Chicago to California Movers

With our full-service containers, you decide when your shipment will be loaded and when it will arrive. You can take your time and store it, have it delivered when you arrive, or choose expedited service. This gives you the opportunity to accurately plan your move time and expenses.

With a full-service container move, if the need arises, you can place your shipment in storage, with minimal storage charges or having your items ever be handled, until you’re ready to move them into your new home. Less handling means fewer opportunities for loss or damage.

You will have exclusive use of the container, have peace of mind knowing that your container is loaded and sealed with only your belongings. Whether it’s traveling to your new home or going into storage, your container will never be opened or its contents handled until it reaches its final destination.

Our trained and experienced packing crews can assist with packing and unpacking during your local move. Packing and unpacking for a move is the most time consuming and tedious task. Chipman can pack as little or as much as you need for your move, whether it is packing your entire residence or select items, the Chipman team can assist with the right equipment and materials to handle the job right.

Once all your items have been delivered into your new home, the task of unpacking items out of boxes becomes reality. Our packing crews can also assist with unpacking items and removing the packing material from your home. Let us help you take the hassle out of packing and unpacking your home with our professional packing service, it's worth it!

Chipman offers a Full-Value Protection Plan with every move to protect your belongings if the unexpected happens during your move. Peace of mind during the moving process is important, we do everything we can to deliver a stress and hassle-free relocation experience.

We can arrange for an appliance technician to professionally prepare your appliances (washer, dryer, refrigerators with ice makers, etc.) for transportation during the move. These services are also available in your new home where we can arrange for hook up and testing to ensure that everything is working properly and ready.

The Chipman team can arrange for crating and handling services for pieces in your home that need special attention and handling such as high value artwork, glass table tops, grandfather clocks, chandeliers, and other items that cannot fit into a carton.

Our service teams can disconnect and remove wall hanging televisions in the old residence and reinstall and hang televisions in the new home upon delivery.

Our team can disassemble and set up your wall or stand mount entertainment system, as well as disconnect and reconnect your personal computer and wireless network.

We can arrange for a cleaning crew to leave your old home spotless after you move and get your new house ready for the big day. All cleaning crews are insured professionals that use environment-friendly products and highly efficient equipment for a dust, allergens, and pollutants-free home.

When your move is complete we can arrange for the used boxes to be picked up and recycled after unpacking is complete.

Many of our customers have the need to temporarily store their belongings while waiting to move into their new residence. In addition, some customers choose to declutter their home during the sales process. We can assist with moving items to our storage facility while the home is on the market.

Our local move teams will inventory, load, transport the belongings to our warehouse and store them till the appropriate delivery time. All items stored in our facilities are securely put away in storage vaults, our team will protect and neatly stack items into the storage vaults to ensure that they are secure and safe while in our care. As an agent for Mayflower and United Van Lines, Chipman has nationwide storage capabilities; we can provide a storage solution anywhere in the world.

We can store your items in our facility as long as you need us to, long term and short term storage is always available.

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Our enclosed and open-sided car carriers offer car transport service anywhere in the United States and countries worldwide. Whether shipping your car on its own, or in conjunction with your household move, Chipman provides door-to-door car shipping service for all types of personal, antique and commercial vehicles. We may even be able to ship your vehicle in the same truck as your personal belongings, ask your consultant for availability if you are interested in this option.

Our Car Shipping Service Includes:

• On-time pickup and delivery
• Expert move coordination
• Satellite tracking
• Flexible pricing, delivery and equipment options
• Shipment protection