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We are moving from NJ to TX using U-Pack / ABF. Most of the packing and disasssembling of furnuture me (and mostly my wife) are doing ourselves. But some of the furnuture, even when taken appart is still quite heavy. It needs to be carried safely from the 2nd floor and loaded in the U-pack trailer. Does anyone have good exp w/ contractors recommended by U-Pack (who are not U-Pack assocoiates)? We need help on both ends of this jorney. I've thought of using day laborers...but...that's really not desirable, though it looks cheap at first.
anyone have exp w/ contractors recommended by U-Pack (or Lowes, etc)...
I've thought of using day laborers...but...
They're *some of* the same people who will ALSO be advertising in craigslist.
You get to hope that U-Pack has reason to recommend them above the others.
Maybe they do.
I used U-Haul's folks once. They were horrible! I ended up loading the dolly with boxes and taking them off the truck myself and then they took them up the driveway and to the living room, no stairs, right inside the door. I gave up on having them put the stuff in the correct rooms or even walking up and down the U-Haul ramp. They were LAZY and SLOW. One load and just pulling the dolly from under it leaving a stack and they wanted to have a 30 minute break. After an hour and 2 guys I only had 4 boxes in the house, I figured I had better step in. They ONLY had boxes and one twin mattress set to unload, nothing hard or heavy. Everything else was in other loads and done before I hired them. After 3 hours they insisted I get them lunch--at a restaurant in town. So I had to take the U-Haul and them to town, get them lunch and then return. Still they were slow, so I just took them back to the U-Haul place I had to drop them off at and returned to my home and did the rest myself. Oh, and that mattress, with 2 guys was a fight to get them to do. They unloaded 1/2 the smallest truck in 7 hours. I returned them when they started asking for dinner in a restaurant in town again, and it was getting dark, and they had done very little work, I did more than them, and when they were 'resting' after a load my son (about 6 years old) took in a load of boxes on the dolly. And they had the nerve to ask if I was picking them up again the next day. I did the other half of the truck, with my son, in a few hours and a few more to get the boxes to the correct room.
I would have a back up if the U-Haul guys are lazy and slow.
In January 2012, Arkansas Best Corp (ABF), a diversified transportation holding company with headquarters in Fort Smith, Arkansas and the parent company of U-Pack, purchased Albert Moving and Storage, a small independent household good mover and military approved transportation service provide headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Prior the purchase, ABF/U-Pack had arranged labor to load and unload their trailers and ReloCube containers through an Albert subsidiary, Albert Container Concepts, L.C. (d/b/a Moving Staffers), a general freight and household goods (HHG) motor carrier and move broker licensed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Moving Staffers normally sources labor request through a variety of local movers, independents HHG carriers, national van lines agents, temporary labor companies, and local labor contractors.
During the peak moving season which normally runs from May to August, most local and long distance movers use their equipment and manpower to service their own customers.
This year, the entire moving, storage, truck rental and container transportation industries are so over-saturated with new business that it's often difficult to find qualified day-labor for customers in many locations.
We are moving from NJ to TX using U-Pack / ABF. Most of the packing and disasssembling of furnuture me (and mostly my wife) are doing ourselves. But some of the furnuture, even when taken appart is still quite heavy. It needs to be carried safely from the 2nd floor and loaded in the U-pack trailer. Does anyone have good exp w/ contractors recommended by U-Pack (who are not U-Pack assocoiates)? We need help on both ends of this jorney. I've thought of using day laborers...but...that's really not desirable, though it looks cheap at first.
TIA.
Suggestion: Go to the forum on here CD Forum of the city/state you're moving to (Texas) and search the forums for loaders/unloaders or start your own thread. I found loaders that way! Good luck.
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