Using cheap moving companies in your zip code for your local relocation is like asking for a late check out in a hotel—once you try it, you never want to do without it. All those memories of bribing your brother-in-law or college buddies to help get your couch up two flights of stairs (again?) may be banished for good when you realize how much benefit you can gain for a moderate expenditure.

Here’s the best part about affordable companies with their moving truck —because you aren’t going far, you are paying almost entirely for labor and not much for driving time. The move’s cost will be an hourly price, depending on how long it will take us to load and unload, plus the driving time between the origin and destination (and time to get to the root before we start.) If you have a small apartment, the load and unload cost will be much less than a large house, but the driving time won’t change.

If you have everything organized, packed, and ready to go, that will lower the price because we can quickly load it into the low-cost moving truck. You have the opportunity to influence the cost by being efficient in your shifting service planning. Also, for local or long-distance moving company jobs, if you can cut down on the load by disposing of some stuff (selling or donating things works, too), then the job will take less time.