PORTLAND, OREGON
Trusted Portland Moving Company
Fifty-five years of customer-centric service in Portland. Portlanders have trusted Suddath with their storage and moving, for over 55 years. We take care of our Oregon customers by providing a broad range of high-quality services, flexible to your needs, and supported with personalized customer service and full transparency to cost and schedule.
Whether you are a resident who needs a local moving company or a business that’s ready for a strategic partner, you’ll benefit from personalized customer service and complete cost transparency and leading technology.
Broad and flexible services to fit any need. Our moving teams are highly experienced and fully vetted. While we are a proud part of Rose City, we also have a strong network of branches and partners across the country and globe able to quickly assist with any moving need. That flexibility allows us to offer a wide range of flexible services in moving that allow us to be a qualified one-stop-shop for our customers and clients.
100+ YEARS
of moving experience
250+ Hours
of mentored training
3
Oregon locations
PORTLAND MOVING & STORAGE
Local Portland Moving Company
We make home moving easier and less stressful. Each customer has unique needs, especially in Portland. That's why we offer a wide range of flexible moving services in Portland to fit your exact needs and budget. We begin by assigning a dedicated move coordinator so that you get personalized service and direct access to the authority on your local move. Your local move coordinator will help you choose the best services for your needs, create your checklist of things to do before moving day, and keep you up to date on all of the details of your move.
Portland Long-Distance Movers
Customized long-distance moving services at an affordable price. A long-distance move can be a stressful experience, but it doesn't need to be. Suddath provides personalized, flexible Portland moving services along with a single point of contact to make moving an adventure instead of a headache.
Every team member has passed our rigorous background check and has had over 250 hours of in-house training. You can also feel confident knowing that Suddath is part of Atlas Van Lines network – a trusted interstate moving company since 1948.
International Movers in Portland
International moving made easy. With an overseas move, hiring experienced, true international movers who understand customs processes is essential. Suddath successfully completes 16,000 international relocations every year. We are also five-time FEM Americas EMMA International Moving Company of the Year winners because of our positive impact in global mobility.
BUSINESS AND OFFICE MOVING
Workplace Solutions and Office Moving
Complete commercial moving in Portland. Moving commercially is a complex undertaking, and it takes experience and planning to make sure that your employees are up and running as soon as possible. As Portland's premiere commercial mover, Suddath can be a one-stop-shop for your transition to a new office space.
Our complete workplace solutions include Moves, Adds and Changes (MAC) work of systems furniture, office moving, inventory control and warehousing, project management, project coordination, CAD design, ergonomic assessments, decommissions, as well as disconnect/reconnect work.
Employee Relocation Services in Portland
Happy, productive employees. We do more than move your employees from one place to another: Our comprehensive corporate employee relocation services can be a vital part of your talent management strategy. We customize our services to your needs, help mitigate risk, and decrease employee downtime. Our long-standing worldwide partnerships ensure quality and seamless experience, whether you're moving long-distance or internationally.
YOUR PORTLAND MOVERS
Proud to Move Bruce the Moose
Benton County Historical Society needed to move artifacts including a large moose (Bruce the Moose) in Philomath, Oregon. This museum move understandably raised a lot of concerns in wanting to ensure utmost specialized handling.
The project coordinator received news that the Benton County Museum was very pleased with the move, commenting:
“We are so pleased with [the] crew! They exceeded our expectations and were very mindful and patient with all of our concerns about the artifacts. The moose move this morning was very exciting and we got some coverage by the local paper—we’ll be front page news tomorrow. Thanks so much for your wonderful service! Again, great job!!”
We were happy to handle Bruce with care, and to get him safely to his new home in the Corvallis Museum!
PORTLAND BRANCHES
Locally serving residents of the Portland area for 55 years
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1600 NW 48th Ave., Hillsboro, OR
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9445 SW Ridder Rd., Wilsonville, OR
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9611 NE Sunderland Ave., Portland, OR
FEATURED NEWS AND INFO
PORTLAND MOVING FAQ
Typically, it is a good idea to get some extra coverage on the items that you're moving, especially if they are high-value or expensive.
You are automatically covered for $0.60 per lb., which may not be enough if you have higher value items. For example, if something happens to be a 10-lb. lamp, you’re only going to get $6 for that lamp, regardless of its actual replacement cost.
Absolutely we can move your car. We have several different types of Portland moving services available whether your car is a normal run-of-the-mill car, a classic car or a high-end car. For instance, we do have a covered car carrier, and then for the normal transports we do have the open-air auto carriers.
There are a lot of moving companies out there, and some are not reputable. You must be very careful of companies that are not licensed or bonded to handle your items. Poor quality of labor is another issue that is common, and you put your items at risk if you do not do your due diligence beforehand.
Absolutely, we do a lot of international moves for some very recognizable companies, as well as independent international moves. We have certified estimators that can come out and give you a binding bid to move your items from here to anywhere in the world.
We have very experienced crews that know how to load lift-vans and overseas containers. We also have certified packers and laborers to handle international shipments.
It starts with the movers that are loading these items, and their training and experience. Suddath has a very thorough training program called ‘Suddath University’ that all of our employees go through, which covers the proper ways to pack a shipment into boxes and loading it into the moving truck, as well as many of our other best practices developed over our decades in the business.
The home protection that we use at origin and destination, which includes floor protection, wrapping and padding, is all something that is a Suddath standard throughout the moving company.
Our experience is really second-to-none in the Portland market. We are also the largest moving company in the state of Oregon. We have three facilities surrounding the Portland metropolitan area, and our experience and tenure is probably better than anyone in town. We have many employees that have been with us close to 10 years or more.
The training that we do is unmatched, not just in Portland, but in the industry. Suddath University is something that our operations managers, dispatchers and general managers go through, ensuring quality, efficiency and safety.
As a local moving company in Portland, we are unique in that we have a very good mix of employees and contractor-employees. All our contractors work exclusively for us, and many have done so for years. The only difference is in the way we pay them, but they have to adhere to the exact same standards that anyone we employ directly does. They also must have the same amount of coverage, be licensed and bonded just like a Suddath employee would be. But we do have a mix of both.
We run background checks on every employee that comes through here, and they also go through an intensive training process before they're allowed to start on the job. Every van operator also has to go through a drug screening.
By the nature of the moving business, we do work with some contractors. Many of our van operators are contractors, but they’re hardly any different from our actual employees. They work exclusively for us, and most have been with Suddath for years.
We have a lot of tenure on our crew, and that’s because Suddath is a great organization. We're looking to grow someone else's career. I think these crews, I think they know that, and they know that they're working for the best. Any other company would be second-tier and not take care of them the way we do.
We take great pride in providing you with a great experience from start to finish. One of the most important things we do for our customers is to provide them with a dedicated, local Portland move coordinator, who will hold your hand from the start of booking the survey through to the end of delivery.
They will check on you throughout the process to help you through the very difficult and stressful process of moving. They'll answer any questions along the way. You'll also notice that when your surveyor comes out, the experience and attention to detail that they will have will give you a feeling of comfort. But that start to finish guidance is what we take great pride in.
We do happen to have a climate-controlled storage section of our warehouse, which is unique to Portland. Oregon typically does not require a climate-controlled atmosphere because we are a moderate climate. However, there have been some high-end customers that have asked for this type of service, and we are able to provide it to them.
Yes, we do. Our recycle, liquidation and donation program is very strong. We don't just do it for our household goods, but we more often do it for our large commercial accounts.
Suddath has a very green program here in Portland that allows our customers to work through us to make sure that as little as possible winds up in a landfill, and we do donation and liquidation and recycle programs for some of the largest companies in Portland. We even have a way to certify anything that does get reused, so our customers can acquire green points.
Our branch here in Portland, Oregon is very unique, and I would say complex. Our complexity of commercial customers is unmatched in this market and potentially throughout the country.
We have program work which is called MAC, which stands for moves, adds, changes, and we are on business campuses every day for some of the largest companies in town. We have anywhere from 150 to 200 people doing commercial moving on a day-to-day basis, and we also provide specialized services like ergonomics assessments, planning, and support, which is an on-campus strategic planner who works organizing upcoming moves.
We're dealing with corporations that are essentially like cities, and we are helping them with the everyday changes of that city, including installation services. We have in-house installers that do cubicles for many different brands of furniture, including Steelcase, Herman Miller, Haworth, Kimball, Teknion and several others. We do not sub-contract out that type of work. We actually have certified installers for many of the different brands, but we are also able to offer people from a dock manager, to planning support, to a project coordinator, and many other services that we offer.
Take a look at one of our Portland office renovations in this case study featuring the city of Portland.