RELO Roundtable…a gathering place

  Either the entire household goods moving industry isn't explaining the problems well enough … or someone in the military isn't listening! Take the poll and share your thoughts!  To make the discussion about the problems with the current DPS system more open and transparent, use the Disqus comment field below. Then, to follow the [...]

The following is a reprint of a message sent to the Governing Members of the International Association of Movers (IAM) on February 28, 2012.  IAM is a global moving industry trade association based in the United States. Their membership is comprised of over 2,000 licensed household goods motor carriers and freight-forwarders; domestic and international moving [...]

An old friend who just returned from the American Moving and Storage Association's Education Conference and Expo in Vegas last week sent a short email asking where the article on tonnage exchange lists was parked. His request had a slight sense of foreboding attached to it. Apparently several attendees felt that looming capacity concerns were [...]

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 [...]

Signaling even yet more contraction within the struggling $14 billion household goods moving industry, The Suddath Companies, a privately owned group of well diversified domestic and international transportation service and relocation move management companies based in Jacksonville, Florida, just announced the acquisition of City Moving Systems. The 105 year-old City is a women owned business [...]

Reprinted with permission of Worldwide ERC®, from the October 2011 issue of MOBILITY Magazine Human resource and mobility professionals know well the ins and outs of the moving process, but it’s rare to be given an inside peek at life on the road for a household goods driver. By “following” a driver for a day, [...]

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 [...]

Brookfield Global Relocation Services, a leading relocation management and mobility consulting services company, has expanded its Knowledge Center, making it easier than ever to access detailed information on literally hundreds of mobility topics. The Knowledge Center is a comprehensive archive of mobility research conducted, analyzed and categorized over the past 16 years.  Among the topics [...]

HINT: It wasn’t because of movers! According to a recent e-News update issued by the International  Association of Movers (IAM), staff from military Surface Deployment Distribution Command (SDDC) believe that the 2011 Peak Season was “better” than the last year. On August 16-17, 2011, SDDC, the executive agent for the United States Transportation Command's (USTRANSCOM) [...]

Local Personal Property Processing Offices will continueSCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Department of Defense officials and the U.S. Transportation Command are leading a change in how household goods move for military personnel and civilian employees supporting the military. The change consolidates 151 Personal Property Shipping Offices into 11 regional Joint PPSOs. Local Personal Property [...]