The moving company hired by this time, Jay's Transportation
Poor families are difficult to leave, and the homeland is difficult to leave, but people's lives are inevitably encountered several times when they move.
When you are young, you move, carry your bag and leave, such as the years when you just graduated from Beijing, from the Puhuangyu Guest House for four people, to the Fangzhuang Three-Bedroom House for two people, and then to the three collective dormitories of the Taiji Factory of the single room; there are wives and children in the family, and moving has become a big thing that needs to be considered and planned, such as from the exhibition hall road to the First Body South Road, from Beijing to Canada. This time, it was the first time I moved after coming to Canada, from Regina in Saskatchewana to Calgary in A province.
I want to move when I was single, I took a bus or put it on a bicycle; I moved from exhibition hall road to Shouti South Road, it was with a tricycle, I pedaled in front, my wife pushed in the back, and ants moved one after another; came to Canada, looking for a moving company called Hailong International, which was a shipping bulk container; this time I moved to Calgary, I wanted to rent a truck to do it myself, but I didn't spare people in the years, in order to save myself and save effort, I invited a moving company.
It took almost three weeks to search, research, and select a company that was Chinese, locals, and larger moving companies that operated in Canadian and even North American chains.
The Chinese moving company is the most competitively priced, 760 kilometers from Regina to Calgary, dedicated to the car, same day loading delivery, responsible for loading, transporting, unloading, charging $2000, carrying piano plus $500.
There are also many small local private moving companies, and they have found the best online google review. The phone call came, and the operator was as enthusiastic as the sister next door, saying that he needed to go home to actually measure all the items, and charge according to the distance or volume, whichever was higher. It was also learned in the phone chat that most of its customers' moving fees ranged from $3,000 to $5,000. Unfortunately, the moving date available for the gap did not match our plan, so there was no one to make a free run to measure the quotation.
In the end, three larger, well-operated moving companies were identified, jay's transportation, alero moving, great canadian van lines. Their business procedures are the same, they are sent to register, measure the items that need to be moved, estimate the weight, and quote an estimated freight cost in combination with the transportation distance, but the final charge is based on the actual weight. Their method of measuring weight is also the same, all of which measure a weight before the truck comes to the house for loading, and then measure it after completing the loading, so as to obtain the actual weight, and then calculate the actual price in combination with the transportation distance. They are all truck container transport, can be scheduled to load the date, but can not determine the date of delivery, are about a week or so delivery, will be 24 hours in advance of the specific arrival time. Importantly, all three of them offer free cartons, including hanging clothes, packing TVs, and special cartons for porcelain.
All three companies sent people to estimate as agreed. The first one came was a suit and leather shoes, thin old man, lively and talkative, the whole time with laughter and laughter, the service details were introduced meticulously, including the most worry-free room to room, wardrobe to wardrobe of the whole process of moving services, that is, the owner only needs to tell them which items to move in the old home, which items to stay, and the location of the items in the new home, they are responsible for packing boxes, but also responsible for unpacking and placing in the designated location of the new home. They also have a thoughtful service detail, when the items are packed a day in advance, they will leave the bedroom bed and futon temporarily unpacked, packaged on the day of loading, so that the homeowner can stay in their own home to sleep for the last night.
The second family came with a fat old man, steady and not much to say, dressed and talked in line with the image of the old man. The third family came with an uncle, who seemed to have just passed by from the construction site, but he told me that the two old men of the first two families were brothers. I'm a little surprised, these two brothers are so different, right? Not only personality, but also very different looks. However, I have a little worry in my heart that I have been fenced by others.
The estimated quotations of the three companies have arrived at my mailbox, not to mention the price, the estimated weight difference is also too large, which is 3700, 4500, 5100 pounds (Canadian weight unit custom pounds, 1 pound ≈ 0.45 kg). In order to compare the price, they had to ask them to re-quote according to the same weight and the same service items: packing, loading, transportation, unloading, unpacking, 4500 pounds.
Comprehensive comparison, combined with the service reputation used by acquaintances and friends, finally selected jay's full moving service package, the quotation is $5600.
The day of packing the box came as promised, five little girls came early in the morning, each hand had a cup of tim hortons coffee, a water of ultra-short hot pants, chattering about eating, drinking and having fun, among which the fattest, like a group leader girl first toured the whole house, asked us to clarify the items that should go and stay, and then after assigning the task, the house sounded the busy sound of opening the carton, folding paper, and pulling tape; the girls went out to rest for an hour at noon, continued in the afternoon, and the off-duty time was just right to complete all the packing tasks. Throughout the day, except for two or three girls who occasionally came over to politely ask if we could use the guest bathroom, we were not disturbed, and we went out to run errands as usual or stayed in a quiet room. This is the first time we have moved so hassle-free.
Packing took a whole day, the original scattered, stored in the corners of various spaces of the object, into a tall, fat and thin carton, home suddenly became strange, then there is only one feeling: time to leave.
The next day was the day of loading the car, and five or six able-bodied workers began to work early in the morning, trying to finish loading all the items by 11:30, because the official delivery time agreed with the new homeowner was twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
The house was emptied, as if the heart had also been emptied. The last time we vacuumed and cleaned the house, as if we had never been so conscientious, cleaning every corner so that there was not a single grain of dust on the carpet or floor that the eye could see. 11:45, take another look at the front room of the room, lock the door, put the key in the mailbox, it is time to officially leave, the garage door is closed, as if to say the last goodbye, the scene of seven years of life is vividly remembered, and I can't help but feel a rush of excitement.
From Regina to Calgary
The next day, I drove eight hours to my new home in Calgary, and at a glance, it was as if I had seen a stranger, and compared to the impression at first sight, it seemed that the yard had become smaller, the grass had turned yellow, the light in the house had dimmed, the space had narrowed, and I could not help but feel a little lost inside.
He carried two pairs of chopsticks, two bowls and a pot, slept on the floor, and used the stairs as a seat, and lived a life of waiting for Jane.
Five days later, the container truck arrived, and the huge carriage occupied half the street, and a hill was erected in front of the house. Coming out of the car was a fat old man driver, followed by a thin, also old man, looking at the age of both people have to count up sixty.
Ask: What about the people who unload and unpack the car?
Isn't it? It's all here. The driver's old man answered.
Confused: This, okay? Just you two grandpa?
We have both been working for decades, what kind of car has not been unloaded, a hundred rest assured! There is also a young man, but unfortunately he can't come today, so we both did it, and the money was also shared by both of us. The old driver swore an oath, full of confidence, and there was no doubt about it.
During the conversation, the thin old man had opened the box door, set up the slide, laid out the blanket, and was ready to dry.
It was the sweltering heat at the end of July, after moving two or three times, the two elderly people began to breathe, and the T-shirts were wet. I couldn't bear to watch, and I joined the small team of porters.
I am most worried about a large piece, the piano, that kind of weight can two old comrades do? But the two still used a skateboard to drag the piano into the house. Looking at the two old men's nudge brains and the green tendons protruding from their arms, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable and sad for a while.
In order to reduce the amount of labor of the two old people, they said that they would only carry it into the house, and they would not unpack the box, so we slowly unpacked the box and cleaned it up by ourselves.
This is the whole process of our moving, if you want to rate the moving service, I am willing to give the sales ten points, to the box ten points; for the loading and unloading, from the perspective of sympathy, I am also willing to score ten points for the two old comrades.
Long here, the coded text is not willing to delete too much, for the home that was abandoned behind, in a corner of the heart, there is always a warm light.
Sincerely, this time the move.