Cross the Oregon line and Portland is the trip our drivers make most. The drive is about 145 miles of I-5 and a touch past two and a half hours: south through Olympia and Centralia, across the Columbia on the Interstate Bridge, and into town. Load at the Tacoma yard early, and plenty of homes are back on their feet that evening in the Pearl, the Southeast, the Northeast, or out by Beaverton and Lake Oswego. Dale Hagen drove crews down this corridor for years. Because the route leaves the state, it travels under our interstate authority and.
The freeway is the simple part of any Portland job. The delivery building is where the legwork goes. Lofts and high-rises around the Pearl often refuse a truck at the curb without a stamped insurance certificate, a held service elevator, and a narrow arrival window, so days ahead our office locks every one of those down at the Portland address. And the rain? Portland hands you plenty, same as home, so the runners and the shrink-wrap come out at both doors. Tech gets crated rather than blanket-wrapped: the framed art, a small rack, your desktop tower and its monitors all ride boxed the full distance.
One company owns this move beginning to end, and that company is us. The W-2 Hagen crew loading you in Tacoma is the crew climbing to your top-floor unit in Portland, riding a single GPS-tracked truck end to end. Nothing posts to a load board. Nobody fresh takes over at the river. We resell it to no outside hauler. Call our Tacoma office on day one and you reach that same office on the last box. The heavy, graceless stuff is our bread and butter, so an upright at a written rate, a gun safe, a garage of odd gear, none of it rattles the schedule. If your dates do not meet in the middle, the load waits in our climate-controlled Tacoma storage, $120 to $280 a month depending on unit size. Coverage behind it all: $1M of cargo protection, $0.60 a pound released value, 1 to 3% full-value protection, a nine-month window to file. WUTC.
Headed to Portland for work, for a change, for a place with a yard? Tell us the two addresses, name the floor and building that take you in, pick your date, and Cole comes back with a solid number that already has the drive built in.
Tacoma → Portland, OR — Estimated Cost
| Home Size | Estimated Flat Rate | Typical Transit |
|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1 BR | $1,100–$1,650 | 1 day |
| 2 Bedrooms | $1,700–$2,600 | 1 day |
| 3 Bedrooms | $2,550–$3,800 | 1 day |
| 4+ BR / House | $3,700–$5,500 | 1 day |
These numbers are for planning only. We lock your binding written price once we run a quick survey.
Moving Tacoma to Portland, OR?
One crew, one binding written price, all the way through
Our own crew loads up in Tacoma and owns the job clear to the door — no brokers, no load boards.
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