Whose curb rules apply in Miami-Dade
Miami-Dade County lists 34 incorporated municipalities, the City of Miami, Miami Beach and Coral Gables among them, and the land between them is unincorporated county (county list). The truck's space at the curb follows the rules of the place your new address sits in, so find that out first. Inside the City of Miami, the Miami Parking Authority rents on-street meters by the day: the request names the meter's location and serial number, goes in at least 48 hours ahead, and needs the authority's approval (meter rentals). Its list of renters does not name moves, so ask the authority whether a moving truck qualifies before you count on a meter. In Coconut Grove it also asks for a permit signed by the Coconut Grove NET office. Miami Beach rents spaces for moves through its Parking Department, with three business days' notice on a metered block and fifteen on a residential or non-metered street (space rentals). You make these bookings in your own name; we do not file them or put up signs.
Condo and apartment towers
Moving into a condo or an apartment building? Ask the management office three things before you pick a date: the hours its freight elevator runs for moves, where a truck may stand while it unloads, and the insurance wording it requires. Reserve the elevator and the dock for the delivery days, then send us that wording, and our Certificate of Insurance will repeat it. Our trucks have 16, 20 and 26 foot boxes, and the whole truck is longer than its box, so ask our Boston office for the full length and height of yours and pass them to the building.
Three driving days on I-95
From Boston the route heads west on the Mass Pike, turns down I-84 and I-91 to meet I-95 at New Haven, and keeps to I-95 or its bypasses nearly all the way: the New Jersey Turnpike, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, the Capital Beltway around Washington, then 558 miles in one stretch from Virginia to Jacksonville. The shortest car route between the two city halls is a few miles shorter, but it runs on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, and both are closed to trucks like ours, so the 1,510 miles on this page are the truck's. That is about 23 hours of driving. Federal rules let a driver log 11 hours a day, so the trip takes three driving days, and the rate already carries the fuel and every toll.
- Boston loading day: furniture wrapped, the inventory checked against what goes on the truck, the paperwork signed before departure.
- Three days south, mostly on I-95.
- Delivery in Miami, 4 to 7 days after loading: furniture into the rooms you name, pieces that came apart put back together, and a Damage Report if anything needs one.
Hurricane season and your dates
A Miami delivery set for mid-August through mid-October falls in the busiest stretch of the Atlantic season. The official season is longer, June 1 to November 30, and its peak date is September 10, by the National Hurricane Center's long-term records. For a move in those weeks, keep a spare day or two on each side of a delivery window of 4 to 7 days after loading, ask the building how it shifts an elevator booking, and decide before loading whether Full Value Protection is worth it for what you own.
Leaving Boston
Loading morning in Boston needs the same groundwork: a spot at the curb, the elevator and the dock, all booked by you, plus the building's insurance wording sent to us so both certificates are ready. Our pricing page explains how the flat rate is built from your item list. Questions before booking go to our Boston office.
