Handle with Care

When talking with people who are moving, one concern we often hear is that people don't want to share space in a moving truck with other people – afraid their stuff will get mixed up or that someone else will have access to it. In a lot of cases, when your goods are being co-mingled with other peoples' goods, the moving company will place color coded stickers on the boxes to help distinguish one from the other. For example, Customer A is labeled with green stickers and Customer B is labeled with yellow. 

Although moving companies who use this system find it to be fairly reliable, it can sometimes be problematic. What if a sticker falls off one of your moving boxes?  What if a moving box is accidentally skipped? What if it's not possible to box an item?  What if your mover is colorblind?...ok, that's probably not a real threat, but you just never know. 

ABF U-Pack Moving works a little differently. Because of the way U-Pack operates, we are able to guarantee only one household shipment will be loaded into the moving trailer you are loading into. 

It works like this:  we drop off an empty moving trailer for you to load. You use as much truck space as you need and then put up the bulkhead we provide.  (Bulkhead is our term for "divider wall".)  After that, we pick up your moving trailer and go back to our local terminal where we place commercial freight on the rest of the moving trailer. 

To ease any concerns you might have at this point, we make sure the "commercial freight" doesn't include anything that might damage your items (people often ask about live animals…and the answer is…no live animals!). It would more likely be things like new electronics, clothing, etc.  This actually helps to lower your price because we're able to fill up the moving trailers that may otherwise move partially empty. And the icing on the cake is that your items stay in the moving trailer the entire time. We don't load or unload anything.

I'm sure you know that the less handling of your items while in transit, the better.