Moving Business Network - Learn from Industry Veterans

One of the benefits of social media is the ability to listen to what your customers are saying not only about your company, but the moving industry in general. Have they had a bad experience with a competitor? Use that knowledge to prevent it from happening to you. How can you get the leg up on your competitors?

When building your moving business from scratch, you are going to face the business challenge of determining your exit strategy. Most independent movers run their business without any plans to exit and even if they have an exit strategy, they find it difficult to implement it.

Let’s face it; there is no way for a professional moving company to completely ensure the safety of your possessions from being lost or stolen. Though there are many different types of coverage’s and insurances in place on your move, it can still be scary to trust even the professionals with your belongings. Moving companies hire all different types of individuals and although they do their best to hire trustworthy individuals, sometimes untrustworthy people slip through the cracks.

At some point in time or another, everyone eventually moves and some people handle it with great attention and preparation. However, most people are not aware of the environment when moving. For those who feel that it is important to move in an eco-friendly manner, consider these tips and abide by them as much as possible.

Although a valid driver’s license is accepted all across the United States, bad individual driving habits are not. All over the country, police are cracking down on everything from which lane you drive in to the use of your cell phone. Before you jump into your truck and hit the road, you need to educate yourself in the changing driving laws. Although it varies from state to state, they’re all cracking down on some, if not all of the following laws.

The employer had suspicions that this man’s back injury was not as debilitating as he said it was in his workers’ compensation claim. They hired CIC to conduct surveillance and we immediately found that he was not home during the morning hours. We then scheduled an early-morning surveillance and discovered that he was working for another company as a furniture deliveryman. Oddly enough, he claimed that his back injury was so severe that he couldn’t even ride in a dump truck. He was obviously being dishonest. Many times, with this type of case, we will pass on our evidence on to the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation so they can use it to file fraud charges against the individual.