What is the most cost effective and reliable way to move across country?

To specifically answer your underlying question, a moving company will be cheaper than FedEx and USPS if you have more than a few hundred pounds of items. Call around to "independents" and see if they are making a run to LA for someone else and have room on the truck for your items too. Be sure to make your boxes unique (super large label in fuchsia, puce or other uniquely identifiable color) so your possessions are easily identified from others on the truck.To give some ideas to people who might read your primary question and think they will find general moving saving tips...read on.

Planning is the key, which means you need to be actively organizing the move well in advance. If you are moving a lot of possessions and cars, the move will be expensive, no matter what you do. +/- $6,000 for a 2 bedroom and 2 cars whether you (and friends) load and drive the truck yourselves or hire a moving company.

Some things to consider to reduce costs: Sell everything (or as much as you can), especially vehicles and appliances. Again, start early so you can get good prices and people don't sense it's a fire sale because you have to be out in a week. You can likewise replace most items for pennies on the dollar in your new city through consignment stores and sites like Craigslist.

This too takes time, so plan ahead. Note: You can often find shipping boxes for free on Craigslist.Do not take a lot of clutter such as 1/2 used and more than a year old toiletries. It just costs gas and space for nothing.

Do pay attention to the time of year. Plants can't go in a truck in the winter, chocolate can't go in a truck in the summer. (You get the idea.

) You will save money if you don't lose possessions you did not intend to replace. Line up a new place to live before you leave so you can unload the truck right into the new dwelling rather than into a storage unit (and then out of the storage unit, into the home at a later time). Pack tightly in medium and small boxes (as much as is practical), which can be arranged with maximum efficiency in the truck (less space, less potential damage).

Buy moving insurance fr0m your present homeowner insurance provider.It's an inexpensive add-on and well worth it. If you are driving a car cross country, and can afford the time, combine the move with a cross-country vacation. If you spend $2k on a vacation, then you have effectively reduced the cost of your move by that much.Or...you might try starting a website and contacting family, friends and associates to underwrite your attempt to break a Guinness World Record and just move the whole house.

I always flew, but the cheapest way to move stuff is by driving it across yourself.

The main cost effective and reliable way to move across country is hire truck. It is the best way of shipping.

The cheapest, keeping in mind the most reliable, would be for you to rent a U-Haul one way and drive it out yourself. If your just interested in cheapest find some cowboy who'll take it out and hope it gets there. If you have to pay $5,000 for the movers it won't cost you that much in gas to drive yourself.

Good luck with your move to LA. I personally believe it would be a lot easier to use a moving company. The best company I have found online is movingnation.com - They really have a good record of good work and are very recommended by their customers.

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