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What a business gets from our crews:
Ask for a walkthrough before you take the quote, and the hours you are billed will match the building you are actually in.
Cargo our crews handle on a business move:
How a staged business move runs:
When the two addresses are not next door:
Crew and truck, per hour:
Booking takes a $50 deposit, credited against the invoice, and nothing else is added once the hours are agreed.
Public parking around the Orange County Civic Center sits in numbered lots. P1 at 1020 West Civic Center Drive costs $0.50 per 15 minutes to a $15 daily maximum, while P2, P3, P4, P6, P7 and P8 charge $1 per 15 minutes to a $20 maximum. Three of them close on weekends and major holidays: P3 at 690 West Civic Center Drive, P4 at 630 North Broadway Street and P7 at 1002 West Santa Ana Boulevard.
P5 at 211 West Santa Ana Boulevard is a meter with a two-hour limit per stay. City garages hold longer: Garage B at 300 East 5th Street, Garage C at 310 North Birch Street and Garage D at 420 North Main Street run automated round the clock, free for 60 minutes and then $1.75 an hour to a $15 cap.
Which of them is usable is checked by the foreman before the truck is positioned.
Management offices ask for paperwork before they ask for a date. The certificate of insurance a management office asks for costs $50 from us and names whichever entities they list, and the freight lift and dock window are booked in the same exchange rather than left to move day. Where a suite has no dock, the crew works from the nearest legal stopping point and carries.
Street work is a different animal. Encroachment permits for work in the street or public right of way come from the Public Works Agency Development Engineering office, and the permitted list covers lane or sidewalk closures supporting street, utility or maintenance work; an applicant shows a City of Santa Ana business license and a certificate of insurance, plus a contractor’s license and approved plans. That is construction paperwork, and we say so when a manager raises it.
Downtown reads as a government address book. The Orange County Civic Center holds the Superior Court Central Justice Center at 700 Civic Center Drive West, the Civil Complex Center at 751 West Santa Ana Boulevard and the Old County Courthouse at 211 West Santa Ana Boulevard.
Around them stand the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and United States Courthouse at 411 West 4th Street, County Administration North and South at 400 West Civic Center Drive and 601 North Ross Street, and the Sheriff’s headquarters at 550 North Flower Street.
Class A space reads differently. Griffin Towers, the twin towers at 5 and 6 Hutton Centre Drive, count 555,993 rentable square feet with six-story parking and immediate access to the 55 and 405, with 3 and 4 Hutton Centre Drive and 200 and 201 East Sandpointe in the same pocket. In a tower the lift and the structure set our pace; downtown the lot does.
Street projects have rewritten this grid more than once. City notices for OC Streetcar construction closed 4th Street from Ross Street to Broadway day and night for the duration of the work, which is exactly the kind of closure that decides where a truck may legally stand. The foreman drives the block before move day and picks the loading point from what is open.
Our own clock is fixed. Crews work Monday through Sunday, 8AM to 6PM, and a weekend stage is booked inside those hours like any weekday one. Because every truck leaves from a single Los Angeles base, an address 30 or more miles out carries a four-hour minimum instead of three, and double drive time applies past 10 miles; both are stated before the deposit, never on the invoice.
Where the suite sits changes the plan, so here is the short version:
| Business district or building type in Santa Ana | What the crew plans around |
|---|---|
| An Orange County Civic Center suite — 700 Civic Center Drive West, 751 or 211 West Santa Ana Boulevard | Parking is in numbered lots P1 to P8 at $0.50 to $1 per 15 minutes; P3, P4 and P7 are closed on weekends and major holidays, so a weekend stage needs a different loading point agreed in advance. |
| A block on 4th Street between Ross Street and Broadway | Streetcar construction closed this stretch day and night for the duration of that work, so the foreman drives the block first and falls back on Garage B, C or D when the kerb is unusable. |
| Griffin Towers, 5 and 6 Hutton Centre Drive | Twin Class A towers of 555,993 rentable square feet with six-story parking and immediate access to the 55 and 405: the freight lift and the route through the structure are booked with management, and the $50 COI names whoever they list. |
| 3 and 4 Hutton Centre Drive, 200 and 201 East Sandpointe | Four more office buildings in the same pocket. We ask each management office for its own dock hours and lift dimensions instead of assuming one rule covers them all. |
| A county-agency address at 300 or 320 North Flower Street, or 909 North Main Street | The county directory lists a Sheriff’s division at 320 North Flower, while all three addresses appear in a private commercial portfolio; we ask who books the dock and whose name belongs on the certificate of insurance before quoting. |
| A Civic Center Plaza address — City Hall at 20, the Santa Ana Public Library at 26 | Public buildings sharing the block with the courts: the loading point comes off the numbered lots above, and crew vehicles stay clear of the stalls visitors need. |
| A contributing property in the downtown historic district, listed in 1984 | Improvements or alterations there must meet the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation and need a Certificate of Appropriateness, so nothing of ours comes off the building: openings get padding, not a screwdriver. |
Business moves are billed by the hour and the crew size sets the rate: two movers with a truck are $119 cash or $129 card Monday to Thursday, $135 or $145 Friday to Sunday. Three movers cost $159 or $169 and $175 or $185; four movers $199 or $209 and $215 or $225.
Three hours is the standard minimum, and four hours applies once the address sits 30 miles or more from base. Beyond 10 miles the drive time counts double, and the $50 booking deposit is credited against the invoice.
Yes. Ours costs $50 and reaches the management office ahead of move day, naming whoever they tell us to name. Send the requirements sheet over as soon as you have it, because the same exchange usually settles the lift and the dock window too.
Weekend work is ordinary here, because our week has no closed days: 8AM to 6PM, Monday to Sunday, with Friday to Sunday priced at the weekend rate. Downtown the thing to plan for is parking, since county lots P3, P4 and P7 close on weekends and major holidays, which can move the loading point.
It usually should be. We move departments in waves so part of the company keeps working while the rest is being carried out, and the inventory from the walkthrough decides how the waves are drawn. If a stage has to wait overnight, a loaded truck held until the next morning is $200.
We move and place the hardware: screens, docks, printers and rack gear travel cable-tagged and padded, and every piece lands on the desk or rack position your IT contact has marked. Powering systems down, and bringing them back up, belongs to your own IT people, which keeps responsibility where the passwords are.
The rate card does not change with distance, but two rules do. Once the address is 30 miles or more from base the minimum becomes four hours rather than three, and beyond 10 miles the drive time counts double. Both are quoted before any deposit is taken.
The truck is the last decision, not the first. What sets the cost of a business move is the inventory: how many desks, how many screens, how many filing cabinets, and how many of them are going to the new suite at all. A count taken two weeks out is worth more than any figure given over the phone.
Walk your own floor before you call anyone. Mark what is being kept, what the new furniture order replaces, and what is being sold or scrapped. Every item struck off that list before move day is time you do not pay for at an hourly rate, and space you do not rent twice.
Then fix the new floor plan on paper. Rooms, desk numbers and seat allocations let a crew put things where they belong instead of stacking them in a lift lobby for someone to sort out later. We ask for that plan at the walkthrough and the foreman carries a copy on the day.
Labels finish the job. Each desk gets a number, each carton carries that number plus a destination room, and a copy of the plan goes on the wall at the new address. It is a dull hour of work that turns an afternoon of questions into straight delivery.
Panel systems are the part most people underestimate. Cubicle walls come down in sequence, travel flat rather than upright, and go back together against the new plan; fixings are bagged and tagged by station so a rebuild is not a hunt for screws. Benching frames, sit-stand bases and monitor arms follow the same rule.
Technology travels with its cables tagged. Screens, docks, printers and rack-mounted gear go into the truck padded and upright, and come out at the desk or rack position your IT contact has marked, which is where our part of the job stops. Powering systems down, and bringing them back up, belongs to the people who hold the passwords.
Records need a decision before move day. Where a building will take the weight, lateral cabinets go loaded and locked; where it will not, drawers are boxed and numbered in order so nothing is refiled from scratch. Confidential files stay sealed and travel in one load rather than drifting across two.
Then there is the awkward item on every floor: a safe, a plotter, a reception counter built in place. Anything over 300 lbs is handled with a three-mover crew at $150 for the piece, and an office piano in a lobby or a staff lounge moves at $200 with a crew of four. Both are quoted before the day, once we have seen the item.
Most delays we see are paperwork, not furniture. A management office wants a certificate of insurance naming the entities it lists, and it wants it before it will hand over a lift key. Ours costs $50 and goes out ahead of the crew, which is usually the same email that pins down the dock window.
Freight lift, dock and service corridor are booked together. Where there is no dock, the crew works from the nearest legal stopping point and carries, and that carry distance is part of what we time at the walkthrough. Padding goes on jambs, lift cabs and floors at both ends before anything rolls.
Downtown adds a layer worth knowing about. Downtown Santa Ana has been a National Register historic district since 1984, and in 1998 the city adopted Chapter 30 of its municipal code to establish the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. Improvements or alterations to a listed property, or to a contributing property in a historic district, must meet the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation and require a Certificate of Appropriateness.
For a mover that means one thing: nothing comes off the building. If a door leaf or a frame genuinely has to be removed to clear an oversized piece, that is a conversation for your property manager, not a decision for a crew on a Saturday. We plan the route around the opening we are given, and we say early when a piece will not fit through it.
Work in the street is separate again. The Public Works Agency Development Engineering office issues encroachment permits for work in the street or public right of way, and the permitted list includes lane or sidewalk closures supporting street, utility or maintenance work.
An applicant has to produce a City of Santa Ana business license, a certificate of insurance, a contractor’s license and approved plans. That is construction paperwork rather than anything a moving truck files for a morning at a kerb, and we will say so if the question comes up.
Nobody can afford a dark week, so we plan around the calendar you already have. Departments move in agreed waves: the group that can work from home or from a spare room goes first, the customer-facing desks go last, and the first wave is already logged in while the second is still labelling cartons.
Weekends carry most of that load. Our week has no closed days — 8AM to 6PM, Monday to Sunday — which makes a Saturday stage a normal booking at the weekend rate rather than a favour. What changes is the street: county lots P3, P4 and P7 shut on weekends and major holidays, so the loading point moves, not the plan.
Sometimes a stage cannot land the same day, because keys are late or a lift slot slips. A loaded truck held overnight is $200, and it is cheaper than unloading into a corridor and paying crew hours twice. Where the volume is larger than one load, a second truck at $200 keeps the whole floor moving in one pass.
Speed is possible when it has to be. Same-day work happens if a crew is free, and the number to ask on is 909-443-0004. A small suite with dock access is the best candidate for that; a full floor in a managed tower is not, because the lift and the insurance paperwork take their own time.
Office furniture rarely survives a move in one piece unless it is taken apart properly. Conference tables lose their legs and bases, credenzas are emptied and wrapped, shelving is stripped and banded, and reception counters are unbolted where they were bolted. Everything travels blanket-wrapped, and the fixings travel labelled.
Reassembly is the half people forget to book time for. A crew that dismantled a workstation in the morning rebuilds it in the afternoon against your plan, levels it, and puts the chair and the screen back where the person using it expects to find them. That continuity is the reason we keep the same crew on both ends of a job.
Break rooms and kitchens deserve their own half hour of planning. Fridges need to be emptied and drained, coffee equipment disconnected by whoever services it, and dishwashers pulled by someone who is allowed to touch the plumbing. We carry the appliances; we do not pretend to be plumbers or electricians.
Hourly pricing only looks simple. The rate itself is plain enough — $119 cash or $129 card for two movers and a truck Monday to Thursday, $135 or $145 Friday to Sunday, with three- and four-mover crews at $159 or $169 and $199 or $209 on weekdays, $175 or $185 and $215 or $225 at weekends. The variable is how many hours the building allows you.
Four things stretch the hours more than volume does: a lift shared with other tenants, a long carry from the nearest legal stopping point, stairs at either end, and a dock window that opens later than the crew. All four are visible at a walkthrough, which is why a quote given without one is a guess with a number attached.
Read the rest of the card before you compare bids. Three hours is the standard minimum and four hours applies at 30 or more miles from our base, double drive time is charged past 10 miles, overtime starts after eight hours on site, fuel is $30, and the certificate of insurance is $50. A $50 deposit books the date and is credited back on the invoice.
Anything else your business needs around the move sits on its own page: commercial moving services for the service itself, movers in Santa Ana for residential jobs at the same addresses, and piano movers when a lobby instrument comes with you. Call 909-443-0004 on any day you like, while the office is open from 8AM until 6PM, and the walkthrough gets booked first.
