Moving Rollinsford

Moving on down the road
Americans are on the move and it is estimated that 9.8 percent or 15.3 million households move house annually. In modern America the moving industry represents big business employing approximately 122,600 people and generates $86 billion in revenue.

It is estimated that there are over 7000 professional removalist companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford currently operating in America.

The history of the moving industry.
The beginnings of the American moving industry can be traced back to the age of Manifest Destiny (1812 – 1867) in the early 19th century. This was a period which saw a mass migration of Americans travelling and developing the American west.

Modern day moving companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford use removalist trucks to store and transport people’s possessions but back in the early 19th century migrants travelling west would use either the Conestoga or the Prairie schooner wagon.

The Conestoga wagon is named after the Conestoga River and is specifically designed to haul heavy and bulky materials short distances. The Prairie Schooner was the most commonly used wagon by people migrating out west. It is a smaller and lighter wagon and can be pulled by 2 horses whereas the Conestoga wagon needed four horses.

The Conestoga and Prairie Schooner wagons were the original removalist vans that are used by modern day removalist companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford.

Mechanical advancements change the moving industry
The development of the moving industry directly correlates with the development of the transportation industry. On Christmas day 1830 construction of the first passenger train was completed and this represented a revolutionary change in the transportation and moving industries.

In the 1830’s there were no removalist companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford and when moving people would use the train to move themselves and their belongings.

In the mid 1800’s the first removalist companies began to appear but their role was markedly different than modern day removalist companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford. The train created the first localized transportation / removalist companies. When moving goods and possessions were transported to the train by a local company and then unloaded from the train and transported to their final destination by another local moving company like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford.

The small local transportation/ removalist companies were called wagon firms. Initially they transported mainly livestock but by the mid 18 hundred’s slowly but surely, they began transporting people and their possessions, making the railroad the first national removalist company.

A large part of the modern-day removalist scene for companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford is storage. Back in the 1800’s, removalist and transportation companies would store goods in warehouses beside the railroad tracks and this was the first appearance of what has now become the Storage In Transit (SIT).

World War 1 prompted a huge increase in production of motor vans and when the war was over these motor vans were repurposed by professional removalist companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford for transporting people’s goods across America.

The 20th century was a period of turbulent growth and change for the American moving industry but the 21st century and the invention of the internet has completely changed the removalist industry and how individual companies like Burke Moving and Storage, moving Rollinsford operate. Bookings, tracking, route planning and publicizing are all done over the internet and in some cases the removalist trucks are even driven remotely.