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.
By providing in-person estimates to our customers, evaluating the scope of work, and planning all the stages in detail, we minimize the chances of any emergencies. This way, you have the complete plan and dates for your moving process, excluding any unpleasant surprises.
Our office movers in Commerce 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.
Moving services in Commerce, California, work around an unusual ratio. By the city's 2020 estimate about 48,000 people work at businesses here, while census figures count roughly 12,000 residents, so much of this city just east of downtown Los Angeles is warehouses, offices and rail spurs, and homes sit in pockets between them. The city names four of those pockets through its neighborhood parks and branch libraries: Rosewood, Bristow, Bandini and Veterans.
Rosewood surrounds Rosewood Park and the two-pool Aquatorium that went up after Commerce incorporated in 1960. The Bristow library opened in 1966 as the Northwest Branch, in what was then Northwest Park, which tells you where that pocket lies. The Bandini library stands on South Atlantic Boulevard, one of the city's truck routes, and Veterans centers on the park that holds Veterans Park Stadium.
The houses are mostly mid-century. Census figures for 2020–2024 put about three in four Commerce homes in single-family houses, give a median build year of 1957 and date more than half of the housing to the 1940s and 1950s. Doorways and hallways from that era run tighter than in new construction, so the crew pads door frames, lays floor runners from the entry to the truck and takes bed frames and tables apart before the first tight turn.
One yard rule comes straight from the Commerce code: in residential zones, no vehicle may stop or park in the front or side yard setback unless it stands on a paved driveway. The truck uses the driveway or the curb, never the lawn, and the carry starts from there.
Commerce limits street parking to two hours for any truck used mainly for commercial hauling with more than three-quarter-ton capacity, unless the truck has written approval. A commercial truck registered with the DMV is exempt while it is being loaded or unloaded, for as long as that work reasonably takes. The exemption covers a truck being worked, not one waiting at the curb, so keys and any elevator booking should be ready before the start.
Posted signs narrow the options further. Where the city has signed an oversized-vehicle restriction, nothing longer than 25 feet, wider than 80 inches or taller than 82 inches may park, and the loading exception applies only to deliveries at an adjacent business, for half an hour. Yellow curbs are loading-only from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Sundays and holidays, which makes them a quick stop, not a place for a three-hour load.
Streets off the truck-route list carry posted gross weight limits. The code still lets a heavy vehicle use a restricted street for a pickup or delivery at an address on it, so every house can be reached; what it rules out is cutting through a neighborhood. Before the date, the crew lead plans the approach from the nearest route and the spot where the truck will stand.
What SOS asks a Commerce client to prepare:
| Home or street in Commerce | What to plan on move day |
|---|---|
| House in Rosewood, Bristow, Bandini or Veterans | Truck on the paved driveway or at the curb, never on the yard setback; pads on mid-century door frames |
| Side street off the truck-route list | Posted weight limit: the truck turns in only for the pickup or delivery at that address |
| Block with oversized-vehicle signs | Parking plan settled before the date; the loading exception covers an adjacent business only, for half an hour |
| Apartment or townhome complex | Client books the elevator or loading time with management; COI ($50) if the building asks for one |
| Warehouse or office on Telegraph Road, Washington or Atlantic | Load at a dock or in the lot; a yellow curb is loading-only, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Sundays and holidays |
| Route across railroad tracks | A stopped train can hold a crossing; the driver takes another way around |
Our local movers in Commerce leave from 5530 Jillson Street, Los Angeles, CA 90040, the only SOS office and the base for every crew. It sits in the Commerce area, in the same 90040 ZIP code as City Hall on Commerce Way, and the drive in is about 0.4 miles on surface streets, around 2 minutes without traffic. A Commerce address carries the 3-hour minimum; the 4-hour minimum applies only past 30 miles from the base.
Commerce keeps heavy traffic on a named list of streets: Telegraph Road, Washington Boulevard, Atlantic Boulevard, Slauson Avenue, Olympic Boulevard east of Goodrich, parts of Garfield and Eastern avenues, plus connectors such as Goodrich Boulevard and Greenwood Avenue. The I-5 and I-710 freeways cross the city too, and weekday rush hours load both, which matters more for the long leg of a move out of town than for the start.
Freight rail is the local wild card. The city asks people to report trains idling at its railroad crossings and spurs straight to the railroad (BNSF, Union Pacific or L.A. Junction), naming the blocked street and the nearest cross street. A parked train can hold a crossing longer than the whole drive from the base, so the driver picks another way around instead of waiting it out.
SOS works Monday through Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, and a 2-minute drive leaves that window to the move itself. Double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles, as the local moving rates spell out.
Commerce is also a business address: the city counted more than 2,000 business licenses in 2020. For office and warehouse moves, the curb exception for an adjacent business is short, so the crew sets up the load at a dock or in the lot together with the building manager.
Mapping L.A. lists Montebello among the communities bordering Commerce, so a move between the two crosses a city line and little else; the Montebello moving page covers that side. Pico Rivera borders Commerce as well, and Washington Boulevard, a truck route here, runs on into it, which keeps Pico Rivera moves on one familiar road.
Monterey Park is not on that list of neighbors, yet Atlantic Boulevard, another Commerce truck route, runs north to it and becomes one of its main shopping streets. For Monterey Park moves, that boulevard is the obvious line between the two cities.
