Exploring Long Distance Moving Procedures

How do you find the best moving companies? Which companies will offer the most value? If you are trying to really evaluate different types of moving services and different offers from competing firms, take a look at a company's operating model, to understand whether they have outfitted themselves for maximum productivity and safety.  

Hydraulic Lift Gates

Anyone who's worked with one of these truck accessories misses it when it's not there. A hydraulic lift works efficiently to raise and lower heavy items from one horizontal surface to another -- usually from a truck bed to the ground, and vice versa. Without this simple piece of equipment, human laborers can struggle for a long time to get something big and bulky on or off of a truck. And that's  costing you, and the moving company, money. Using lift gates is a logical way to add value to a moving service, by replacing labor hour costs with a one-time equipment investment, and making things a lot safer for workers, too.

Stackable Containers

The best moving and storage containers have a specific design that allows for quick packing and recovery. These design features include accessible ergonomic handles, locking features and other engineered features that will help keep these containers closed and in place during transit.

Without a good set of stackable containers, moving small items can become a mess. This is another case where investing in a relatively affordable resource is going to improve the company's bottom line and how it can serve customers. Combining a good moving plan with the right tools makes everything easier and less costly.

Hand Trucks and Dollies

Again, a simple dolly or hand truck can save crucial time in a moving job and make things safer for crews.

Without one of these simple conveyors, the people who are moving a client's belongings will be straining their backs and limbs trying to walk heavy furniture or equipment to its destination. And movers are just that -- people. They're not superhuman. Regardless of their size or shape, they deserve help that will make a moving and storage service efficient and protect its employees from many different types of injuries, while allowing jobs to go a lot more quickly. And that's savings that these moving companies can pass on to customers.   

Look for these hallmarks of a great moving and storage service, to get the results you want with a minimum of hard labor and cost.