Moving truck vs freight line

[Ah Pook]

In the middle of this right now.

3 bed, 3 bath, two story, with a basement. and a 2 car garage. Pods didn't work for us. Moving companies were guesstimating $14k. Yes, we are ass deep in Biden years but not that deep. We ended up with a combo of 2 rental trucks, movers on both ends and inde drivers for less than $10k. Not the best but doable.

[Bailey Guns]

I know when we moved from CO to ID, we did 4 of the U-Boxes, a 20 ft truck, my 8x16 trailer towed by my F-250 and a car-hauler. Cost was about $1500 less than what a moving company would've charged. But that was 2015. I hate U-Haul. Really hate U-Haul. One of the worst companies for customer service on the planet. The local dealers are usually great. U-Haul corporate sucks. Unfortunately they're usually the only choice...especially in smaller markets.

My advice is call a moving company (or two or three) and get a quote for someone to come out, pack it up, delivery it and unpack it. It might be close enough to make it worthwhile considering the brain damage involved in moving yourself.

I'm 2 months into moving into my new place and I still have stuff left at my old place. What a PITA... I HAVE to do it myself, though. I don't have the money to hire someone.

[fitz19d]

If I did any kind of freight line, I'd certainly try to cut cost by having it all packed just needs loading. Bonus if I can seal their trailer. We are working on that now and well over a month out.

Not sure how to find moving companies that are legit, that's one of my big fears is these various slime balls.

[Mykidsdad]

ABF has a system of self load pup trailers that might be a good solution for you.

https://www.upack.com/how-upack-work...moving-trailer

[Great-Kazoo]

If I did any kind of freight line, I'd certainly try to cut cost by having it all packed just needs loading. Bonus if I can seal their trailer. We are working on that now and well over a month out.

Not sure how to find moving companies that are legit, that's one of my big fears is these various slime balls.

Just a suggestion. if you haven't worn, used or worked with it, in the last 6 months. Sell it.

[thedave1164]

ABF has a system of self load pup trailers that might be a good solution for you.

https://www.upack.com/how-upack-work...moving-trailer

We used UPACK in 2000 when we moved to CO, if you are LTL it can get a little messy on the delivery schedule, since ours was on the front, they had to get the load off the back first, and for some reason it took 2 more days than was scheduled. But it was a cheap option, I believe we had 20' of a 40' trailer from CT to CO was $1300 which was a fraction of u-haul rental back then even

[fj605]

So 1k to have a very long day driving is worth saving. Now if we need a 2nd truck it gets ugly quick and basically doing a truck and a half with pods may be worth it vs 2 whole trucks

We've been talking about moving so this has been in the back of my mind. I just haven't crunched the numbers on it yet. We had professional movers when we moved to Colorado from South Dakota but it was a paid move so no cost to me. Since then, we've used amateurs for a move which sucked and PODS for another short move which wasn't bad because I could follow the truck.

[fitz19d]

We used UPACK in 2000 when we moved to CO, if you are LTL it can get a little messy on the delivery schedule, since ours was on the front, they had to get the load off the back first, and for some reason it took 2 more days than was scheduled. But it was a cheap option, I believe we had 20' of a 40' trailer from CT to CO was $1300 which was a fraction of u-haul rental back then even

For their 27' freight trailer they are now quoting like 4k. The trucker shortage on top of had prices i suspect is making this way costlier than say 2019 would have been.

[flogger]

Just a suggestion. if you haven't worn, used or worked with it, in the last 6 months. Sell it.

Good point, sometimes its cheaper to replace than move.

[fj605]

I use the one year rule. Gets me through all the seasons. Most tools get an exception. I don't use a drain snake very often but I like to have one handy.