You can easily look up licensing on DOT website to be totally confident about your future move with our company. Whether you have sports equipment, antique piano, fragile items, oddly-shaped furniture, or even medical practice, our professional movers are ready to help you.
Our company has full-service movers who are constantly trained to achieve the highest level of proficiency in all types of moving: local, long-distance, or commercial. Our movers and packers in Fontana use the quality supplies and materials to pack your belongings for all our moves. Save your time and enjoy an extremely pleasant move with us.
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. Fontana is one stop on our Inland Empire moving routes, which also cover Ontario, Upland and Rancho Cucamonga.
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 Fontana 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.
Fontana grew outward from its downtown, which sits on the 1887 Rosena town site, while the north end stayed farmland until tract building moved up that way in the early 1980s. The ground rises the whole way, from about 850 feet in the south to about 2,000 feet at the north end. For a crew, that history sorts the housing: older homes near the core, newer subdivisions on the slope toward the San Gabriel Mountains.
Houses dominate. About 80 percent of Fontana's housing units are single-family detached, and the city's Housing Element puts the average household at roughly 3.9 people, well above the San Bernardino County average. More people under one roof means more beds, dressers and garage shelving, so quotes from movers in Fontana should start from a room-by-room list with the garage on it, not from a bedroom count. A big household in a full house usually moves faster with three or four movers than with two.
Because building spread out from the center, the oldest blocks sit closest to downtown; citywide, about a fifth of homeowners and a quarter of renters live in homes built before 1970. In those houses the crew measures doorways and hall turns before the sofa moves, pads the door frames, and takes a door off its hinges when that beats forcing a tight corner.
Fontana keeps commercial vehicles out of residential neighborhoods except while they are loading or unloading, so a moving truck belongs at your curb for the working hours of the job and no longer. The city also caps parking for oversized vehicles, anything over 22 feet long or 94 inches tall, at four consecutive hours on a public or residential street. Our truck shows up with the crew and pulls away when the last strap is tight; your part is keeping the curb in front of the house open.
Check your trash day before you settle on a moving date. Most residential streets in Fontana are swept every other week, sweep days follow trash days, and the city asks residents to move vehicles away from the curb when the sweeper is due. Bins, sweeper and truck all want the same few yards of curb, so tell us your pickup day when you book and we will plan the parking around it.
Large parts of north Fontana were laid out under city specific plans such as Hunter's Ridge and Sierra Lakes. If your community association or property manager asks for a certificate of insurance, SOS issues a COI for $50. Send the association's exact wording with your booking, along with any gate code or guard-list step the truck will need.
South of Jurupa Avenue, Southridge Village covers roughly 2,640 acres between Mulberry and Sierra avenues, running down to the Riverside County line toward the Jurupa Mountains. It is mostly single-family streets with multi-family pockets, so the plan depends on the address: at a complex, ask the manager where a truck may stand and whether moves have set hours.
Most of Fontana's warehouses and distribution centers sit in the southern half of the city along the I-10 corridor, and the arterials around them carry big rigs all day. For a home near that belt, the truck loads from the residential side street rather than the arterial whenever the address allows, and the carry path stays on the quiet side of the block.
| Area or home type in Fontana | What to plan on moving day |
|---|---|
| Hunter's Ridge, northwest corner | Base of the San Gabriel foothills; clear the COI and gate access with the association before the date |
| Sierra Lakes, between SR-210 and Summit Avenue | Short run to the freeway; keep the curb in front of the house free for loading |
| Older blocks around downtown | Oldest housing in the city; measure doorways and hallways, check the sweep day |
| Homes near the I-10 warehouse belt | Big-rig traffic on the arterials; load from the quieter side street if you can |
| Southridge Village, Jurupa Avenue to the county line | Houses and multi-family mixed; confirm the truck spot and any move hours with the manager |
Hiring a Fontana moving company that dispatches from Los Angeles means the drive is part of the job, so here is the math. Our trucks leave the one base we have, on Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and run SR-60 to I-605 and then I-10 east: about 48.5 miles, around 62 minutes without traffic. That puts Fontana more than 30 miles out, so the minimum here is 4 hours instead of 3, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Fontana is a commuter town as well as a warehouse hub, and I-10 shows it: heavy toward Los Angeles in the morning, heavy back east in the late afternoon. We work 8AM to 6PM, seven days a week. An 8AM start lets a Fontana-to-LA load head west once the morning rush thins, and an LA-to-Fontana move that loads early reaches the unload ahead of the eastbound crush.
That stretch of I-10 is also a work zone. SBCTA is building the second phase of the I-10 Express Lanes from I-15 east past Fontana to Pepper Avenue in Colton and posts closure and detour alerts every month, so treat the 62-minute figure as a no-traffic number, not a promise.
Old Route 66 runs through Fontana too, and state law still makes the city keep signs marking its continuation, the same duty it puts on Rancho Cucamonga and Upland. A short move west to Rancho Cucamonga or Upland can stay on that old road the whole way. I-15 takes you south instead, out of Fontana and across the Riverside County line to Eastvale.
Fontana sits below the Cajon Pass, and the city's hazard mitigation plan says the hot, dry Santa Ana winds pouring through it hit Fontana often, mostly between October and March, sometimes at hurricane force for days. The plan's own history table lists a 2007 wind event that overturned seven big rigs in Fontana. On a gusty day the crew wraps mattresses, headboards and glass indoors, carries tall flat pieces edge-first, and straps each tier in the truck as it goes in.
Summer is the other extreme: the same plan puts the average July high above 95 degrees, with several days a year over 100. In high summer, book the 8AM start and keep heat-sensitive things in your own car: candles, vinyl records, medication, aerosol cans. If you would rather not tape boxes in a hot garage, our packing service handles that part.
