Eventually a friend told him he knew a guy who owned a 250-watt radio station in Murray, Ky., so Sajak packed his stuff in a rented U-Haul van and drove off.

I wished she would move so I could take pictures of her lugging fifty-pound cartons of books down to a U-Haul van.

She decided on a small U-Haul van, the same-size vehicle as that used for mini-buses or small business deliveries.

The U-Haul van was far easier to track than a Volvo.

He had duplicate IDs, enough to rent four vehicles, three four-door private cars and a U-Haul van.

For example, tire imprints showed that the gunmen's car was a minivan, although Mr. O'Connor described it as a much larger vehicle, a large U-Haul van with an overhead door.

A U-Haul van roared by at 70 miles an hour.

Not that his U-Haul van was hard to spot; there was not too much distraction among the rutted hills and baking rock.

He peered in; there were a few U-Haul vans parked in the courtyard along with a bright yellow John Deere bulldozer and a black Lincoln Continental.

In Port Charlotte, wind blew down Terry Unger's 10,000-square-foot store, Beachcomber Liquors, and deposited a 20-foot U-Haul van in the middle of it.