Most addresses in Los Angeles and Orange County need no moving truck parking permit whatsoever. A handful of cities do issue one. Their applications request several business days of notice rather than a few hours, which makes this a three-weeks-out errand instead of a move-week emergency. What follows is how to establish which situation your street is in, and how to hold enough curb for the truck in either case.
Most addresses need no permit, and a single call to your city's parking desk settles yours. Ask two plain questions. Does a moving truck require a permit at this address, and can I reserve the curb in front of it? The desk answers both inside a minute, and its answer is specific to your own block rather than general to your city.
Skip the call altogether if you would rather not chase it. Send us the address and we check the parking question while we prepare your quote, or telephone (818) 391-8215 and read us the street.
A temporary no-parking permit is a city's written permission to keep other vehicles off a marked stretch of curb during a set window. Signs usually accompany it, and you post them yourself the day beforehand.
Three cities in our service area publish something you can begin with today.
Santa Ana does not publish a way for a resident or mover to obtain a temporary no-parking permit. The permit parking page it does publish is a residential district program and reserves nothing for a truck, so we plan the truck spot with you rather than promise a reservation the city does not offer.
A city that issues nothing has nothing for you to apply for, and the curb becomes a neighbor problem instead. Treat two weeks as the safe lead time everywhere, then stop thinking about it.
Measure the curb before assuming the frontage of your building will do. Reckon on 35 feet of clear space for a 24-foot truck: the vehicle itself, the ramp behind it, and room enough to walk around the back. That amounts to two parked cars and part of a third.
Then look upward. A box truck is the enclosed, flat-sided vehicle a household move runs on, and the box behind the cab makes its height as fixed as its length. Overhead clearance is the lowest obstruction over that truck's path, and it defeats one considerably more often than parked cars do.
Low branches, cable spans, carport beams and the height bar at a garage entrance all qualify. A loaded truck stands well above the figure posted at most subterranean garages, so read the sign instead of estimating from the sidewalk.
Then consider the approach. For example, a truck that fits your space perfectly may still be unable to turn around at the end of a dead-end street. Reversing the entire block is a slow and careful ten minutes in each direction.
Photograph everything while you are outside. Two pictures of the street and one of the front door communicate more than a paragraph of description manages.
Holding the curb without a permit is a neighborly problem rather than a municipal one, and neighbors are the easier of the two. Three things accomplish nearly all of the work.
Cities generally publish the sweeping calendar as well as posting it on the street, such as Anaheim and Santa Ana. Both ends of the move can be confirmed from a chair. A truck standing in a sweeping window during enforcement means a citation and a rearrangement in the middle of loading, and shifting a half-loaded truck consumes genuine time.
If your city does issue you a permit, follow its instructions precisely. Some require you to cover the existing restriction signs for your window, uncover them afterwards, and cone the area. Do not distribute cones on your own initiative, because an unauthorized cone is merely a cone.
The first fifteen minutes determine how the remainder of the day proceeds. The crew walks the route before anything comes off the truck, lays floor runners along the path, shields the door frames, and establishes where the ramp belongs. Practically everything afterwards is repetition.
Have four things ready: the space cleared, the gate code written down, the elevator reserved if your building requires it, and a telephone somebody answers. Consider what happens when the truck lands at 8am and the only person who knows the gate code is still driving over.
The walk between the tailgate and your front door is paid for in minutes, and on an hourly move those minutes are the bill. Movers call that distance the long carry, and every carton crosses it twice: once in somebody's arms, and once as an empty walk back.
Our local moving crews start from $119/hr for two movers and a 24-foot truck, and every additional mover is $40/hr. On a job with an awkward approach a third mover generally shortens the day, because the walking gets divided rather than repeated. Ask for the job priced both ways and compare the totals.
Access is something we ask about before the figure is written, never afterwards. The written estimate caps the bill, so the version of your street we hear at quote time is the version your price is constructed from. A 200-foot carry described in advance is a staffing decision. The identical carry discovered at 8am is an hour nobody scheduled. Our page on what a move costs sets out the remaining factors that move the number.
Curb access gets hardest on blocks laid out before households owned three vehicles, and the pattern repeats across the region.
Glendale keeps its options on a single parking permits page, and reading it before you telephone the parking desk is worth the two minutes it takes.
Tell us about the street and the quote comes back built on the real one. A written figure that already accounts for a difficult curb is worth considerably more than a cheap hourly number that pretends the curb is empty. Call (818) 391-8215 or send us the details, and describe what you saw when you walked the block.
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Usually not. Some cities require a permit for a moving truck and some do not. The dependable answer is the one your city's parking desk gives you about your own address. Telephone them, or send us the address and we will check it while we prepare your quote. Either way it belongs two or three weeks ahead of the move, because the cities that do issue a permit want several business days of notice.
Where your city issues a permit, apply roughly two weeks ahead and post whatever signs it supplies on the day it specifies. Where your city issues nothing, the practical method costs nothing at all. Where your city allows overnight street parking, park your own car in the space the evening beforehand and remove it when the truck arrives. Pasadena and Fullerton ban street parking citywide overnight, so check yours first. Either way, ask the households on either side to move theirs by 8am. Neighbors are considerably easier than city hall, and they agree more often than people expect.
Roughly 35 feet of clear curb, which covers the truck itself, the ramp behind it, and room enough to walk around the back. That amounts to two parked cars and part of a third. Measure the space rather than eyeballing it, because a gap that appears generous from a second-floor window is frequently a car and a half.
Rarely. A box truck stands well above the clearance posted at most subterranean garage entrances, so the truck remains at street level and the crew works from there. Read the height on the sign at the ramp and tell us that number when you ask for a quote. Driving a loaded truck at a height bar damages a roofline and a building in the same second.
The crew carries further and the move takes longer, which is exactly why we ask about parking, stairs and access before the figure is written rather than afterwards. A long walk we know about is planned for, generally with an additional mover at $40/hr so the carrying gets divided. The written estimate caps the bill, so the version of your street we hear at quote time is the version your price is built from.
