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What a business gets from the first call:
Send the floor plan and the date you have to be out, and the schedule is built backwards from it.
Cargo the crew handles on a commercial job:
Anything heavier than 300 lbs is priced at $150 and goes with a crew of three; a piano is $200 and needs the four-mover crew.
How a staged move is usually ordered:
Each stage is a booking of its own, so the three-hour minimum, travel time and any overtime are counted per visit rather than guessed for the project.
What changes on the warehouse side:
Tell us which pallets and machines have to be working on day one, and those go on the first truck rather than the last.
Crew rates, cash and card:
Added to the job when it applies:
Minimums and travel:
Call 909-443-0004 with the square footage, the floor and the date, and we will put the hours in writing before anyone is booked.
Without a dock, the loading happens at the kerb, and heavy vehicles are something Anaheim puts in writing. Chapter 14.48 of the municipal code is given over to through truck routes, with sections on what counts as a truck, on small trucks, on deviation from a route for loading or unloading, and on route signs.
The code draws its line at weight: a truck is a vehicle kept primarily for carrying property with an unladen weight of six thousand pounds or more. The Traffic Engineering Division publishes a Truck Route Map with its permit conditions and takes transportation permit applications online.
Online submissions are processed within 24 hours, the city says. We read the conditions for your address and size the truck to the kerb space we can hold.
Most of what governs move day in a managed building is written by the property manager rather than the city. Before quoting we ask for the move-in rules and settle three points: whether the freight lift can be reserved, what hours the dock is open to a moving truck, and who the certificate of insurance has to name.
That certificate is $50 and carries the limits and the wording the building asks for, in the name on your lease. Where a condominium board or an owners association controls the driveway, the same reservation is made with them.
Our side of the preparation is short: floor protection down, doors propped, a bay held for the truck, and one person on site who can sign. Booked windows sit inside our working day of 8AM – 6PM.
Two working districts here behave nothing alike. The city calls Anaheim Canyon one of the largest areas for industry and technology in all of Orange County, with access to freeways and a commuter rail.
The specific plan covering that district was approved by the City Council in January 2016 and took effect on 10 March 2016, written to remove obstacles to the reuse of existing structures and to promote infill development on vacant or underused property. Reuse is why our estimator measures a unit rather than reading a drawing.
The Anaheim Resort is a 1,100-acre district holding the Disneyland Resort parks and hotels, the Anaheim Convention Center, and further hotels, restaurants, shops, offices and visitor businesses. The city says it helps bring more than 25 million visitors each year, so a start time there is agreed and not assumed.
Timing is fixed first, because it decides how many hours the job runs. Crews work Monday through Sunday inside an 8AM – 6PM window, so a weekend stage is entirely normal; work that cannot happen during business hours is pushed to a Saturday or Sunday rather than into the night.
Three hours is the floor on any booking, and that becomes four once you are 30 miles or more out from our base. Travel time counts double beyond ten miles, and overtime rates begin after eight hours on site.
Same-day work is possible when a crew is free, though a staged move gains more from a date set a week or two ahead. We agree the order of the stages with you in writing before anything is loaded.
Business district or building type in Anaheim, and what to plan for:
| Business district or building type in Anaheim | What to plan for |
|---|---|
| Anaheim Canyon, the city’s industry and technology district | The city calls it one of the largest areas for industry and technology in all of Orange County, with access to freeways and a commuter rail. We still check the Truck Route Map and your dock hours before a start time is set. |
| A unit covered by the Anaheim Canyon Specific Plan, in force since 10 March 2016 | The plan was written to remove obstacles to the reuse of existing structures and to promote infill on vacant or underused property. We measure doors, lift and the route to the dock at the walkthrough instead of trusting a floor plan. |
| An address in the Anaheim Resort, a 1,100-acre district | It holds the Disneyland Resort parks and hotels, the Anaheim Convention Center, and further hotels, restaurants, shops, offices and visitor businesses. The city says the area helps bring more than 25 million visitors to Anaheim each year, so the loading window is agreed with the building first. |
| A hotel, motel or vacation ownership resort with restaurant facilities (Hotel Circle Specific Plan, AMC 18.118.120) | The chapter requires a truck loading area with a stall of at least 15 feet by 25 feet. We confirm which stall is ours and whether it is free for the whole window. |
| A hotel or resort without full-service restaurant facilities, or a freestanding restaurant, under the same chapter | The loading stall drops to a minimum of 12 feet by 18 feet, so the truck we send is chosen against the stall rather than the load. |
| A property with surface parking or a parking structure under that chapter | Parking aisles run to a minimum of 24 feet on surface lots and 23 feet inside structures. The approach and the turn are planned around those widths before move day. |
| A building with no dock, where the truck has to stand on the street | If the truck has to work from the kerb, the route and any permit are settled well ahead of the date. |
A permit only comes into it when the truck works from the kerb; where your building has its own dock, the city is not involved. Anaheim’s Traffic Engineering Division takes transportation permit applications online and publishes a Truck Route Map with the conditions, and says online submissions are processed within 24 hours. After the walkthrough we tell you whether your address needs one.
Yes. Crews run Monday through Sunday, and a Saturday or Sunday stage is the usual way to keep a business open during the week. The working window is 8AM – 6PM every day, so the plan is built around daylight hours rather than an overnight shift, and a big floor is split into two or three weekend stages.
A certificate of insurance is $50 and is issued in the name your lease gives for the property manager, with the limits and additional insured wording the building asks for. We send it before the lift and the loading bay are reserved, because most managers will not release a slot without it. Both addresses can be covered when you are moving between two managed buildings.
That comes out of the walkthrough: the number of desks, what has to come apart, and how far the truck parks from the lift. Every booking carries a three-hour minimum, which becomes four hours once you are 30 miles or more out from our base. Travel counts double past ten miles, and overtime rates start after the eighth hour on site.
Yes, and most mixed premises here move both at once. Anything over 300 lbs is priced at $150 and goes with a crew of three, a second truck is $200 when one body will not hold the load, and a loaded truck held overnight is $200 if the new unit is not ready on the day. Tell us which machines have to work first and they travel first.
When a crew is free, yes, and that is often what saves a lease deadline or a handover date. A staged relocation still works better booked a week or two out, because the lift, the loading bay and the certificate of insurance all take a little lead time. The number for a same-day check is 909-443-0004.
An office move is judged on one thing: how much working time it costs. The furniture and the trucks are the easy part, and the week around them is where a business actually wins or loses. What follows is how we plan office moves in this part of Orange County, and what tends to decide whether a Monday starts with work or with a search for a keyboard.
The size of a commercial job is set by what stands in the rooms, and nobody knows that better than the people who work there. A week before the walkthrough, take a notepad along the floor and count the desks, the chairs, the cabinets and the cupboards that nobody has opened in two years.
Two numbers matter most to an estimator: how many pieces have to come apart, and how far each one travels from its room to the truck. A twelve-desk suite on the ground floor with a bay outside the door is a different job from the same twelve desks on a third floor sharing one lift with the rest of the building.
Labelling is the cheapest insurance you can buy. Give each destination room a number, write that number on every carton, chair and screen, and tape a plan of the new floor beside the lift at both ends. Our crews follow those numbers, which is why a labelled move usually finishes inside the estimate and an unlabelled one rarely does.
Technology deserves a list of its own. Decide who disconnects and who reconnects, agree which machines can be switched off and which must stay live to the last hour, and have your technician mark the racks and the screens that travel first. We cable-tag, pad and carry that gear upright, and we set it down exactly where the list says.
Buildings rarely refuse a move; they refuse an unprepared one. The property manager will normally ask for three things before releasing a slot: a certificate of insurance naming the right entity, a booked window on the freight lift, and confirmation of which dock or bay the truck will use and for how long.
Our certificate costs $50 and is issued with the limits and the additional insured wording your building specifies. It is worth asking for that wording in writing early, because a certificate that names the wrong company is the most common reason a booked lift is lost on the morning itself.
Lift windows are shorter than most people expect, and they are shared. If your building gives you three hours on the freight lift, the plan has to fit inside three hours, which usually means staging cartons near the lift beforehand and sending furniture down in an order the crew agreed the day before.
Where there is no dock at all, the truck works from the kerb. Anaheim keeps a chapter of its municipal code for through truck routes, covering what counts as a truck, small trucks, deviation from a route for loading or unloading, and the signs that mark the routes. The code counts a truck as a vehicle kept primarily for carrying property with an unladen weight of six thousand pounds or more.
Where the truck works from the kerb, the city’s transportation permit comes into it as well. None of this is difficult, but it is slow if it starts the week of the move.
Almost every relocation we run for a company here is staged. One department, one floor or one storeroom moves at a time, and the rest of the business carries on answering the phone from desks that have not been touched yet. Staging costs a little more in travel time and saves far more in lost days.
A common shape is three stages. The quiet rooms go first, because archives and spare furniture are needed by nobody on a Tuesday. Then the desks travel department by department, usually over a weekend. Reception, meeting rooms and the kitchen come last, once the people who use them are already sitting at the new address.
Weekends do most of the heavy lifting in that plan. We work Monday through Sunday inside an 8AM – 6PM window, so a Saturday clear-out and a Sunday set-up is a normal booking rather than a special arrangement. Anything that genuinely cannot happen during business hours is scheduled onto a weekend day instead of an overnight shift.
Each stage is booked and billed on its own, which keeps the arithmetic honest. The three-hour floor, the four-hour version that applies past 30 miles from our base, doubled travel time beyond ten miles and overtime after the eighth hour are all counted per visit. Two shorter visits often cost less than one stretched day.
Office furniture is built to be assembled once and left alone, which is why the disassembly is where the hours go. Sit-stand frames, benching systems, conference tables and shelving all come down, and every piece of hardware is bagged and marked with the station it belongs to before it goes in the truck.
Panel systems need more room than anything else in the building. Cubicle walls travel flat, they do not turn corners the way a desk does, and a narrow lift lobby can add an hour on its own. That is exactly the sort of thing the walkthrough exists to catch, long before anyone quotes a number.
Filing is the other quiet time sink. Where a building allows it, lateral cabinets travel loaded, which is far faster; where it does not, the drawers are boxed in order and indexed so that the same files go back in the same sequence. Agreeing which way it will be done saves a long argument on the day.
Reassembly is not an afterthought, and we keep hours in reserve for it. Desks go back together to the new plan, panels are rebuilt, screens go back on their arms, and the crew walks the floor with you before leaving. Heavier equipment has its own rules: anything over 300 lbs is $150 and moves with a crew of three, and a piano is $200 with the four-mover crew.
Where your address sits changes the shape of the day more than the size of your company does. The city describes Anaheim Canyon as one of the largest areas for industry and technology in all of Orange County and one of the leading industrial and innovation centres in California, with a location that gives access to freeways and a commuter rail.
The specific plan covering that district was approved by the City Council in January 2016 and came into force on 10 March 2016. It was written to remove obstacles to the reuse of existing structures and to promote infill development on vacant or underused property, which is a good reason to measure a unit rather than trust the drawing you were handed with the lease.
The Anaheim Resort works on a different clock. It is a 1,100-acre district holding the Disneyland Resort parks and hotels, the Anaheim Convention Center, and further hotels, restaurants, shops, offices and visitor businesses, and the city says the area helps bring more than 25 million visitors to Anaheim each year.
For hotels and resorts there is loading capacity written into the code itself. The Hotel Circle Specific Plan chapter requires a truck loading area with a stall of at least 15 feet by 25 feet where there are restaurant facilities, and at least 12 feet by 18 feet for the other category, with parking aisles of at least 24 feet on surface lots and 23 feet inside structures. Those dimensions decide which truck we send.
Our pricing is deliberately dull. A crew with a truck is billed by the hour, cheaper Monday to Thursday and cheaper again in cash: two movers from $119 an hour, three from $159, four from $199, with the Friday to Sunday card at $135, $175 and $215 and card payment a little above each.
Around the hourly rate sit a handful of fixed lines, and there are no others. Fuel is $30, the booking deposit is $50 and comes off the final bill, a certificate of insurance is $50, a second truck is $200 and a loaded truck held overnight is $200. Nothing else appears on the invoice.
What actually moves the total is access. A ground-floor unit with a bay at the door will always beat an upper floor with a shared lift, and a labelled, half-packed office will always beat one still being emptied when the crew arrives. Those are the two levers a client controls, and both are free.
Alongside the move itself we run packing services for archives, glassware and IT gear, and short or long-term storage for the gap between two leases; a long distance move is the answer when the new address is out of state. Send us the floor plan, your last day in the old suite and the day you must be trading again, and the stages are priced against that.
