More and more we are seeing traditional long distance household movers camouflaging themselves as office movers. It is no mystery why, the housing is off so it is survival. For very little money they buy or rent plastic crates, but, they miss the point. That point is using a plastic crate means you still have all the downtime associated with packing and stacking. Once everything is placed and stacked guess what your business is SHUT DOWN, no revenue, no productivity, no customer care. A plastic crate is a box, albeit a plastic box, but it is still a box. So you arrive at your new office, more downtime as you go through and unpack your crates/boxes.
Also they are the wrong size for office material (books, files, manuals) which always goes in a 1.2 cube box because of the weight. No mover would allow you to load a box bigger than a 1.2 cube box, because at 1.2 cubes you are already at 50 lbs. Plastic crates are twice that the size of a 1.2 at 2.5-3 cubes and weigh 80-90lbs. And who is going to be packing, loading those mammoth boxes/crates your office staff. I hope you have very forgiving workman’s compensation insurance because you are about to hurt someone.
These wiseguys will say things like “plastic crates are green”, “they are renewable” but, what they are not is efficient for an office move unless you do not mind the hassle. And you have more money than good sense. The household mover does not really care he just wants your money until house moves pick back up and he can return to what he really does.
Real office moving professionals will use office gondolas, double-sided book shelves (shelves tilt in) on ultra smooth caster using non skid, non marking wheels. They load in a tenth of the time as packing and you items are accessible the whole time. (unless you want secure transfer, where we use a different material to seal gondolas, numbered security seals). Gondolas allow one mover to move what would normally take 3-4 movers which not only cuts down on your downtime it save moving charges as well. Everything is in order throughout the move. Getting you back up and running immediately is the icing on the cake. And since no boxes, petroleum, plastic were used anywhere in the process I guess we know who the GREEN mover is.
Be sure to look for a true box-less mover with office gondolas, they will also have E-carts for smooth ride in anti-static bubble wrap bags for electronics and computers. If one of these crate mover are not serious enough about office making to make the full investment of gondolas tell him to take a hike with his plastic crate/boxy things!
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About smcnelley
Scott McNelley is a lifelong problem-solver and entrepreneur who uses creativity, ingenuity and hard work to find the best solutions for his moving and storage customers in Alabama and beyond. When a good solution doesn’t already exist, Scott creates one by “Imagineering” new equipment or systems that deliver the results his customers need and deserve.
Scott’s first business was a small local moving company that he started while in college and later sold (the company is still in business today). He then started Admiral Movers, which has grown over the years into a much larger office moving firm, now known as “Montgomery’s Only True Office Mover.”
With Admiral, Scott took office moving to the next level, by creating several revolutionary techniques and new moving equipment that he conceived and built in direct response to the unmet needs of his customers. Among other office move improvements, Scott created Admiral’s AirGlide℠ Computer Moving and Office Gondola℠ Systems, which together offer a truly “boxless, crateless” moving solution that better protects expensive equipment and gives customers better access to their property before, during and after a move.
Encouraged by the success of Admiral Movers, Scott was able to expand his ability to serve his customers by starting two other enterprises: Redwood Properties, a real estate holding company, and Admiral Records Management (ARM), a document management and storage specialty firm and a proven leader in secure information transition, relocation, conversion and storage. Banks, hospitals, government agencies, the military, corporations, and medical practices have come to rely on ARM to maintain privacy, coordinate logistics, and provide the ultimate in protection of their client data.
ARM is a natural extension of his work with Admiral, and Scott brought the same creativity and problem-solving ingenuity to the difficulties his customers face when managing their critical business records. With ARM, Scott introduced Intelligent Archiving, an unconventional approach to on-demand document scanning services that makes it easier and less expensive than ever for customers to transition to a fully-paperless office. Intelligent Archiving also safeguards patient privacy and ensures total compliance for customers in the medical and healthcare fields that are making the change.
Scott’s efficient and cost-effective solutions have saved his customers money, time, backaches and headaches over the years, and his innovations, along with service that consistently exceeds expectations, are the biggest reasons his customers won’t go anywhere else for office moving or document management and storage assistance.
To learn more about how Scott’s passion for creative problem-solving can help your firm with an office move or document management and storage, please visit:
www.alwaysleading.com
www.admiralmovers.com
www.admiralrecordsmanagement.com
Or you can simply email info@alwaysleading.com, or call 334-262-6666 today!
More and more we are seeing traditional long distance household movers camouflaging themselves as office movers. It is no mystery why, the housing is off so it is survival. For very little money they buy or rent plastic crates, but, they miss the point. That point is using a plastic crate means you still have all the downtime associated with packing and stacking. Once everything is placed and stacked guess what your business is SHUT DOWN, no revenue, no productivity, no customer care. A plastic crate is a box, albeit a plastic box, but it is still a box. So you arrive at your new office, more downtime as you go through and unpack your crates/boxes.
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See it all the time.