers the U-Haul family we were never allowed to talk about it

  • @wetoolow8750
    @wetoolow8750 Рік тому +4

    I remember reading about a lot of this back in the early 1990s in the Los Angles Times.

    • @JakeStewart1343
      @JakeStewart1343 Рік тому +1

      I was 3 in 1990 and too young to remember what I was doing when it was published 🤷‍♂️

    • @gulfy09
      @gulfy09 Рік тому

      ​@@JakeStewart1343 well then grow up. Lol

  • @terryjohnson8317
    @terryjohnson8317 Рік тому

    There was a Ford dealer in Mesa Az that was the number one Ford truck dealer for many years because all the U-Haul trucks were Fords and bought through that dealers fleet Department.

  • @princessmarlena1359
    @princessmarlena1359 4 місяці тому

    My siblings and I had our differences while growing up, but things were never this bad. What a shame!

  • @busterhikney6936
    @busterhikney6936 Рік тому +6

    Who commits burglary equipped with a professional hitman's pistol fitted with a silencer?

  • @barryspaar3538
    @barryspaar3538 Рік тому +1

    Has a book ever been made in this?? It would be a great read.

  • @captainwillygrimm338
    @captainwillygrimm338 Рік тому +2

    Perhaps the spoiled boys will have learned a different purpose in life had they lived life as we did.

  • @NorthernChev
    @NorthernChev Рік тому +1

    13 kids… I’m pretty sure, by 1957 science had figured out what causes kids. Jayzus.

  • @aymane974
    @aymane974 Рік тому +1

    Lesson learned: businessman => one or no children

  • @stickynuggz9496
    @stickynuggz9496 Рік тому +1

    I learned something new today. Thanks brether!

  • @1469roach
    @1469roach Рік тому +4

    When does the movie come out Brad pitt

  • @MayorSom
    @MayorSom Рік тому

    I first heard the name in Kanye West's Touch The Sky. Mind you, I live in rural Northern Europe. Ye is a living legend looool

  • @joshthemediocre7824
    @joshthemediocre7824 Рік тому +1

    Oh it's not the first evil people the public has made rich by buying what they was selling. But they surely seem evil. Family doesn't have to mean something for you to be a good person, but they shouldn't be your biggest enemies. I'll never go to U Haul.

  • @faithingod9554
    @faithingod9554 Рік тому +1

    The problem here is too many kids!

  • @the_kombinator
    @the_kombinator Рік тому +2

    I remember when U haul trucks were awful. Now they're pretty OK for the most part.

  • @LoriFoster
    @LoriFoster Рік тому +2

    This is a story plot for the TV show Fargo.

  • @szk4023
    @szk4023 5 місяців тому

    Had he not given any shares to his children, there wouldn't have been any trouble. He should have waited until he chose to retire. Plus, what's up with all these children LOL?! Looks like he was an absentee father and they didn't care about him.

  • @mikep4823
    @mikep4823 Рік тому

    Every unit plated in Arizona so no yearly inspections need to be done. Rented a car dolly last year tires bald told the desk clerk he looked at me as in who cares loll. They have no maintenance on their rentals and if they do its very minimal at best.

  • @RelaxSounds2023.
    @RelaxSounds2023. Рік тому +4

    in other words dont f*** with uhaul or ur next

  • @stormchaser54
    @stormchaser54 Рік тому +2

    I'd rather just live a simple life. 😢

  • @barrettpickett5603
    @barrettpickett5603 Рік тому

    Sadly greed doesn't give you any happiness. Just more greed. And by not taking care of the father made a troubled family. Still were these kids this good at doing evil things or was never involved at all.

  • @edmundssondors3738
    @edmundssondors3738 Рік тому

    Money and greed! So sad, how people change!

  • @Quacks0
    @Quacks0 Рік тому

    Well, just another example of how power --- not to mention money --- corrupts.

  • @1KingCoop
    @1KingCoop Рік тому

    This is like a real life version of the TV show Dallas.

  • @chele-chele
    @chele-chele Рік тому +2

    Ah, the love of money...goes with the tribe.

  • @wl6020
    @wl6020 Рік тому +2

    Dont have so many kids....

  • @mrpeoriasmd
    @mrpeoriasmd 5 місяців тому

    This need a movie asap

  • @dusty7264
    @dusty7264 Рік тому +1

    I went to high school with three of the Shoen’s they were all really cool and friendly people. They had a fantastic place in Paradise Valley Arizona.

  • @pl5624
    @pl5624 Рік тому

    Laverdiere super drug stores were ran into the ground by 2 brothers...upon a hopeless state they left it to their 3rd brother....who quickly filed bankruptcy due to the debt being 3 times that of their assets.

  • @dwaynedickerson4408
    @dwaynedickerson4408 Рік тому

    Wow what a trailer! Whens the moviee??

  • @da9618
    @da9618 Рік тому +1

    This story can make a good movie

  • @Tim1963-u6n
    @Tim1963-u6n Рік тому +1

    LS should have been building a bigger bus to haul all those kids

  • @jetway931
    @jetway931 Рік тому +3

    F U-Haul

  • @poorlittlebiker6476
    @poorlittlebiker6476 Рік тому

    Dang that’s crazy……..but I need a trailer every now and then so- what story?

  • @richienickson8085
    @richienickson8085 Рік тому +2

    This all makes sense 😮

  • @frankgonz31
    @frankgonz31 Рік тому

    Too many distant kids is asking for trouble

  • @armeniankenneth2088
    @armeniankenneth2088 Рік тому

    Is that why they have an LS in the trucks

  • @bassethousechannel2579
    @bassethousechannel2579 Рік тому

    Like Bosleys Tire in Wichita KS

  • @RelaxSounds2023.
    @RelaxSounds2023. Рік тому +1

    uhaul horror movie when

  • @murraymadness4674
    @murraymadness4674 Рік тому +1

    I boycott Uhaul because they won't let me tow anything with a Ford Explorer. FU

    • @wildbill2727
      @wildbill2727 Рік тому +1

      Get a different tow vehicle

    • @theguy9208
      @theguy9208 Рік тому

      ​@@wildbill2727just buy a new car. Ez. I got mine off the new car tree

  • @darrenbarnhart6526
    @darrenbarnhart6526 Рік тому

    Berfcet stroy for a percent true irony because u haul are always at sketchy locations

  • @michaelknowles4005
    @michaelknowles4005 Рік тому

    This what happens in family business.. Dam

  • @Purrpetuity
    @Purrpetuity Рік тому +6

    Real life Succession

  • @danmarklesr6260
    @danmarklesr6260 Рік тому

    I worked for "Uhaul" for 30 years, if it wasn't for Joe & Mark, the co was going bankrupt.

  • @greggwgiddensable
    @greggwgiddensable Рік тому

    Makes me never want to use them again.
    I still don't buy that they didn't have her murdered and paid this guy to take the fall.
    Guess I'm glad at 45 I've no kids!

  • @pshaw8406
    @pshaw8406 7 місяців тому

    This sounds like a Plantagenet story.

  • @dean4817
    @dean4817 Рік тому

    Just because they are family.. doesn't mean they ARE🤔🧐

  • @stefanmarraccini8646
    @stefanmarraccini8646 Рік тому +1

    Some fathers don't understand how much their kids can't stand them. Moms help out a bit on that one. And societal bias.
    It's complicated.
    Having my heart warmed by U-Haul's feel good "Ain't that state grand! Now get up and get out of the state you're sick of and go where we suggest.
    Also, bring all your stuff. You need a truck for that. Call us, or do the pokey with your infernal device and send us money!".

  • @SAM-dm5qg
    @SAM-dm5qg Рік тому

    It's a Great Hateful Wicked Evil!!!!! And also a Great Example Of Greed.
    Plus it shows what happens when you lose Focus!!!!
    Trying To Exstend into other areas was a Mistake!!!!
    Common Sense Will Tell You, If It's Not Broken???? Don't Fix It!!!

  • @garvitharlalka2035
    @garvitharlalka2035 Рік тому

    Succession got real

  • @jacoballred
    @jacoballred Рік тому

    Would've held onto all or as much authority and power. For as long as possible could. There's ways of buying the children's share holding. The father lacked leadership.

  • @prostreetmark
    @prostreetmark Рік тому

    They do it to people everyday!!!

  • @garrettlamb9916
    @garrettlamb9916 Рік тому

    Why does McDonald’s get a movie but not Uhaul??

  • @PAPATexas
    @PAPATexas Рік тому +1

    wow

  • @chrisnewton9325
    @chrisnewton9325 Рік тому +1

    Great story.

  • @kevinsit963
    @kevinsit963 Рік тому

    Why have they not made this movie? 😮

  • @kurtlindner
    @kurtlindner Рік тому +3

    00:39 _Jeeesus!_ look at the AI nightmare fuel.
    Those faces. 🤣

  • @stephenmajor5498
    @stephenmajor5498 Рік тому

    Nice work!

  • @ChewyToeNails
    @ChewyToeNails Рік тому +1

    More like U-hell...

  • @jeddi20
    @jeddi20 Рік тому

    Nice having ai read that script

  • @foxmacnamara8809
    @foxmacnamara8809 Рік тому

    Joe and Mark....no good.

  • @ryanvarjas9719
    @ryanvarjas9719 11 місяців тому

    Interesting story, but there’s like 100 other videos of this same thing

  • @Gaspipenicklioni
    @Gaspipenicklioni Рік тому +1

    U crawl is the biggest ripoff, what a joke.

  • @NR-fx8tk
    @NR-fx8tk Рік тому

    What psychos

  • @Phxfan2
    @Phxfan2 Рік тому +1

    Never use them for a Unbox if you actually want your stuff to show up .

  • @JohnDoe-jn4ex
    @JohnDoe-jn4ex Рік тому

    Tell about it.

  • @southernflatland
    @southernflatland Рік тому +1

    U-Haul bodies? 🤔