These are sad times when moving companies who want to work for the military, but only in the household goods movement area, are required to have a bond in place for $75,000. This is a requirement based on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. A motion, which was trying to procure exemption from this requirement, has failed.

Times have changed and this is true of many people who have worked in the moving business. There is no need to have boxes of paperwork for each client that comes through the door, and the sales teams and the accounts departments no longer need to have shares in the paper industry to reduce the cost of the company’s stationery requirements.

Changes are occurring in the moving business. It is sad that many of the old practices lost by moving forward are not replacing some of the skills lost as staff members age. It is not an industry that is able to attract the young men and women who are comfortable to sit behind the wheel of a removal vehicle.

It is important to remember that as each year passes so, too, does the technology advancement in many areas. This improvement allowed the TOPS system in the military movement area for family and equipment to move to a new and exciting system called DP3 or Defense Personal Property Program.

Moving personnel in the military and their personal possessions is not something that is new. The need to move military and their families to their new units has been happening for many years, with different names and different actions, which have all been an improvement on the preceding systems used.

It is important that the military are saving money and the companies that they choose to move their goods and services should be value for money. The service provided by the Hawaiian based company, Pasha Group, who are responsible for many of their movements of personnel and larger items between Hawaii and the mainland, is at a price that is cheaper than moving the items by the military themselves.