Moving Company Life

You’ve never seen stories of families getting a quote and a company comes and loads up all their stuff , then doesn’t show up on the promised date and demands twice or three times as much $$ to deliver the stuff ?

they do it all the time . It’s the classic bait and switch , except they now have all your worldly possessions and you have no idea what warehouse they have them hidden in .

The are brave though , I will give them that .
Seems like the odds of someone paying the extra money, then right after the last item is moved onto the living room ,
The people who just got ripped off , might just shove the driver and his helpers down the basement stairs or drop a bowling ball on his kneecap or something.

 

Biggest scumbags in the Trucking industry. That is a tough title to live up to! Lol

 

Moving companies come in two types, hard working go getters, and lazy SOB's, I deal with both on a regular basis, I keep a list of the bedbuggers that will knock out a live unload/load as fast as can be, and the one's that are slower than molasses. I've seen a 4-man crew live unload a 40' can in 45 minutes, and I've seen a 6 man crew take 5 hours

 

Allied and Mayflower, in the late 90's early '00's were using their own private 28' and 40' containers for cross country moves, they got away from it for unknown reasons.

 

BTW, if you want to see pride in HHG industry, look at a container that has arrived from overseas. Probably 95% of the HHG loads I see coming from other parts of the world, the stuff is packed better, protected (boxed, wrapped, crated, etc.) better, stacked better and looks more professional. Whereas a lot the stuff I see loaded here is haphazardly tossed in a container, with a lot of stuff not wrapped or boxed that should be. We had a 45' can come in from Europe a few months back, Germany to Grand Junction, Co., guy was a geologist, he'd spent the last 5 yrs in Germany, was now fully retired and coming home. 98% of the contents of that container was wrapped, padded, and/or boxed. Initial crew assigned to the job was 4 guys, the lead called in and asked for 2 more, they unloaded the entire container to the driveway and garage for a numbers check, before unpacking began, I did the numbers match for them, that container was loaded like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and packed tight. I think there was 3 items on the damage claim, whereas I've seen HHG exports come back with dozens of damage claims because it's just thrown together.

 

And what is being described is the norm, not the exception