RELO Roundtable…a gathering place

Don't be fooled by Mother Nature. May is still National Moving Month, the official start of the household goods industry's peak moving season. Professional relocation product and service suppliers throughout the moving industry recognize the period between Cinco De Mayo and Labor Day as the traditional “busy period” in the U.S. Despite this year's mild [...]

Responding to a petition filed by the American Moving and Storage Association and comments submitted by industry consultants from the Moving Pros Network, the Surface Transportation Board announced on March 8, 2012, that it had agreed to postpone the implementation date on a congressional directive to enhance consumer protection when loss or damage occurs during [...]

On January 10, 2012, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation, made three (3) major changes in the way that shipment valuation will apply when licensed household goods carriers transport interstate shipments for individual (COD) shippers. The STB ruling clarified a earlier [...]

This article is reprinted with permission of Mobility Magazine, published by Worldwide ERC, December 2011 BY GREG KOEHLINGER It’s one thing to worry about household goods in transit, but trumping that concern is the potential shortfall of the availability of talented drivers to move these goods. Koehlinger writes that transferees across all industry sectors increasingly [...]

If your moving and storage company does business with the U.S. military, you're probably already aware that over weekend of September 30 – October 2, 2011, the Surface Deployment Distribution Command took down their Defense Personal Property System (DPS) to install release 1.4.07 into the production system. This latest patch includes a long list new [...]

Moving industry association disheartened by Walker’s personal attacksResponding to comments that owner Tim Walker made at his popular trash-your-mover website, MovingSCAM.com, Linda Bauer-Darr, the President and CEO of the American Moving and Storage Association posted the following defense of AMSA's ProMover Program.   The exchange is over a "Statement from AMSA" thread posted in the [...]

Tim Walker, the owner of the popular trash-your-mover website, MovingSCAM, came out of hiding recently to question the validity of a statement posted by one of the moving industry professionals who regularly participates in the "consumer oriented" site's four open forums. In a thread entitled “Statement from AMSA”, the original poster added a quote from [...]

Full service relocation crews with trailers or trucks.The following is a professional plea I saw posted yesterday by Don Claeys at a relocation related group on Linkedin. Don is the CEO of Action Moving, Inc., an Atlas Van Lines agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. Dakota Dunes S.D. Is flooding and I have a list [...]

The American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA), the non-profit trade association representing legitimate members of the professional moving industry throughout the country, has officially dubbed May as 'National Moving Month'. No, you don’t have to send flowers to your favorite relocation professional. Nor are you expected to share hugs with the big lugs carrying your [...]

Do you know what the acronym RISCED stands for? What about CRISES? According to Dan Gilmore, Editor-in-Chief of the Supply Chain Digest, and Greg Andrews at Georgia Tech, they basically mean the same thing – TROUBLE! In an article entitled Transportation Tsunami Coming Again?, Gilmore wonder if the country is “headed back to a another [...]