Johnson Storage and Moving Debuts Revamped Website

Posted on October 3, 2011 by admin

Click here to take a tour of our new and improved website.

Residential moves or commercial moves–our services include local moving, interstate moving and international moving. We offer storage, boxes and supplies.

In addition to the popular instant online moving quote , the Johnson website has added a new feature:  the household inventory generator.  Sure, everyone has a chair and sofa, but what about an amplifier or aquarium in your family room? Sled in your garage? How about a train set in your basement? Three easy steps…select rooms, select items by icon & submit contact info – your household inventory is then sent to Johnson … online … no in-house visit needed. Click here to see how it works.

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Moving Tips – Understanding Moving Terminology

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

Boxes, packing, storage…moving lingo we’re all familiar with, but what about IRR surcharge, weight additive and storage-in-transit? United Van Lines offers a list of moving terms along with definitions so you aren’t left scratching your head come moving time. For example, as mentioned above:

Insurance-related general increase (IRR surcharge)

• The carrier’s tariff provides for a percentage adjustment to the transportation charge (and SIT Pickup and Delivery) to aid in the recovery of the increased cost of carrier’s and van operator’s liability insurance expenses.

Weight additive

• Some articles included in a shipment (i.e., camper shells, boats, canoes, boat trailers, etc.) are comparatively light and occupy space in the van that is not commensurate with their weight. For instance, one might load 4,000 pounds of furniture and cartons in the space taken by a 1,500-pound boat. To compensate for this inequity, our tariff provides a schedule of additional weights for such articles.

Storage-in-Transit (SIT)

• The temporary storage of your household goods in the warehouse of the carrier’s agent, pending further transportation at a later date. SIT service may not exceed a total of 180 calendar days. After 180 days, the interstate nature of the shipment ends and is converted to the rules of the local warehouseman.

Need more detailed information or perhaps you would like a free online moving quote? Contact Johnson Storage and Moving—we’ve been in the transportation business since 1900. The firm is now owned and operated by fourth generation family members; Mark Johnson & Jim Johnson and operates ten moving companies in five states.

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Johnson Storage and Moving — a moving company history

Posted on September 12, 2011 by admin

For more than 100 Years, The Johnson family has been in the transportation business. Starting as a blacksmith and wagon building enterprise in 1900, our founder William Johnson, began moving and storing tourist trunks from Denver Union Station to hotels like the Oxford and the Brown Palace; this evolved into the moving and storage business. Johnson Storage and Moving Company became one of the first of its kind in the western United States. Many other firsts were to follow.
• Johnson Storage & Moving Company was one of the first regional transportation companies to retire its team of horses and to use motorized trucks.
• Johnson was one of the first Rocky Mountain region furniture warehousemen to join the National Furniture Warehouse Association in the early 1920’s, and the first to build a fireproof warehouse in Colorado.
• Unique amongst moving companies in America, Johnson was a founding agent of two major van lines–Allied Van Lines 1928, and United Van Lines as an agent-owned van line in 1947.

The firm is now owned and operated by fourth generation family members Mark & Jim Johnson. From its founding site at 221 Broadway in Denver, the company has expanded over the past ten decades to multiple locations spanning five states, including Security Van Lines of New Orleans, and Johnson operations throughout Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and California.

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Johnson Storage and Moving — Find us on Twitter

Posted on August 26, 2011 by admin

We’ve reached 500 followers on Twitter  –Follow us to find special offers on your moving and storage needs.

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Storage Company

Posted on August 18, 2011 by admin

Johnson Storage and Moving offers full-service storage and self storage containers.

Our state-of-the art 78,000 square foot warehouse facility in Centennial (southeast Denver,) Colorado has stored everything from high value art to boats.

Warehouse features:

• Heated & air filtered warehouse

• Climate control (temp & humidity) high security vault

• Warehouse Department of Defense approved & inspected at least 3x/year for security & cleanliness

• Fire alarmed & sprinklers

• Monthly rodent & insect control/maintenance

• 24 hour camera surveillance with data redundantly stored on & off site

• Warehouse access restricted to four electronic card holders

• All warehouse accesses logged redundantly on & off site

• Warehouse constructed with tilt-up concrete & extensively insulated so your household goods will not suffer extreme temperatures like they will in metal or less well constructed buildings

• Fully climate controlled (heat, cooling, humidification) storage available on site

• Easy to find–located in Centennial (southeast Denver). For several years, Centennial has been rated Colorado’s safest city!

Looking for portable moving? It’s as easy as load & lock:

Johnson delivers weatherproof mobile storage containers via  Crate & Store to your home or office– you load with your belongings and lock with your own lock– we then bring the container back to storage or its next destination.

Request more storage information from us including the following Johnson facilities:

Denver moving & storage

Colorado Springs moving & storage

Boulder Longmont moving & storage

San Diego moving & storage

New Orleans moving & storage

Santa Fe moving & storage

Cheyenne moving & storage

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Empty Nesters & Retirees – Moving and storage

Posted on August 5, 2011 by admin

Things have changed. Your once bustling house now isn’t. Whether an empty nester or retiree, you may feel the need to change things up a bit. Here are some ideas to toss around:

Downsize to a smaller home:
Tired of painting your fence and pulling weeds? How about cleaning and maintaining rooms that are barely used? According to AARP, you can live in a Santa Fe, New Mexico senior community – no minimum age required – for $160,000. This will get you a 2 bed, 2 bath, modern kitchen, fireplace, patio & fenced yard. Lawn mowing, landscaping, garbage collection and exterior maintenance included in a reasonable monthly association fee.

• Places ranked: On Kiplinger’s Best Cities for Empty Nesters list 2010, Kiplinger’s describes Colorado Springs: “With Pikes Peak as a backdrop, Colorado Springs merges natural beauty with urban living. For active empty nesters, the city offers 70 miles of on-street bike lanes and over 100 regional and neighborhood parks.”

Move to a university town:
A hot trend is to retire in a university town. The population is educated and there is plenty of entertainment both for the culturally inclined and the sports enthusiast. Many universities now offer classes for seniors with areas of interest ranging from Shakespeare to history to Tai Chi.

• Places ranked: Topretirements.com lists Boulder, Colorado as a Top college town for retirement

Consider self storage:
A mother of two daughters, Wendy of Austin, Texas, will be a first-time empty nester this fall. Katie, the oldest, will be returning as a sophomore at the University of North Texas and the younger daughter, Beth will be a freshman at the University of Texas come late August. Not yet ready to retire, but thinking ahead ten years, Wendy and her husband are considering a move to Colorado where her sister is located. In the meantime, Wendy plans on helping her daughters pack for school. “They will be leaving soon and the girls and I are in the process of sorting through their things. It’s funny– they seem to be more ready to part with their belongings than I am, but I told them I’d keep their things safe in storage.”

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How Denver Movers Actually Reduce the Stress of Relocation

Posted on July 28, 2011 by admin

There are few things in this world that are as frustrating and stressful as relocating to a new area.  It doesn’t matter if you’re moving across town or across the country, having to uproot, pack everything you own into boxes, tear down all your furniture and put it in a truck to take it somewhere else and do the opposite is a stress that you have to experience to understand.  Most people, once they’re settled in will say at some point or other “That’s the last time I’m ever going to do that.”  If you live in Denver and are relocating, Denver movers can almost totally alleviate all the stress involved with a move.

Moving involves a lot of details, many of which have to be handled at the location you’re moving to.  Not only do you have to find a great place to move to, but you’ve usually got a lot of services like power, water, cable or satellite TV and internet hooked up and ready for you so when you get there, you’re not sitting in the dark. Plus you have to set up with your current service providers to have them shut down the services at your current location when you move out.  Those headaches are some things only you can deal with and the stress of that is enough to set most people off.  And you’ve not even started the moving process yet, using Denver moving company or not.

One issue is the fact that you’re usually trying to accomplish packing and moving at the same time as you’re trying to work to keep your paycheck going and also trying to deal with the power company, etc. That’s a great reason to use Denver movers because they’ll come in with all the packing materials to pack your belongings properly and can have your home ready to load onto the truck within just a few hours. They’ve got all of the blankets and other protective materials so when the truck is loaded with your furniture, they won’t be damaged in any way. Then they’ll load the truck, transport your belongings to your new location and unload the truck for you. They may even set up your furniture and get it in place so all you’ve got left to do is unpack the boxes and put stuff away.

Regardless of why you’re moving or where you’re moving to, you’re going to have to deal with a lot of stress. Using a moving company is a great way to eliminate one huge layer of stress out of the situation by letting them do the ‘heavy lifting’ for you. Life is hard enough without adding the stress of having to pack up and move yourself so letting Denver movers do the big part for you will feel like a gift.

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Johnson’s Instant Online Moving Quote: Better Than the Rest

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

Johnson’s Instant Online Moving Quote: Better Than the Rest

Moving can be an overwhelming experience, so anything that makes your move easier would be a big help. Our website now features an exciting, simple tool, the Instant Online Moving Quotes calculator, that works by taking specific information you enter into required fields, and you receive an estimate of the cost of your move instantaneously. You can use this online moving quote if you are moving across town or across the country.

Other companies offer moving quotes online, but theirs work differently than ours. When you visit another site and put in your moving information, that site, usually an “aggregator” site will send your information to 8 to 10 companies who will then contact you via phone or email trying to get your business. Your phone will ring off the hook, and you will get several emails each day from various moving companies.

But when you use our free online moving quote feature, we don’t share your information with any other company. We simply process the information and let you decide if you want to hire us for your moving needs. Unlike those other companies, we provide a real-time estimate and don’t make you wait 24 hours (or longer) while your information is passed on to other companies.

How does our instant online moving quote work? It’s simple! Click on the “Instant Quote” button on our Home page or any one of our other pages, fill in the city you’re moving from, the city you’re moving to, the number of rooms to be moved, an approximate move date, your name, phone number, and email address. Click “View Quote” and your free online moving quote is ready! If you would like more information about the services we provide or would like to schedule your move, simply contact us and we’ll help you get started on the journey to your new home.

Johnson Storage & Moving is a Colorado-based company with locations in five states, and for over 100 years, has been one of the leading local and long distance moving companies in the U.S.

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Cheyenne Frontier Days by the Numbers

Posted on July 22, 2011 by admin

Known as the Daddy of ‘em All, Cheyenne Frontier Days is celebrated the last week in July in Frontier Park – Cheyenne, Wyoming. The largest outdoor rodeo in the country is the showpiece – The celebration also includes nightly concerts, parades, cook-offs, heritage & cultural areas, rodeo chute tours and a midway – here is a breakdown of Cheyenne Frontier Days by the numbers:
• 2011 dates:   July 23 – August 1
• Years celebrated:  114
• Length of celebration:  10 days
• Year founded:  1897
• 2009 attendance:  nearly 192,000
• Volunteers:  2,500
• Free pancakes served:  100,000
• 2009 Rodeo tickets sold:  83,000
• Rodeo contestants:  1,500

Thinking of moving to Cheyenne? Already living in Cheyenne and in need of storage? Located eight minutes from Frontier Park, Johnson Storage and Moving is a full service Cheyenne moving company offering both residential and commercial services, boxes, packing supplies and portable storage units. 
• Johnson warehouse size:  20,000 square feet

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Is Your Small Business Big Enough to Hire Office Movers?

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

As your small business grows there comes a time when you’ll actually outgrow the building you’re in. Whether you’re in manufacturing or a lawyer, you’ll have to find a bigger place, and then you’ll have to find office movers to take care of moving all of your equipment and furniture to the new location. While you may have a small business and may consider moving everything yourself, if you take a look at the numbers, you may find that you’ll save money by hiring movers instead.

To start with, get a quote from several office movers. That’ll give you a baseline number to begin your calculations. Next, get quotes for the trucks and/or trailers you’ll need to move your stuff. Add to that the costs for boxes and packing materials you’ll need. That should pretty much cover all the physical costs except for gasoline. Those numbers will give you a basic idea of how much moving yourself will cost.

However, that isn’t all of the costs that are involved. If you hire people to help you pack and move, there will be labor costs involved with them, plus you’ll have to take into account how much per hour your time is worth as well. Another aspect of moving, especially for manufacturing facilities is to take into account moving inventory and machinery. Once you add in all of these additional costs, then comparing that to the quotes from the office movers, you may be surprised at just how much money you’ll be able to save.

That’s because office movers do this for a living. They can pack your office, all your equipment and furniture and have it moved in a very short time frame. Not only are they smooth and efficient, they’ll have you in a position to be back up and running in as quickly as possible which actually means you’re back making money sooner than if you moved yourself. The least amount of down time you have means the least amount of money lost due to being unable to conduct business.

If you need to relocate your business, every aspect of the move needs to be examined. When you consider all the factors, as with everything else having to do with business, it all comes down to the bottom line. Regardless of the size of your business, having office movers come in and complete your move as quickly as possible is going to be the way to go since you’ll save money on the move and be back in business making money instead of being stuck in idle for days.

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