As an owner of a moving business owner, you have had to put out constant fires. By fires, I mean both minor and major issues that needed attention in your company. By putting out these ‘fires’ you have had a helping hand in decreasing stress, tension, animosity and more between office staff, movers, customers and accounts. When your business is operating at full capacity and movers are coming down the tube faster than you can handle them, it can be easy to put a Band-Aid on something that needs stiches. In fact, is in our nature to simply patch things up and get them to operate at the capacity we need them without giving it a second thought, but this can cause what are called ‘landmine’ moments.

Being the overseer of Moving Business Network as well as a writer, I have had the liberty to speak with several moving companies about how they price their moves and the averages among the industries long asked questions. It has been an incredibly insightful experience, as well as shocking how closely, no matter what state you are from, how similar pricing is across the board.

Telematics is a bit of a buzz word at the moment. Motoring sections of national newspapers, car blogs and haulage industry press are all naming it as a solution to many motoring problems. But what exactly is telematics, and how can it help your commercial fleet?

For quite some time, the term “self-storage” has been synonymous with personal use. We have long relied on these as an off-site garage of sorts or even a spare bedroom for storing old furniture, mementos and seasonal goods.

A self storage facility serves as a fine alternate over the conventional business storage houses with the likes of expensive warehouses for business storage solutions. With increase in demand for the self storage facilities, numerous service providers have sprung up in the market. Choosing the right self storage facility might seem as an intricate task for you. Here are some of the vital factors that need to be considered while making a choice of a company. They would help you in setting criteria for making the right selection.

Planning a Do-it-Yourself move (or a DIY) move can be hard work, even if you’re hiring some help move it, you’ll probably still need to deal with some of the heavy lifting yourself too. There are certain techniques that professionals use when it comes to loading and lifting heavy items of furniture and other household items that are both efficient and safe.