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We all know that moving long distance requires a detailed budget, and is never cheap. But what if I told you that there were alternatives to such a sky-high price? When you’re moving across the country, you can speak to your moving company about the possibility of taking advantage of backloading.
What’s backloading? In short, it’s a way that moving companies maximize the moving trucks they dispatch to other parts of the country. Picture this: a moving company based out of Mississippi takes a truckload of items to New Jersey. Once the job is complete, the truck must return to its home base in Mississippi. It’s a waste of fuel and labor to transport an empty truck across the country, so the moving company will want to pick up another job going in the direction of home base if possible. Taking this extra job in order to avoid driving an empty truck is called backloading.
Imagine that a potential customer in Virginia needs long distance moving services during the time that the truck is traveling from New Jersey back down to Mississippi. The moving company arranges with the customer in Virginia to pick up the items along the way, and in return, the customer gets a much better deal than usual. This is the beauty of backloading: it’s a win-win situation for both the moving company, and the customer flexible enough to be able to take advantage of it.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone in this day and age who lives with only the bare minimum. From the latest and greatest kids’ toys (that only get played with a few times) to the clothes from smaller times that adults wish they could squeeze back into, the average American household is full of stuff its owners don’t use.
One might argue that it’s best to just throw this stuff away, but you paid good money for it; money you don’t want to waste. There’s a chance that the kids might want to play with those old toys again, and there’s a chance that those old clothes might fit one day. For items like this, you have a dilemma during a move: where should they go?
Of course, packing them in boxes with your normal, everyday household goods is a recipe for an expensive move. After all, moving costs are based on the weight of all the items. Prior to that, moving supplies aren’t cheap, and even if you find free moving boxes, you don’t want to have to waste your free supplies on things you hardly ever use.
The solution is here: long-term storage. With a storage unit, you have the freedom to keep your extras without them (literally) weighing down your move. Your goods will be protected from climate damage and theft, and you’ll get to live a more minimalist, streamlined lifestyle after your move. What could be better?