I want some Advice for US-Canada movers? (2013, apartment)

[moverscanada]

I've moved to Toronto and rented an apartment, but am still investigating how to get my small studio's worth of stuff there from New York. I could quite easily rent a 10' truck, drive it there, and return the truck to NY (or to Buffalo if that made sense). But I'm being reimbursed to a certain extent and want to see a mover can do it as well. Any recommendations?

I've read and heard enough horror stories about quotes not reflecting the eventual bill, additional costs for border delays, etc. In a way I'm leaning towards just doing it myself, but if anyone has had a good experience with movers at this scale, I'd love to hear about it

What I'd LOVE to do is rent a cargo van, but there have been threads about that and it seems possibly for only in-town moves. Unless I can get there and back in 24 hours, maybe

[katzpaw]

We were happy with http://www.upack.com/ for our cross border move - but it was house > house, not apartment > apartment, so we could leave the trailer out at either end. The final bill was the same as the online quote, they were on time, and there were no border issues. Based on what you said I got an online quote of $1797 for a small studio plus $398 if you need labour (2 helpers) for loading.

[Mr. Stokes]

I used U-Haul in spring of 2013 from Maryland - one way. I dropped off the truck at a predetermined location in Hamilton, and the cost of everything was cheaper than if I had hired movers. We needed to store our stuff for a few months, and were able to do that at the same place. The truck was a 14'. It all went well.