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Moving The PAF Way

Moving? You Pack It, We Move It!

Pacific Alaska Freightways offers a cost effective alternative to the high priced national moving and storage companies. We bring a trailer to your house, you load and pack the trailer, knowing that you can handle your items with the care that your valuables deserve. Pacific Alaska Freightways picks up the trailer when you are finished and delivers it direct to your new house. Your personal effects are not touched or transferred and you receive them the same way you loaded them. It's that easy! We also offer several other services including different sizes of trailers, packaging materials and boxes for sale. 

An alternate service option is our partnership with Door to Door Storage to offer you a new and innovative approach to moving your personal effects and household items between Alaska and the lower 48! We deliver a 5' x 8 'x 8' crate right to your house or business; you load it and call us to pick it up when it's done. We can then send & deliver the crate to your new location just about anywhere in the US. 
Click here for more info: www.doortodoor.com

Moving within the Anchorage, Fairbanks, Wasilla or Kenai areas - Whether you are moving across town, across Alaska or across the US, the services of Pacific Alaska Freightways & Door To Door Storage can make your move a pleasant experience.

[Trailer Information]    [Moving Tips]    [Documentation]    [Moving Your Vehicle]    [Insurance]

Getting Started 

Reading completely thru the moving your household goods section of this PAF website will answer a lot of your questions about what to expect from your moving experience with PAF and insure a successful move.   

1. Call PAF’s rate dept or email us the following information; 

- The zip code of where you are moving from and your final destination zip code.       
- Approximate space you will need in a trailer. [See the estimator below]       
- When you plan on moving.   

2. PAF will provide you with a cost estimate based on the information you give us.   

3. Call three days before you plan on having the trailer spotted for loading and PAF will give you a date and time (three hour window for deliveries) when we will deliver your trailer.   

4. You fill out the bill of lading and sign all the documents [see documents] and either email or fax them back to us or give them to the driver when he picks up the trailer.   

5. Call 24 hours in advance of when you want the trailer to be picked up. You have 48 hours to load the trailer and 48 hours to unload the trailer.

Trailer Information

Pacific Alaska Freightways can help you get your household goods/personal effects moved to and from anywhere in the USA to and from Alaska. PAF will spot a 28, 40 or 45 foot trailer to your house for two days free and you can load and secure your goods inside the trailer and then wall it off. The trailer will be delivered to your final destination where you will have 2 days to unload it. You will pay for the amount of floor space you utilize in the trailer. All household good movements need to be prepaid.

Estimator - How much of the trailer will I use?

PAF has 28, 40 and 45 foot long trailers that are approximately 7’ 8” wide and 8’ 10” high. This is much larger than most rental trucks.

As a rule of thumb allow 210 cubic feet of loading space for each room in your house. Allow extra room for bulky pieces of furniture, outdoor furniture, lawn mowers and large appliances. The following is only for estimating and should not be utilized to figure out costs as they will vary depending on the actual amount of space you use in the trailer.

Securing Your Household Goods In The Trailer

Load all your household goods into the front of the trailer and pack them tight with lots of packaging and protection, so they will ride safely and damage free. Place heavy items on the floor and light bulky items on top of them. The better you pack and load your goods, the greater the chance they will arrive at your final destination in good condition. Utilize as little space as possible as you will be paying for the amount of space you use in the trailer.

You can secure and segregate your goods by then building a wall out of 4x8 plywood and 2x4’s blocking this section off from the rest of the trailer. You can nail into the floor of the trailer but not the walls or ceiling. The trailers have ribs in them and you can wedge the 2x4’s into the walls and ceiling to help in the securing process. At most PAF Alaska terminals packaging supplies are available for purchase.

Shipping Your Vehicle 

Yes! PAF can help ship your vehicle to or from Alaska to the lower 48. Click here for more information: Vehicle Shipping

Documentation - 

There are a few documents that require signatures & returning to PAF before any personal effect shipments can be booked. Click here to download the entire packet: Household Goods Packet

Insurance 

PAF only offers minimal insurance coverage on your goods of .20 cents per pound if any damage should occur for any reason. Since you do the loading and unloading this makes sense that you are responsible for the condition your items arrive in. For more detail on insurance go to Insurance Form