One year and a day after the Keizer takeover, another U-Haul went out from a Eugene storage lot at 12:19 in the morning. The renter estimated 140 miles, one round trip to the other store. The paid invoice shows he drove about 305 — two round trips. In the middle of that window, a customer at the Keizer counter filmed the man with the big truck, and an employee answered who he was: that’s the owner.
PRIMARY SOURCEthe two videos are on this page; their provenance was checked frame and file — device, date, and time are set out belowCONFIRMEDa third U-Haul rental, November 15–17, 2025, out of a Eugene storage lot, 15-foot truck with an appliance dolly; estimated at 140 miles and billed for about 305 — two round trips — from the rental recordCONFIRMEDtwo customer videos inside the Keizer store on November 16, 2025, in the middle of that window, and what is said on themCORROBORATEDthe man at the counter is the owner of both Oregon stores — identified as the owner by his own employee on the recording; the owner of record of both stores in BAM’s 2026 disclosure is Brandon BestINFERENCEthat the “big truck” at the store was the U-Haul on the rental record
U-Haul order confirmation 98444165, Brandon Best, on file with this site. Two phone videos recorded inside the Keizer store on November 16, 2025 and provided to this site; the customer who recorded them is not identified here. Brandon Best is listed as operator of both the Keizer and Eugene stores in BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F. The first two rentals are in The second U-Haul; the takeover record is in the Keizer file.
When this site published Brandon Best’s first two U-Haul receipts, one line pointed forward: after the takeover, Best rented no U-Haul for twelve months, and his next rental came a year later, in November 2025. Here is that rental. And this time there is something the first two trips never had: two short videos from inside the Keizer store, in the middle of the rental window, shot by a customer who had no idea what she was standing in the middle of. She just wanted to know whose big truck that was.
The order is reservation 98444165, and it reads like this.
For calibration: the first U-Haul, the one BAM showed the public, rolled back into its Eugene lot at 12:41 a.m. on November 15, 2024, hours after the takeover. The third rolled out of a Eugene lot at 12:19 a.m. on November 15, 2025. One year, almost to the minute.
On Sunday, November 16, 2025 — the middle day of the rental window — a customer stood at the trade counter of the Keizer store, sorting Lego with the staff, and recorded two short videos three minutes apart, at 1:08 and 1:11 in the afternoon. Both are below, and both are worth watching before reading the words off them. In the first, she is talking to a man working the counter. She asks about the truck outside.
Three minutes later she is at the counter with a store employee, and asks who the man was.
Before quoting a video, this site reads its file. Here is what these two carry, checked from the untouched originals.
Put the two clips together and the store’s own counter says: the man with the big truck is the owner; he owns this store and the Eugene one; he lives in Utah; and he is in Oregon because of “all the stuff going on.” BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F, lists exactly one man as operator of both the Keizer and Eugene stores: Brandon Best, one of ten multi-store operators in the entire system. Best is a Utah man with a Sandy, Utah address in the court record.
The Keizer store and the Eugene store are about seventy miles apart, so one round trip between them is roughly 140 miles — the exact figure the renter wrote on the order as his planned driving. The invoice says he drove about 305. That is two of those round trips. And in the middle of the two-day window, the owner of both stores was standing behind the Keizer counter, seventy miles from the lot where the truck went out, saying he had been “at Eugene earlier today,” on a day he called not great for driving, while a customer asked him about the big truck outside. Whether that truck was the rented U-Haul, the record does not say; no one on the tape uses the word. The truck on the order and the truck at the store are joined here by timing, geography, the two-round-trip mileage, and the man answering for both — the join to that specific truck is an inference, and it is graded as one.
The order does not print an odometer reading the way the first two did, but the amount paid fixes the distance the same way: back out the fixed truck and dolly charges, divide the rest by the per-mile rate, and about 305 miles is left. What the record does not fix is the cargo. Nothing in the two videos shows anything being loaded or unloaded. The videos show a working store: sorting trays on the counter, minifigure cases, a customer trading Lego. What was in the truck, on any of the four legs, the record does not say.
In fairness: on the recording, the store’s employee describes a store under strain — “it’s been crazy” — and an owner who came to “try and make everything feel better.” An owner visiting a stressed location, with a truck for ordinary logistics between two stores he legitimately operates, is an available reading of this record. The rental record shows dates, equipment, and an estimate, not cargo. No court has ruled on any of this, and nothing here is a finding that Brandon Best or anyone else committed a crime.
Three trucks now, all rented in Eugene. A 17-footer with a dolly in October 2024, about 180 miles. A 15-footer on the night of November 14, 2024, 186 miles, back at its lot by 12:41 a.m. And a year later, to within twenty-two minutes, a 15-footer with an appliance dolly out of a storage lot at 12:19 a.m., billed for about 305 miles — two full round trips down the same road — with the owner at the far end of it, on tape, telling a customer he’d already made the drive that day.
The first two trucks, the camper story, and what surfaced for sale at the Eugene store afterward are in The second U-Haul and the Keizer file.
Sources. U-Haul order confirmation, reservation 98444165 (15-foot truck, two days; out Saturday, November 15, 2025, 12:19 a.m., Airport Budget Storage, 29399 W. Enid Rd., Eugene, Oregon; due back by Monday, November 17, 1:10 a.m., same location; one appliance dolly; estimated 140 miles at $1.39 per mile; total paid $504.68; status Completed), Brandon Best, on file with this site. The about-305-mile figure is computed from the $504.68 total, net of the two-day truck charge ($59.90) and the dolly ($20), at the contract per-mile rate ($424.78 ÷ $1.39 ≈ 305), the same total-paid method used for the first two rentals; Oregon charges no sales tax on the rental. Two phone videos recorded inside the Keizer store (3670 River Road N) on Sunday, November 16, 2025, and provided to this site. Their file metadata, read from the unaltered originals held on file: Google Pixel 8 Pro; recorded 1:08:15 p.m. and 1:11:58 p.m. Pacific; 67 and 74 seconds; 1080p at 30 frames per second; no embedded GPS tag. The clips are published here downscaled and with device identifiers removed so they cannot be traced to the phone that shot them; the person who recorded them is not identified. Quotations are from this site’s transcription; two independent transcription passes were run and only lines stable across both are quoted. Prior rentals 15284899 (November 14, 2024; returned 12:41 a.m. November 15; 186 miles driven) and 12982152 (October 24, 2024; about 180 miles driven): The second U-Haul. Brandon Best is listed as operator of the Keizer store (3670 River Road N) and the Eugene store (780 Blair Boulevard) in BAM Franchising’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F, and appears with a Sandy, Utah address in the court record of the takeover litigation. The wider record: the map.
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