You may find it challenging to select the right moving company, especially for long distances. A new city, new people, and maybe a new workplace make you more stressed by thinking of a lot of financial and logistical concerns on your plate right now. In this regard, long distance moving companies can help you to move seamlessly. 

Here are some simple tips that will help you compare estimates and choose the right moving company for your long-distance move.

1. Choose Your Moving Services

Moving firms provide a range of services tailored to your specific requirements. When selecting a service package, consider the level of assistance you desire from your moving company:

• Full-service relocation: A full-service move will be the most costly but will need little to no physical effort on your side throughout the packing, loading, transportation, unloading, and unpacking processes.
• Packing and loading: You are in charge of moving your stuff; professional movers will pack, load, unload, and unpack them.
• Pickup and delivery: Packing, loading, unpacking, and unloading your items are your responsibilities; professional movers will pick them up and relocate them to your new place.
• Small-load relocation: A more compact version of full-service relocation. For example, you might contract with a small-load moving firm to move furniture or a car.

When choosing a service, your money will be the most important consideration, but you should also consider the advantages and disadvantages of hiring your movers to do all of the packing for you.

Evaluate Possible Movers

The next step is to compile a list of possible moving companies. In addition to recommendations from friends and family, we have a fantastic list of businesses to start with. There are a few suggested gut checks to perform after you have your list but before you set up an estimate.

• Make sure you can locate their licence number by checking the website.
• Look up the business’s listed address online or in person. Make that the business does, in fact, have a physical office there.
• Make sure a representative answers their phone number and provides the name of the business or an associate. Something can be wrong if the operator uses a generic title like “Relocation Service” or “Moving Service.”

Even though moving scams are rare, it’s wiser to look further or steer clear of a moving business if they don’t pass any of these three tests.

3. Check the Credentials of Your Mover

It’s time to check the USDOT status of your potential moving firms to learn more about them after they’ve passed the first gut check. Verifying the DOT status of a moving firm is simple. You can look up their USDOT number directly in the FMCSA’s Company Snapshot tool if you know it (ideally it’s on their website). You can also use the tool to search by company name if you don’t have it.

4. Get Several Estimates

Before choosing a moving company, try to collect quotes from three to five, but at the least, get quotes from multiple businesses. If you only ask one firm for an estimate, you won’t know if that quote is reasonable for your move.   

By comparing quotes from several moving companies, you can see how much they estimate your move will cost based on the amount of goods you’re relocating and the level of service you request.

Prep for Your Estimate

The safe move of your possessions from your old residence to your new one is the shared objective of both you and your moving company. Be fully honest with your mover about what you need to be relocated to have a stress-free and effective relocation.