What size truck for a 1‑bedroom apartment?
Fits
A 1‑bedroom needs a 15-foot truck.
The smallest truck at each company, for a 1‑bedroom apartment:
- U‑Haul
- 15-foot truck
- Penske
- 16-foot truck
- Budget
- 16-foot truck
Not sure your list is like ours? Take the next size up: U‑Haul's 20-foot truck.
Rather not drive? A moving container is dropped at your door: one 12 ft PODS container. Truck or container?
More detail: every truck we tried, and what we counted
Our packing fills about 70–80% of a full truck; a careful pro load fits more, so a truck that "came close" below may work too.
Every truck and van for a 1‑bedroom apartment
Budget 16'63% full
Penske 16'52% full
U‑Haul 15'47% full
U‑Haul 20'37% full
Penske 22'29% full
Penske 26'24% full
Budget 26'24% full
U‑Haul 26'23% full
U‑Haul 29'22% full
Doesn't fit (7 trucks and vans)
Budget 12'36 of 46
Penske 12'36 of 46
Penske Cargo Van34 of 46
U‑Haul 10'31 of 46
Budget Cargo Van19 of 46
Enterprise Cargo Van17 of 46
U‑Haul 9' Cargo Van14 of 46
What we counted for a 1‑bedroom apartment
Queen mattress × 1
Queen box spring × 1
Queen bed frame, taken apart × 1
Nightstand × 2
6-drawer dresser × 1
3-seat sofa × 1
Armchair × 1
Coffee table × 1
TV stand × 1
55" TV in its box × 1
Dining table, taken apart × 1
Dining chair × 4
Tall bookcase × 1
Desk × 1
Office chair × 1
Small moving box × 8
Medium moving box × 12
Large moving box × 4
Wardrobe box × 3
Box counts from the U‑Haul Moving Help box guide; other guides suggest up to twice as many boxes. The furniture list is our own typical list. Yours will differ, so change it in the planner.