Last-Minute Road Trip Advice: Driving from the East Coast [temporary family apartment] to the Southwest [college and home in California]

The company pays for the move.

For the last two moves, my D has had an apartment full of furniture and stuff so the POD/UBox was the least expensive of her options unless she wanted to drive a U Haul across the country and tow her car behind, which was a hard ‘no’ for her.