How to Talk About Moving Insurance with Your Customers
As a top notch professional moving company, you may feel a little awkward telling customers about third-party moving insurance right after you’ve told them about the care your team takes to protect their belongings. After all, if you’re good at your job, there...
How Temporary Housing Can Attract Talent
Employers have a problem attracting workers. Workers have a problem finding housing. By providing temporary housing for workers, employers can address both problems at once. Housing Costs Are Surging Whether you’re renting or buying, finding an affordable home has...
Moving Claims Prevention Survival Guide
The weather is warming up, and that means the busy moving season is right around the corner. Before things get too hectic, it’s time to focus on your moving claims prevention strategies. With the right tactics you can reduce claims, keep your customers happy and...
Moving News Roundup: What Moving Companies Should Know Now
What’s happening now in the moving industry? Although the pandemic may be waning, its impact on the moving industry remains. Here’s a look at the moving trends, worker issues, emerging risks and other developments that moving company professionals should know about...
How to Solve Moving Industry Hiring Challenges: 10 Key Takeaways
For companies in the moving and transportation sector, the current hiring challenges are exacerbating an already-troubling trucker shortage. Chris Spear, President and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, told CNN that the trucking industry is short 80,000...
What’s Happening Now with Corporate Relocations
Remote work has been getting all the attention recently, but corporate relocations are still happening. Not everyone works from home. When an employee accepts a new job in a location, they may end up having to move to a different city, state or even country. Corporate...
How the Great Resignation is Affecting the Moving Industry
People are quitting their jobs at record rates. It’s being called the Great Resignation, and it’s having a big impact on the moving industry. Moving Trends Amid COVID and the Great Resignation Movers have been busy during the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal says...
A True and Tragic Moving Insurance Tale: Share This With Your Customers
If you’ve ever moved across the country – or even across the city – you know that things have a tendency to go wrong. Your internet connection isn’t hooked up when it’s supposed to be, your kids are bored, your pets are stressed, and you can’t find that one item you...
The Future of Move Booking: Online or In Person?
I might be dating myself, but in 1988 I was sitting at the NYC’s office of Shleppers Moving and Storage at 79th Street and Madison Avenue, one hand holding a phone receiver, connected to a land line, and the other making notes on a 3-inch by 4-inch index card. On the...
RIG’s Moving Insurance Affiliates Experience Fewer Claims
It’s been a challenging year for the moving industry. The pandemic prompted many Americans to move, and while many companies likely welcomed the increased business, worker shortages and new health and safety requirements made it difficult to keep up. According to The...