Again, the goal would be to find a movier coming your way and empty. Then you
would get a deal.
I've had friends in the business over the years and if they had a choice
between filling the truck with furniture or sticking a car in the trailer,
they always preferred the furniture. They claimed that unless the suspension
could be compressed on the car being moved (pulled down with chains and
secured to the floor of the trailer) then it was impossible to stack any
furniture above it because the car would bounce the furniture all over and
break it. Therefor, when they considered the volume used up in the truck by
the vehicle being moved against the weight of the vehicle, they claimed they
could make more by moviing solid furniture. Afain, I think the secret is to
find a desperate moved who has a lot of empty space.
As to what can happen when having cars moved I'll pass on one that happened
last year and was related to me by an employee in a moving company. A
customer moving across the country had rented a huge U-Haul or such and he
and his wife were going to drive it to "make money" and for the adventure.
The problem was how to get their car there. They contacted a local moving
company to find what it would cost to have their car moved to that location.
The owner of the comany called them the next day and told them $1200 and it
would be fully insured. The customer didn't really like the cost, but since
he was saving so much on the furniture move he consented, delivered the car to
the mover on the agreed upon date and the car was indeed moved professionally
and in perfect condition as promised.
The customer would have killed though if he had know what had gone on behind
the scenes. The moving co. owner upon receiving the request had checked his
schedules and the schedules of the company he franchised with. They really
didn't have a truck to put it in that fit the necessary time constraints. He
then merely called an auto transport company (you know, hauls cars on big
trailers), got their price and added $500.00 to that price for his troubles.
The customer thought his car had been moved inside a closed truck and he was
happy. In fact everyone was happy.
It's easy to see the moral here, do a lot of checking before commiting.
Mark L.
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