Pandemic Procedures Protect You During a Move
A cross country relocation is a high-contact/hands-on activity. It’s unavoidable: Cross country movers must pack boxes, lift furniture and transport belongings. Simply stated, they’re going to have to touch your possessions.
During this COVID-19 era, the idea of a moving crew showing up at your home might seem at odds with shelter-at-home orders and social-distancing guidelines. In reality, it’s probably just the opposite. Hiring an interstate mover lessens your contact with others and helps safeguard you and your family.
How can that be?
Safe and sound
A DIY move forces you to personally purchase packing paper, buy boxes and rent a truck. These activities increase the chances you’ll encounter contagious individuals and COVID-contaminated materials. Plus, you risk passing that exposure to friends and family who want to help you move for just the price of pizza and beverages.
But if you hire a member of the National Van Lines family of interstate-moving agents, such as Belfor Moving, you not only lessen your physical burden, you leave packing, loading and unloading to relocation professionals trained to wear masks, use gloves, practice state-of-the-art hygiene and properly store materials, such as cardboard shipping boxes (capable of carrying coronavirus contamination for up to 24 hours).
Safely tucked away in your home until moving day (whatever season you choose), you’ve protected yourself and your family from unneeded risk.
Health homework
How do you know national moving companies are adhering to the current coronavirus-containing federal guidelines? Are all cross country moving companies practicing safe-moving techniques by following preventive practices as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Search a company’s website, Facebook posts and tweets. Do they contain info about what steps that company has taken to protect you? Do their photos show drivers and moving-crew members masked and gloved? Is the company ready and willing to answer your safety questions?
Virtually amazing
On top of our pledge as a National Van Lines agent to Make Moving Easy, Belfor Moving is working hard to help protect your health and well-being. We’ve adopted CDC’s guidelines, including monitoring the health of our office employees, in-home estimators, drivers and moving crews. In addition, we’ve advised our coast-to-coast team of affiliated national movers to follow these same guidelines.
We Make Moving Easy
Until recently, it wasn’t unusual for an in-home estimator to visit your home to calculate how much your move across country would cost. Now, our online virtual survey system means no cost-of-moving estimators need visit your home. That’s not only convenient, it’s safe. Prefer a live person on the line? You can FaceTime with one of our experts in real time.
The Belfor Difference
Award-winning interstate mover Belfor Moving is your preferred relocation expert in the San Francisco Bay area. As an agent for National Van Lines, we’re a full-service cross-county mover ensuring your belongings will be taken care of during the long move. Our experienced staff can provide everything you need to get across the country or around the world. We also excel in local moving and storage services. Contact us today for a FREE moving quote.