On the Move Moving Company

I have used On the Move moving company three times and I give them 5 stars for every time. Michael, the owner, and all the company’s movers, are extremely professional and hard-​working. I first used this company in 2011, then again early 2012 and when I needed to move my father to a new apartment this month (April 2015; three years later) I immediately called On the Move. I feel comfortable and confident that everything will be moved carefully and efficiently; I also appreciate how polite and professional all the movers are. I will always choose On the Move and highly recommend them.

What a piece of sh%t Mike, the owner is. Dude no calls, no shows me on September 1^st. I had my move confirmed for 830 AM for over a month and I even called him a few days before just to make sure they were going to show up. Dude left me stranded, scrambling to find other movers on the busiest move day of the year. Have some decency to at least tell me you are not going to show up.
Avoid at ALL costs.

Great Movers, Very Professional, and very good value. I had a few items to move, and they were able to give me same-​day service flat rate. They were late, which he was nice and explained it was since they had another bigger job that took longer then expected, but hey, this is Boston in the extremely busy college move-​in season, and he’s a businessman, not a charity. I was only looking for a few items, and can’t expect him to turn down bigger money. I am just happy I was able to get it moved at all on the day I wanted.
If you want a mover that is able to accommodate a last minute move, these people do a fine job.

absolutely despise them.
NO SHOW ON MY MOVING DAY!!!
they assured me they’d come, btwn 11 – 2. nothing. call. no answer. call again, no answer. finally mike answers, he’s busy moving another HOUSE, my apt was too small of a job. he said maybe they’ll come at 8pm. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. what kinda jerk does that? with a bad attitude too. just cus it’s not moving a whole house doesnt mean u treat ppl this way.
DO NOT USE THEM. you may get stood up if you only need them for a couple of hours.
THE WORST EXPERIENCE IVE EVER EVER EVER ENCOUNTERED.

My best friend hired them twice and had a good experience, so I hired them when I was moving 1h out of Boston. Although their rate isn’t the cheapest, and they charge you for the time driving back to Boston if you’re moving outside the city, they do charge on half-​an-​hour basis rather than one hour, and most importantly, Michael the owner was friendly, efficient and careful enough on fragile things. They picked up my things at two locations, and moved to a third floor apartment without elevator in Providence, the whole move cost me under eight hundred, including two movers, a big truck, gas and fee, and their driving time back to their «base».
My move went really smooth, they arrived on time, nothing broke, so I’m a happy customer. According to my best friend’s experience, they are sometimes late. I’ll say the trick is move in the morning, since if you are their first customer that day, they can’t be delayed by an earlier move.

Excellent. I will only review on Unilocal if I find a surprisingly good service or a surprisingly bad one. In this case, I feel lucky to have booked my move with this company, thanks to some bright pink posters hung up around Harvard yard. I’ll admit I underestimated how much stuff we had accumulated living in Cambridge for three years, and how difficult it would be to get heavy and delicate furniture and heavy boxes (including file cabinets filled with papers and crates of books) through narrow doorways and up and down rickety nineteenth century stairs. The owner, Michael, actually turned up to supervise this move on a sweltering summer night; he poured all his experience and sweat into the job. He and his coworker Pete worked swiftly and efficiently– they never stopped; never slowed down, never wasted a minute, and ended up meeting their estimate for how long the move would take right on the nose. They were honest, straightforward, and fair and did whatever they could on the arrival side to set us up for the next morning. I will be calling these guys again the next time I move, even if it is out of Boston. Truly worth every penny.