Customers fixate on how far the move goes, yet the mileage seldom causes the headaches. Two other things do: the number of people who get their hands on your belongings, and whether one company carries responsibility from the first box to the last. Book a national carrier and you lose on both counts, since your load gets merged onto a shared trailer, broken apart at a hub, and rearranged to suit each leg’s driver. We refuse that arrangement. Whichever Smart Move crew wraps and loads your home here in Portsmouth is the crew that runs the highway miles and sets everything down inside the new place. Nobody bids on your shipment, nothing gets merged with a stranger’s belongings, and the load stays yours alone on our truck the whole way.
All the licensing this work demands belongs to us directly. We carry operating authority across New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, hold our own US DOT and MC numbers for the interstate portion, and back every shipment with $1M in cargo coverage from doorstep to delivered room. The quote combines a base rate for your home’s size with the road distance, then gets pinned to your exact route ahead of loading. Throughout the trip the driver keeps a phone line open, so one message confirms where your things are and roughly when they will arrive. We never reweigh at a truck stop, and no charge appears after the wheels start turning.
What prompts these moves is almost always a turning point, a new position, a family that has outgrown its walls, a pull back toward where someone grew up: a downtown condo headed for the Carolinas, a Dover colonial aimed west toward the Midwest, a shipyard family transferred out of the region, a fresh UNH graduate following a job down the coast. Priced flat to the journey, a studio comes in around $420 to $680, a two-bedroom around $1,140 to $1,950, and a four-bedroom from $3,180 to $5,000, with the road miles already counted in. On arrival the crew positions each piece, reassembles the beds, and carries cartons to the rooms you tagged rather than leaving a stack in the hallway.
The routes we run out of the Seacoast
- South on I-95 through Boston, Providence, and New York into the Mid-Atlantic and the Carolinas
- North and east up I-95 and US-1 into Maine, plus west on NH-101 and I-93 toward Concord and beyond
- Out the interstate corridors to upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Midwest
- Longer single-household hauls reaching the Southeast, the Gulf, and farther, each quoted by route
Want it boxed before loading day? Fold in our full packing service and one crew packs, loads, and drives the lot. Stuck with a gap between closings? Lean on our short-term storage to carry you across until the new place is ready. Whenever it suits you, request your quote and we will respond within one business hour.
What’s Included
- The whole route run on our own US DOT and MC authority, never resold to a national carrier
- One crew loading in Portsmouth, running the miles, and setting your furniture at the far end
- A base rate for your home's size combined with road distance, pinned to your route ahead of loading
- Beds reassembled and cartons carried to the rooms you tagged, not stacked in the hallway
- The load kept yours alone on our truck, never merged onto a shared trailer
- A driver reachable by phone for the length of the trip
- $1M cargo coverage, $0.60/lb released value with a full-value protection option, 9-month claim window
- Storage worked in whenever the two closing dates refuse to meet
What Does It Cost?
A single flat rate for the whole haul, locked in a binding written quote
No scale surprises and nothing extra on delivery — the number we quote is the number you pay.
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