University Van Lines is not a moving company that covers Rahway. We are a moving company that is in Rahway. Our warehouse and offices have been at 1098 Randolph Avenue since 1975, our trucks start and finish the day here, and the crews live in and around the town. Family-run, fully licensed, accredited and insured.
Most quotes you get for a Rahway move include travel time from wherever that company keeps its trucks, which is often two or three towns away and sometimes another county. Ours does not, because the truck is already here. It also means three practical things:
A move that starts and ends in town is the most straightforward job we do, and the one where being local shows up most clearly in the estimate. There is no long haul at either end, the crew is not fighting traffic to get to you, and if something is forgotten the second trip is a short one. These are usually priced off a room count in minutes without a survey. See what actually affects the cost of a move for the things that change the number.
The buildings that have gone up around the Rahway train station over the last decade are the fastest-growing part of our local work, and they move like small New York buildings rather than like a house. That means a certificate of insurance on file with management before anyone is allowed up, a service elevator booked for a block of hours, a loading area rather than the front door, and permitted move-in hours. We produce COIs as a matter of routine — see what a COI is and who has to be named on it. Ask your building for its requirements as soon as you have a date; it is the single thing most likely to hold up a move-in day.
The older housing stock here comes with the things that make a move take longer than people expect: a basement that has been filling since the 1970s, an attic reached by a pull-down ladder, a detached garage, and a staircase with a turn in it that decides whether a sofa goes up in one piece. None of that is a problem if it is raised at the estimate stage. All of it is a problem if it is discovered on the morning.
Most of our local moves are people arriving from Jersey City, Hoboken or the city itself for more space and a direct train, or leaving for a bigger house further west. We do both ends of that. For a move across the river see moving from New York City to New Jersey; for anything leaving the state see interstate moving.
Closing dates rarely line up. We hold inventoried, vaulted storage in our own Rahway warehouse between the two ends, so your things come out of the old place once and go into the new one once, rather than being loaded twice into a self-storage unit you have to drive to. More on storage.
We move offices, medical and dental practices, laboratories, schools and municipal departments in and around town, including the after-hours and weekend phases that keep a business open while it moves. See commercial moving and school and university moving.
Rahway sits on the edge of several towns and we work all of them from this building: Linden, Clark, Colonia, Avenel, Woodbridge, Iselin, Cranford, Westfield, Elizabeth and Scotch Plains, and across Union County and Middlesex County. We also run interstate and international moves out of this warehouse.
Tell us both addresses, the floor and access at each end, and the date. For an apartment or a small house that is usually enough for a written estimate. For a full house we will arrange a walk-through. Call (732) 882-1060 or use the estimator below.