The Moving Business

On your mark, get set…go

The summer in the household goods moving business is like a mad dash. The gun goes off in the beginning and everyone criss- crosses around the country to get all set up before the next school season. To say it is a challenge would be a huge understatement.

The household goods moving business is unique because so many people touch one move, and for the move to successfully, everyone needs to do their job and do it well. It begins with that first contact with the person moving to set up a survey to estimate the weight on their move and to confirm all pack, load and delivery dates. While that is going on, the shipper is dealing with banks and realtors, probably on both ends of the move. Then a quality agent near the origin address needs to be assigned and packers need to pack all the dishes and wardrobes and assemble and disassemble. Then the loaders need to show up on load day and carefully load everything and pad them so they can safely make the journey to the new home. Once arrived an agent close to the destination address needs to help unload and unwrap and place all of the belongings to where the family moving wants it in their new home. 

During that process, drivers need to be sure that their tractors and trailers meet all of the federal requirements along with watching the hours that they are working and driving to adhere to federal regulations. The loaders and ISN loaders need to complete proper inventories to account for everything and the condition that everything is in when it is loaded and again when it is all unloaded. 

WOW!

 Now just wash, rinse and repeat about 100,000 times and that is the household goods moving business in the summer.