Heading down the highway at speeds of 60 miles per hour, with the suspension of a horse and buggy skidding across cobblestone, the back of your moving truck isn’t going to look quite like the mental picture you took just before closing the hatch. If you are not careful, your boxes can make like Mexican jumping beans and you’ll have to phone in the National Guard to come in for some clean up duty before moving in to your new place. These helpful tips when loading your moving truck should teach your boxes to sit and stay, without dropping a deuce all over the floor of your moving truck.Tip 1: Load the heaviest items in first. As a rule of thumb, before you load a big box chalk full of random mementos you are going to want to load whatever major appliance or piece of furniture was originally delivered in that box. If one or two items are significantly heavier than the rest of your stuff, make sure to set them on separate sides of the truck. Balance is key if you don’t want your truck or trailer to be doing the Ickey Shuffle side to side down the interstate. (more…)

Sure you set the school record at Tetris back in 1996 but while you were hammering away at your Gameboy in the back of math class you might have missed some of the more valuable, greater geometry themes that day. For example, a truck shaped rectangle of a certain area can only fit a certain number of squares of a smaller area before there is simply no more area left to fill. The overwhelming confidence you have at fitting things in tight spaces, as a result of your Gameboy glory days, may actually backfire when it comes time to select your moving truck. Moving trucks come in all shapes and sizes, with larger trucks obviously coming at a much higher renting price. The “I’m sure I can squeeze it in” defense holds up about as well as Shaggy’s “It wasn’t me,” so don’t choose the rental counter as your time to suddenly get cheap. (more…)