Moving guides
Researched and written by Ashley Davis · Reviewed by Emily Johnson · Last reviewed August 2026
BestMovers.info publishes its moving guides in six clusters: packing, checklists, heavy and specialty items, hiring a mover, storage, and moving day. Packing covers how to protect a given item and which box it belongs in, checklists cover what to do in each week before the date, heavy and specialty items cover what to hire out, hiring a mover covers how to check a company and what it is liable for, and moving day covers what happens when the crew arrives. Storage covers the unit itself, from sizing to liability. Each cluster has its own hub, so you read the one that matches the question in front of you rather than a single long page.
Which guide cluster do you need?
- Packing17 how-to guides for the things people break or crush, plus a hub for the 7 specialist box types and a guide to where free boxes come from.
- Moving checklists5 pages that plan the move backwards from the date: the general timeline, an out-of-state move, a change of address, a first move and an apartment move.
- Heavy and specialty items14 item pages plus a hub that answers the question behind them: which items a normal crew handles, and which need a specialist because the damage from a bad move is invisible.
- Hiring a moverA hub and 7 pages on the decision itself: carrier or broker, what a written estimate must contain, what the mover is liable for, when to book and what will not go on the truck.
- StorageA hub and 14 pages on storing a household: which unit size the contents need, how to load and prepare them so nothing is damaged, and who is liable while they sit there.
- Moving dayWhat is customary to tip a crew, why a tip is never part of the estimate, and what changes the figure on the day.
What is not in the guides?
The guides explain method. Anything about a specific company, its federal registration or its authority to carry household goods sits in the company profiles and the Trust and Safety Center, not here.