Penske Calls Out DHS for Using Its Rental Trucks During Immigration Raids in LA: We 'Did Not Authorize This'

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Source: MEDIAite

Aug 6th, 2025, 2:54 pm


Penske Truck Rental released a statement Wednesday condemning the Department of Homeland Security for using its truck in an immigration raid. On Wednesday morning, DHS agents traveled to a Home Depot in the McArthur Park area of Los Angeles. The purpose of the visit, according to Fox News reporter Matt Finn, was to conduct “early morning immigration enforcement.”

“The area was filled with migrants who scattered,” Finn added. “DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly optic immigration raids. 16 taken into custody.”

In the video, DHS agents wearing vests can be seen packed into the back of a rental truck. As soon as one of the agents opened the truck, the rest of them poured out, and a chaotic scene outside quickly unfolded. Several of the agents immediately ran after the fleeing migrants.

In a statement obtained by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, Penske made it clear that the company did not authorize the use of its trucks for the operation: Penske Truck Rental is aware of recent reports and videos regarding a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operation in Los Angeles. Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo area of its vehicles under any circumstances.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/penske-calls-out-dhs-for-using-its-rental-trucks-during-immigration-raids-in-la-we-did-not-authorize-this/

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Patriot Front is known to use Penske (and U-Haul) rental box trucks to transport their hoodlums.

[wcmagumba]

1. Maybe the Penske customer service agents who rented the trucks out to DHS (they had to know)...

need some attention too, maybe firings...

[riversedge]

2. 'DHS agents wearing vests can be seen packed into the back of a rental truck.'

Penske needs to sue them and quit renting their trucks out to DHS!!

[ananda]

3. Sounds like CYA to me.

I mean, seriously, how could they not know?

[madville]

5. Was a federal employee for decades

Rented hundreds of cars and trucks with my federal government travel card, none ever required that we tell them specifically what we were going to do with the vehicle. Most of the time in later years we just booked them online.

[ananda]

6. So it's actually possible that nobody in the company knew?

That makes zero sense to me.

Isn't it important to know what your trucks are being used for,
for legan and criminal liability purposes?

[Polybius]

8. They probably don't ask official government agencies as big as the DHS

Or DHS lied. Makes perfect sense to me.

[ananda]

9. So that means they're deliberately turning a blind eye since...

it's blatantly obvious what dhs would want the trucks for.


Or else they are so ridiculousy stupid and out of touch...
kinda like a lot of magats.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

13. Or they rented them using personal credit cards...

...and the company didn't even know it was DHS.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. I've rented numerous trucks over the years...

...from various companies, both personally and on-line with government credit card. They've never asked me what I'm using it for, although the terms of service state that it can't be used for illegal purposes.

And even if they did ask, do you think a criminal would tell the truth? I'm pretty sure Timothy McVeigh, if asked, wouldn't have told Hertz that he was going to use the truck to blow up a federal building.

[Jose Garcia]

15. I have used UHaul several times

At no point did anyone ask what what I was going to do with the truck.

[kimbutgar]

4. I work in an industry that sometimes we have to rent trucks.

I will never use Penske and U-haul or buy U-Haul products in my senior move job unless they condemn this!

[moniss]

7. Penske is also following DOT regulations while

ICE-American Gestapo is not.

[ananda]

16. Yes. So this means that the government can engage in...

kidnapping, trafficking, and transporting human beings
in order to torture, deport, or kill them...

and nobody is held accountable.

Words fail.

[moniss]

17. Yes and while they make regulations about

safety for passenger transport in vehicles that all the rest of us must follow they ignore those regulations and safety needs when it comes to themselves.

[BaronChocula]

10. Oh please

Roger Penske is a trumpermagafucker. He doth protest too much in the Theatre of the Guilty.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Isn't using the cargo area for transporting passengers highly illegal ? Couldn't Highway Patrol pull them over ? nt

[SickOfTheOnePct]

14. How would the highway patrol know...

...they had people in the back?

I didn't read this as they put the detainees in the Penske trucks and hauled them away, I read it as the ICE agents were transported to the Home Depot in the back of the truck. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

[EarthFirst]

18. I bet it's not enough of an issue to pull their GSA contract...

Quit supplying the beast the equipment it needs.

Or don’t.

That decision will determine the direction of their moral compass….