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.
Tracking the items for different customers in the moving business is not easy. The concept of using barcoding seems like a great idea in theory, but it has seen its fair share of problems. The question as to the best way to read and identify containers and connecting this to the owner is difficult. The idea of using barcodes is great. However, being able to read the information quickly is the area that suffers the most.
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 difficult to predict the amount of movement in the military that will occur each year. Typically in the summer, there is a high volume of movement, but this could be greater with the recent changes implemented in the Department of Defense.
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.
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