Why choose SOS Moving?
As well as people moving to a new place in inspiring films, you’ll also literally snap your fingers and get everything in your new home. Our professionals can accomplish a move of any complexity, so even an antique piano of your grandmother will be safely transported to a new place.
With us, you can confidently rule out the fear of uncertainty when you don’t know where your belongings are. We are a phone call or email away from giving you peace of mind by sharing the latest updates about your shipment and informing you about the delivery date or window.
Enjoy our full-service moves, including moving, packing, unpacking, furniture disassembly and reassembly, and storage services. Request a free quote for a smooth long-distance relocation experience.
Our office movers in Claremont deliver top-level commercial moving services. We’ll cope with any office furniture, professional equipment, and even medical practice. Due to a professional approach to all stages of your office move, we help you not to lose excitement and inspiration from your new office in the overwhelming packing, lifting, and unpacking process.
Sure, our movers can bring packing materials and boxes if you need them. Make sure you mention that you need them to our operators in advance.
No, tips are not included, and it’s up to you how much to tip your movers. Tips are always appreciated but not required.
Your apartment moving cost depends on factors, such as the type and size of your property, the complexity of your move, the number of bedrooms, the volume of your items, zip code, etc. At SOS Moving, we offer flat and hourly rates. The hourly rate depends on the number of movers to be involved and the size of the moving truck. Flat rate is based on the volume of belongings you need to move, and it’s the best option for long-distance moves. To know your moving cost, please contact us or submit a form on our website to request your free quote.
You should schedule your move date as early as you can. If you’re moving locally, at least 1-2 weeks in advance, for long-distance moves, we recommend getting a quote at least 2-4 weeks before your move date.
You can choose any convenient day for your relocation, and yes, we can help you move on weekends and holidays.
A safe relocation is our goal, so we’ll provide you with a detailed list of items that are prohibited to transport. It includes perishables, hazardous materials, firearms, batteries, etc. We also don’t recommend packing your personal and irreplaceable items, including family heirlooms, family photos, jewelry, documents, etc. Carry them with you during the move.
We accept cash, all major debit and credit cards, and certified checks. We don’t accept personal checks. There will not apply any transaction fee on card transactions.
Yes, we’ll contact you prior to delivery. We’ll deliver your belongings within the given moving arrival window. In case the window is no longer possible, we’ll also contact you in advance and set another delivery time.
Claremont sits at the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, in the Pomona Valley, and for movers in Claremont the first thing to plan around is the trees. The city owns more than 25,500 of them, many over 100 years old, and any tree inside the city's easement, generally ten feet from the face of the curb, is a City tree. Residents may not trim one or fasten anything to it, so the crew picks a parking spot where the truck and its ramp clear the low limbs, and nothing gets tied to or propped against a parkway trunk.
The Claremont Colleges set a rhythm of their own. Five undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools share contiguous campuses of nearly 600 acres here, with more than 8,000 students between them. If your address is on the blocks around campus, pick a date away from move-in and commencement weekends, when parents' cars claim the curb space a moving truck needs.
At the north end of Mills Avenue, the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park draws enough hikers to have shaped the parking rules nearby. Because visitors kept taking the curb in front of homes, the city turned the surrounding blocks into a residential permit parking zone: Mills Avenue between Pomello and Alamosa, plus Pomello Drive, Alamosa Drive, Brigham Young Drive and several side streets. The park's own lots on Mills Avenue and Mt. Baldy Road need a permit as well, so on these streets we ask clients to keep the driveway empty for loading.
Section 10.32.210 of the Claremont Municipal Code bars parking any vehicle on a city street for more than an hour between 2 and 6 a.m., and the rule holds inside the permit zones too. That matters the evening before a move: if you shift your cars to the street to free the driveway, or leave a loaded trailer at the curb, request an overnight exemption from the city first. Each household gets three exemption nights per vehicle a month, and a trailer counts as a vehicle of its own.
The Village runs on a shorter clock. Most curb spaces near its storefronts are two-hour parking, the six public lots and the structure at College Avenue and First Street allow three hours, and the city says those limits are strictly enforced. Two hours is less than our 3-hour minimum, so for a Village address we settle the truck's spot before moving day, while your own cars wait in the all-day lot west of Indian Hill at First Street or the Metrolink lot east of College Avenue. If your building's manager asks for a certificate of insurance, we issue a COI for $50; reserving the elevator or loading door stays on your side of the checklist.
Sundays add one more constraint. The Claremont Farmers & Artisans Market sets up on Harvard Avenue between First Street and Bonita Avenue every week, year-round, from 8 AM to 1 PM, and Harvard south of Foothill Boulevard is a residential permit zone besides. A Sunday move on those blocks should start after the market packs up.
| Claremont street or home type | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Mills Avenue, Pomello, Alamosa and Brigham Young near the Wilderness Park | Residential permit parking zone; keep the driveway free for the truck |
| Harvard Avenue south of Foothill Boulevard | Permit zone; Sunday market on the First Street to Bonita Avenue blocks, 8 AM to 1 PM |
| Village storefront blocks | Two-hour curb limit; three-hour lots and the College Avenue and First Street structure |
| Tree-lined parkways across the city | City trees within about ten feet of the curb; truck spot chosen to clear low limbs |
| Any city street between 2 and 6 a.m. | One-hour limit; exemptions for cars moved to the curb and for trailers |
Crews leave from 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles and take SR-60 to I-605, then I-10 east: about 30.3 miles, around 41 minutes without traffic. I-10 runs through the southern part of Claremont and SR-210 through the middle, so few addresses are far from one freeway or the other. Weekday rush hours clog the San Bernardino Freeway across the San Gabriel Valley, so on a weekday morning the run east takes longer than those numbers.
Claremont also sits right on our 30-mile line. The 4-hour minimum applies to addresses more than 30 miles from the base, so here the minimum is 3 or 4 hours, depending on the address, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. When we quote moving services in Claremont, those two rules come first, and a same-day move is possible whenever a crew is free.
Booking moving and packing services in Claremont? Clear out first. The city's Community Services department picks up three bulky items per single-family household each calendar year at no charge, first come, first served, and it rents roll-off bins for bigger cleanouts. Get the old mattress and sofa on that list before our packing service starts wrapping what's coming with you.
If you're comparing Claremont long distance movers, start with the route and the paperwork. With I-10 and SR-210 both crossing the city, an out-of-state truck is on a freeway soon after the last box is loaded, and our interstate moves run under USDOT 3398018 and MC 1153871. Details are on the long-distance moving service page.
Pomona and Claremont share a border and a founding story: Pomona College held its first classes in 1888 in a cottage near downtown Pomona, then moved into the unused Claremont Hotel over the Christmas holidays and kept its name. Moves in Pomona start just across that shared line. To the east, moves in Upland cross into San Bernardino County, with Foothill Boulevard, the old Route 66, running through both cities, and Ontario moves sit farther east on I-10, the freeway our trucks already use to reach Claremont.
