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What is double drive time

Let’s say you’ve gone through a screening process and you have a few moving companies in your list. You call them, ask about their services, how they protect furniture, pack boxes, handle claims, and so on. You can hear the answer with a weird term ‘double drive time’ or ‘double driving time. Do not stress yourself. We will clarify some of your potential confusion.

What is double drive time

1. LEGALITY OF CHARGING DOUBLE DRIVING TIME

For those who have never heard about double driving time in California it can look like some kind of a hidden fee established by a company. In reality double drive time regulations are governed by the Bureau of Household Goods and Services (BHGS.) The Bureau holds jurisdictional authority over household movers in California. So double drive time exists and it’s legal! Double driving time can be applied only for the local moves when the distance between the pickup and delivery locations is in the range between 5 and 100 miles.

2. THE BUREAU’S LEGAL EXPLANATION OF DOUBLE DRIVING TIME

Maximum Rate Tariff 4 (the set of laws moving companies have to abide in California) states the following:

“In computing charges accruing under the hourly rates contained in Item 320, the time used shall be the total of loading, unloading and double the driving time from point of origin to point of destination.”

3. GOT2MOVE’S EXPLANATION

Whatever time movers spend driving between your current home and a new one must be doubled. If multiple trips are required then only the first trip should be doubled while all other trips would be calculated as straight time.

For example, you are moving Sherman Oaks to Santa Monica and it takes 45 minutes for movers to get from the pickup address to the destination one. Then the double drive time will be: 45 min x 2 = 1.5 hrs.

Please note that trucks drive slower than regular vehicles and can’t get to your new place as fast as you would.

4. WHY DOES DOUBLE DRIVING TIME EXIST

The Bureau established the double driving time for consumers’ (people moving within California) protection. Back in the years, moving companies charged ‘port to port’: once a moving crew left its parking clock would start for their client; then upon delivery movers would add time to drive from your new home back to the movers’ office. Such practice was not very transparent thus double-driving time was imposed. If you don’t trust your movers, you can follow their truck, and you’ll know the exact driving time thus double driving time as well.

5. ABOUT US

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