eugene moving COMPANies

QUICK COMPARISON LIST OF THE MAIN EUGENE AREA MOVING COMPANIES

Below is a quick-comparison list of the main independent Eugene moving companies, with their rates and the most helpful information about each company summarized next to each listing.   These are listed in order of the their percent of five star customer reviews across Google and Yelp, mitigated by other pros & cons about each company.  

If AGMC is not available on the day you need to do your move, or if one of these other Eugene moving companies is a better fit for you than AGMC, once you've chosen a company you are interested in, Phil can either give you your chosen company's contact information for you to call yourself, connect you with them directly, or in a few cases help you book an appointment with them, whichever you prefer.  In this way, this page can function as an "open market listing and booking-help service".   There is no charge for this free referral service.   

There are also two different rate "types" or types of moving companies.  One is called a "full Service" moving company where their hourly rates include the price and use of the company's truck.  This type of rate is regulated in Eugene to be only one exact rate, which is exactly $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck, plus another $59.35 an hour per extra man, Mondays thru Saturdays, they charge more on Sundays & Holidays.  These rates start and end at the company's terminal, meaning their charged clock begins when they leave their warehouse, and ends when they arrive back at their warehouse, requiring you to pay for all that extra drive time to your locations and back, even if their warehouse is on the opposite side of town from you.   If a moving company is listed in this list as a FULL SERVICE company, these are the same rates and conditions that apply FOR ALL OF THEM.

The other type of rate is for a "Labor Only" service, which in addition to the company's hourly rates would require you to pay separately for a truck rental (like you renting a U-Haul) if your job needs a truck.  Labor Only services do not have their prices regulated in Eugene, and so can vary from company to company.   The monetary advantage of this is that you only need to pay a one time truck rental fee for the whole day of use of a rental truck, of an average of $80 for the day, plus $20 gas, for most Eugene area jobs, instead of you paying about $40 per hour more for just the truck.   These "Labor Only" companies also start their clock when they arrive at your house and stop their clock when they're done moving your last item, subtracting break times, because you're not paying for truck drive time to and back from the company's warehouse.  The cost savings for Labor Only companies goes up the longer the job would be.   

A quick warning about rates:  A highly skilled and good work-ethic crew can do a moving job in half the time of a less skilled and more time wasting crew, so don't compare price only or you could end up paying a lot more than you're expecting.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEE

A major additional distinction between these moving companies is whether or not the company offers a "Satisfaction" or "Happiness Guarantee".  The default minimum damage coverage by any Full Service moving company, unless you purchase additional insurance, is mandated by the State to be only "60 cents per pound of the damaged item".   That means if the movers get a big grease hand-print on your lamp shade they'd owe you 30 cents for the damaged lamp shade because the lamp shade weighs a half pound.   However, if the company offers a "Satisfaction Guarantee" you could use that to get enough compensation to replace the lamp shade, AND take a fair amount off the bill if the crew messes up in the other hundred ways the job could go wrong.  That's worth a lot more per hour than a company that just hands you back your ruined lamp shade with thirty cents.   In addition to this, in general, only the companies that know they do great work offer and honor a Satisfaction Guarantee, or else they'd be risking too much loss to pay out the unhappy customers.  

A GREAT MOVING CREW

WDA MOVERS

Owned by Vic & Loni, this is one of the best FULL SERVICE moving companies in Eugene.  Their main drawback is that they don't have a Satisfaction Guarantee on their service, and they aren't quite as quick as they could be (for a top-end company, which they are).  This is the standard for full service moving companies in the Eugene Area, which again charge $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck, and they start and end their clock when leaving and arriving back at their own warehouse.

Oregon Valley Coastal Movers

Owned by Grant Garoutte.  This is a very small LABOR ONLY company that has one of the best customer feedback histories I know of.  Grant and his main helper Alex are very skilled and efficient for two-man jobs, and you'd reliably get this particular known team.   But Grant doesn't always have the best skilled extra men for larger than two man jobs.  For labor only they are $55/hr per man, and they do offer a Satisfaction Guarantee.  Since they're a "Labor Only" company, you'd need to pay about another $100 for the truck rental and gas (if you need a truck), and they DO start their clock when they arrive at your house and DO stop their clock when they're done moving your last item, subtracting break times.  When you calculate these cost savings and efficiency factors, these guys are one of the most cost savings and reliable ways to go.

ELITE RELOCATION SERVICES    

They're a big FULL SERVICE company that also does long distance moves.  Not too many bad reviews, but more than is ideal.  But no Satisfaction Guarantee, and that matters when something goes wrong.  And they have a mix of Skill levels of who they send to do your job, so you might get a good team but sometimes not.  Remember, Full Service companies don't start their clock when they arrive at your house and don't stop their clock when they're done moving your last item, and they do charge $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck.

  This should not be an unskilled labor type of work. They charge $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck, plus another $59.35 an hour per extra man, Mondays thru Saturdays, more on Sundays & Holidays.  These rates start and end at the company's terminal.

CASCADE MOVING LABOR      

They charge the standard rates for a Full Service company which are $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck.   However you can hire then as labor only at $140/hr, which is a bit high.  They have mostly OK reviews online, but they have no Satisfaction Guarantee, which matters.  When you book them online you have to pick how many hours you are reserving their services for, and how are you suppose to know how long you'd need them, and what if you guess too high or too low?

THE REST OF THE MOVING COMPANIES

The rest of these below listed moving companies have increasingly more reported problems and worse customer feedback with the lower they are listed on this list.  None of them have a Satisfaction Guarantee (as far as I know).  A common complaint with some of them is that at the very last minute the company needed to "cancel" leaving the customer hanging without help, and was not going to be showing up for the appointment, which is why their customers were calling A Great Moving Crew to try to find a last minute replacement moving company.   If they don't show up at their appointment with you, you didn't technically use their service, and they use that to get your bad reviews taken down, giving them an unrepresentative review history.  This is why even if they have better looking reviews online, they are listed this far down this list.  They all charge the Standard rates for a Full Service company, which is  $153.10 per hour for two men and a truck, plus another $59.35 an hour per extra man, Mondays thru Saturdays, more on Sundays & Holidays.  They start their clock when they leave their warehouse to head to your house, and end their clock when they pull back into their warehouse after driving back from your job.  And again, NO SATISFACTION GUARANTEE.

SKINNY WIMP MOVING

PRO MOVERS

CROSS TOWN MOVERS

EMERALD MOVING

MOVING FELLOWS

UO STUDENT MOVERS