Long Distance Moving Advice... Ottawa to St. John's
Question:
Can anyone recomend a long distance moving company?Are there any long-distance moving companies (either local or national) you would recommend to use for moving stuff from Evanston to Atlanta, GA or nationwide?Basically, the stuff will be books, clothing, kitchenware, no furniture. I have too much stuff to pack all into my car but not enough to rent a truck. I'm looking for long distance moving suggestions. I have 2 options Option no.1: Move everything I have. It includes 2 bedrooms, 2 couches, dinning table, center table, TV, home theater and about 100 boxes of household stuff. How do I move all this economically? Which moving company would you suggest? Option 2: I sell my furniture and move 100 boxes. How do I do this ? Any suggestions? UPS?
Answer:
The worth of the items you want to ship don't seem to make it worthwhile
given the high cost of shipping. Unless they have sentimental value I wouldb recommend selling them and purchasing what you need when you get here.
If you're driving you could easily fit most of that into a midsize vehicle.
Renting a vehicle could be cheaper than the cost of flying and shipping when
you think about it.
The other alternative is to find someone else that is moving here and
piggyback your items with their shipment. I did that once and it worked out
great.
I'm in Peterborough and planning on moving back to the west coast of Nfld the
end of august or early september. I have stuff to move too. It's not much but
certainly too much to fit in my firefly. Maybe we could figure something out
togetter.
We recently shipped our household goods from Holland to the US
(I think you could say that is long distance!). The part in the US
(Baltimore (MD)-Manassas (VA) was handled by United Van Lines.
I would never use them again. They were sloppy (broke the legs of
my sofa and several other "accidents"), but worst of all they were
very slow in delivering the goods to my house after the ship had
arrived in Baltimore: it arrived on June 17, we moved into the house on
June 15 thinking that by June 20 we would have our furniture. As it
turned out it came on June 28! We slept on the floor for 13 days, with
no chairs to sit on, and no table to eat from. It was an interesting
experience camping in your own house, but not quite what we had
intended when buying a 200,000+ house.
I think the trouble was mainly with the local subcontractor who actually
had to deliver. I guess that these problems would maybe not have
occurred if we had lived in another area, meaning that much depends on
the quality locally. But trouble is: you never know in advance!
Our advice is to NEVER, EVER use Global Van Lines. We had a horrible
experience moving from the San Francisco area to the Oregon coast. The
problem was Global's contractor in Richmond, California, who decided to
try to change the agreed-upon price while the truck was being loaded and
went so far as to threaten to have our stuff thrown off. Everything
finally made it intact, but we had to write a letter to Global's
national office about this guy. They said his actions were so amazing
that they had a hard time believing it. That's all well and good, but
this was the worst customer service experience of our lives.
We are using AAA Driveaway & Truck Transport to ship our 93 Toyota Corolla
from LA to Boston for $845. This will be on one of those open car
carriers and is supposed to take 8 to 10 business days to arrive. They
seem professional and claim that less than 1/2 of 1% of their transported
vehicles sustain any damage. The number is 800-233-4875.
We found out about them through a service that I found on the web called
"Consumer's Relocation" 800-839-6683. They help with various aspects of
your move for $50. We found Paul Arpin through them as well. (Arpin not
ASpin)
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