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Before a Burbank landlord lets a crew anywhere near its loading dock, it wants three things: insurance paperwork, a booked time slot and protection for the lobby. The commercial movers in Burbank that companies keep calling back are the ones who show up with all three already sorted, and that is how SOS Moving runs its office and commercial moving service here. This page is about what changes in this particular city, from Media District towers to the airport side; for household moves across town, head to our main Burbank movers page.
Included in every Burbank business move:
What our office crews dismantle, carry and set back up:
How a staged move is organized:
If you are comparing affordable warehouse moving companies in Burbank, look first at how the hours are counted. We charge a stockroom the same crew rates as an office, and the quote names the crew size and number of trucks, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Because weekday rates are lower, a staged move can put bulky, low-urgency loads such as archives on a Monday – Thursday rate and save the Saturday or Sunday for the rooms your staff need on Monday morning.
When a building has no dock, the truck works from the street, and in Burbank that curb space is covered by a Street Use Permit from Public Works. Weekends are where it gets strict. The permit rules do not allow weekend work without approval from the Public Works Director, and placement outside regular hours needs a city inspector paid at overtime rates, although the city can waive that inspection case by case.
Since most staged office moves fall on a Saturday or Sunday, we raise the curb question at the walkthrough. We hand your facilities contact the number of trucks, their size and the hours needed for the application, and you or the landlord file it early enough for the approval to arrive before the date.
The Tower at 3900 W. Alameda Avenue shows what Burbank office landlords put in writing. Any company working in its buildings or using its loading dock must provide a certificate of insurance naming The Tower Burbank Owner, LLC and The Worthe Real Estate Group, Inc. as additional insured, and all work is scheduled through the management office. Tenant move-ins and move-outs must use the dock.
Crews are expected to bring Masonite for the lobby floors and to pad walls, corners and door frames along the route. A delivery that runs past 30 minutes or includes any piece over 5 feet has to be booked at least 48 hours ahead and handled outside business hours. For a tower like this we issue the $50 COI with those exact names, bring our own Masonite, and put long boardroom tables into a weekend slot within our 8AM – 6PM day.
Three business areas produce three different kinds of move. The Media District is home to The Walt Disney Company's world headquarters, Warner Bros. Studios and ABC Television, and for offices in that district our plan starts with the building's dock, freight elevator and management-office bookings.
The Airport District around Hollywood Burbank Airport mixes high-tech companies, conference hotels and big-box retail, with Empire Center as its major power center; for a tech tenant we budget extra time for monitors, network gear and cable tagging. Avion Burbank at 3001 N. Hollywood Way is a 60-acre campus of 17 creative industrial and office buildings, where one move can mix desks with shelving and stock, and we quote both parts together.
Burbank has tracked its commute peak for decades. The Transportation Demand Management ordinance, adopted for the Media District in 1991 and extended to Downtown in 1997, has employers with 25 or more staff track commute trips in the 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. peak period. Those are the last two hours of our crews' day, so on a single-day weekday move we aim to have the final load leave the old building before four, leaving the rest of the day for rebuilding desks and reconnecting screens at the new address.
Crews set out from our Jillson Street base in Los Angeles, and billing follows the usual hourly rules: a 3-hour minimum and drive time charged double beyond 10 miles. A small suite can often move the same day you call, if a crew is free.
Business area or building type in Burbank, and what to plan for:
| Business area or building type in Burbank | What to plan for |
|---|---|
| A managed tower such as The Tower, 3900 W. Alameda Ave (Media District) | COI naming the landlord entities, the dock booked through the management office, Masonite in the lobby, and 48 hours' notice for any piece over 5 feet. |
| Offices of employers with 25+ staff in the Media District or Downtown | Covered by the city's commute-trip ordinance for the 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. peak; we plan the last weekday load to leave before it. |
| Street-front offices with no dock | A Street Use Permit from Public Works for the curb; a weekend move also needs the Public Works Director's approval, so apply early. |
| Avion Burbank, 3001 N. Hollywood Way | Office and creative industrial buildings on one 60-acre campus; we check with property management which building entrance the truck uses and quote shelving and stock with the office. |
| Tech offices in the Airport District | More equipment per desk: cable tags, anti-static wrap and monitor cartons are built into the estimate of hours. |
Only when the truck has to stand on the street; a building dock needs no city permit. Curb space is covered by a Public Works Street Use Permit, and a weekend move also needs approval from the Public Works Director. After the walkthrough we tell you whether your address needs one and give you the truck details for the application.
Yes. We issue a COI for $50 with the additional-insured names your building specifies, as towers such as The Tower on W. Alameda Avenue require from anyone using their dock. Send us the landlord's requirements as soon as your date is set, and we deliver the certificate to the management office ahead of the move.
Yes. Weekends are regular working days for our crews, always between 8AM and 6PM. Larger offices are usually split so one stage runs over a weekend while staff are away, and since Friday – Sunday rates are higher, we put less urgent loads on weekdays when your schedule allows.
Hourly. Two movers with a truck start at $119 an hour cash, Monday to Thursday, and bigger crews cost more. Every job has a 3-hour minimum, plus $30 for gas and, if you need them, a $50 COI or a $200 second truck. You get a firm quote after we walk through the space.
Yes: shelving units, stock cartons and the office furniture that goes with them. On campuses such as Avion Burbank, where office and industrial buildings share one site, we quote the stock area and the front office as a single job. Hazardous materials are the exception, and we send the list of items we cannot carry during planning.
Often, yes, when a crew and truck are free that day. A small suite with a dock or an easy curb suits a same-day move best, because a weekend street permit or a management-office booking takes time to arrange. Phoning 909-443-0004 before noon gives the best odds.
Most commercial moving companies in Burbank can send three people and a truck to your door. The real differences show up earlier: in the questions asked before the quote, and in whether your landlord will let the crew through the lobby at all. A price given over the phone, without anyone seeing the space, says very little about the final bill.
Before signing with a commercial moving company in Burbank, check these points, and hold us to them as well:
Timing belongs in the comparison too. A small suite can often be moved on the day you call, but a staged move for a larger office needs lead time for the landlord's bookings, the certificate of insurance and any weekend approval from Public Works, so start the conversation as soon as a move date is on the table.
How the service is organized across the county is explained on our commercial and office moving page. The rest of this guide covers what changes once the job is in Burbank.
An office move is sized by what is in the rooms, and the people who work there know that better than any estimator. Before the walkthrough, walk the floor with a notepad: count workstations, filing cabinets, conference tables, printers and anything plugged into the network. Mark what is staying behind, because furniture you do not plan to take should be decided before the crew arrives, not on the day.
Next, build a seat map for the new space. Give each desk a code, for example a floor letter plus a number, and assign every employee to one. Our crew labels cartons, chairs and monitors with the same codes, so unloading becomes a matter of matching labels to the plan taped to each door.
Measure the destination as well. A boardroom table or reception counter that fit the old suite may not clear a tighter corridor or the freight elevator at the new building, so ask building management for the elevator cab dimensions and send them to us; we check the largest pieces against them before the date.
Technology needs a list of its own:
We disconnect and reconnect computers as part of the moving work and tag each cable to its machine. Network settings, phone systems and software stay with your IT people; our job is to get the hardware to the right desk undamaged and plugged back in. A fuller planning list is in our office moving checklist.
Ask the management office at both addresses for its move or contractor procedures as soon as the lease is signed, and forward them to us. Burbank landlords differ in the details, but four subjects come up again and again.
A building with a dock usually keeps the city out of the picture, because the truck never stands in the street. Without one, two sets of rules apply at once, the landlord's and the city's, and we line up both approvals side by side so that neither one holds up a weekend date.
Your old space matters as well. Leases often expect the suite handed back empty, so decide early what happens to furniture you are not taking, and tell us, so it stays off the inventory and out of the quote.
Very few companies can close for the days a large move takes. The alternative is a staged relocation, in which the office moves in parts and each part is short enough to finish inside one working day. Since our working week runs Monday – Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, stages can fall on weekdays, weekends or both.
A typical sequence for an office relocation in Burbank looks like this:
Each stage gets its own room list, crew size and truck count. The building managers receive the same list, which makes it simple to book the dock and the freight elevator for every date. If a stage finishes early, the crew spends the remaining hours rebuilding desks and reconnecting equipment at the new address.
Think about the first working day at the new address, too. It can pay to book a small crew for a few hours on the Monday after the final stage, to shift desks that landed in the wrong spot and collect anything left at the old suite. That visit is billed like any other job, so the 3-hour minimum applies to it.
Each stage runs in a fixed order. Items are wrapped and labeled in their rooms, furniture is taken apart where needed, and the truck is loaded so that what the new floor needs first comes off first. Desks and cubicle panels travel flat, covered with blankets and stretch wrap, with their hardware bagged and taped to the matching piece.
A few parts of an office get particular handling:
Personnel files, client records and anything confidential are best packed by your own staff in sealed, numbered cartons, with the list kept by the office manager. The crew keeps those cartons together on the truck and carries them straight to the room you name, without opening anything.
At the new address the crew rebuilds workstations according to the seat map, reconnects the computers and sets each carton at the desk it belongs to. We also take away the packing materials we brought, so your team does not begin the week behind a wall of empty boxes.
We price office work in Burbank the same way we price every local job: by the hour, for a crew with a truck. The rate is set by crew size and by the day of the week, with Monday to Thursday cheaper than Friday to Sunday and cash cheaper than card. The full rate card is higher up on this page.
The number of hours comes from the job itself:
A lower bill does not always mean a smaller crew. Four movers cost more per hour than two but can empty a suite in far fewer hours, and at the walkthrough we tell you which option comes out cheaper for your space.
When you compare quotes, put them on the same footing: the same number of movers, the same days and the same access at both ends. A price that assumes a dock at a building that only offers a curb, or a weekday slot at a tower that wants long pieces moved outside business hours, will not survive the actual move.
Office managers often ask what they should handle themselves. The short answer is decisions and access, while the lifting stays with us. Before each stage, please make sure that:
Everything else, from wrapping the first chair to rebuilding the last desk, is work for our crew. That division of labor is the point of hiring office movers in Burbank rather than asking staff to carry boxes on a Saturday.
Some business moves come with extra work. If you would rather not pack the office yourselves, our Burbank packing crews can do it as hourly work, with boxes from $4 each and tape and stretch wrap included at no charge.
If the company is leaving California altogether, the move is priced differently: interstate moves out of Burbank are quoted at a flat rate and run under our USDOT and MC licenses rather than by the hour. And if the new suite is still being fitted out when the old lease ends, climate-controlled storage can hold furniture and files in between.
Staff who are relocating their homes at the same time can use SOS for household moves in Burbank. For the office itself, call 909-443-0004 or send us both addresses and a rough headcount through the quote form; the walkthrough is the first step.
