Rates from $89 per hour · No minimum time · No deposit
Low wages, no benefits or security, and brutally hard work make working for a moving company a last choice career. Employee movers are often unhappy and unskilled transient workers with a poor attitude. A mover that truly cares is often flaunted in advertising, but in reality, they are as rare as a unicorn.
Owner Operator Movers love their work because they make great money and are their own bosses. They get to choose their helpers, who are often good friends or family and the entire team takes pride in their work. Owner Operators are happy movers, rarely seen in other moving companies.
Edmonton is a very mobile city. We have more moving companies here than in a normal Canadian city twice our size. It is also a great place for amatuer movers to get started in business. Don’t be a training ground for the new guy in town. Trust Owner Operator Movers Edmonton to send you a trained professional.
It takes a couple of years moving big moves and small moves, all different types of furniture in different situations to learn to be a good mover. Many employees are casual labor in this industry and it shows in the level of damage complaints. We have been a member of the Edmonton BBB since 2002 and some of our movers from then are still with us. The local move crews usually bill out by the hour and serve the suburbs of Sherwood Park, St Albert, Spruce Grove, Fort Saskatchewan and the Leduc area at the same low rates.
Expensive long distance style moves are not necessary when moving from Edmonton to a different Albertan city. Our local team can take you to Fort McMurray, Athabasca, or Red Deer at cheaper local move rates. Long Distance movers charge more because they need to run huge trucks and have expenses that are unnecessary for moves within Northern Alberta.
When we move someone to Peace River or Lloydminster, the cheapest option is to load up the truck a day before the move. This lets us drive out of Edmonton before morning traffic picks up and return home the same day as completing the move. We reach maximum efficiency by using good logistics and avoid the customer having to pay for an overnight crew.
Here at OO movers, we have offered the so called “Triangle Run” between Alberta and BC for years. Twice a month year round, as well as weekly in the summer, we have runs between Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. Regularly, we also take customers’ cargo from Alberta directly to Victoria and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. We are able to support a system that follows a regular schedule, as well as keeps costs low, because we have offices in each destination city.
Usually, moving between provinces uses large trucks where your belongings are consolidated with other clients’. This keeps the price low for everyone. We are usually able to carry your possessions direct from you house to your destination without spending extra on warehousing and unnecessary handling, because we ship so often. Our per-pound long distance moving rates are very competitive and come along with our outstanding standard of service to help you relocate to a new province.
Owner Operator Movers Edmonton is partnered with some of the most experienced and hard working Ontario to BC movers in Canada. They are all owners who care. Very few cross Canada movers originate in Edmonton. The majority of them are from Ontario because that is the largest population center in Canada and that is where most trips begin or end. Most of these across Canada, long distance movers follow the southern route through Calgary and charge an extra fee to divert to Edmonton.
OO movers Edmonton is linked with offices in Calgary and Vancouver so we can provide full support to our big trailers with loading crews and storage facilities in each city. Our moves that pickup or drop in Edmonton are charged at the same price as Calgary.
Often, packing is actually more difficult than the move itself. Proper packing takes much more time than most people have in their busy lives. Our experienced crews can make the painful process of packing happen effortlessly or can help out as much or as little as needed. We can carefully pack everything from your fine china to that messy garage. Our most common packing request is kitchen packing service or just to bring extra wardrobe boxes.
Our Edmonton movers group encourage the use of plastic tubs and used boxes for moving whenever possible. Reusable packaging is more environmentally friendly than even the most easily recycled material. Liquor stores and produce sections of grocery stores always have lots of free boxes that can be reused for moving.