Our own crews. Our own trucks.
Employees in University Van Lines shirts, working out of our own New Jersey warehouse. No brokers, no day labour picked up on the morning of your move.
Local moving services for homes, apartments, condos, townhomes, and businesses throughout New Jersey, New York City, and surrounding communities.
Service Detail
Local moving services for homes, apartments, condos, townhomes, and businesses throughout New Jersey, New York City, and surrounding communities.
Our process starts with understanding what is moving, where it is going, timing, access, parking, elevators, packing needs, storage needs, and any building or documentation requirements. This helps create a practical plan before move day.
Helpful Planning
We help identify building access, elevators, COI needs, parking, stairs, and timing considerations early.
Customers can discuss packing, fragile-item protection, labeling, and materials during the estimate process.
When dates do not align perfectly, storage planning can help bridge the gap between pickup and delivery.
FAQ
Local Moving can include planning, estimate review, scheduling, access coordination, packing support, storage coordination, and move-day logistics depending on the specific move.
Use the free estimate form or call University Van Lines. The form goes straight to our team so we can review details and follow up.
Yes. Packing and storage options can be discussed as part of the estimate process.
Ready to move?
Tell us what you are moving, where it is going, and when you would like to move. Our team will follow up quickly.
Ready to move?
Tell us what you are moving, where it is going and when you would like to move. Our team follows up quickly with a written estimate.
Would rather just talk it through?
A studio or one-bedroom local move is often easier to settle in one short call than in any form. The office is open 7am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Most of what we do in New Jersey is short-haul and residential. These are the jobs we are asked about most often, each written up separately:
By the hour. This is how most local moves are priced. You pay for the hours the job actually takes: if it runs long you pay more, and if it goes quickly you pay less. Our written estimate tells you the crew we would send and the hours we expect the job to take, so you know what you are planning around.
At a flat rate. If you would rather not think about the clock at all, ask us to lock in the price. On local moves in New Jersey we can quote a flat rate for the job as scoped, agreed in writing before move day. A flat rate is fixed in both directions: it does not go up if the day runs long, and it does not come down if we finish early. We carry the risk on the hours, and that certainty is what you are paying for.
One or the other, not both. Tell us which you would prefer when you ask for your estimate and we will price it that way.
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Only moving a few things? A piano, a safe, a pool table, a couple of pieces across town — those are priced individually rather than off a room count. Piano and single-item moving →
Employees in University Van Lines shirts, working out of our own New Jersey warehouse. No brokers, no day labour picked up on the morning of your move.
The questions people actually ask before they book a mover, answered plainly and without sales language.
An actual moving company. We are a carrier, not a broker. The people who arrive at your door are University Van Lines employees, in our shirts, driving our trucks, dispatched from our own New Jersey warehouse. Your job is not sold on to a third party you have never spoken to. A broker takes a deposit and then finds somebody else to do the work, which is a different business from ours. On long-distance moves we still pack and load with our own crew in New Jersey; a licensed long-distance carrier we partner with drives the truck, and you know that in writing before you book.
The company has been family-run since 1975 and Teddy took it over in 2026. He moved out of New York City a few years ago, is raising his family in New Jersey, and runs the company day to day. You deal with the office directly and with the same people from the first conversation through to the last carton — no call centre in another state, no account manager you never meet. More about who owns University Van Lines →
Since 1975. Fifty years working out of the same New Jersey town.
Yes. Fully licensed, accredited and insured for the work we do in New Jersey and across state lines. Valuation coverage goes on every move we do; the level is set with your written quote, and you can waive it in writing if you would rather not carry it.
Local moves are priced from a room count and the hours the job will honestly take. A studio or a one-bedroom can usually be priced over the phone in a few minutes with no home visit at all. Bigger or more complicated moves are worth a survey, and we will say so. Every price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked, and on hourly work you pay for the hours the job actually takes.
4.9 out of 5 across 36 Google reviews as of September 2026.
New Jersey - Union, Essex, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Bergen, Hudson, Monmouth, Hunterdon and Mercer counties - together with New York City. Interstate and international moves are handled out of the same New Jersey warehouse.
Small jobs are welcome and we do them every week. A couple of pieces across town, a single piano, a studio apartment. You do not need a houseful to call us.