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your comment’s tone suggests you live alone. there are many sane answers to this that do not involve one’s salary at all: physical ability, distance, quantity o

by trial3 1y ago

your comment’s tone suggests you live alone. there are many sane answers to this that do not involve one’s salary at all: physical ability, distance, quantity of stuff, other demands on your time or, perhaps most of all, the time of people you are moving with. i personally am in a place where i still drive my own U-Hauls, but can very easily imagine the value of avoiding that amount of stress being worth just writing a huge check i also must point out the even brokest friends i’ve helped move at least sprung for pizza for everyone who helped

anovikov 1y ago
I don't live alone, and in general i'm not against the idea of someone doing it for a fee, but $14k!!! It's a fucking annual minimum wage. Also, as for driving a truck, sure it sucks driving a truck for days, but shipping a 20-foot container over a very long distance does not cost nearly as much. It's in the $1000-$2000 range. A 20-foot container should fit someone's all possessions. Someone charging $12K for packing and unpacking definitely rips people off, big time.
- simoncion 1y ago
  Assuming a three-day job and a three-man crew the math works out to: 14000/(24*3*3) 64.81481481481481 about sixty-five bucks an hour. [0] OP doesn't mention if the house was packed up into a container to be loaded onto a train (as you suggest would happen), but -given what I've seen and heard of long-haul house movers doing- I find it much more likely that the house contents were loaded into a truck and that truck driven cross-country. The BLS claims that median pay for tractor-trailer drivers is ~$28/hour. Paying a little more than double that for a competent pack, load, haul and unload seems fair to me. > ...shipping a 20-foot container over a very long distance does not cost nearly as much. Now, how much does getting your packed belongings into that container, getting the container to where it can be loaded up on the conveyance, then getting it to where you can get your belongings out of the container, and your belongings into your house cost? Do keep in mind that there are a whole bunch of places that absolutely would not permit you to drop a twenty-foot steel shipping container out on the street for an extended period of time, and others who won't let you do that without a permit. [0] I'm fudging the numbers a bit because I can't be arsed to figure out how to work out the "blended" rate for "Five men for two days to pack/load and unload and one man for two days on the road".

by trial3 1y ago

anovikov 1y ago

I don't live alone, and in general i'm not against the idea of someone doing it for a fee, but $14k!!! It's a fucking annual minimum wage. Also, as for driving a truck, sure it sucks driving a truck for days, but shipping a 20-foot container over a very long distance does not cost nearly as much. It's in the $1000-$2000 range. A 20-foot container should fit someone's all possessions. Someone charging $12K for packing and unpacking definitely rips people off, big time.

simoncion 1y ago
Assuming a three-day job and a three-man crew the math works out to: 14000/(24*3*3) 64.81481481481481 about sixty-five bucks an hour. [0] OP doesn't mention if the house was packed up into a container to be loaded onto a train (as you suggest would happen), but -given what I've seen and heard of long-haul house movers doing- I find it much more likely that the house contents were loaded into a truck and that truck driven cross-country. The BLS claims that median pay for tractor-trailer drivers is ~$28/hour. Paying a little more than double that for a competent pack, load, haul and unload seems fair to me. > ...shipping a 20-foot container over a very long distance does not cost nearly as much. Now, how much does getting your packed belongings into that container, getting the container to where it can be loaded up on the conveyance, then getting it to where you can get your belongings out of the container, and your belongings into your house cost? Do keep in mind that there are a whole bunch of places that absolutely would not permit you to drop a twenty-foot steel shipping container out on the street for an extended period of time, and others who won't let you do that without a permit. [0] I'm fudging the numbers a bit because I can't be arsed to figure out how to work out the "blended" rate for "Five men for two days to pack/load and unload and one man for two days on the road".