OPEN MARKET LISTING AND BOOKING HELP SERVICE FOR INDEPENDENT MOVING HELPERS

AGMC offers a free "open market listing and booking help service"  for freelance independent moving-helpers who are looking for piecemeal job appointment work offered from other independent moving companies.  If you sign up for this free moving-helper listing and booking help service, AGMC can forward to you job appointment offers made to you from these other moving companies, at no cost to you.  Any job appointments you accept through AGMC's free listing service would be subject to the TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR MOVING HELPERS provided below, on this web page.  If you are interested in signing up for AGMC's free listing and booking help service for moving helpers, you need to fill out and turn in to AGMC AGMC's  "MOVING HELPER'S LISTING CONTRACT" (provided below) and a W-9.   Although it isn't necessary, you can improve your listing advertisement by adding a cover page describing your skills, experience, and other things about yourself, including a picture of yourself in the work outfit you would wear to your moving jobs.  

 You have the option to ask AGMC to mail you a copy of these blank forms (in a text you'd send to 541 636-7386).  Or, you can copy and print the contract from the copy provided below, and follow the below provided link to a printable copy of a W-9 (you only need the first page of the W-9).  Then fill them out and mail them to AGMC at:

K. Sloan

255 High St. #237 

Eugene OR.  97401  

LISTING CONTRACT FOR MOVING HELPERS v5-3-2025

         If you (the undersigned) fill out and submit this contract to A Great Moving Crew (AGMC) this will result  in you becoming listed on AGMC's free Open Market Listing And Booking Help Service as a freelance independent contractor who's moving-help services would be listed and offered to independent Moving Companies.  This is like putting your name in the Yellow Pages for moving helpers The ranking order that you will be listed is based on the feedback AGMC gets about your services.  This results in different Moving Companies offering you piecemeal individual job appointments with a frequency in general relation to the reputation you have built, although AGMC makes no guarantees about you ever getting any job offers, and work does slow down at times. 

         Job appointment offers to you from these moving companies would come in the form of a text message sent to you through AGMC's services describing the moving company's job appointment offer. In these texts, and in this contract, "The moving company that is offering to hire you for a piecemeal job appointment" is termed the "Lead Moving Company", or "Lead" for short. The Lead is also defined as "the moving company that is paid by the customer."  If you are named in a job offer text, it means the Lead Moving Company named in that text is offering to hire you as a freelance independent (moving help) contractor for that one "piecemeal"  job appointment.  If you reply to one of these job offer texts with your indication of acceptance, you would be contracting to accept that offer, at the rates you pre-agree upon with that Lead Company, owed for your work on that job only by that named Lead Moving Company. 

         You would not be working for AGMC, nor be operating as a subcontractor, agent or employee of AGMC.  AGMC would be providing this Open Market Listing & Booking Help Service to you at no cost to you.  AGMC is only helping connect you with the hiring party, which would be the Lead moving company named in the text.  Any difficulties, liabilities, injuries, pay, taxes, worker's comp, damages or any other aspects of your work would be an issue between only you and the Lead Moving Company of the job appointment, not an issue between you and AGMC.  By signing this contract you indemnify and release AGMC from all responsibilities and liabilities concerning your job, pay, injuries, damages, taxes and all other aspects of your job appointments.

         As your own independent contractor, you are responsible for having your own workers compensation and disability insurance, and you will not hold AGMC, the Lead Companies, or the moving customers liable for any injuries you sustain on any jobs that AGMC has helped to arrange for you.  You are responsible for paying your own taxes and doing your own withholding and reporting directly to tax authorities. 

Your printed name: ____________________________   Phone: ______________

 Signature: _______________________________       Date: _________________

Address: _________________________________________________________

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR MOVING HELPERS

#1)    TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

   In these TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE FOR MOVING HELPERS, the term "you" is referring to "you", the undersigned, the party who signed up for AGMC's free listing and booking help service for independent moving-help contractors.  The company named "A Great Moving Crew", also termed "AGMC" for short, is the company acting as an "Open Market Listing And Booking Help Service" for your services.  As a freelance independent contractor, you may choose any policies you want regarding your independent services.  However, you may only list your services on AGMC's free listing and booking-help site if you agree to these defined Terms And Conditions Of Use For Moving Helpers when doing moving jobs that are helped to be arranged by AGMC. 

#2)  HOW THE LISTING SERVICE WORKS

When you list your freelance independent moving-help contractor services on A Great Moving Crew's free Open Market Listing And Booking Help Site, your moving-help services are entered onto a list that would be offered to independent Moving Companies, like putting your name in the Yellow Pages for movers. This might result in independent Moving Companies offering you piecemeal individual job appointments as a freelance independent contractor.  

Job appointment offers to you from these moving companies would come in the form of a text message sent to you through AGMC's service (from AGMC's phone number, 541 636-7386) describing the moving company's job appointment offer, with the moving company being hired by the customer for the job appointment being termed the "Lead Moving Company", or "Lead" (for short).  If you are named in a job offer text it means the Lead Moving Company indicated in that text is offering to hire you as a freelance independent (moving help) contractor for that one job appointment.  If you reply to one of these job offer texts with your indication of acceptance, you would be contracting to work as a freelance independent contractor, working directly for the Lead Moving Company of that job appointment, at the rates you pre-agreed upon, owed for your work on that job only by the Lead Moving Company, not AGMC.

#3)  AGMC'S RELATIONSHIP TO YOU

 You would not be working for AGMC, nor be operating as a subcontractor, agent or employee of AGMC.  AGMC would be providing this listing & booking help service to you at no cost to you.  You agree that any difficulties, liabilities, injuries, pay, taxes, worker's comp, damages or any other aspects of your work would be an issue between only you and the Lead Moving Company of the job appointment, not an issue between you and AGMC.   You indemnify and release AGMC from all responsibilities and liabilities concerning your job, pay, injuries, damages, taxes and all other aspects of your job appointments. 

#4)  YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN INJURIES AND TAXES

When you accept a job appointment through AGMC's booking help services, you are responsible for having your own workers compensation and disability insurance, and you will not hold AGMC, the Lead Companies, or the moving customers liable for any injuries you might sustain on any jobs that AGMC has helped to arrange for you.  You are responsible for paying your own taxes and doing your own withholding and reporting directly to tax authorities.  

#5) RANKINGS AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR JOB FREQUENCY

AGMC develops a summary record of your services, your availability schedule, your customer review history, your on-time record, contact reliability, skill level, damage record, reviews from the Lead moving companies, your certifications & licenses, what equipment you bring with you to your jobs, the uniform you wear, how you interact with others, and your contract compliance history.  AGMC takes all of these factors into consideration to rank your services relative to the other moving-helpers listed with AGMC.  Contractors that have indicated to AGMC that they are available on the customer's desired moving date are shown or offered to Moving Companies in this listing/ranking order, which makes the higher ranked contractors get proportionally more job offers, more consistently, as well as tending to get the bigger jobs.  

Appointments will be offered to you only if and when your services are chosen by a moving company, out of the selection of all your competitors, which might be often, seldom, never, or anywhere in between.  It's AGMC's right to rank your contractor services, it's the moving companies' right to choose your services (or not), and you are the one responsible for trying to increase your sales frequency by you working to make your services a better shopping choice than your competitors.  

As an independent contractor selling your services on the open market, you are more free than an employee to make your own choices as to which jobs you accept and what you do or don't "bring to the table".  This greater freedom means you have a greater potential to make money when you bring more to the table, while at the same time a greater risk of doing poorly if you bring less to the table.   In other words, there are more direct negative consequences to screw ups, and more direct increases of income when you consistently do great jobs.  So "contractor" work is really only advantageous for the movers who are consistently top in their field, while "employee" work is better and more stable for movers who are not consistent or who bring less to the table.  This contract point is to confirm that you are aware of this, and to warn you that if you don't go all out to be consistently "top in your field", this open market sales system for selling your contractor services is probably not going to work out well for you in the long term.  If you decide to do work as an "independent contractor", you agree to blame only yourself for work drying up if and when you are repeatedly late, you mess up, you look or act less professional, are less skilled, you don't communicate well, aren't certified, or otherwise bring less to the table.  

Take special note that the things that make you a better mover, and not a worse mover, are spelled out in detail in the training course that is provided on this website.  If you study it and practice trying to apply its teachings, you are vastly more likely to become a top mover.  If you don't, you do not have good odds.

Also take special note that it is the frequency and consistency of getting job offers for more hours of work that makes by far the biggest difference in your income, not just a few dollars difference in your hourly rate.  For example, if you become ranked high enough to earn $28/hr as a moving helper and get offered 40 hours of work a week, that would be $1,080 a week, which would be $56,000 a year without vacations.   Or, if you were ranked so low that you only earned $25/hr and were offered only 4 hours of work a month, that would be only $100 a month.  Or if you earned a top ranking as a Lead Moving Company, you could earn up to $100,000 a year taking a couple month-long vacations at the same time.  The point is that there is an extreme difference in how much you could make, all based on how good and reliable of a mover you become (or what you put into it).   It's all up to you to decide what you're going to put into it. 

#6)   PAY RATES

         You, as a freelance independent contractor, are your own boss, and so are the sole determiner of what you choose to charge for your services and how you calculate your fee. However, any moving companies considering hiring you can decline to offer you a job if you are charging more than they are willing to pay.  And you can decline any job offers that are offering less than what you want to accept as your minimum fee.  In other words, your fee must be negotiated and pre-agreed upon between you and the Lead moving company of a job appointment prior to you accepting the job appointment. 

        However, AGMC has helped simplify this negotiation process by establishing a "default audition" pay rate that would apply only for the very first job appointment audition you would do with a moving company, so that the moving company could see first hand how good of a mover you are, and allow a meaningful negotiation of your future pay rate to be negotiated after that or any further jobs with that company.   Each time you work with a new moving company, you' be doing a new audition at the default pay rate again, unless you negotiate a higher pay rate before hand.

For "Hespen Enterprises" (also stated as "Steve Lead" in texts) the default first time audition pay rate is $25/hr.

For "Oregon Valley Coastal Movers" (also stated as "Grant Lead" in texts) the default first time audition pay rate is $23/hr.

For all other moving companies the default first time audition pay rate is $22/hr.

So that you may better negotiate your pay rates with the Lead companies, the below table is provided to give you an idea of the common pay rates paid for different qualifications.

COMMON PAY RATES

$23/hr for novice low skilled.

$24/hr for few month improved novice. 

$25/hr for medium skilled.

$26/hr for good skilled.

$27/hr for high skilled, reliably on time, driver's license, & hard working work.

$28/hr for top skilled worker with over year long work history of being reliable 

#7)  TWO HOUR MINIMUM

Unless you specify otherwise, you as a (non-Lead) Helper, for any job lasting two hours or less, get paid $60 for that  job, or you get $70 for that job if you also participate in a conference call with AGMC where you and your Lead spend ten minutes covering training course material from the AGMC website.

#8)  TWENTY MINUTE MINI    

For a job that takes less than twenty minutes, and is pre-identified in the job text as a "Twenty Minute Mini" (usually a single item easy onsite scoot taking fifteen minutes or less), you as a moving helper would get a flat $40.

#9)  BORROWED LEAD

  If you are ACE certified, have a valid driver's license, are usually a Lead on other AGMC referred jobs, and you bring a full Standard moving equipment set* to help on another Lead's job, this is considered you being a "borrowed Lead", and the default pay is $30/hr (unless pre-agreed otherwise).

#10)   TIME COUNTED ON THE CLOCK

Each contractor's paid clock starts only on or after the scheduled job start time, after that contractor has arrived at their first scheduled job start location AND clocked in with AGMC.  Clocking in requires the moving helper to send a  text to AGMC indicating their arrival, sent at the time of arrival, not some time later.  The clock in text should indicate the location of arrival, such as a "at customer's" or "c" text to AGMC when first arriving at the customer's scheduled location, or a "at U-Haul" or "u" text when arriving at a U-Haul location.  The paid clock ends when a contractor has moved the customer's last item, minus any breaks they took during the job.   The paid clock adds round-trip drive time only for any jobs going outside the Eugene and Springfield city limits.   Paid hours do not count the time putting equipment away, wasted or unproductive work time, or time spent on non-customer serving projects such as fixing tires, using the bathroom, personal phone calls or break times.  Times can be rounded in the customer's favor to a whole 15 minute (quarter hour) increment.  All paid hours are calculated at the number of the contractor's customer-serving hours that are counted on the customer's bill, not necessarily the real-world hours spent around a job site.  

#11)  ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION

   For out of town jobs you only add gas compensation as long as the vehicle used is authorized as a part of the texted and approved moving service plan.  The customer's truck gas fee goes to whoever paid (or is going to pay) for the gas that refills the truck.  The customer's supply fee goes to whoever paid for those supplies.    You get paid only your hourly rate for your time, and do not get paid extra for stairs, weekends, cancelled appointments, or hot tubs.

You do not get paid extra for the time or gas used to drive our own personal vehicles within the Eugene/Springfield city limits, just like a mechanic, dentist or office worker doesn't get paid time or gas to drive to their local office or workplace.    Each mover does get reimbursement at cost for any customer authorized supplies they used on the job, provided they turn in their receipts or declarations of those expenses to the Lead of the job prior to the moving service bill being presented to the customer. 

#12)  ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SUPER HEAVY THINGS BEING CARRIED OVER STAIRS

   If a piano or gun-safe is heavier than the heaviest dresser or normal piece of furniture, meaning if you must strain so hard to carry the item by black-straps that it presents an unreasonably high risk of hurting yourself (pulling a muscle, etc.), the moving company and YOU are recommended to decline to move the item.  However, if you are willing to move the item anyway, the moving company should charge extra for that increased risk, and you should be paid an extra $20 per flight of stairs (per floor) the item needs to go up or down stairs.  This does not apply to super heavy items going over only ramps or being carried over two steps or less.

#13)   PAYING THE CREW 

When the Lead pays a crewman the Lead is required to automatically show a picture of the job payment invoice (on the Lead's phone) to that crewman before paying him.  This is so that each moving helper can automatically see for himself the labor hours that was counted on the bill for him and the group tip amount that the customer gave the Lead to disperse to the crew (if any).   Each moving helper must agree that it is only the Lead Moving Company of the job appointment that owes the moving helpers their pay for each job, not AGMC. 

The default understanding is that it is the Lead's choice to pay the crew by either cash, check or Cash App.  That means in order for a helper to be able to accept a job through AGMC's booking help, a helper must be willing to accept which ever of these three payment forms the Lead chooses to use to pay the crew.  If a contractor helper wants to accept only cash, he must negotiate that condition with the Lead prior to accepting a job appointment with that Lead.   The exception is that if a customer pays a group tip in cash for the Lead to pass along to the crew, the Lead must pass that cash tip, in cash, along to the crew, simply because that's the agreement the customer is assuming they have with the Lead when handing him a group tip in cash.   

The Lead should normally be paying the crew right at the end of the job.  But the Lead doesn't technically owe the crew their pay until after the customer pays the bill for that job and that payment form clears.  Sometimes the customer doesn't pay right away, and sometimes it can take a while for checks to clear.  Once a customer pays the bill and that payment form clears, the Lead only has a 24 hour deadline after that to let the crew know the bill was paid and to make the crew's payment available for the crew to receive.  So once in a while there might be a delay in getting paid for a job, and a helper should only accept jobs through AGMC's booking help if they are OK with this possible occasional delay.  However, delays of the Lead paying the crew beyond this deadline add 5% per day late added to the amount of crew-pay owed by the Lead, maxing out at double the original amount in twenty days.  This 5% per day late penalty does not apply to simple mistakes or honestly forgotten payments when the moving helper has not made even a small effort to collect, so a one time reminder test (of a payment being late) sent to both the Lead and AGMC at or after the deadline time is required to get the late payment penalty fee clock started.

14)   PICK UP & DROP OFF OF UHAUL TRUCK

If we are picking up and dropping off a U-Haul truck at a U-Haul facility, we count on the customer's paid time only one person's time to do that, (usually 30 to 45 minutes for both), and then pay the crewman their regular hourly rate for doing it.  If we are using a non-U-Haul rented truck, the truck should be being kept at the Lead's house, and so there should be no charge to the customer or extra pay for bringing or returning the truck, but we do charge the customer for round trip gas used back to its parking spot.

#15)   SUBMIT YOUR AVAILABILITY SCHEDULE EACH SUNDAY

When you first fill out and submit your HELPER LISTING CONTRACT, and on each Sunday, as long as you want to keep getting job offers forwarded to you through AGMC,  you should text to AGMC the updated days or dates that you want to advertise to moving companies that you will be available to do AGMC referred moving jobs.   Do not call in your schedule, text it.  It is these texts that are transferred onto the AGMC schedule in the normal process. In these texts, if you state only days or dates and say that you will be "available", this is agreed to be short-hand for you saying you will for sure be available on those dates (you commit to do the job) if a job offer comes up for you on those dates.  If you want to indicate that it is only likely that you will be available on certain dates, but that you need to be checked with first before committing, then you must say so by saying something like "I will likely be available on ..., but check with me first".   

If your text states no time limitations, the default time limitations that will be assumed are that you can't be expected to start on a job site any earlier than 7:30 am, or work later than 7:30 pm, but that you would work that early and that late if the job needs it. If you can't start or end earlier or later than a certain time, you must state that time limitation.  So state your time or any other limitations if you have them.  You should also include preferences when you have them, for start times, end times, job lengths, job types and preferred fellow crewmen. That allows AGMC to help that to happen when multiple choices are available.  

The longer out in advance you post your available days and dates, the more time and chance there is for a moving company to request your services on a future date, and for a job to be booked for you on that date.  Many of the best and biggest jobs are booked by customers a month in advance.  So posting your available dates at least a month out gives the best results, and should be considered the minimum advanced posting for serious movers. You also have the option to not submit an availability schedule at all.  It's just that it makes it far more likely that a moving company will offer you a job appointment, and more likely that it will be for a larger job, if you submit your availability schedule with your available dates posted over a month out. If you don't post your availability on any dates, you might still get a job offer but it would more likely be a last minute substitute kind of an offer.  

    When you post your availability schedule, this does not in any way guarantee that you will be offered job appointments on those dates.  It only advertises your availability, and so increases the chance of the sale of your services. However, the more times you aren't actually available on a date you said you would be available, the more that drops your AGMC ranking, and costs you lost jobs in the future. 

#16)   BE QUICK ABOUT RESPONDING TO JOB OFFER TEXTS

   When you receive a job offer description texted to you from AGMC's phone number (541 636-7386), you should text back a job acceptance or declining note as quickly as possible ("OK", "yes", "thanks", "confirmed", "copy" etc., or "Sorry, can't").   If you don't respond quickly know that the offer might expire, and know that the slow response time is noted on your record about your service, and can cost you a listing ranking drop.  If you accept the job, if there are any time or other limitations, you must re-state them at that time; i.e. "Can do, but I need to leave at 3pm".  If you are declining the job offer, you should also CALL AGMC immediately to decline the job verbally (in addition to the text).  Time is off the essence on a declined job, or a job you can't make it to, and texts aren't always looked at right away, so if you decline a job or can't make it to a job, you need to keep CALLING AGMC UNTIL YOU GET THROUGH and are able to verbally let AGMC know right away you can't make it.  If you accept a job and then cancel at the last minute, or don't show up, or leave the job before it's done (without having specified that time limitation) you will be removed from AGMC's free listing service.  If you wish to be reinstated after one of these instances you must pay a $20 re-listing fee.

#17)  CONSEQUENCES OF NOT BEING REACHABLE BY PHONE

If you are not usually very reliably reachable by phone, all the time, (at least calling back missed calls from AGMC soon) the Lead companies and AGMC become very much less interested in your services, and your ranking on AGMC's list drops dramatically lower than it would otherwise be.  During your on-the-clock time, you guarantee to stay off your phone for personal calls and texts longer than ten seconds.  If you need a longer phone use time than this you agree to go to the Lead and clock out for a break.  From the time period of one hour before a job thru the end of the job you agree that if you do not reply to all AGMC phone calls to you within five minutes your ranking on AGMC's list will drop.

#18)  IF YOU'VE SLEPT THROUGH A JOB START, TEXT "UP" TO AGMC AN HOUR BEFORE JOBS

If you have been late to a job more than once any time over the last three months, you agree to text "up" to AGMC an hour before your first job of the day.  This provides AGMC a chance to call you to try to wake you up if you haven't sent this "up" text.  If you don't text "up", haven't talked to AGMC by phone, and don't respond to the Lead's or AGMC phone calls for over fifteen minutes  during the hour period prior to a job appointment, you agree that your Lead has the right to substitute you for the job appointment that day, with no negativity on your part. Phone answering (or quick call returning) is a required part of the job during the hour period prior to a job start through the end of the job. Not responding to calls is considered "walking off the job".

 #19)  MORE THAN 20 MINUTES LATE ALLOWS YOU TO BE SUBBED 

        Once you are past twenty minutes late for a job, or if your estimated time of arrival is going to be more than twenty minutes late for the job, the Lead's obligation to have to provide and hold that job appointment for you comes to an end, and the Lead gains the right to substitute you for that job appointment without any complaints or negativity from you. However, if you are going to be more than twenty minutes late, and if the Lead chooses to voluntarily agree to a new negotiated job start time with you, the Lead must hold the job for you until the new negotiated start time, after which (even by one minute more late) the Lead may decline to have you work on that job, and you agree to not have any negativity about it.  For this reason, you agree to only offer a new negotiated job start time that you are sure gives you enough time to make it to the job, and NOT under estimate your offered new latest arrival time. This allows the Lead to accept or decline your new offered latest time, and clarify the "line in the sand" for all parties. 

#20)  CLOCK IN BY TEXT TO AGMC

If your job description text specifies that your job appointment starts at a U-Haul facility, you agree to text to AGMC "U-Haul" (or "u" for short) when first arriving at the U-Haul facility. You agree to text to AGMC "at customer's" (or "c" for short), when you first arrive at the customer's location, to clock in. This helps answer AGMC's and the worried customer's questions about "Are they on track this Moring?" and lets all parties know when you have NOT reached the job site yet. Your paid time does not start until after you clock in (as described above), so you may wish to set yourself an alarm to remind yourself of the clock-in requirement. The clock-in time is counted at the time your clock-in text is sent, not at a stated time written in a text sent later (I arrived at 8:30). When you don't clock-in on time, you are causing  AGMC and other parties to go to extra work to track down what is happening and to start looking for a possible substitute for you, and so the loss of your paid work time by you not clocking in on time doesn't compensate other parties for their wasted extra work, but it does act as a serious teaching tool and real repercussion.

#21)   AIM AT BEING TEN MINUTES EARLY TO APPOINTMENTS

You contract to always aim at arriving ten minutes early to your first scheduled arrival time for a job.  This means if you are ten minutes late past your contracted aimed time, you will still be on time to your job appointment.  If you are ten minutes late to your job appointment, you are TWENTY MINUTES late past your contracted aimed time, and that means you are likely not complying with this contract specification, and your ranking and job frequency will drop.  If you are going to be late to a scheduled job start location you contract to call AGMC prior to you being late, or if you don't your ranking on AGMC's list will drop.

#22)  IF YOU ARE MORE THAN TEN MINUTES LATE YOU MAKE $1 LESS PER HOUR ON THAT JOB

If you are more than ten minutes late past your contracted AIMED time of ten minutes early to the job appointment time (meaning if you are late to your appointment time) you agree to a breach of contract penalty fee of making $1 less per hour on that job.  You understand that this makes it a serious agreement for you to aim at being ten minutes early to your appointment times.

#23)   DON'T DO SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL IS UNSAFE FOR YOU

AGMC does not want you to do something that you feel is unsafe for you.  An injury costs everyone far more than is worth taking a bad risk for, and so will fully support your judgment if you "say no".

#24)  DAMAGE

If you encounter any project that seems more unsafe or risky that it might cause damage than what you are willing to take responsibility for, you are required to decline to do that work, unless we present the customer with an "insurance and liability limit disclaimer" prior to beginning work on an item in question.   If you are contract compliant, and followed all of the safety and liability requirements of this contract, AGMC will pay for half of any damage claim that you are responsible for causing, leaving you only half of it that you would be agreeing to pay for yourself.  So if you drop a $100 lamp, you would only have to pay $50.  If you don't follow the safety and liability protection requirements of this contract and you damage something (or customer blames you for damage), you agree to pay the full cost to compensate for a damage or loss claim.

#25)  PRE-EXISTING DAMAGE

Before you move something, you agree to examine it for pre-existing damage, and if you find any, you agree to photograph the damage, clearly showing the item's identifiable original location room surroundings (in the same picture showing the damage), taken BEFORE you move the pre-damaged item, or you agree to pay for that pre-existing damage as though you caused it. These pictures are your evidence that the damage existed before you moved the item.  Sometimes this requires two pictures, one close to clearly see the damage, and another picture from farther back that less clearly shows the damage spot, but does clearly show the identifiable original location room surroundings. If you don't show the identifiable original location room surroundings in the damage picture, you agree to pay for the damage that you didn't cause if the question arises. PERIOD. This picture might save you thousands of dollars.  

   You are also responsible for looking for and reporting or photographing pre-existing damage to the house BEFORE MOVING THINGS IN THAT AREA, or you agree to pay for it as though you damaged it.  You also agree to pay for cleaning any fabrics or carpets you get dirty, and to make sure to not get them dirty in the first place. If you do not have a working charged phone (with a good camera) with you on a job, then you can't be documenting pre-existing damage efficiently and properly, and so you are in breach of contract and agree to be making $1 less per hour than you would otherwise normally be making. You must have a good working phone to do this job.

#26)  PICK UP AND DROP OFF OF A U-HAUL TRUCK 

If you are picking up and dropping off a U-Haul truck from a U-Haul facility, before leaving the U-Haul facility you contract to text to AGMC a clearly readable photo of the upper half of the customer's contract, and text a second picture of the truck's odometer and gas gauge in the same picture.  If the U-Haul contract gas level is overstated compared to the actual gas level you agree to have the U-Haul employee correct the U-Haul contract before leaving the U-Haul facility.  Also before leaving the U-Haul facility you contract to photo document the outside of the truck, just in case there is a later claim of you damaging the truck.  

  Before returning the truck to the U-Haul facility, you contract to clean out the truck and refill the gas tank to the original level. If you return the truck during business hours you will make sure the truck is checked back in with no additional charges.  If you return the truck after hours, at the U-Haul facility you contract to take a picture of the gas gauge and odometer in the same picture, and text that picture to AGMC to prove the truck was returned with the correct amount of gas. The U-Haul trucks have gas stolen at night on a regular basis, so if you fail to take these pictures and U-Haul charges the customer for missing gas you contract to pay the fee U-Haul charges to replace the gas (which is very expensive). You agree to not drive the U-Haul anywhere that is not specifically approved by the customer.

#27) TEXT YOUR JOB RESULTS TO AGMC

   Right at the end of each job that AGMC refers to you, you agree to text to AGMC your job hours, pay rate, amount paid or owed to you, by who, and tip amount for that job. i.e. "4 hrs, x $25/hr, = $100 pd by Steve, +20 tip"  or "10 hrs x $27/hr, Ron owes $270, tip 0". This lets AGMC double check that both you and AGMC are being paid correctly.

#28)   REMOVED HARDWARE

If you remove hardware, you contract to put it in a baggie & green-wrap it to the source item, or you must label the source item with painter's tape saying where the parts can be found, or you contract to pay to buy new parts for any parts the customer can't easily find, and parts can sometimes be very expensive.

#29)  WATER DAMAGE LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

You contract to never work on (install or uninstall, hook up or unhook)  a washing machine or other waterline to a house, or a gas line, without first informing the Lead of the job of your intent to do so, and letting your Lead or AGMC get a full texted liability disclaimer back from the customer before you start working on the customer's machines.

#30)  KEEP THE CUSTOMER INFORMED OF YOUR STATUS

When you are not on the same site as the customer, you contract to keep the customer informed of your timing, progress and location, so the customer does not need to call AGMC to ask "Where are they?". 

#31)   WALKING OFF THE JOB

If you "walk off a job" uncompleted without having specified your time limitation in your job acceptance text reply, or without the agreement of AGMC that you should do so in that situation, this would be you leaving many other parties in a very serious and difficult position, with you causing significant harm to those many other parties, and so if you do this you agree that If the customer doesn't want to pay for your services you will wave your fee for that job. 

#32)  HELPING PUT AWAY EQUIPMENT AT THE END OF THE JOB

If at the end of the job you leave before helping to pick up, clean up, fold blankets and put all the equipment away where it belongs, you owe the Lead of the job a $10 breach of contract fee which you agree is to be taken right out of your pay for that job.

#33)  PROMPTNESS AND HAPPINESS GUARANTEE

You offer a "Promptness and Happiness Guarantee" on your services, which means if the customer is not satisfied with some aspect of your service, you agree to allow the customer to take as much off their bill (and your pay) as they feel is fair to compensate for what they felt was your "poor" work, such as what the customer believes is you showing up late, damage, "missing" items, non-efficient work time, or dirtied carpet/fabric, etc. up to and including getting your whole job for free (with you forfeiting your pay for that job).  

  This would also mean you agree to not charge for your services on a job if the customer refuses to pay the moving service bill.  If a customer's complaints and wanting a refund come within two weeks after a job, you contract to refund the asked for amount of refund.  This may sound like a big risk, but if you are doing a top notch job in the first place, this should only be an extremely rare problem, and the fact of you guaranteeing to be prompt and do good work will increase your sales frequency significantly. 

#34:  TRAFFIC TICKETS AND ACCIDENTS

You agree to pay for your own traffic and parking tickets that result from your driving of the rented U-Haul truck, and you assume sole personal responsibility and liability for all vehicle related accidents that result from your driving during the job.  You also agree you will drive EXTRA carefully and safely while on jobs.

#35)  CUSTOMER DONATED ITEMS

You agree to not try to hang out near the customer to be more likely to be given customer donated items. To help remove incentive to hang out near the customer to be given things, and to remove advantage in doing so, you agree that the division of ownership of all customer donated items is to be divided up after the job, dispersed generally equally over time, but decided and directed by the Lead after the job.   In this dispersal process the Lead is agreed to need to take into account who needs the item most and try to even out value of who has been given what over time. 

  You agree that all customer donated items are to be declared to the Lead immediately, with no items taken directly to your car without prior notification to the Lead to make it easier to spot if any theft is going on.  You agree to not ask the customer if they are going to give away items or if certain items are available. You agree that if you tell the customer you accept a donated item, you are actually accepting the donated item on behalf of the crew, knowing the ownership of the item will be decided later.

#36)  TV HANDLING

  You agree to not even touch the screen of a TV, nor place a TV with any pressure on the screen, nor tilt a Plasma TV more than a little, or you will buy the customer a new similar (same brand and size) TV if the TV develops any problems.

#37)   YOU AGREE TO NOT HIGHJACK CUSTOMERS

        You agree to not "highjack" moving customers.  Once you have worked for a moving company on a customer's job, you agree to not undermine that Lead company's further work with that customer by trying to get the customer to arrange further moving (or packing or cleaning) work with you directly.   If the customer attempts to book further work with you directly, you agree to refer the customer back to AGMC to re-book the original AGMC booked Lead moving company, although it's agreed it's fine (and encouraged) for you to ask the customer to ask AGMC for you to personally be on the job they book.

#38)   REMINDER TO TURN IN YOUR W9

This is a reminder that if you don't turn in your W9, the law requires that 24% of your independent contractor fee will need to be withheld from each of your jobs and turned into the government for taxes.  

#39)   CAUSE FOR REMOVAL FROM AGMC'S LIST

         AGMC is voluntarily providing this free listing service to you at no cost to you. However, AGMC reserves the right to remove you from AGMC's list entirely and permanently if you are caught stealing (or trying to steal); you commit or threaten violence on a customer or fellow mover; you say clearly racially or sexually disrespectful things within hearing of a customer or fellow mover; you show up to a job with a strong smell of alcohol on your breath; you don't pay what you owe to customers or fellow movers past payment deadlines, you don't show up to a job you have confirmed to accept, you walk out on a job before it's done (without that being scheduled, or without good reason), or if you show an ongoing pattern of being more than a little late to your jobs. You agree that you will have no problem or negativity about being dropped from AGMC's list (or about having your AGMC ranking plummet drastically) if you do any of these things.