Blaylock Transport

I recently asked my friends for movers and someone referred me to Blaylock Transports. Tim is a very nice guy, but he is very long winded! This is the second time we had used movers but the first and last time using Blaylock. Tim was very confident that our move was going to be quick and painless! Then as the days came closer to moving, I had to reach out to get a response. The move date was pushed back a day. No big deal but not so great! On the move day Tim didn’t bring enough wardrobe boxes and kept stopping to talk. I timed the move, starting and stopping my timer every time they stopped to talk. Well lets just say we paid for an extra hour and 20 minutes! Towards the end I we were willing to pay just to get it over with! Long story short, Tim is a very nice guy but he hasn’t grasp the ideals of working and talking at the same time! Oh and who doesn’t take credit cards. Well Tim and Blaylock movers don’t!

Tim and Jose did a terrific job moving my house into my Packrat container. Before they came over, we were basically in a panic that not all of our stuff would fit into the container. Tim and Jose managed to make it fit, and do so with the utmost care for the safety of our belongings. They were super friendly and professional, and they carefully wrapped and packed all of our furniture. I highly recommend them. I hired them through Hire-​a-​helper but you can also just book them directly.

You can hire Baylock through
or call them directly. It’s cheaper to call them directly since you don’t have to pay Hireahelper their overhead. The company is basically run by Tim who is a super nice guy. I called a month before our move and he kept in touch with me via phone and text during the weeks before the move.
He arrived on time with another guy as agreed and they were both very professional. They unloaded our boxes from a moving truck into our 3^rd floor apartment and I was impressed by how fast they were able to get everything up those stairs. We had no elevator :(They laid out their own mover blankets on areas they were walking on in our apartment so that they didn’t track dirt onto our carpet. I’ve hired movers before and never had that so it was a happy surprise. They’ve raised my expectations of what to expect. The unloading took about 4 hours which is about what we expected. I was afraid they would not be able to keep going up those stairs (again…if only we had an elevator) but they did a great job and seemed just as efficient at the end as they were in the beginning. We were very impressed!
As a warning, they don’t take checks so have cash on hand but they do give you a receipt.
I will be calling them again next time we move.

Just say no. I had quite an experience with Tim, now a couple of years ago. We spoke by phone a couple of times, and I gave my FROM and TO address and everything sounded arranged. He sounded a bit busy, but who isn’t, ok? I decided to follow up via email before the move. Date, time, directions from and too, and stuff. Everything is set. Spoke by phone again. On the date of the move, surprise, Tim gives me a call and says, oh no, they don’t do North Bay to the Peninsula. Apparently he misheard me on phone and was too busy to actually read the email. Isn’t it a good idea to check the email from your customer? Is it such a trouble to drive a few extra miles? Luckily, the guys from the other company I got quote from were kind enough to move me that day, but the time was lost and we finished late at night.

I hired Tim and Justin through
. I wish I had found them independently as I would have saved at least $ 100 on the total bill. Alas, live and learn. Blaylock showed up about 20 minutes before the appointment and moved my bedroom furniture up a flight of stairs. It cost a little more than I wanted to spend, but I saved my back and the backs of friends who usually help me out with these types of endeavors. In the end, they finished everything in about 1 ½ hours (still had to pay the 2 hour minimum dictated by hireahelper). Thanks Tim — good job. I will recommend your service (and make sure people call you directly to save a few bucks)

I had to ship a motorcycle engine that I sold on eBay using freight. After putting it on a pallet the question was how to get that to a freight center? That’s when Tim came into help. A quick phone call and Tim arrived on time. The price was as promised (he even gave me the change back) and the pallet was dropped off as plan. No hidden charge, on time, and all as good as they could be. Will definitely use Tim’s service again!

If I could give this company ZERO stars I would. They cancelled on my parents the SAME days as there move and they have to be out of the house by the end of the day. My elderly parents and I are now scrambling around trying to find a new moving company on a Saturday. I think this type of behavior from a moving compnay is frankly unacceptable.

All I have to say is GREAT about Tim and Rudy. I would recommend them to anybody who is looking for trustworthy people, who is looking for people to move them without any problems or damages. Tim keeps his words and is there to help people with the move going smoothly, he understands it’s not easy for people who are moving. The mood was light, the job was done to the perfection. Again, if you want a smooth move contact Tim.

We’ve used these movers twice for 2 separate office moves. We have a lot of heavy and outsized items and they were all moved carefully and without doing any damage. Tim is very easy to work with and also very trustworthy. On both jobs, the estimates he provided were spot-​on. He was on-​time and did exactly what was promised. And, he’s a friendly guy. That’s always nice.
I’ve had the misfortune of using other movers in the past. Other movers have misrepresented costs, exerted heavy pressure for additional monies or tips, were not on-​time, and couldn’t communicate clearly due to language differences. In my book, it’s worth a lot to put those bad experiences behind me.

Pleasant guys. Tim, the head-​honcho, was great about returning my call asking for an estimate, which is why we decided to go with them. The move went smoothly. They arrived early (which was awesome). We had pretty standard boxes so nothing very difficult or fragile to move but they appeared to handle with care.
A couple of stars deducted because:
1) the end price was about $ 75 more than the estimate, which Tim had assured me it wouldn’t go over
2) not even counting the $ 75 more we ended up paying, the estimate for hours was rather high for the job. We’ve actually done this move a number of times before (except with MORE boxes) so we knew exactly how many hours it SHOULD have taken, which is about 3 hours less than it actually did take. I understand they charge by the hour so it behooves them to take their time. We noticed Tim on his cell phone several times so essentially there was just his son moving the boxes for a notable period. We didn’t stay to watch them move the entire time.
However, the end price was on par to a couple other movers that had provided estimates.
If you want a reliable mover (and often times, reliability is more important than price), I would recommend Blaylock, based on my experience.

I generally do not write reviews; I’ve written one other one before, giving 5 stars to a wonderful chiropractic clinic. This moving company, however, deserves not even a single star from me.
I can’t rate them on how well they loaded my moving truck, or on how friendly they were while they worked. They broke their service agreement with me on Wednesday night (7:30pm)… a little over a day before the Friday morning moving date. I had spoken with one of the employees on the phone earlier, when he contacted me to tell me there was some kind of computer problem, and it looked like the intermediate company we had used to book them, had removed us from their service list. He asked me to give the company (U-​Haul) a call and find out what was going on, then call him right back. I agreed that would be an excellent move and immediately called the U-​Haul customer service representative. The woman I spoke with assured me that nothing had changed and that Blaylock Transport was still registered to load my truck on Friday. I called Blaylock back within 5 minutes of the original call, but received the man’s voice-​mail. I left a message letting him know that U-​Haul still had them as our registered moving help, and assumed everything was well. Several hours later, at 7:30pm, a woman from Blaylock called to tell me that they had already booked another move during our time slot and could not provide their services. WHAT?!
Highly unprofessional. I understand mistakes happen, however, to just dump me at the last minute with no one to help me load all my stuff (and it’s not a local move either, it’s from San Fran to San Diego!) is wrong. Why would they book another client before waiting the five minutes it took me to call U-​Haul and see if there was in fact a problem? At the very least, once I spoke with the woman from Blaylock, she should have canceled with the new client, since they had already made a prior obligation with me. Now, I also want to point out that I had spoken with the man from Blaylock several days ago and everything was set up and fine.
This is pure speculation, however, it seems more likely that they had the opportunity to book a higher paying gig (loading a truck is one of the least paying gigs they offer, since they will pack, load, and drive too) and claimed that U-​Haul made an error. Now I will have to scramble to find a new moving company, literally the day before my move, all while frantically trying to pack up last minute items, clean and scrub my apartment, etc, before I have to move first thing Friday morning. Blaylock Transport, your company is unreliable and unprofessional, you should feel ashamed of your behavior.