The best and the simplest answer is to use the big and well known moving companies, here everything is clear and comprehensive. You see the prices and you could read the conditions. Conditions here are better than anywhere else, and the movers are 100% registered by the government, and if you receive poor service you are able to file a complaint to the Department of transportation and other departments. On the site of the Department of transportation you would be able to find all the data about the registered movers. Here you could find if mover is registered and in not. And in some cases you are going to see some feedback from the former clients. Mostly this enough to create an opinion regarding the company.

 Ask for a price and calculate all by yourself, if you feel that anything in your estimation do not correspond with the date of the moving company ask politely to calculate together. Be insistent and keep in mind you own estimation results. There are some ways of payment, and the best of the existed availabilities is that you need to pay the estimated beforehand amount of money, in the other opinions the amount is not estimated beforehand an could be told you at the final of move, and it is gung to be hard to change anything in this case. The best way in the estimation process is to choose the option Binding not to estimate, this mean when the estimation process goes you are finally going to pay the price that is written into the estimation protocol, no natter the actual weight was higher or lower that the estimated one. In this case you pay the quoted price that was established during the estimation process before the move. However you are also able to arrange your price with the mover, if you have some special conditions or special needs you talk to the mover. In this case you are going to find the real price of your move together with the mover.

There is another option, it is a non-binding estimation, in this case price is estimated by the movers and could be significantly higher than the price of the same stuff movement but different estimation process. This is not the estimation method you want to use, but however a lot people like it and use it very often.

The answer is yes, you do need a detailed estimate the cost of the move depends n it and you would rather know how much would it take for you to move all your stuff. The beforehand estimation is a nice method to plan you moving spending. In case you decided to pay under the estimation list you are protected from any of the additional costs or spending. Then you need estimation if you do not want to pay more than you really use or consume.

First you need all the information regarding your move. Here the routes of the move, the conditions and any other details are included. When you sign the paper called order of service, all the information should be provided to you right at that moment.

Here we provide a checklist, be sure you have all the documents from here:

• Protocol of estimation copy
• Copy of registration with the department of transportation
• Order of service with all the information provided in it
• The complaint telephones and addresses

At the time of move, at the day of move additional papers should be available to you

• Bill of landing of pick up
• Bill of landing of delivery

The Bill of landing represent in itself a contract between the mover and you, do not lose it, because it may be you main paper if you decide to write a complaint.

Do as you decide, but later than a month before the actual move in summer or autumn, these are the busiest period for the move and this is very important to negotiate in case you plan the move of your belongings. The summer and autumn look the busiest periods of the year, so if you plan your move in these time frames try to order a mover beforehand.

The best deals are made beforehand, the sooner you start the more attractive deal you would be able to have, and the wider would be your choice between the movers and the trucks.

Depends on whether you feel of receiving a qualitative service. Depends on how was they polite and what where they do while providing the service, whether they were sympathetic, helpful or anything. You could pay from 20 to 70-80 dollars if you believe they deserved it.

You have absolutely right to refuse the move, in case you feel uncomfortable signing the contract, be careful about any kind of suspicious behavior, be careful if you feel that anything goes wrong or if you feel that mover are going to deceive you.

You are able to refuse before you signed the contract.

A low price does not mean you are going to save money that just means they declare low prices, and nothing else. Better to choose a company that has middle-prices, this is going to be adequate and you most likely will have the good service for the normal price that is established in industry. If you see the low prices think twice and ask them why, in this kind of business interests are not very high and this is why the prices could not be too small.

To understand if the estimation was correct you could check it by your own. Ask the moving company about how did they get the final price of moving and then you would be able to check them by yourself. Try to check estimate beforehand in any case, and order estimation in any case also, this would save you time and good mode, and of cause money.

Do not be excited is someone offer you an extremely low prices, they must be deceiving you in here, trying to earn money and provide an extremely low quality service. Good service for the extremely low prices does not exist, believe us, we are movers’ professionals and we provide best prices providing with the best quality. We offer you the best price/quality ration in the industry.

There are several ways of the estimation of the moving, the best and the most comprehensive is the principle that is called: Binding not to exceed, using this method the payable amount of money do not change, when you are paying in a Binding not to exceed mode you will have to pay the indicated in the list amount of money, that was established in the estimation process.

By this method you are going to payless if the actual weight is lower than the quoted.

Binding estimate could stay in the second place in the estimate choices, all you need is to take easy and be careful about the final price. Here you pay the price that was originally quoted, and the weight absolutely does not matter.

The non-binding estimates are not connected to the price of the move, not connected to the mover. The non-biding estimate means that that the price is established at the discretion of mover, and mover could tell you even when the move would be finished. That is why our advice is to find to use first or second method of estimation. Be careful and try to get away of the suspicious methods.

In some cases, when the company is big and takes care of the reputation, there is a complaint list or special place for the complaint that is available for everyone. This shows the clients that company works good and has mostly positive feedback from the real clients. The available complaint history could be a good sign, and you would be able to see the most exiting results of the work of the moving company.

If you have any issues and need to solve them that is not a big deal, you could call to the company’s service representative and that would be a nice solution, in the most cases customer service representatives are very polite and are trying to solve any out coming issues that may arise. In case you haven’t solved your problem with the company’s manager you are able to file a few claims on the company to the governmental services.

• Better Business Bureau accepts general complaints of any kind
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration tall free number that accepts the complaints
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection you could write an online complaint here and they are going to start an investigation
• The National Association of Attorneys General General complaints of any kind and the court procedure later on

This is a great idea and believe us you are not the first upcoming with such thoughts. Most of the people in USA have trucks or have anyone who has a truck and most of the people could someone for help. The problem is some important questions that need to be answered before the making decision for the move.

Let us suppose you could drive the overloaded car safe and responsible, in same cases it is hard to explain but there are some people who drive the car really virtuously, let us assume you are one of them. Think twice before making a decision to move all your stuff independently that could cause a disaster.

There is another opportunity to hire a big truck that does not look to be cheaper, you will need to pay for the fuel, for the driver’s work and probably you are going to need to pay for the toll roads on your route.

Of cause your final work is up to you, but as we could give you the main advice: If you believe you are able to handle this, then no problems, if you believe you may not, you are not quite sure, in this case be careful and better hire a moving professionals, you are not going to save much if you do it by yourself implementing friends and family, the main difficulties your will meet on the road, and who knows, maybe you will accomplish this task and save some dollars.

If you want to find a final solution and if you want your move to be fast and comprehensive then better hire moving professionals.

Let us find some base details and start.

1. Here you see the dependence of the size of your home on the size of the truck that you may need:

• 26' enormous truck for 5 bedrooms
• 24' a little smaller for the 4 bedrooms house
• 17' this could hold 3 or sometimes 4 bedrooms
• 14' truck is small could move 2 bedrooms
• 10' this truck is good for an apartment

If you move very far then to hire a truck would not be a good idea, because you would need to buy fuel for the way back. A car should be able to return to the base. If you couldn’t drive a big truck the nice thing would be to find a friend of yours who could help you to handle this.

Calculate the miles you need to go till your final destination and multiply them on the car fuel consumption and then you will get amount of fuel you need to go all the route, after you get it multiply it by 2, this you will need to get the final price of the fuel, remember, a car should be returned on the base if you hire it.

If these calculations look pretty boring, be careful and look in internet for the automatic calculations, you most likely would easily find some. After you get the price of the fuel, the price of the driver for the needed mileage of your trip, the price of the truck hiring add all of them and you would probably get the final value of your independent move.

After you finish all the calculations mentioned above ask for a moving professional to estimate your move, ask them to come and to say you what they could offer you by the price. Comparing your own result and the result that the moving professionals would give you, then you would be able to make a decision. And keep in mind that the moving professionals give you warranties of moving, they do accept all of the rules of the game, if you move it by yourself you do everything on your own risk and God forbid if you lose anything.

Useful questions to ask the professional movers:

• Ask them for the time of the all additional procedures like packing and unpacking, loading and unloading?
• Ask them if you could do the additional procedures by yourself; ask if they will be able to make insurance for the independently packed goods.
• Be careful about fragile items, pack them good, put them into the right places and fix them firmly.
• If you have a conditioner or big laundry machine, or anything that need special handling and moving ask the professionals what do they think about this?
• Be sure you are well prepared to the move.
• Do not accept any hidden costs; be careful about the order of service, the final cost should be written there.
• Save all the documents you will have from the movers, this could help you if you plan to move anything anywhere.