A great many people who say they are moving to Cincinnati are actually moving to Kentucky or Indiana. The metro area crosses three states, and the address you give us decides more than you would think.
Goods clear at an east coast port, roughly fourteen to seventeen days from the UK on published schedules, then travel inland to the Ohio valley for delivery. The shipping side is ordinary. The last few miles are not.
The river here is a state boundary rather than a city boundary. An address that reads as Cincinnati can sit in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana, and the three are not interchangeable once the container has gone.
For the move itself the difference is drive time and delivery scheduling. River crossings are limited, so a short distance can take considerably longer than it looks at a busy hour, and a crew planning a northern Kentucky delivery is planning a different day from one heading downtown.
For the week after the move it is larger. Vehicle registration, driving licences and local taxes are all state matters, and people who have chosen a house without noticing which side of the river it sits on tend to find that out at an inconvenient moment.
So give the full address with the state on it when you enquire. It is the single most useful thing you can tell a mover here.
Whichever of the three states your address sits in, clearance is identical: the goods are cleared on the coast under federal rules and travel on. The state line has no bearing on it whatever.
What does vary by state is everything from the moment the container is empty, which is a matter for the state you have chosen rather than for your mover. The customs side is covered on the duty free eligibility page and the Form 3299 page.
The Atlantic crossing runs roughly fourteen to seventeen days on published schedules, then clearance and the inland stage. Allow five to seven weeks door to door.
Because the metro area spans Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The drive differs, and so does everything you have to do once you arrive.
No. Customs is federal, so clearance is identical wherever in the metro area you are delivering to.
Vehicle registration, driving licences and local taxes are all state matters, so check the rules for the side of the river you are settling on.
That is a question for an estate agent rather than a mover, but it is worth asking before you commit, because the difference is real and it is not obvious from a map.
Yes. Give the full address with the state so the final leg is priced and scheduled properly.
No. The moving company quotes you directly.
Send the collection address, the full delivery address including the state, your date and a rough inventory. A moving company from our network takes it from there.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.