Tahoe/Yukon works if rear seats are laid down. Depending on machines(heads attached- hinged) ,you put one machine in head first and the other shooter first.
Heads opposite of each other.
Me personally I would prefer the minivan for softer more comfortable ride and extra 8-10 mpg.

-Mike

2012 Honda pilot. 1 machine across the back, head removed all the way up against the front seats. Second pin straight behind it with the first head next to it. I have removed the shooter rod on game 2 in some games

Anything that will fit a 4×8 sheet of plywood flat with a tall enough opening will fit 2 pins.

Minivan is by far the easiest. Worth the extra $ in my opinion.

Loading, unloading will be a a breeze compared to an SUV.

SUVs are for moving one game, not two.

SUVs are also great for taking kids to soccer.
Get the minivan for moving pins.

Get a fullsize van and you could pickup 4 maybe 5 easy.. if you have a high roof you can go vertical and really pack 'em in.

Honda Odyssey. If it's available...get it. Bottom line.

Minivan for all my pin and dead body moves.

I just hauled 2 games in a Dodge Grand caravan. I can fit 4 in a grand caravan. If heads come off 2.

Ford Flex if you take the head off of one game.

Get a Chrysler Pacifica. The seats fold into the floor and you can easily fit two games. I don't think most other minivans have the seats that fold into the floor, some have to be removed or pushed forward.

Why aren’t you just shipping them? Dropping off a rental 14 hours away ain’t cheap.

I'm not sure how prevalent they are at Avis but they are the most common rental minivan. I've rented one several times through other agencies. The Pacifica I have at home was a former rental vehicle with 20k miles when I bought it.

Might be free mileage but there is a big service charge for not returning it to the same place. These fees change a lot based on where the end points are.

GL.

I can't see if you put a value on your time that flying/driving makes even remote sense. You should be able to ship both door to door insured for under a grand. Between airfare, gas, the rental, and your time, how are you coming out ahead on this?

GM has the patent on the captains chairs folding into the floor, but all the other mini vans have the back bench fold into the floor. Just have to manually take out the captains.

I just experienced this when I tried to rent from one place and drop off in another. For like 5 hours of driving it was like $600 bucks. Haha. No thanks.

Rentals can be one way,I've done it with Enterprise.
Sometimes machines are worth doing the shipping personally. The insurance coverage doesn't matter when a restored machine is wrecked because someone on the dock doesn't care what it means to you.
-Mike

It might be branded as the Chrysler Voyager now but it's the same thing. It's just the trim for the rental fleets.

Like I said they change based on end points. Sometimes you get lucky and are heading where they want cars.

But this is a 3 day trip with airfare rental gas and probably hotel. Unless it’s some super rare machines I’d crate them and ship. Even HEP machines get shipped.

Your plan is a good one. I have flown and hired a minivan back home a bunch of times.

However, times seem to have changed. I live in Texas so flying north in autumn and hiring was doable before Covid. Now price breaks for getting rentals south before the winter sets in, seems not a rental thing anymore.

Also I used to go with my wife or son to spend some one on one time and it was a great time for me. My son now is in college and always busy and my wife I fear only went with me to make sure I arrived home in a decent time.

Unless the game is delicate and risky to ship I get picked up.

Steve J

When did that start? I had a 2005 Dodge Grand caravan with "stow and go" seating. I hardly every had the captains chairs up.

All depends on the pickup and drop locations. I've done different drop locations a ton and tend to see lower cost. But I'm usually flying out of larger more populated areas vs flight in.

They are owned by the same company. Same owners of Chrysler. Maybe GM is the wrong company.

That’s why caravan and Pacifica have stow n go and no one else does.

Probably can't rent it, but I've had only Honda Odysseys since 2000 because they are awesome pinhaulers. You can get 2 or sometimes even 3 pins in one if you remove the middle seats and lay down the back row.