[Spridgets] transportation companies

[David Booker]

"Any recommendations of companies? And maybe more importantly, any companies
to avoid like the plague?"

   
  I have a mover to Avoid... Allied (the big orange-trucked moving company).  They probably wouldn't be on your short list anyway, but I like to take every opportunity to bad-mouth this company.  
   
  Back in '94 I was moving from Tennessee to Virginia for a new job.  Allied was the mover my company wanted me to use.  They really seemed to know what they were talking about when they came to bid the job.  I believe the quote went something like "Mr. Booker, believe me when I say we know how to treat vintage cars like yours".  They so badly underestimated the cubic feet necessary for the move that the one thing I really cared about ended up on a separate truck (my almost perfect, newly restored and painted Triumph that only lacked the finishing touches on the interior).  I was very concerned, but they promised it would get a ride in an enclosed trailer and show up with the furniture on the agreed day the following week. 
   
  I won't bore the list with all the details, but the car finally showed up over a month after the furniture did.  Every single body panel was either bent or scratched or both.  It looked like the jerks had loaded it with a towmotor.  On top of it all, they said the car was only worth a few hundred dollars since it was so old.  I had to fight every step of the way to get any money at all out of them.  I ended up after threat of lawsuit with barely enough to pay for the body work repairs - it was never right after that.  
   
  There, I feel better.  Haven't had the opportunity to run business away from the jerks in a couple years now.  Beware the big orange trucks...as the old Monty Python / Holy Grail quote goes: Run away, Run away!!!
   
   - David



       
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