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Last move was was a full house, 900 miles. I had started the new job 2 months before and was flying home on the weekends to my wife and 2 kids.
We hired a young college kid who was on summer break to help us pack up for 2 weeks. She got pretty much everything I to boxes. We then had a regular shipping company drop off a semi box trailer. We hired 3 movers to load everything from the house and pack it into the trailer.
The trucking company drove the trailer up to our current place. We hired an other 3 movers to unload the trailer.
All together it was around 1/4 the price of what the moving companies quotes where asking. Hell it was only a few hundred bucks more than the u-haul rental would have been.
Good hack! It's like the difference on price between event catering for a birthday, and event catering for a wedding.
"Moving house" is a rare occurrence, so they can charge a premium. "Load a truck with boxes" could be anything, and doesn't attract the same overhead.