The heavy lifting, without paying for a truck you already have
Not every move in LA calls for a full-service mover — a fair number just need a couple of strong, seasoned backs for two hours. Maybe you rented a Penske for a drive up the 5 and just want it loaded right. Maybe a POD is parked in the driveway in Burbank and you don’t relish carrying a sleeper sofa up the ramp in the afternoon heat. For exactly that, Pro Express Moving sends out labor-only crews: the truck, container or trailer is yours, and the muscle and the method are ours.
Across LA County, Pro Express Moving handles premium moves on a single written flat rate, with nothing sprung on the invoice.
These aren’t casual hands rounded up for the day. They’re the same uniformed Pro Express movers who run our full-service jobs, so you get genuine load-planning, not just lifting. Where the weight rides, how the tiers strap together, which pieces get padded — that’s the difference between a load that arrives whole and one that shifts the first time you brake hard on the 405. We bring our own pads, shrink wrap, dollies and straps, so you don’t have to source a thing.
Labor-only covers the range of LA self-move situations:
- Loading a rental truck for a DIY drive to Las Vegas, the Bay Area or down to San Diego
- Packing a POD or container tight for a carrier to haul cross-country
- Unloading at the new place when you drove the truck but don’t want to carry it all in
- Reloading after a remodel, or shifting a household within a storage unit
You’re billed at the usual crew rate — two movers for $149/hr or three for $209/hr, no one-hour minimum to meet — and the $99 you put down to book the crew and date comes off the final labor total. Need a bed or a big dresser taken apart and put back together? That’s part of the labor, and the crew shows up with the pads, straps and dollies so there’s no hardware-store run waiting for you that morning. One thing worth saying plainly: on labor-only jobs we’re handling your goods, not transporting them, so coverage applies to our work loading the vehicle rather than the drive you make afterward — if you’d rather we own the move end to end, our full-service option does exactly that. Get my free moving quote and tell us what you’ve rented and when it lands.
What’s included
- Our own muscle and method loading or unloading your rental truck, POD or trailer — you supply the vehicle, we supply the crew
- Crews for labor only, with no one-hour minimum to clear — $149/hr buys two movers, $209/hr buys three
- Professional load planning so weight rides safe and the truck or container packs tight for the highway
- Pads, shrink wrap, dollies and load straps brought by the crew, not left for you to track down
- Disassembly or reassembly of beds and large furniture as part of the labor whenever you need it
- A $99 deposit that locks the crew and date, credited to the final labor bill
How we set the price
After a quick walkthrough or video estimate, we write up a single flat rate from the inventory you genuinely have — not from a clock ticking by the hour. Whatever the sheet reads is the entire price, with nothing tacked on afterward.