Most addresses need no moving permit at all. Los Angeles County contains one city in our service area that operates a permit written specifically for moving vehicles, and that city is Pasadena, whose own application exempts anything 25 feet or shorter. Our standard truck is 24 feet. This page is about establishing which case your street is in, and about the short errands that follow.
A moving permit gets your truck legal standing at the curb, and that is the whole of it. A moving permit is a city's written permission for one named vehicle to occupy the public right of way on a set date and inside a set window. It will not shift the cars already parked there. Nobody from the city arrives to empty the space either, which regularly catches people who have just paid a fee.
Two useful consequences follow. Where your city issues nothing there is nothing to apply for, and you have lost no ground whatsoever. Where it does issue something, the fee is generally small. The notice period is the part that catches people out.
Telephone early, then, and ask three plain questions. Does a moving truck need a permit at this address. Does the length or the weight of the vehicle change that answer. How many days ahead does the department want the paperwork. The conversation is a short one, and it ends the guessing permanently.
Would you rather not chase it? Send us the address instead. We confirm the parking question while we put your quote together, or telephone (818) 391-8215 and describe the street to somebody who books these jobs every week.
Pasadena's rule turns on one measurement, which is the length of the vehicle standing at your curb. The city's own application states that moving vehicles 25 feet long or less do not require a permit. Above that threshold it prices the permit at $84 and requests the paperwork 10 days before the moving date. Read the current version before you plan around either figure, because a city can revise a fee without announcing it.
Our baseline crew runs a 24-foot truck, a foot underneath that threshold. That is the reason most Pasadena customers never encounter this application. A larger home may take three or four movers, and occasionally a longer vehicle. That conversation belongs to quote time.
A traffic review is the city's own check that a truck standing at your address will not create a hazard, and Pasadena states that one applies to moving vehicle requests. The exemption lifts the fee and the filing rather than the city's interest. Two conditions printed on the permit are worth respecting whether or not you hold one. Leave 15 feet clear on each side of a fire hydrant, and have the truck off the street before the 10pm cutoff the form specifies. Pasadena's parking pages carry the current wording, and a posted sign on your own block outranks anything printed on paper.
Parking permits do not sit inside the same department twice. In Santa Ana the city's permit parking page is the place to begin. Irvine puts the request with its police department, on a parking variance form. Glendale keeps everything together on one parking permits page underneath public works. Ten minutes of reading before you dial saves you two transfers.
Thresholds move between cities as well. Pasadena's 25 feet is a Pasadena number rather than a regional one, and elsewhere the measurement that matters may be a weight, a height, or a different length. Carry the truck's dimensions with you when you telephone. Length, width and height in feet answers whatever the desk asks, and it saves a second call.
In the city of Los Angeles most residential blocks come down to the posted sweeping hours rather than to any permit. Plan the starting time around the sign, and you solve the identical problem for nothing.
The sequence below spreads across a month, and none of it lands on move day. That is the entire point of doing it in this order.
Four failures account for nearly every access problem on a residential move, and each of them is inexpensive to prevent.
You buy almost nothing for the access side of a move. Pasadena sells Temporary No Parking signs at $1.50 each, plus $1.25 per hour per space in a metered area or $1.00 per hour per space where there is no meter, and that is the entire shopping list. Temporary No Parking signs are the printed placards a city sells so other drivers understand that somebody has claimed the curb. They only count once they have stood for a day and you have registered them.
Everything protective arrives with the crew on a local move: door shields, floor runners, ramps and straps, thick moving blankets, unlimited wrap and tape, speed-pack boxes and up to eight loaner wardrobe boxes. None of it appears as a line item on the invoice. If you would rather not pack at all, packing services run on the identical hourly structure. They go onto the same written estimate.
Send us both addresses and we will tell you whether either one needs a permit. That beats becoming the person completing paperwork during the week of the move. Our crews start with two movers and a 24-foot truck as the baseline, and each additional mover is priced into the free written estimate. The written estimate caps your bill, so the version of your street we hear at quote time is the version we build your figure on. Our moving costs page sets out the remaining factors that move the number.
Telephone (818) 391-8215 or send us the details, seven days a week between 8am and 8pm. AG Moving&Storage is a family-owned mover working across Los Angeles County and Orange County, and our license numbers are USDOT 3610341 · CAL-T192465 · CA 602741 · MC 1525501. You are welcome to read about us first.
Usually not. The city's moving vehicle application exempts vehicles 25 feet long or less, and our standard truck is 24 feet, so most Pasadena jobs file nothing at all. Pasadena still states that a traffic review applies to moving vehicle requests. A larger house can need a longer vehicle, and if yours is one of those we say so at quote time rather than on the morning.
It depends entirely on the city, and most charge nothing because they issue nothing. Pasadena's current form prices a moving vehicle permit at $84 and asks for the application 10 days before the moving date. Read the city's own page before you budget for it, because fees change and the city next door sets its own.
Ours is 24 feet for a standard local move, and that figure is what decides the permit question in Pasadena. Ask any mover for the truck length before you fill in a form. The vehicle written on the application has to be the vehicle that arrives.
About three weeks, everywhere in Los Angeles and Orange County. Cities that do issue a permit want notice measured in business days rather than hours, and Pasadena asks for 10 days. The telephone call that establishes whether your address needs one takes a few minutes.
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