Loading and unloading help for your truck, POD or container

1. Tell us what you are loading into. A rental truck, a POD, a shipping container, and its size. Let us know if everything goes in or only some of it.
2. Have it parked and open before the team arrives, with keys if it is locked.
3. Box all small items. We do not move items packed in plastic bags. TVs, lamps and mirrors must be in boxes.
4. Empty the drawers of dressers and filing cabinets.
5. Group the items that are not going in one room so nothing is loaded by mistake.

Some moves do not need our truck. You may have rented a truck, ordered a portable container, or have a POD sitting in the driveway, and what you need is three people who know how to load it tight and safe. Spartan Moving does labor-only loading and unloading across the Bay Area, billed by the hour, with the same crew we send on full moves.

On a full move, moving blankets and wardrobe boxes come with the service, because we load, drive and unload and take them back at the end. On a labor-only job we cannot collect them, so they are not included. The crew still takes furniture apart, and puts it back together when we unload, as part of the hourly work.

We recommend having your own moving pads ready for the furniture, or buying pads and other materials from the crew, charged as used. Mattress covers are $15 each.

One more difference: since we are not driving or unloading your truck or container, we do not take liability for damage that happens in transit or at the delivery location.

We also unload. If your container has been delivered to your new Bay Area home, or you drove a rental truck in from out of the area, we can meet it, unload and set the furniture up in the rooms you choose. Same rate, same 3-hour minimum. We serve the whole Bay Area, from San Jose and the Peninsula to San Francisco, the East Bay and Marin. Our arrival window is 8 to 10 AM in the South Bay and Peninsula, and 9 to 11 AM in San Francisco and the East Bay; the team calls 30 minutes ahead.