A few hundred homes on county roads
There are only a few hundred households out here, mostly houses on their own lots, many built between the 1950s and the 1970s, with a garage, a shed and patio furniture that add more to a load than people expect. We walk the garage and the yard with you before the estimate, take beds and tables apart and shrink-wrap mattresses so sand stays off them. Because the community is unincorporated, there is no city hall and no city parking permit: the streets are Riverside County roads. If you want a storage container or a truck left in the road overnight, the county’s Transportation Department handles permits for the right-of-way from its desert office in Palm Desert; a truck that arrives in the morning and leaves with your things needs nothing.
Wind first, heat second
The pass between Mount San Jacinto and Mount San Gorgonio is one of the most consistently windy places in the United States, which is why the wind farm ends at your doorstep. Wind changes how we load. Mattresses, sofas and anything with a loose cover are wrapped indoors before they cross the yard, doors are propped and tied so they do not slam on a mover’s hand, and light boxes go straight onto the truck instead of waiting in the driveway. In summer the heat comes on top of the wind, so we start at first light and keep electronics, candles and plants out of a closed truck. See packing and unpacking if you want us to box the house as well.
Indian Canyon, Dillon Road and the I-10
The Indian Canyon Drive interchange puts a truck on the I-10 within minutes, so moves to Palm Springs, about 7 miles south past the Amtrak station, to Cathedral City or down the valley to La Quinta are short hourly jobs. Desert Hot Springs is a few miles up Dillon Road or Palm Drive. Moving west to Banning, Beaumont, the Inland Empire or Los Angeles means the I-10 through the pass, still an hourly local move billed with double drive time. Anything farther inside California, from San Diego to the Bay Area, runs as a dedicated long-distance move with its own truck and a fixed date. The rest of Riverside County is covered from the same Moreno Valley office.