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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 [...]

According to a new article published by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is streamlining domestic and international military personal property transfers during the moving industry's 2011 busy season. The article, Command Streamlines Moves During Busy Season, which was posted on July 26th by the American Forces Press [...]

Before you start reading, fix your eyes on the red dot in the center of the image to the right. That's your assigned focus – your job for today!  The little speck in the middle of the light green circle. Look at it. Concentrate on its color, size and shape. Stare at it awhile before [...]

Readership has fallen off gradually during the last few weeks … just as expected!  Most regular industry subscribers (as well as many of the their corporate customers and HR hiring managers) are probably doing everything they can to keep their heads above water. They already know what kind of trouble they're in – they don't [...]