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One-way rental truck. We moved from San Antonio to KC that way.
Between the cost of the truck and gas ($1000), plus my time and money on the road, there's no way that would be better than the ($2500) I paid my Mayflowers movers to move me from MD to CA.
I'm still traumatized about how much it cost to have long-distance movers. Never again!
Both my cross-country moves were subsidized. One reason to go for-profit!
We had a $500 moving subsidy for that move and got under it.
I was fully intending to tip our movers $50 each on account of the stairs, but I downgraded it to $20 when they tried to fleece me (they claimed that the stairs weren't on the work order and said I'd have to pay them extra, in spite of the fact that it said "4th floor walk-up" on EVERY FREAKING PAGE).
Has anyone ever worked as a temp for Manpower?
I moved 9 times in 15 years, twice across state lines, and always moved myself, with a Penske truck and a little help from my friends. Except for this last move, when I actually had enough money to hire a moving company. If I ever move again, I'm hiring people.
Timelies all!
I've only done long-distance moves twice.(By long-distance, I mean from one state to another) The first time was when I was going to grad school, and I was not bringing furniture. (First time renting a place, and I rented a bedroom set) Second time was moving from NC to MD, and I hired movers and a truck for everything but the stuff I needed for the next few days. Last time we moved we hired movers, even though we were only going a couple of miles.
Well, the move ended up being billed at 5.75 hours, which I find a little ridiculous (charging the cost of time to go from the office to me and back!?! Even at 15 min each way that's stupid). But because of the morning vs afternoon mixup I got ten percent off. So, I tipped 50 bucks ($25 each). Which is a little over ten percent after discount or a little under before.
Has anyone ever worked as a temp for Manpower?
quester, not worked for but we do use Manpower at the office when we need 20 or 30 people to help with big distributions. Everyone I've come in contact with has been nice, they show up on time, do the job quite well. I think they don't pay a huge amount but the manager we deal with is very nice and the people seem to enjoy working for them.
All this move talk is really stressing me out. This is the first move ever that the Army isn't doing for us. We are only moving less than a mile away (like, two streets over), but Joe is determined to do it all himself, with a few friends to help move the heavy stuff.
We are stuck paying to rent this house for the entire month, even though we only need two weeks, so we will take our time. But still, the sheer volume of stuff to move is overwhelming.