A Move From Hell
March 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under Moving News
EAST ISLIP, N.Y. (WABC) — Every room of the Barber family’s East Islip home is bare. The reason? Tina Barber says all her family’s possessions are being held hostage by a moving company.
The family of four moved from Phoenix Arizona last summer, hiring a small California company they found on the internet, called Swift Moving and Storage. They had the mover store their goods until October when their house was ready.
“I just called looking for my belongs,” said flustered homeowner, Tina Barber. “I could not get in touch with anybody. I just called and called. I started panicking.”
“what happened was the company went bankrupt,” added Tina’s husband George. “And they gave all our furniture to another company without letting us know.”
After an exhaustive 4 month search, Tina tracked the other company who had her goods. It was Hackensack-based Sovereign Trucking. But, there was a catch.
“We must pay him an additional $12,000. It was just crazy. Sovereign’s rep told, you don’t pay the money, we auction your stuff and the end of the month and that was it.”
So we visited the Hackensack office of Sovereign Trucking. But it’s rep wouldn’t talk on camera. But over the phone, it’s owner agreed to cut his price in half to around $6,300.
We got the head of New Jersey’s Warehousemen and Movers Association involved, who called Sovereign directly. “They are entitled to some compensation,” said Mr. Russo. “It is fair but the amount they are entitled to is going to depend on the paperwork.”
But Sovereign never produced an agreement between the original mover, Swift a possible violation of federal regulations.
And last week, a federal investigator paid Sovereign a visit just to talk about the Barber’s bill. And he was successful in getting it pared down to just $2,000.
And we were there when George went to East Rutherford to retrieve his family’s life. But bad news for George. “Everything is damaged. Everything was neglected from water damage or just thrown. Everything just busted and ruined.”
Every dresser scratched, every bed broken. But what was most important possessions, the family’s photo albums, somehow survived in tact.
Even though the original company went out of business, we found out it still had insurance so the Barber family is going to try to pursue a claim through the insurance company and hope some of this will be covered. —-
Story by: Nina Pineda
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U-Save Moving’s Brand New Service!
February 25, 2010 by admin
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Announcing U-Save Moving’s New WorldWide Moving Services!
In another step forward for U-Save Moving we have now partnered up with company that can transport your household possessions all across the country and across the world. No longer is U-Save Moving regulated to just intrastate moving. With our new partners I can offer you a full service moving experience for a lot less than you would get with regular van liners like Mayflower, Allied, United or Bekins.
This full door to door service like never before. And we can even move your vehicles as well!
Need to move from one state to another but are tired of being quoted $5000, $6000 or more, well now U-Save Moving can offer the same service for far lower rates. And this is full service at its best. You get a team of guys to load up the truck, it driven to your location, and then unloaded into your new home. You’ll never have to lift a finger.
Let give you some comparisons:
- Lansing, MI to Austin, TX: $2550 to $2725 add $1400 to move your vehicle.
- Lansing, MI to Los Angeles, CA: $3200 to $3500 add $1700 to move your vehicle.
There is just a couple of examples of the costs. Now compare that to your other movers. These are flat rate, binding estimates as well. Meaning that these prices WILL NOT change no matter what, and they include everything. Labor, Insurance, fuel, blankets and straps, tie downs and tools. These prices don’t include packing so if you want those services you’ll need to call us for rates.
And we are not limited to Just moving to or from Michigan. If you need to move from California to Florida or Alaska to Texas we can help with that as well.
Just give us a call or contact by using the form below.
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