Posted: 3/5/2008 3:00:14 PM EDT
|
Anyone have advice on hiring movers to haul your shit from one state to another? Is Allied a good company to use? |
When you rent the truck you can rent a car trailer also. Just load the truck drive to the u-haul and the will hook up the trailer to the truck and then you drive the car on to it and strap it down but make sure you use the frame to strap it.
|
I used Wheaton....they sucked out loud. They will all give you a delivery window. Expect it to be delivered on the last day. If you use Wheaton expect it to be about 5 days after that. If you can do it yourself - do it. If not...as Subnet said...research....I might go with the Astroglide myself....just hope you don't go  ...ahhh......ahhh...ohhh.... ....OOO...
|
| Agents are franchisees, they have little control over the drivers or loaders. It's with the drivers or loaders that things can go sideways. Any company can screw you up. FWIW my clients who use United Van Lines seem to have the best luck. You can hire day labor to load & unload a rented truck, that's likely the only way to guarantee it goes smoothly. |
|
Carlyle was contracted by the Army to move me from Fort Bragg to Fort Polk. Very good move. www.carlylevanlines.com/home.htm Arpin was contracted by the Army to handle a move from Fort Bragg to Rhode Island. Another good move. www.paularpin.com/ |
|
I used one and it was GREAT I moved a lot of heavy $hit (tools, ammo, books) and valuable stuff myself. (since the valuable stuff should be obvious and it's by weight and volume, so get rid of the weight and a lot of the cost goes down). And it was under the estimate by a few hundred dollars and they were actually a day early. i'd do it again. If you show them EVERYTHING when they do the estimate it goes just fine, if you hide stuff or don't show them the 14 boxes of books, well the estimate is off. I'd never move myself again. Between rental, gas, finding bodies, etc it was almost the same cost to have it done without me touching anything. |
Which company did you use? (even though it probably won't matter to me ... all my reading on the web so far has revealed what someone mentioned above ... they're all local companies/franchises so it varies from town to town even with the same name) |
|
Allied treated me right. Had local company box up & load the truck. Local company unloaded at my house. We unpacked. It helps that we were reimbursed for expenses. Local guys that packed apparently pocketed my watch, however. It was my graduation present from med school from wife, parents, and in-laws. 
|
| Might want to consider the pods system, www.pods.com. you can rent the container for a month or more, load as slow as you want. You contact them and have it shipped to your new location, use your locks and pack it the way you want. Load and unload at the pace you want. |
|
I've been doing some calculating ... it would be cheaper for me to rent a one way uhaul, pay my brother gas money to drive 500 miles out to help for the weekend, give him $400 to entice him into a few hours of hard labor with me, and pay for all of our beer and food. Making a move across state lines adds a shitload to the cost. An equivalent move within the state, same distance I mean, would be almost $1000 cheaper based on the estimates I've been getting. Damn federal regulations. |
|
It depends a LOT on the driver and the crew. My wife and I both used Mayflower when we moved last summer. The crew that moved my house were really good - punctual, worked hard, and packed everything very nicely. The crew that moved my wife's house were completely incompetent idiots, who packed stuff piss-poorly, damaged a number of things, arrived late, and took a day and ahlf longer than promised to pack up a single house. 
|
Quoted for a good idea. |