Don’t cut costs in a move especially if it relates to your insurance. Often it is difficult to put a value on the possessions that you own, but under insurance could spell disaster if anything does go wrong in a move. As a mover, ensure your potential customer is fully aware of the commitment that it takes to assess the true value of the possessions they own.

As a moving business, it is important to accept that inevitably an accident will happen with an item of furniture where it gets damaged. After all, your services requires customers’ items to move from one location to the next, which has risk. The question that you must ask is do you pay the customer for the damaged item, or, do you find out first if the item of furniture is repairable?

Getting the proper paperwork completed for a job can save your business money. Paperwork left incomplete and unsigned can result in a company not only facing fines, but also they might be liable for full valuation costs if some damage occurs to a customer’s goods.

It is important when you are looking at improving the positive parts of your moving business, you also consider the other end of the spectrum where a problem occurs and damage happens to a client’s property. At some point you are going to have to look at damages that happen to customer items. This is just part of the moving industry because accidents happen.

If you are a moving business, then it is important that you are fully insured. You won’t obtain a license without adequate business insurance. The next important thing is the customer’s insurance. It is not something that you ever want to have to use, but it is important that a customer protects their property in case the worst does happen.

You may need to change your practices if you have a business with over 11 staff on hand. New record keeping and information reporting must occur within a set time or risk the possibility of legal punishment, including a fine.