Senior moving services franchise wins top industry award
The American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA) has announced Crowning Touch Senior Moving Services of Roanoke, Va. as the winner of the inaugural Enterprise Award which was introduced to give...
View ArticleCRISES in the moving industry?
Do you know what the acronym RISCED stands for? What about CRISES? According to Dan Gilmore, Editor-in-Chief of the Supply Chain Digest, and Greg Andrews at Georgia Tech, they basically mean the same...
View ArticleDon’t forget! May is ‘National Moving Month’
The American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA), the non-profit trade association representing legitimate members of the professional moving industry throughout the country, has officially dubbed...
View ArticleSioux City, Iowa needs movers ASAP - Full service relocation crews with...
Full service relocation crews with trailers or trucks.The following is a professional plea I saw posted yesterday by Don Claeys at a relocation related group on Linkedin. Don is the CEO of Action...
View ArticleMovingSCAM owner calls out AMSA’s ProMover program
Tim Walker, the owner of the popular trash-your-mover website, MovingSCAM, came out of hiding recently to question the validity of a statement posted by one of the moving industry professionals who...
View ArticleAMSA questions MovingSCAM’s motives - Moving industry association...
Moving industry association disheartened by Walker's personal attacksResponding to comments that owner Tim Walker made at his popular trash-your-mover website, MovingSCAM.com, Linda Bauer-Darr, the...
View ArticleMilitary installs an “improved” DPS system for movers
If your moving and storage company does business with the U.S. military, you're probably already aware that over weekend of September 30 – October 2, 2011, the Surface Deployment Distribution Command...
View ArticleTalent Mobility and the State of Transportation
This article is reprinted with permission of Mobility Magazine, published by Worldwide ERC, December 2011 BY GREG KOEHLINGER It’s one thing to worry about household goods in transit, but trumping that...
View ArticleCustomers to see new valuation rules from HHG movers
On January 10, 2012, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation, made three (3) major changes...
View ArticleNew valuation requirements for HHG movers delayed
Responding to a petition filed by the American Moving and Storage Association and comments submitted by industry consultants from the Moving Pros Network, the Surface Transportation Board announced on...
View ArticleGet Ready! May is National Moving Month
Don't be fooled by Mother Nature. May is still National Moving Month, the official start of the household goods industry's peak moving season. Professional relocation product and service suppliers...
View ArticleCongressional Hearing: Are movers scamming consumers?
If you're one of the thousands of responsible professionals involved in the full service interstate moving industry, you are probably going to want to clear your calendar (and your thoughts) for...
View ArticleSenate investigates moving brokers; releases report - A New Consumer...
A New Consumer Protection Problem in the Household Goods Moving IndustryOn Thursday, September 20, 2012, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a public hearing to discuss the...
View ArticleAMSA 2013 State of the Industry Address
The American Moving and Storage Association recently posted a new video to their amsapromover YouTube account entitled AMSA 2013 State of the Industry Address. The message inside is worth the price of...
View ArticleWill you walk into my parlour? …
Ahhh … to be a fly on the wall at the Military Moving Summit being held this Wednesday in San Diego as part of the American Moving and Storage Association's 95th Education Conference and Expo. “The...
View ArticleWould a ProMover allow a ProDoctor access to their heart?
One of the takeaways from the recent American Moving and Storage Association's (AMSA) Education Conference and Expo in San Diego was that the Communications Advisory Committee approved a two-part plan...
View ArticleYawn … May is National Moving Month
The 'Corn Moon' month is typically when trees bud, crocus bloom, and brand new ‘For Sale’ signs spring up in front of homes and properties in neighborhoods and communities all across the country....
View ArticleMoving industry rocked by resignations
Within just weeks of the each other, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) both announced that they would have to find a new...
View ArticleKicking the crumpled DPS can down the moving industry’s deteriorating road
I don't get it. Maybe it's because I'm getting old and irascible. Or perhaps I still care way too much about the management responsibilities moving professionals use to have. Yesterday, Chuck White,...
View ArticleFailure to communicate
It's 2:40 a.m. I can't sleep because I had a deeply disturbing dream. Not a nightmare. No, this numbers-crunching nocturnal interruption required a calculator. I recently read a post by my dear old...
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