Household Moving Tips to Dallas
The city of Dallas, in the state of Texas, is the ninth-largest city in the United States by total area. Dallas, along with Fort Worth, its neighbor, anchors the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the entire country. Dallas currently sits in Dallas County, and is the county seat, though with recent growth of the city Dallas now spans five counties in the city proper. Founded in 1841, incorporated in 1856, and grew slowly – if not steadily – until oil was discovered in Texas in the early 20th century. Today, Dallas is a major cultural and regional hub in north-central Texas and is a major economic hub for finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, transportation and trade, and logistics, among others.
If you’re looking to move your household goods to or from Dallas, you’ll likely want to specify to your shipping company where exactly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area you are shipping to. It’s a large metro area – fourth in the nation – and getting a big interstate moving van into some areas can be tricky, particularly if you’re moving an office to a new downtown location. Shippers, if they can’t get into the area you’re shipping into, will have to hire a local company to take your goods, load them into smaller, inter-city moving vans, and have them handle the delivery and unloading/unpacking of your household goods at the delivery location. This is a common tactic, particularly when household movers are shipping goods for customers into large metropolitan areas.
Dallas is one of the most popular household relocation area in the country because it’s huge, it’s popular, and it’s a major business area that many companies like to operate at least some kind of branch in. Whatever your economic status or whatever job field you’re in, Dallas likely has something for you, so relocating there can be done for a cost-effective price and finding a new job in the area isn’t as difficult as smaller cities and towns. You can read more about Dallas via the city’s official website, as well as how to ship a vehicle to or from there on this page, and you can always fill out our free household moving quote form to get a free quote to ship to or from Dallas.
Since 2007 Dave has written all the content and blogs for American Auto Shipping and during this time added the duties of customer support and transport logistics.
He currently resides in Washington with his three kids and their mom and cat. A fan of Marvel movies and good stories, when not shipping cars Dave can be found working on his novel, enjoying a good book or playing some tournament HALO.
