moving News Updates

Business, Logistics, Top 100

How a Business-Savvy Mother and Her Sons Built Two Men and a Truck

All of Brig Sorber鈥檚 family played a part in the creation story of Two Men and a Truck, which has grown from humble origins into one of the largest moving companies in North America.

June 24, 2019
Business, Logistics

Allied Van Lines Introduces Relocation Service

Allied Van Lines Inc. launched Corporate Express, a service designed to handle small corporate relocations for long-distance moves by newly graduated professionals, interns and temporary employees, among others.

May 28, 2019
Business, Logistics

Wheaton Van Lines Acquires Stevens Worldwide

Wheaton Van Lines is acquiring Stevens Worldwide Van Lines, adding a fourth household goods moving company to its corporate holdings.

February 20, 2019
Business

Able Moving & Storage Acquires My Truck Buddy Assets

Able Moving & Storage has acquired assets of My Truck Buddy in a transaction between Virginia moving companies.

January 30, 2019
Business

Sirva Acquires Amsterdam-Based Team Relocations

Sirva Inc.鈥檚 first move since being acquired by the private equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners is to expand its moving and storage business in Europe with the purchase of Team Relocations, a relocation and move management company based in Amsterdam.

August 3, 2018
Business

Longhaul Trucker Chronicles Life on the Road in Book

Finn Murphy, 59, was groomed to be a college graduate. But when Murphy should have been a senior, he quit college to become a truck driver. Murphy is called a 鈥渂edbugger鈥 for being a long-distance mover. He has chronicled his moving tales in a book, 鈥淭he Long Haul: A Trucker鈥檚 Tales of Life on the Road.鈥

October 30, 2017
Government, Business

Group Devises Recommendations to Protect Consumers Against Mover Fraud

A federally appointed working group on household goods tackled recommendations for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that aim to better inform consumers of moving fraud and streamline paperwork for brokerage and moving companies.

June 29, 2017
Business

Commercial Moving Specialist The Kane Co. Shuts Down

The owner of The Kane Co., one of the nation鈥檚 largest commercial office movers, and a prominent player in the Washington, D.C., business and political scene, is shutting down the family-owned business and laying off almost 1,000 employees, according to several published reports.

December 9, 2016
Business

All My Sons to Acquire Graebel Van Lines

Top executives at Graebel Cos., based in Aurora, Colorado, announced a deal to sell Graebel Van Lines and the domestic moving and storage operations of Graebel Movers to Robert and Vasilia Peterson, founders of All My Sons Moving & Storage, a company based in Texas, for an undisclosed amount.

October 15, 2014
Business

Lawrence Transportation to Buy Va. Carrier

Moving company Lawrence Transportation said it will buy Virginia carrier William Edwards Inc. Terms were not disclosed.

September 1, 2010