There are days when the hauling is handled and the only shortfall is hands. A moving container is parked in your Target Range driveway, a rental is booked, a trailer is hitched, and all that is left is a crew who can stack it so the contents make it down the road in one piece. We book that as a job in its own right, never a tag-along. Many of these also roll into a cleanout, since with the crew already on site they will pile the broken furniture, the cluttered garage, and the leftover debris onto a truck and leave the place tidy. Same Garden City movers, same shirts as on any move, parked at your container for the day, the same people we send out for an upright or a gun safe.
Stacking a container properly takes practice, not just a strong back. Put your pod or rental in the hands of a crew that does it daily and the cube gets used fully, the load stays married together over I-90, and your belongings turn up at the destination scarcely marked. Weight goes low and gets tied off, breakables get cushioned, and no empty pocket is left to waste, which keeps you from paying for a second trip a careless stack would force. When we unload, each piece comes indoors to wherever you direct, electronics and monitors carried in with the rest, and a stairs-only hillside entry is figured into the plan from the start. Have a pile of junk to be rid of besides? We will load it and run it to the transfer station.
Your wheels, our hands, geared to western Montana
Throughout Missoula County we match the work to what is actually in front of us: a Higgins-area loft that needs a dock reserved, a tight street near campus where curb time on a container is short, and the local weather that has us getting soft goods and electronics aboard before snow arrives or a smoke-thick afternoon settles in. Just tell us where the wheels will be parked and we arrange the access and time the work so neither a quick squall nor a baking August day commandeers it.
The boundaries of this service
Two plain limits. We bring the labor and nothing else, not the truck, not the gas, not the rental agreement on a container that belongs to you; those stay your responsibility. We cannot load hazardous goods, potted plants, or pets. And because someone else set up the wheels, we will flag anything that looks doubtful for the trip instead of wedging it in and keeping quiet.
What it costs
The work is hourly and carries no minimum, so a brief load near the University of Montana campus or a small pod runs you only the time it genuinely takes, with no padding of your day. Rates are $125/hr for a two-person crew, $170/hr for three, and $220/hr for four. Hauling junk and debris away bills per truckload, somewhere in the $150–$650 range depending on how full the bed gets. Sketch out the workload and where the container sits, and we send the right headcount, all of it under $1M of cargo coverage.
Got the wheels squared away yourself? Call (888) 711-4778 and a Garden City crew heads out to stack it properly.
What Our Garden City Crew Brings
- Stacking, unloading, or both for your container, trailer, or rented truck
- Our own shirted Garden City crew on the payroll, not day labor
- A tight, balanced stack that holds more and stays married down the road
- Weight kept low and tied off for the run over I-90
- Broken furniture, a cluttered garage, and leftover debris cleared by the truckload
- A stairs-only hillside entry figured in at no added cost
- Hourly with no minimum, all of it under $1M of cargo coverage
What You’ll Pay
Local crews from $125/hr — or a flat written rate
A two-mover Garden City crew, the truck, blankets, and dollies, all in.
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