As Wheaton Van Lines grows closer to completing the acquisition of Bekins Van Lines, Inc., both brands prepare to share operational efficiencies as the fourth-largest goods carrier in the U.S. When the acquisition process is complete, each company will be centrally headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the long time home of Wheaton Van Lines. Once the two companies combine, their combined van line agent base will rise from 240 to approximately 370 across the country.

Just 39 years ago in 1973, a massive fire in Overland, Missouri consumed a large amount of U.S. History. The fire burned for two days, feeding off of cardboard boxes in the federal government’s Military Personnel Records building. Recorded history dating back to 1841, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War was destroyed or severely damaged according to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is and, hopefully, always will be considered the most devastating archival fire in U.S. History.

Imaging putting your packing skills to the test as you compete against other movers to be the best. Well you can at the Annual Mover Skills Rodeo in Wichita Falls, Texas sponsored by Albert Moving & Storage. The competition was originally developed to highlight the best practices in the moving industry and serve as a training experience. Now, though, it is an all-out competition among moving companies across the country.

Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, the new world settlers moved South and West to make a home. Now, we are following in our ancestors footsteps, literally. The Southern and Western parts of the United States seem to be the popular place to move according to recent moving trends. Based on the statistics below from the most recent 2010 census, new moving companies should focus on the South-Western trend of the United States.

MovePoint Software has always had the best reputation when it comes to making big moving companies even bigger. But on July 4th 2012, MovePoint Software tried something new. We had our first ever Independence Day promotion, and a new, faint voice was heard under the large corporations. Smaller and younger moving companies gave outstanding feedback and suggestions as to how MovePoint can help them, too.

Whether you are an owner, manager, mover, HR, accounting, assistant, everyone needs to take a minute…or 10 a day to just have a little bit of fun. Break that manotany and have a bit of fun, movingbusiness.nets orders.