On Time Moving & Storage
About us
We are a local independant mover servicing all 50 states and International moves. We are the best in the industry and have a reputation to prove it. We specialize in being the best not the cheapest.
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Residential moving.
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We selected this locally-owned (St. Augustine, FL) moving company. The sales representative, Trad, impressed us as having experience and integrity. They weren't the cheapest, but we like supporting local businesses and we felt good about our choice. We have deeply regretted that choice. Absolutely nothing was the way Trad said it would be, from the Driver and helpers, to the way the truck was loaded and delivered.
In the course of this move, we discovered that there was a lack of communication between the dispatcher and driver, despite the small, manageable size of this company. The worst part of our experience was on the unloading end. The driver, Thomas, arrived hours late....didn't get to our home until 2:30 pm to unload an entire truck with just one helper (who was an amazing worker). Thomas had a terrible attitude....he arrived angry. He destroyed our television, which we had paid extra to have On Time pack as it was supposed to be covered 100 against damage if they did the packing. He dropped a hutch shattering it. He banged a large piece of furniture into an archway, cracking the plaster and leaving a big hole. He ran into a light fixture, breaking the light, and twisting the fixture out of its socket. He was sullen and uncommunicative the entire time.
When we contacted the owner, Joseph Green, to discuss our claims, we tried to be reasonable, but he was very difficult to deal with. At this point, one month after the move, he has refused to cover the television as provided in the contract and has offered nothing to address the other damages.
I have made a number of cross-country moves. I have always used a national firm, like Allied Van Lines.
I am disappointed that On Time Moving and Storage did not live up to our expectations. Stick with a national firm if you are planning a move.
On the day of the move, the two men arrived on time and worked hard. They were polite and professional. They wrapped the furniture with wrapping blankets and then taped them to stay in place, including mattresses, lamps, tables and even took the legs off the couch to prevent damage.
They worked quickly and efficiently. Nothing was scratched or damaged.
They spent the bulk of two days loading, which I had expected and built into the schedule because we had a 25,000 lbs move. Day One of loading went well. Day Two is when they started to fall off from my expectations of top quality "A+" service to "B" service. I had planned to finish packing a few boxes worth of loose items on our house's second story that morning. Jeff told me not to worry about it because his guys had already taken care of it all. After they left later that day and I did what I thought would be a final walk-through, I found some of it had just been left up there either in boxes left behind or unpacked altogether. My fault for not checking sooner and holding them to it, but I assumed it was taken care of when I was told specifically that it was taken care of. Fortunately, I had a U-Haul truck I had rented for me to carry particular things I preferred to move myself, so I was able to add those things to what I was taking on the U-Haul. It was good I had the truck, because they actually ran out of space on the trailer with a fair bit still in the house. Jeff and I had discussed this potentiality in advance, and I had told him that I planned to have the U-Haul and they could load what couldn't fit in the trailer into the U-Haul. But when they ran out of space and closed up the trailer they were just going to take off without loading anything left onto the U-Haul. When I pointed out the things still around, Jeff had his guys load a few more things on the U-Haul, but I could tell they had pretty much checked out after they closed up the truck. So I let them go and finished loading the back half of the U-Haul myself.
After we arrived in Scottsdale on Saturday night, they came "On Time" again Sunday morning to start unloading. I had hoped that my dissatisfaction at the tail end of loading in Louisiana would bump back up the the contentment I felt with all my pre-move dealings with them. Through the day I thought things were going very smoothly and well; but things wavered by the end of the day, and after they left, my dissatisfaction returned as I discovered issues that weren't the end of the world in the context of a move, but knocked OTM down from the "A+" I had hoped to give to a "B" rating for the overall experience. Some examples: (1) While I returned my rental truck to U-Haul, they told my wife they could not put two furniture pieces together because it was not a single piece when they arrived to load. No one had said anything about not being able to do it to me in Louisiana or Arizona on the multiple times I had mentioned putting the two pieces together (it required all of tightening three screws that were in place). She insisted that they do it before they go, and they finally did. (2) Worse was the large mirror that actually had been attached to a bedroom dresser in Louisiana, but in Arizona they merely placed it precariously on the back of the dresser without actually attaching it. A couple days later the unattached mirror fell to the floor when the dresser got bumped. Fortunately the mirror itself did not break, but one of the wood arms for attaching it to the back of the dresser broke into pieces. (3) A box of china clearly marked "FRAGILE" had been loaded in such a way that something (a metal bedrail?) actually impaled the bottom of the box, leaving a spear hole a couple inches across the box and breaking some of the contents. (4) Several pieces of furniture ended up with little knicks and chips. (5) At some point they apparently stopped worrying about where they were taking things and just wanted things off the truck, the most egregious of which was several days later finally finding various items from the bedroom of one of my children had been sitting outside in our canoe on the side of the house.
Again, in the end the overall experience was among the better moving experiences I've had, but what started out as a great move ended up being only a good one with a number of specific disappointments that I think could have been avoided with a determination to see things through to the end instead of deciding things were just good enough in their view.
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