<p>Anyone ever use these for a long-distance move?</p>
<p>We did alot of research on this before making a deicision to move D’s stuff from Chicago to the west coast. The best website we found was one called: movingscam.com
which had loads of information and ultimately led us to our final choice.</p>
<p>For the right situation, the pods seem to be a cost-effective method and many people have been happy with their choice.</p>
<p>There was one pod company we saw great reviews for called ABF U-Pack which was quite a bit less expensive than the brand name PODS. (There was a problem for D using it in the Chicago area and it would have required a couple extra moves since they couldn’t come to her storage location in the city. So where you’re moving from/to will be relevant in your selection.) In our cross country drive we noticed many semis out there which were ABF. Before this, I’d never even heard of them.</p>
<p>For her, the best option ended up to be hiring a mover. After we did all the cost comparisons for a u-haul/penske vs pod-type vs mover, factoring the gas, hotels, travel expenses etc, the full-scale mover was only $400 more and WORTH EVERY PENNY. They arrived on time at both ends, delivered everything and put things together, took away all the boxes, etc. After doing so many self-service moves, loading/driving/unloading etc, this seemed so easy in comparison. Given it was a 2000+ mile move, it was a much lower stress way to go.
It wasn’t perfect–a couple things had minor damage. But it was SO much less stressful.</p>
<p>I highly recommend checking out the movingscam website. Amazing source of great information to sort through all the things to think about.</p>