My husband was recently transferred to Boston. We sold our house, bought a new one 3,000 miles away and found ourselves facing a cross country move. When I picked up the Yellow Pages and started calling about the moving services offered by local companies, I quickly learned how little I actually knew about the cost of a move.
Do you have any idea how much it costs to hire a moving company to take care of your entire move? I collected a dozen quotes on the complete package (moving services that included a team of packers sent to my house over a weekend, packing material and moving boxes as needed, a team of movers to load everything onto a 28 foot trailer, transportation from Los Angeles to Boston and unloading of everything in our new home). Prices ranged from the ridiculous to incomprehensible. Seriously, we were looking at a second mortgage just to pay for the move. To make sure the pricing I was seeing wasn’t the product of some sort of west coast moving services conspiracy, I called up a few companies in Boston. Turns out it wasn’t a conspiracy; Moving is darned expensive.
“Fine,” said my husband when I showed him the quotes and the estimated monthly payment schedule to pay off the respective movers. “I’ll look into a Truck Rental and we can do it ourselves.” I was fine with the idea of packing up on our own and lugging our stuff into a truck. Truth be told, I’d rather we didn’t have a bunch of movers handling my things anyway -if something’s going to get broken in a move, I’d rather know about it up front because I did it, not find discover the damage six months later. However, I wasn’t fond of the idea of trying to pilot a big moving truck and I knew my husband could hardly be looking forward to that either. His quotes came back and they were definitely cheaper, but I was suspicious when I saw the small print about additional fees for things like insurance. I went online and used a fuel calculator to show that a rental truck of the size we needed would use nearly $1,200 in gas for the move. Add that to the Truck Rental fee, the cost of buying moving boxes and suddenly it wasn’t looking like such a bargain.
I spent the afternoon online and found the ideal solution. ABF U-Pack Moving combines the savings of packing and loading your own belongings with the convenience of having the pros actually drive the truck to its destination and the security of knowing you have no additional Moving fees like fuel charges to account for. Your quote is more than just a starting point for the extra costs. They deliver moving boxes to your door and you can even get a quote online. It takes the financial stress out of Moving.
