LONG-DISTANCE MOVING MADE EASY
Orlando’s Leading Long-Distance Moving Company
Since 1938, Orlando has trusted Suddath® as their preferred long-distance mover. When you’re ready to start the relocation process, Suddath is here to make your moving services in Orlando experience easy and stress-free. That’s why Suddath offers a broad range of long-distance moving services to support your needs.
A single-point-of-contact move. This begins with every long-distance moving customer being assigned a dedicated Orlando move coordinator who will serve as your one call for any questions, planning or service needs. They will help ensure that moving day goes smoothly and that you and your cross-country movers are working from the same plan.
54,000
domestic moves each year
VALUED AGENT
of Atlas Van Lines
250+ HOURS
of employee training
5X WINNER
Suddath Branch of the Year
Flexible interstate moving services
Short- and Long-Term Storage
Our team can carefully store your household goods, even delicate items like antiques or wine collections. Suddath can safely pack, move, and store any of your household goods with white glove care.
In our 180,000-square foot storage warehouse in the Orlando area, and in our 3 million square feet of storage space across the country, we can accommodate short- and long-term storage needs quickly and efficiently, providing 24/7 monitoring and climate-controlled options to keep your household goods safe.
Dedicated Move Coordinators
Through our century of moving experince, we have learned that a common source of frustration in a long-distance move is the constant juggling of different contacts and details. We believe our customers deserve personalized attention from a single person who understands their needs. That’s why we assign a dedicated long-distance moving coordinator for every customer.
Your move coordinator is a single point of contact for you from your moving estimate through to delivery. No matter what changes you need to make at any point in the process, your move coordinator will be there to keep everything moving smoothly and on schedule.
America’s #1 Interstate Mover
Suddath’s commitment to efficiency and moving excellence transfers to our partners as well, who are instrumental in helping us deliver long distance moving services. To ensure that our interstate moving company take you anywhere you need to go across the country, we have a long-standing relationship with Atlas Van Lines, a trusted agent network.
Our partner network offers 600 agent locations and services 180,000 moves annually. Through Atlas, we can ensure that the member we partner with to complete your cross country move has similar Suddath values and most importantly, the training, background-checks, and screenings that we also require.
Fully Vetted Long-Distance Moving Team
Every Suddath driver is trained, licensed, and interstate qualified. Suddath has very strict enforcement regulations to make sure our team members comply with every safety procedure we have. All of our drivers must be processed through an in-depth background check. This process includes drug screening, criminal records, and driving records.
Long Distance Movers in Orlando: Costs and Their Calculations
When you need long distance movers in Orlando, cost can be a key consideration. Our Orlando moving company transparently calculates quotes using five key factors so that you only pay for what you need.
Orlando Long Distance Moving Rates
Weight of Your Belongings
Before getting your quote, reduce the weight of your household goods that will be transported to lower your estimate. (Twenty to thirty boxes can weigh one thousand pounds and include stuff you’ll just throw away later!) So:
- Don’t transport household items that won't fit in your new home—whether because of their size, like extra-large beds, or style, such as chairs with outdated looks. Save on transportation costs and use those funds to choose replacement items in your new city.
- Recycle or throw away items with no remaining value.
- Gift the family with possessions that they’d appreciate but you don’t want to keep.
- Donate goods to Orlando charities. Ones that pick up donations will save you gas money and precious time.
- Sell items online, at rummage sales, or in consignment shops. Use those funds to offset moving costs.
Your Move’s Mileage
The distance of your move will make a difference in your quote. Longer ones will require more fuel and time, often triggering the need for a bigger truck.
Your Move’s Date
Interstate moving comes with significant spikes in the summertime. Demand is high and slots on a moving company’s calendar are limited. So, these moves can cost more. To book a more cost-effective move, schedule one outside of the peak relocation season, which occurs between May and September. Also, to save money, weekend moves (Friday through Sunday) are less ideal.
No matter when you need to move, determine two or three good dates and reach out to our Orlando moving company. We’ll design a customized experience based on your budget and schedule.
Optional Services Chosen
What you choose from our flexible packing and unpacking services and our secure, convenient storage options will impact our long-distance movers in Orlando’s costs. Partial = you decide what we box up. Perhaps, for example, you want to pack non-breakables and have us handle fragile items and same-day packing. Full = we’ll take care of the entire daunting task. We also offer specialty packing services like custom crating and piano moving and advanced disassembly and reassembly of furniture.
Other optional services include exclusive use of a trailer or containers for shipping, guaranteed delivery dates, and extended delivery without extra handling.
Additional Moving Valuation Coverage
Moving valuation coverage differs from insurance, and we share how. (Note that what you pack won’t be covered.)
So, request your quote for a customized price for Orlando long-distance movers. Need financing? Let us know.
SPECIALIZED LONG-DISTANCE MOVING SERVICES
Automobile Moving
If your long-distance moving schedule doesn't allow you to road trip with your automobiles to your new home, Suddath and our trusted partners can help get it to your new destination safely.
Piano Moving
Suddath is more than happy to safely move your piano as part of your long-distance relocation. Your move coordinator will walk you through the process and answer any questions you have.
Pet Moving
A long-distance move is stressful for human family members, but can be even more so for furry ones. Make sure moving your pet long-distance is a stress-free experience by working with Suddath’s trusted providers.
Packing and Unpacking
With our full-service packing team, you can get the assistance you need to get your move ready to go without the sweat equity. We use only the best materials and employ background-checked, well-trained, professional movers.
LONG-DISTANCE MOVING RESOURCES
ORLANDO LONG-DISTANCE MOVING FAQ
Our tenure should speak for itself, as we’ve been in the Orlando area for 80 years, and Suddath has been moving Floridians since opening our doors in Jacksonville in 1919. Orlando’s team mantra is - we either do it right or make it right. We know things happen sometimes, but our long-distance moving company strives to exceed customer expectation here in this market. Everybody's on the same page, pulling the rope in the same direction.
Our average tenure with our subcontractors runs about 11 years in Orlando. All of them are background checked, making sure we know who we're putting in your house. They go through extensive training before coming to your house. There's no on the job learning. That's for both our employee and sub-contractor personnel.
You would never know who's an employee and who's a contractor, because they are an extension of us. All our contractors here are solely contracted with Suddath, so they're not at another long-distance moving company one day and at Suddath the next.
There aren’t many common issues for moving in Orlando, but if you live in a high-rise building – or if we’re doing your commercial move – we will be making an elevator reservation with your building. Our long-distance movers will check to make sure that the building has dock space or an egress that would be solely dedicated to us, so we can do our job and not hold anyone else up.
Suddath offers a preplanned moving checklist that is going to give you an eight-week timeline of things that you should be doing to get prepared for your move. Our long-distance moving company knows how stressful this can be in your life. They do an excellent job of letting you know that we're here, that we understand what we need to do and we're going to take care of your stuff. We're going to try to take stress off your plate and we're going to handle this move the right way.
In Orlando, we have 10,000 square feet of climate-controlled storage space. From there, the primary difference between short- and long-term or permanent storage is the timeframe for which your items will be stored. For interstate moves, remember that short-term storage caps at 180 days.
In either case, your items will be stored in a fully-enclosed vault within our Orlando warehouse. With vault storage, our warehouse staff will carefully store and pad wrap your valuables in the container.
No standard answer to this question exists because each long-distance moving company in Orlando can set rates and create quotes in ways of their choice. When asking specifically about Suddath and our Orlando movers, we’ll happily share the five elements we use to construct customized quotes. We do it this way so that our quote reflects the services that a particular customer wants and needs and nothing more.
The five factors are as follows:
• Weight of your belongings: This factor is both significant and, to some degree, under your control. That’s because, if you lower the weight of your household goods before requesting a moving estimate, you can reduce its amount. Pro tips include to first toss or recycle items with no remaining value. Then, sell, gift, or donate ones that others can use but you don’t need. When donation centers will pick up your items, you can save gas money and time.
• Your move’s mileage: An Orlando long-distance move, by definition, is more than fifty miles in distance. They can range, then, from fifty-one miles to across the country—and the mileage of yours will play a key role in your move’s quote. A move around Florida will use less fuel and come with fewer labor costs than relocations to New England, for example, or Arizona. Plus, these longer moves typically need a bigger truck.
• Date of your move: Depending upon how much flexibility you have, you can have some control over what’s factored into your Orlando long-distance moving quote. To get more specifics, read the answer to the FAQ titled “How can I save money on a long-distance move?”
• Optional services of choice: At Suddath, you’re empowered to make selections from our flexible service menus, and what you pick will have an impact on your quote. Optional services include our adaptable packing and unpacking services, which range from full packing (we box it all up) to partial packing where you instruct us what rooms or belongings to pack, doing the rest yourself. It also includes our specialty packing services like piano moving or custom crating. Plus, you can choose exactly what you need from our storage solutions with all of them being safe, secure, and convenient.
• Additional moving valuation coverage: We’ll explain moving valuation coverage in the amount of detail you’d like, sharing how it differs from insurance so that you can choose the best coverage for your household goods.
Using these details about your unique move, we’ll create a personalized quote. Need financing? Let us know!
Doing everything yourself is definitely cheaper than using a professional long-distance Orlando moving company. Perhaps you’re considering one using portable moving containers.
Cost savings, however, may not be as significant as you might hope, and DIY moves come with lots more work and hassle for you. As a comparison point, consider packing. With our long-distance Orlando movers, you can count on efficient packing services completed with skill and care, including with delicate items and large, heavy, and unusually shaped ones. Handling it all yourself can be pretty stressful.
Other tasks you’d need to take on yourself with a DIY move include truck rental (choosing the right size), getting friends and family members to help you load your belongings, paying for gas, determining the best route and driving the vehicle, and so forth. Once you arrive at your new home, you’ll need to unload belongings (who will help with that?), unpack boxes, return the vehicle, and so on.
As a few more considerations:
• DIY moves don’t come with valuation coverage that’s provided by professional Orlando moving companies.
• Limited quantities of pods exist, and it can be hard to know the right size and quantity for a particular relocation.
• Some homeowners associations prohibit pod moves.
To make the best, most informed decision for your situation, consider requesting an Orlando moving quote for your long-distance relocation.
For a comparison between a DIY move and a professional one by Orlando long-distance movers, see the answer to the FAQ of “What is the cheapest way to move long-distance?” When asking the question about a professional move, here are tips. Schedule a weekday move, which are typically more cost effective than weekend ones. If your timetable permits, move during the industry’s off-season of October through April instead of the more in-demand months of May through September. You can maximize savings, then, by moving on a Monday through a Thursday in the off-season.
Ready to book a date? Be prepared to provide our Orlando movers with a couple of choices that work for you. We’ll then design a move plan based on your answers to a few key questions and provide you with a personalized quote.
When you entrust your lifetime of belongings to an Orlando moving company, you’ll want to feel confident about your choice. Thanks to our century-plus of moving experience, we’ve got the expertise that inspires confidence. Our moving crews are comprehensively vetted, background checked, and trained before ever moving our customers. Your dedicated move counselor, meanwhile, will keep you in the loop throughout the relocation.
People appreciate the flexibility that we offer, including in our packing and unpacking services, range of specialty packing services, and safe, secure, and convenient storage solutions.
Besides our transparent pricing, we share plenty of practical information about how to have a more cost-effective move, including in the answers to these FAQs:
• “How much do movers cost in Orlando?”
• “What is the cheapest way to move long-distance?”
• “How can I save money on a long-distance move?”
Plus, our Orlando moving company also offers financing. If you’re ready to get started on the process, we make it easy. Request a quote, answering a few key questions. We’ll take those inputs to design a customized move plan and confirm the information to provide an accurate quote.
