Change of the residence and moving - Page 1
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author: Nomsot
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2016, 10:54:16 pm
content: For the first time in life I prepare for global moving to Toronto. I have many things, furniture. There is a lot things and I don't know whether I will be able to place all this in the big truck. By the way, if to usesuch companyfor the help with moving, how well it works. Maybe you used this?

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2016, 11:51:08 pm
content: Quote from: blueskull on December 07, 2016, 11:01:27 pmAnd the US Army is offering very special rates to those who enlist before January 20, 2017.More seriously, I have moved households and shops cross the US a few times. For households, I used to rent a truck and got hourly help from an agency to load and unload and drove the truck myself. My last move was a shop with lots of equipment (mill, lathes, grinders, etc. and a car for restoration). I leased a trailer and had it moved for me.Based on that experience, I will never go the route of renting and driving my own truck again. Minnesota to Cleveland was about $1000 total for a 26' pup trailer with effectively no weight limit. The trailer was stuffed. I would have been well overweight in a 26' U-haul due to the machinery involved. No hassle driving, no tolls in Chicago, no traffic, no additional problem moving my car, no problems at all. I drove to Cleveland overnight. The pup trailer arrived the day after I arrived in Cleveland, and I had almost a week to unload it. The truck for the trailer was actually a long haul UPS truck! I joked about that being the lowest UPS, 2-day delivery rate per pound ever given.That was 10 years ago, so the consignors will have changed, but it is worth a check. Going from the US to Canada may be a hassle. I would not suggest having your gun collection in open view. I got stuck in Canadian customs once when visiting to look at new equipment. They wanted to know if I had a work permit. I mentioned that we were there to evaluate a $1 million piece of equipment for purchase and export to the US. After i checked on the next return flights to the US, they relented and let me in.Remember, it is against the law not to be nice in Canada. Good luck.John

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2016, 02:06:04 pm
content: Years ago I found the only rude person in Canada. They worked for Customs. I was going there to work on installing the new network in our Toronto office and I ended up having to pay for a work permit as the Customs guy nastily said to me "why don't you hire a Canadian to do this work" Why would you hire a contractor when you have company employees who can handle the job? This was a branch office of the company I worked for I'm talking about, this was before I moved to consulting, so I was there to work for my company, not some random Canadian company.There are multiple long haul moving companies that can handle this sort of thing. You can check around for reviews, but take what you find on the Internet, especially the negatives, with a good dose of skepticism. The way it usually works is they will come and load up your stuff, and you will have a time when they will arrive at the destination. Especially if your load is less than a full truck, this will usually be several days. Not only is it inefficient to not run a full trailer load, it also increases the likelihood of damage to your stuff - you want to be packed in tightly to keep things from flying around in the trailer. The company will attempt to fill the whole trailer with multiple contracts all headed in approximately the same direction and then deliver in reverse order (since you have to take the stuff out of the back of the trailer before you can get to what's in the front of it). Keep a suitcase of clothing and pick up a cheap air mattress as you will probably arrive a couple of days before the truck with your stuff arrives.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2016, 03:28:28 pm
content: If you let the moving company do the packing, you may be amazed. They are packing machines. A job I would have piddled around and taken days and days to do, well, four guys had me loaded and were gone in less than 4 hours. They don't seem to care how many boxes or how much packing paper it takes. I had a frying pan in the oven they pulled out and packed as is - bacon grease and all.

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2016, 12:00:29 am
content: Having moved house far too often over the last few years, pay for the packing service. It's not cheap but it's worth it.I too have encountered grumpy Canada immigration officials, but they are mostly far better than the US ones if you're not a US citizen.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2016, 06:32:47 am
content: Quote from: rdl on December 08, 2016, 03:28:28 pmHad a moving company move me, and they packed the garbage bin as well, and packed the garbage bag inside in a separate box.