Our family moving company began helping people move in 1905 and proudly moved Presidents Eisenhower, JFK, and Nixon, as well as General Douglas MacArthur during its 99 years of moving history. Our first moving trucks burned hay and wore horseshoes! That experience is right on tap to help you solve your moving questions anytime they arise and costs you no more. What separates us from the competition beside our vast experience? An unbeatable combination of personal service, integrity, an unquenchable passion for excellence, and a thorough knowledge of the moving process we put to work for your benefit anytime it's needed. Ask us about materials, packing, wrapping, crating, loading, scheduling, moving, storage, or insurance, and receive answers based on 99 years of actual moving experience. While you're at it, ask the competition if they've ever actually packed Noritake china or loaded a hi-cube trailer to move 3000 miles. You might be surprised at the response!

Our President and owner, Mr. Grad, who created the "self-service" moving process, has over 40 years of experience in the moving industry. He is available to speak to you anytime (well, almost anytime) personally regarding your moving concerns.

MoveAmerica lets you load your trailer (a container on wheels) yourself or with your friends and relatives, (U-Load™), or have our pros load it for you. This gaves you maximum flexibility and cost savings.

MoveAmerica U-Load™ is far superior to truck rental for many reasons, some of which are:

1. With MoveAmerica, you don't drive the truck. Our pros do it for you. Even for a professional, driving a large and heavily loaded truck over long distances in all kinds of weather and traffic conditions is serious and tiring work, and requires a great deal of care and skill. Longer trips mean more cost in motels and meals. With MoveAmerica, you can drive your car at your own pace or fly.

2. MoveAmerica pays for all the truck costs, including gas, oil, tolls, permits, fuel surcharges, truck insurance, tags, and licenses. We also pay for a professional driver operating a professionally maintained tractor and trailer. Your savings on gas, oil, and tolls alone can save you over a thousand dollars.

3. Driving a large, heavily loaded truck in heavy traffic, at night, and during inclement weather such as rain, snow, ice, and fog can be dangerous even for a professional driver. You are not a professional, and most likely do not having the training and experience for this kind of driving. A fully loaded truck can be hard to stop and difficult to safely change lanes or backup. Why put yourself at this kind of risk when MoveAmerica can do it for you for far less cost?

4. Driving a rental truck is slowwwwwwww. You will only average about 45mph with a truck rental. This means a coast to coast trip will take 58 hours of driving plus stops for gas, rest, etc.

5. Driving a rental truck is noisy and uncomfortable. There is no back seat, nowhere to lie down, and no place for kids, dogs, cats, or sheep. After the first 10 miles, your kidneys will wish they were somewhere else. Like your own car.

6. And, of course, the cost of a MoveAmerica U-Load™ move can be thousands of dollars less than renting and feeding a truck.

For more reasons why you might want to select MoveAmerica over renting a truck, click on Don't Rent That Truck!.

MoveAmerica U-Load™ is far superior to a van line in the following areas:

1. MoveAmerica always provides equipment on the day requested. A van line can't begin to do this, and will give you a "spread of days during which they hope to provide you with a trailer. Often (about 15%) of the time, they experience a service failure and can't provide you the equipment. At this point they will pickup your shipment on their local equipment and transfer it to their warehouse, where they wait for a truck to arrive to handle your shipment. They transfer it yet again to the new truck. MoveAmerica will never do this.

2. With MoveAmerica, you are the only household goods shipment on the trailer. With a van line, you may be one of as many as 10 shipments.

3. MoveAmerica does not allow itinerant labor or other movers on and off your trailer. Van lines do this as a matter of routine when they stop to load and unload other customers. And, drivers normally hire "lot help", or "casual labor" rather than moving professionals to help them load and unload. This is normal practice in the van line industry. MoveAmerica trailers are locked and sealed once your shipment is inside, and stay in a locked, gated, and patrolled facility each evening. Access is severely restricted.

4. MoveAmerica arrives much faster than a van line. Coast to coast with MoveAmerica is about 5 or 6 days, where a van line usually takes 14-21 days while you wait for your furniture.

5. There is significantly less damage with a MoveAmerica move than a van line move, since theft of your items is virtually impossible, your shipment is never moved from one trailer to another or from trailer to warehouse, and the total mileage your shipment moves is far less than it moves in a van line trailer.

6. Last but certainly not least, the cost of a MoveAmerica move is usually 1/3 to 1/2 that of a van line move.

Competitors you might encounter who offer a similar service have copied the MoveAmerica U-Load™ system with varying degrees of success. One major difference between MoveAmerica and others offering similar services is that MoveAmerica's management and employees primary experience is in moving an individuals household goods and personal effects, which means we know all about packing, loading, protecting, insuring, crating, storing your shipment as well as all possible ways to solve your moving problems. Competitors usually are just freight companies with absolutely no knowledge about the moving process except that of providing a trailer. When you have a question or encounter a problem, would you rather rely on MoveAmerica's 99 years of moving experience, or a company whose personnel and executives have never packed, loaded, or moved a household goods shipment in their lives? Remember, the lowest price may not be the best price.

Finally, MoveAmerica is insured and bonded by a AAA rated insurance company, and our insurance and Bonding are filed with the Federal Government. We are licensed by the U.S. Department of Transportation, and our license numbers are MC359348 and FF3282. If you would like to verify our licensing, Fidelity bonding, and insurance information please click on the following DOT Link and choose Menu Option "Carrier Search". Enter MoveAmerica as the Carrier and Virginia as the state.