Good morning. My name is Ruth, and I will be your conference Operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the AMERCO second quarter fiscal 2009 investor conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). Ms. Flachman, Director of Investor Relations, you may begin your conference.

Thank you for joining us today, and welcome to the AMERCO second quarter fiscal 2009 investor call. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that certain of the statements during this call regarding general revenues, income and general growth of our business constitute forward-looking statements contemplated under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and certain factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. For a brief discussion of the risks and uncertainties that may affect AMERCO’s business and future operating results, please refer to Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Participating in the call today will be Joe Shoen, Chairman of AMERCO. I will now turn the call over to Joe.

Good morning. I am speaking to you from Phoenix, Arizona, and I am joined here by Jason Berg, our Chief Accounting Officer; and Gary Horton, our Chief of Finance; Rocky Wardrip, our Assistant Treasurer is participating via phone from Reno. They will all be available to answer questions. I am going to have Jason start by walking through the numbers and we will go straight into the question and answer. Jason?

Good morning. Yesterday, we reported second quarter earnings of $2.10 per share compared to $2.39 for the same period in fiscal 2008. Rental[2:03] revenues for the quarter increased $3.5 million. For the quarter and for the first six months of this fiscal year we have been operating with fewer trucks than last year at this time. For the quarter, our truck count was down about 3.5% compared with the same period last year, and for the six months we were down about 4%. As Joe mentioned in our last quarterly call, we have had issues with one of our suppliers fulfilling their product delivery commitment to us for small box truck. This shortage continued into the second quarter. We estimate the loss revenues due to this shortfall to be in the $6 - 7 million range for the last six months. Despite this comparative decrease in inventory, we were able to increase total truck rental transactions for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 as compared to the same period last year. We did this through improvements in utilization. Increased truck and trailer transactions drove the U-Move revenue increase for the quarter. Competitor rates continue to have a negative influence on our revenues. While our revenue per transaction statistics over the last two quarters indicate a softening trend and price decline. Competitive rate pressures still way on our result. Our competitors’ actions combined with the current economic stress affecting our customers could dampen our revenues in the near term. During the quarter, we added over 5600 new box trucks to the fleet and replaced approximately 1200 pick ups and cargo vans. For the first six months of fiscal 2009, we have invested approximately $375 million in new rental equipment, compared to approximately $390 million last year during the same six month…

Thanks very much, Jason. We will go to question and answers now.

(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Ross Haberman. Your line is open. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: In the quarter, did you end up settling up with your supplier on the trucks or does it continue to be a shortfall going into this next quarter as well, or I guess there was a strike and you were caught short in terms of truck supplies; has that all been settled and caught up by now?

Yes, it is. It has caught backup now. So, the loss that we have is history. It will roll forward, but it should not accrete[8:25] and so, I think that is the question you are trying to find out. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Right.

Are we going to see more of that? No, I do not believe so. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: And just one, what do you see on pricing for the storage business? I just know personally what I am seeing at least in the Northeast that prices are coming down. It seems like at least from what I have seen in the Northeast here. Are you seeing that phenomena nationwide?

We run a standard promotion, which is a 30-day free move-in for a one-way truck or trailer customer. That is our standard promotion, and pricing is always a combination of discounts and the real price. We do not do another price promotional. We do not do pay six get one free. There are a lot of different variations out there. Our public storage, for instance, has a very standard $1 move-in, so it is the same as our 30-day free, just another way to give the discount. I do not see discounts up, and we have not yet lowered prices at more than one or two stores, if at one or two. I cannot recall one. We are very, I do not know what to say, obstinate on that. So, I am not seeing prices decline. Obviously, this is a very geographically specific business and whenever somebody is in your exact geographic area. It is very common for a guy to get the idea, look, if I drop my price, I will get all the business. So, I would expect to see some of that, especially given all the product that came on board in the last three or four years. I think we should just expect to see it. My experience is if you get right down to it that will not get them the rooms. Now, if they stay consistently 30% below you, sure you are going to have to make some adjustments. So far we have not seen that drastically affecting our consumer behavior, although in specific cases, it is present even when some prices were going up. We had a competitor built literally across the street, and to lure business they would rent all the rooms at 50% off or something. It is destructive. We actively encourage people in the self storage business to maintain prices obviously, and we were not about to be the one who has the reputation for dumping price as well. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Just one question, does JPMorgan have a big storage operation, and are they more competitive than any of the other ones?

Ross, this is Gary. Would you repeat the question? Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Does JPMorgan Bank have a division that owns storage businesses, and are they more competitive that any body else?

I did not know they had such a division, so I apologize. Now, there may be a JPMorgan person on the line, and if they know, I would appreciate them speaking up. Could you give me any more color on that? Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: No, I just happened to see that just personally I have got some space out on Long Island, and it was supposedly bought by a division of JPMorgan.

Well, you have got me. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: I did not mean to stump you.

With all the different pieces of JPMorgan out of the private equity side and so on and so forth, it could be possible. But I have not heard of any…

Anybody who has got into a storage property in the last four years will be suicidal if they drop prices. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: No, I mean I am just seeing and here is what I was getting at, I am seeing advertisements at least locally in the Northeast, basically lowering monthly prices, giving the first half off on the first three or four months. Things like that and that is why I asked the question.

Those who had been out there, they may be just advertising them harder. But this idea of, if you will do a multi-month contract, we will give you some kind of a discount. It is always boiling. Now, I do not know any of the majors doing that. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay.

But again, that is done all the time and I would not just get panicked. I would turn off. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: No, I am just wondering if that is a trend that you are beginning to see more and more. Given what seems to be a temporary overcapacity.

I would say no, but after your question, I will go do some digging. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay, thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Jim Barrett. Your line is open. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Joe, did you mention pricing in the self move truck sector? You did not mention it was weak or soft, is it getting worse or is it just remaining as difficult as it has been for the past year or so?

I think we could argue it is better than it was a year, a year and a half ago. It still is, Jim, that people who are struggling to do business will go five or 10 back if you respirate[14:24]. They will ask you a question like, are you a member AARP or a member of AAA or are you a packer fan? That was the best one I have ever been asked. And if so, we have a discount today. Well, if that gets fought out at the individual location level, and of course, the problem is my people will match most of those too, so, if you say that somebody gave you an AARP discount or a AAA discount or a military discount, my person will attempt to chime in and match the incentives. So, there has not been a lot of creativity in pricing. We have stabilized some pricing just because with the pricing programming we put in two years ago, we have been able to get incredibly more specific, and so we keep finding a little pocket we can, that we were either underpriced or for one reason or another we can get another 5% or 7% out of, and so we are able to balance it. But if you talk say, let us say, we were talking the Boston/New York corridor or DC/Atlanta corridor, I do not think those are any different than they were a year ago. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: I see. And can you talk generally about the Company’s competitive position in self move truck at this juncture? Do you feel better about it when you look down the road, the same, worse?

Well, I would not want to be the other guy, let me put it that way, okay. Not that I do not have my opportunities. We are relatively well positioned. Our fleet is in terrific condition. We are always unhappy with our distribution, but that is our job to be unhappy about. We could still use a few more small trucks, but we are adding them, and we are trying to probe demand without oversupplying it. Everybody is faced with this declining truck price, and it is impacting us. But it has got to be less than the other guy, because the other guy’s truck is going out at $10,000 to $15,000, which means it needs to be financed, Jim. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Right.

So, ours, as you know, our average truck is going out around $3500, which means it is a cash transaction. There is not a lot of financing out there. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Correct.

For little guys wanting to buy our used $15,000 truck, so, everybody has picked their strategy. We have to sell based on our strategy somewhere, 8% to 12% of our fleet a year. The other guy has to turn 30%, 35% of his fleet a year. My experience is in rotten in times, our strategy is the better strategy. But I think they got a nice boost during all these boom of the last six years, so they probably made a few bucks that we missed. I am fairly comfortable with where we are. I am always looking to see how we can lower our costs. Because you are going to sell so much, I mean I am not there encouraging them to sell more. We are going to sell so much. Now, we have to get our costs down below our income. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Speaking of that, operating expenses were down $3 million in Moving and Storage. Is that a reasonable expectation going forward? I assume that is reduced truck maintenance?

This time I am going to ask Jason a little bit. He is signaling me, so I am going to make sure I do not say it wrong.

Jim, on the operating expense, a whole bunch of things is going into there. And I would say that most of our costs, we have been able to hold the line on as far as, say, like personnel expense and things like that. We do have some costs that are going up, property tax and things like that. And we have had, I would say over the last couple of years, positive experience as far as losses, casualty losses in the truck fleet or liability losses. So there is some component of that that is also keeping that operating expense line down.

In other words, when we got a boost because we have not had as bad an insurance experience over the last 18 months as maybe we had 36 or 48 months ago on a per transaction basis and we have got a haircut on selling some equipment. And year-over-year, it is pretty significant; the haircut we are taking there. So, those are both netting against each other in that cost. At the same time, we have improved our truck maintenance line year-over-year, and last year was an improvement over the year before. I do not want to oversimplify it, but yes, we are holding our own. One pleasant thing is we may not get smacked as hard. We are planning on getting hit real hard with utility expenses, and it looks like some of that stuff is not going to materialize perhaps, which that will certainly put a smile on my face because we were seeing a lot of 30% jumps there. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Right.

So, I think maybe we will get that. As you know, we do not buy the fuel our customer uses but the customer does. But to the extent that the fuel price stays down, they do not exactly perceive it as a rate decrease, but it is a cost decrease, which makes this more affordable, this whole enterprise more affordable for them. So, that is a macro positive. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Okay, good.

It is going to be a tough market for awhile, Jim. I do not want to be pessimistic, but I do not want to sugarcoat it either. It is going to be a tough market for awhile. It is going to squeeze everybody. And competitively I mean I do not know everybody’s cost structures, but I am pretty familiar with mine and it is going to squeeze me. So, they are going to get squeezed, too. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: I hear you. And then last but not the least, your truck acquisition cost; is that matter the sort of values you are seeing to buy new self storage properties, have they started to erode on both fronts, come down on both fronts?

Truck acquisition cost is not coming down. It is going up. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Going up, okay.

The automakers are not going to pass along anything to a fleet buyer. They have made that abundantly clear. On the self storage front, construction cost has not ebbed yet. So, we are seeing just a tiny bit of cracking in acquisitions that existing. In other words, people have held onto unrealistic multiples, Jim, for 18 months past the time, and they are now starting to come around. And also in that business, there is a lot of refinancing that needs to reoccur there just on a normal basis. And as that refinancing is more difficult to execute, that has a strong downward effect on total pricing. So, I would expect that we will see some good deals out there or relatively better deals out there, particularly if you are looking at having the property five, seven, ten years after you buy it, which, as you know that is our strategy. So even if we bought something and all we did was tread water for a year or two or three. It is a building block, and we would not shy away from it. We have not bought where we thought we were going to flat cash flow negative lose money, which is how a lot of this stuff has been priced where you were looking at three to five years to being there before you were ever going to make any money. So, we have stayed out of that, and it has cost us opportunities. But I think those opportunities are going to swing our way again. Jim Barrett – CL King & Associates: Good. Thank you very much.

(Operator Instructions). Your next question comes from the line of Ian Gilson. Your line is open. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: Joe, your question or rather your answer about having caught up on the truck count, is that catching up on past deliveries so that your truck count is now where you want it, or are they just delivering what you are ordering?

They are just delivering what we are ordering. We are still maybe 3000 or 4000 trucks down, Ian, from even a year ago. But, of course, that is because I have been taking trucks out of the fleet a little bit aggressively because I was getting a better margin in my belief by doing that. Okay. But there is a little more business out there, but not a lot. As you have seen, we have been struggling to hold top line really for 18 months now or 16, 17 months at least. We have been struggling to hold top lines. So, our fleet is somewhere around where it ought to be. It is pretty hard to tell 2000 or 3000 trucks. It is really pretty hard to tell. But we are somewhere where we could be. We could maybe use a little boost in our small truck inventory. We might find some markets, pockets there where we increase total revenue. And then, of course, we have some normal replacements to do. We are wearing the things out everyday, and we drive millions of miles everyday. So, we are always wearing them out. But we are in a lot better position than, Jason said we put in 5000 some old trucks in the quarter, so big trucks, I mean moving trucks. That is a lot of equipment. So, it did not come in on the timeline, which is what really hurt us. These small trucks came in late because of the way the strike affected General Motors and then how they ramped back up, it did not make any sense to us because the ramp up further delayed at the time that they are saying and crying that they have no customers, while we were standing there with money and could not get any trucks. So, that cost us, and it all carried through to the end of the years, $6 million or $7 million bucks off the top line, which is a significant thing to us. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: Did you sell fewer trucks than you normally did because of this lack of deliveries?

No. We went ahead and kept the truck sales going. We were actually selling a different sized truck than the one we were bringing in, so that in our decision model, the two did not relate. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Robert Bruce.

Could you bring us up-to-date on your stock repurchases plan and do you have any thoughts on a dividend on the common stock?

There is no plan on a dividend of the common stock. And on stock repurchase I think we are basically, we are adopting a more conservative tax than we were even four months ago. We are trying to conserve cash. You can see that if you look at our liquidity. It is an all time high in the history of the corporation. You know more about what is going to happen macro wise probably than we do. But it is just true. And we do not know what is going to happen or what availability there is going to be out there. As you know, we are a burnt child, so we are scared of fire. And we do not want to get within visibility of a shortfall. We are whatever you want to call it. If you had Gary Horton and I in a room that would be the Frankenstein in the closet would be that. So we are going to stay a long, long way away from that, maybe too far you could argue but having been there once, we do not want to go there again. So, we are going to just kind of hoard cash a little bit here until we see a better picture.

Thank you.

You have a follow up question coming from the line of Ross Haberman. Your line is open. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Just a couple of quick numbers questions for Gary. Gary, what availability, I think you said in the press release you had a $400 million I guess that is the moving division, $413 million in cash. Is that correct?

That is correct. We have $345 million of cash and another $67.68 million in availability. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: And over than next year or so I think is $126 which you said, is that the sole amortization requirements over the next year?

That is correct. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay.

And that is echoing, Joe, is that we have made sure that we have no refinance risks. We look at in the marketplace, there is a lot of companies that have not said much about their refinance risk. But in trying to read through their statements, I would say there is a lot of people that have a time to raise money and where people are not lending money to a great, we do not have that position. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: I am sorry, just going back to the cash, you suggest 316 cash and then…

A 345. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: I am sorry, 345 in cash and the balance in availability.

That is correct. And we test our availability periodically to make sure that we do have the availability. The worst thing you ever could do is go to the cupboard and find out that it was there. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Right.

But we have drawn down and we will pay back and draw down, just to make sure that the lines still work. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: I know you have historically had real estate. Is any of it at this point excess and will you sell any of it over the next year or so or is the market for such a thing basically dead so even if you wanted to given the market you could not at the moment?

We primarily are a buy and hold. But we do periodically sell parcels off I believe from our real estate board. We just are authorized a couple locations. But again, Ross, they are what I would say a lot of money. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay.

Couple of million in here, couple of million in there, so we have got our biggest bang is like last year we got a pretty good bang and that was because we did not want to sell it but Columbia University wanted it more than, you know, and so they paid us a lot of money for it. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: So it is to say, everything has its price.

Well, in some cases everything has a price except when they tell you, you do not have any other option but to take the cash, you take the cash. And we had two of those in the last year. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: And one quick question for Joe. Joe, in the storage space, are you actively looking for new locations to buy or to build and is our overall price for the unit coming down?

Yes, we are actively looking to buy and build. We have not seen any decrease in cost in acquisitions we have got two or three now that may close that people are starting to get in the realm of reasonableness. People are not going to give away their assets, but people have been asking multiples that are reflective of the multiples that public storage enjoys as a REIT, and that just simply is unrealistic on a location by a location basis and of course, that we paid those REITs, we never will ever make any money. So, it took us out of the market and I think we are back in the market as a buyer because we are real buyer, and I would expect this year would be a little bit of that. We have a budget for it and… Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: What are sort of the average asking prices or multiple or cap rates today? Do you have a range?

They are all over the board, but we are seeing on a net rentable square foot. People are asking, let us say, excluding little Manhattan and bizarre markets like that, but people are asking $120 square foot in the high range to 85 in the low range. But we are not starting to see properties come in $65 of foot. At $65 of foot, there is a lot more flexibility and a lot less risk. And… Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: That is the purchase price per square foot?

Per net rentable. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay.

And that means roughly if you are going to, it all translates into a rate in the marketplace in occupancy which according to our business plan, we can make living and we cannot make a living paying people 16 times their cash flow that has not been a to very typical ask for the last four years. People ask 16 times forward projecting, okay. And it is baloney from our point of view. Now, it may work for somebody else’s business plan, but in our business plan, that is a nonstarter, and we have looked at literally thousands of location. I am sure we look at three to five locations a day. So, there is a lot of people floating stuff. But in this market, we should expect to see, 63,000 locations change hands annually. I do not think that is an unrealistic figure just based on normal churn in the marketplace. And the question is, if the changing hands are multiple prices that we think we could make a living at, then the question is, does it fit into our network and are we interested? And we, of course, have our criteria, which are different than some other peoples. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: So, 10 to 12 times cash flow, was that more palatable?

Yes, I think when your 10 to 12 times you are in more sustainable, it is a business propositions and you are not speculating. That is what I would say. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: Okay.

Now, this thing gets on at hard times and that is trailing 12, not the projection at real cash flow. But if this gets on at hard times, we have seen lots of times that these properties have traded at times. So, if this gets at hard times, then that would be a buying opportunity. Ross Haberman – Haberman Fund: I got it.

(Operator Instructions). You have a follow up question coming from Ian Gilson. Your line is open. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: Our question for Gary, cost of funds out there, Gary, short term, what is it like?

We have not done anything brand new but we have some revolvers. I believe that we are borrowing today at 3.99%. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: How about on leasing?

Under leasing, it is a very interesting because I just have one that I have gotten approved by the finance committee, and I believe and it may have adjusted down somewhat but it was at 4.81% would be the implicit rate. Ian Gilson – Zacks Investments: Okay. Gary thanks.

Mr. Shoen, if you would like to make any closing remarks, you may do so at this time.

Well, thank you all very much for your support. We will try to continue to be candid. This is a dynamic marketplace, and you all probably know it better than I do. And so, predictions are hard to make, but our base business is a need driven business. It is not a want. And our business has some inherent stability when things start tightening up. So, I am very optimistic about the future, but I expect the near term one, two or three years to be tight a little bit. So, my thanks for your time but we will talk to you again. Have a nice day.

This concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect.