Jun 02 2008

boston to cleveland

Published by matt at 12:35 under , ,

I have to move stuffs from an apartment in Boston to (free, short-term) storage in Cleveland.

A U-Haul truck would cost me around $600 one-way from Boston to Cleveland. I’d get it for four days, which means I could conceivably do Boston-Cleveland-Meadville-Cleveland… if I hurry the whole way. The car would be towed behind. The cost of the rental would be approximately $700, and the fuel would probably cost between $250 and $300 (for Boston to Cleveland only). The total cost for a U-Haul-based move would be around $950.

If I go with something like ABF U-Pack, I can get a cute little 6′ x 7′ x 8′ box dropped off outside our apartment. I pack it full of our crap, and then they take it away. The cube gets dropped off at the same place I’d have to drive the U-Haul. The cost to ship a single cube from Boston to Cleveland is roughly $800. However, in-between, I don’t have to drive the truck; instead, Carrie and I would just hop in our little Echo and drive to Ohio. A U-Haul truck from Cleveland to Meadville and back would cost around $300 (rental plus milage), and fuel would cost around $100; so, the total cost for a U-Pack based move is $1200.

The final twist is that the real estate agency we worked with on purchasing our new home (yeah, that’s a subtle announcement) provides a truck that we can use for free. We could scoot out to Cleveland, pick up our stuffs, and drive back to Meadville, the only cost being fuel. Fuel would cost around $100. So, we could ship our stuff to Cleveland, and pick it up using the agency’s truck, and our total cost would be around $900.

In other words, I think I can avoid driving a truck across the country, and it comes out to roughly the same price. I like that idea a lot.

Update, later that day…

Pete D. points out that having free access to a moving truck only involved buying a house. So, to be fair, that truck cost a lot more than any of the other options… :D

3 responses so far

3 Responses to “boston to cleveland”

  1. # PeteDon 02 Jun 2008 at 18:35

    Um, option #3 failed to include the cost of the home in your calculation.

  2. # Daveon 03 Jun 2008 at 13:33

    What about PODS? I ask this as someone researching a similar need soon.

    http://www.pods.com/?eadid=Campaign::Corporate|Ownership::Corporate|Channel::Search|Advertiser::Google|Category::Brand-Only|Copy::9|Phone::8776177637

  3. # matton 03 Jun 2008 at 20:42

    I think PODs is significantly more expensive, but I don’t recall off the top of my head.

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