Do NOT use this moving broker to do your move! My husband and I moved across the country from California to Michigan. We hired Eagle Moving Company, not realizing at first, that they were moving brokers. They contracted with Elk Movers to do the move. The original bid was around $11,000. After they called to confirm, the price jumped to around $21,000. To be fair, we ended up with a lot more stuff that we were taking. That was very expensive, but we agreed. The day of the move, Elk showed up (the people Eagle hired to do our move), and although nice, were not careful with our belongings, dropping boxes clearly marked fragile (mirrors!), and one of the movers fell over one of our boxes, just being clumsy, and broke our headboard....before they even got everything on the truck. So, the original sales person from Eagle, said we would get everything in Michigan, within 10 days. Great! Elk, said, after loading both trucks, it would be closer to 3 weeks, because of a truck driver shortage. They load your stuff up, and then find a long haul 18 wheeler driver to haul it across the country. Fine, it would take us a week to drive there, and then we'd have to "rough it" for 2 weeks. Well, friends, here it is a month later. Eagle, who've I been calling everyday, told us that finally the driver left last Tuesday, and is only allowed to drive 500 miles a day. This should put him here around last Sunday. We've been told repeatedly, that he would call us the day before to schedule the time for the next day. So, Elk picked up our stuff, and left our house in California, Sept 29th. The 18 wheeler didn't pick up our stuff until Oct 19. Except he didn't...keep reading.
Now, we live off a small dirt road, with not much of a turn around. Per Eagle, the driver probably would not drive it down our road, and that they would have small truck transport everything from the truck to the house...for another charge of around $3,500! OR...we could do it ourselves. They would load the Uhaul trucks for us, and we would then have to unload the trucks..ourselves. Not what we paid for (remember the over $21k?). Still, we thought it would be better then the extra $3500 +/-. So, based on them saying the truck should be here by Sunday, we rented two 26ft Uhaul truck on Saturday, with the intent of keeping them until today (Wed, Oct 26th) to unload ourselves. Guess what? NO TRUCK. Called Eagle today. After going around in circles, and them basically calling me a liar, without using those specific words, they say that they cannot tell me when the truck, with EVERYTHING we own on it, will be here. Might be 3 more days, might be 7. Oh, and BY THE WAY, the driver didn't actually leave until 10/21 or 10/22 (Thurs or Friday), which means we rented the UHauls, based on their poor information and lack of communication with us, about the delay, the day AFTER the driver actually left California! So, tomorrow, we are taking the UHaul trucks back, and hope that when the driver DOES call me, we will be able to find the trucks again. Otherwise, we will be forced to used their shuttle truck for the extra $3,500. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. DO NOT USE THESE PEOPLE. IT IS A TERRIBLE BUSINESS WITH TOTAL LACK OF ABILITY TO SCHEDULE, OR LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BELONGINGS WILL, (IF EVER) ARRIVE.
Edited to say that we STILL have not received our stuff, or a call from the driver. At this point, if we do not receive our stuff by the end of the week, I will look into filing a police report for stolen property. read more