Movers
Midway

What the job involves in Midway

We treat every Midway movers job as a logistics problem first and a lifting problem second. With roughly 6,171 residents, Midway is a smaller community in Wasatch County, and that shows up in the job: largely detached properties, long driveways and very little kerbside constraint.

Every quote is written down before the job is booked, so nobody is negotiating on a driveway with a loaded truck.

What a Midway job looks like

Every job follows the same order, because that is what keeps the estimate honest and the day calm.

• A written estimate from a real survey
• A crew sized to the job, on time
• Full protection of floors, doors and furniture
• A load packed to travel without shifting
• Placement where you want it at the other end

The part people underestimate is the survey. An estimate given over the phone from a room count is a guess, and a guess is what turns into an argument on the day when the truck is full and the hallway is not empty.

Nothing here is subcontracted. The crew that quotes the job is employed by the company that turns up to do it, which is not true of every quote you will be comparing.

Moving around Midway

Most of our Midway work sits around Soldier Hollow, Midway Main Street and Interlaken, and each of those areas asks something slightly different of a crew — access, parking, the age of the housing, whether there is a lift involved.

We are usually in Heber City, Park City and Kamas in the same week, so a movers job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Midway runs on tourism and resorts, hospitality and construction, and that shapes who is moving and when: term dates, transfer seasons and the end of a build all bunch the calendar.

Everything here is covered from our own crews rather than subcontracted to whoever is free that day — Wasatch County included.

The other thing worth knowing is that we work both ends of the state. A move from Midway down to Washington County is one crew and one truck for us, not a handover to a partner carrier halfway.

What licensed and insured means for a movers job in Midway

There are two different things called insurance in this trade. Released-value protection is included by law and pays by weight — around 60 cents a pound, which on a television is close to nothing. Full-value protection is a separate product that pays to repair or replace.

Ask which one a quote includes. Most quotes include the first and are described as though they include the second.

We are licensed and insured, our crews are background-checked, and we will put the cover in writing on the estimate rather than leaving it as a phrase on a website.

Booking a Midway job

Snow does not usually stop a move here, but it does change the timings. We build that into the estimate rather than discovering it on the morning.

Book earlier than feels necessary for month-end and for anything between May and September; those dates go first.

Five things make the difference between a quote and a guess:

• A rough inventory, even a phone video walked room to room — it is the single thing that makes an estimate accurate
• Your dates, including the one that cannot move and the one that can
• Anything unusually heavy or awkward: a safe, a piano, a tub, a treadmill, a fish tank
• Access notes at both ends — stairs, lifts, gates, parking, gate codes
• What is NOT coming with you, which is often the cheapest decision in the whole move

Ring (435) 862-3080 and describe the job. You will get a written estimate, and an honest answer if the date you want is not realistic.