Reply #11: I am a musician. Had a gig in Frankenmuth, MI

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on Sat. with the Contours. Our guy tried to rent a small truck to bring stage gear. The rental place he has been going to for years kept blowing him off, saying nothing was available. He called 6 or 7 other places, same thing. I know, he waited until the last minute, I'm thinking everyone does their moving on the weekends, it's always hard to find a truck. He got suspicious when someone let it slip that they "were not renting trucks this weekend". He finally walked into the place where he usually does business and asked to see the manager. They told him they were told not to rent trucks this weekend and that 8 or 9 rental trucks had been stolen in Missouri on the same day, but they had recovered them all. I have seen nothing in the news about this. Anyway, he finally talked them into renting him a truck, and we made an effort to see if other rental trucks were on the road. We saw 2 or 3 on the road that day.