We are a couple of months out from relocating from Alabama to Missouri. Does anybody have an interstate mover that they’ve been happy with?

We used Two Men and a Truck from Michigan to Colorado and the same crew who packed us out, were the the same guys who packed us in 3 days later. Nothing broken or missed. Couldn’t have gone better.

Used 2 Men and a Truck locally, those guys hustled and did an amazing job. Interstate, inteviewed a couple of companies, ended up using the local Mayflower franchise, which moved us from a house to a rental home and a storage unit, later we used 2MAAT again for the local move from rental to our new house and to bring the storage unit stuff to the new house. Overall, all three moves were fine, Mayflower did do a significant amount of packing for us, and did a good job, but I think the 2MAAT guys did it best - they were clearly focused on doing the job both quickly but also well. Of course, those were local moves also.

I'd suggest interviewing/get quotes from a couple companies and then go with your gut as to whom you think will provide the best service.

I've moved a whole bunch of times and the shortest was 350 miles. What you want is an owner/operator contracted to a moving company, and he/she has the ENTIRE contract. The only ones that went shitty were the ones without owner/operators who had the entire contract from start to finish.

The owner/operator is a contractor to the moving company, and he/she hires the local guys on both ends of the move. The ones who have been in the business a long time have people they like to work with because they work hard and do a good job. There must be a pretty good deductible for their insurance because the few things that get damaged they usually pay in cash.

The ones who didn't have owner/operators (Houston to Alaska, Alaska to Calgary) the driver doesn't give a shit because he isn't there on the other end having to look you in the eye when something is broken. Also, they'll just hire some ex-convicts from the warehouse to pack your stuff (poorly), load your stuff (haphazardly), it usally gets offloaded at a warehouse where they do God knows what without you watching. It'll get reloaded on a truck and moved by someone without you watching, and it might even get unloaded in warehouse on the other end. At your place on the other end, ex-convicts from the warehouse will unload and do the partial unpack.

Whatever you do, don't use United Van Lines.
They came and gave me an estimate. I signed the contract for a move from east coast to west coast.
On the day of the move (New Year's weekend), they didn't show up. I called and they stated that the truck was already full (I only had a partial load for a semi) and was already headed for the west coast. I asked them when they were sending another truck for my stuff. They replied "We aren't. It's a holiday weekend and it would cost too much to get another truck". They didn't offer any apologies or solution. I was just SOL.
I ended up finding a mom n pop operation on short notice who cost me $1000 less than United Van Lines quote.
F United Van Lines.

Bruce

Thanks for the feedback.

RNshooter, that's exactly the kind of crap I'm trying to avoid. Allied is another one on my naughty list. I made the mistake of contacting them and my phone has not stopped ringing since. Multiple calls every day. I finally just blocked them.

tatortodd, good advice on the owner/operator. One neck to strangle if something goes bad, and they have incentive for it to not go bad. There's a local company where we are moving to that I might give a call. They do interstate moves and sound like the type of operation you're describing.

My GF just used Elite Moving & Storage for an interstate move. They subcontracted it out to a local business who is now over 3 weeks late delivering her property. They dont return calls and on the rare occasions they answer the phone they refused to give her any idea when they will arrive. After she got law enforcement involved they said they would deliver within the week. That was last weekend, no call no show. Then they said yesterday, no show but they did text her half an hour after they were supposed to arrive to say they werent coming.

Fuck Elite and Sun City Muscle Movers of Phoenix, AZ.

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Which moving company you choose is up to you, BUT hand carry in your own car all of your valuables to include all guns.

Some, not all movers have to been known to have "Sticky Fingers".

I can't say enough good things about New World. We haven't had any damage the three times they've moved us. Their drivers do the all the boxing, loading and unloading so there is no question of responsibility for any damage. All our moves have been corporate so I don't know if they will contract with individuals.

Get a pod of some kind, it's such a pain in the ass otherwise.