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Loading & Unloading Help in NYC

Carry-only crews handling load-outs and unloads across all five boroughs of New York City. The POD, container or rental truck keeps your name on its title while every driving mile remains yours; the punishing carry is ours, and we build a stack made to survive the trip whole.

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Put your details in the form and a flat figure in writing reaches your email within the hour.

Or call (888) 711-4778

Watch for a reply from the Long Island City office within one business hour. The quote is free and leaves you under no obligation once you have it. Anything you share stops with us — it goes to no one beyond our own office.

5 ★ average across 28 reviews 17 years working the five boroughs 4,882+ moves finished NYS-licensed & fully insured

You Drive It; We Do the Backbreaking Part

Got a rental lined up and content to take the wheel? In that situation, what is left over is the punishing stretch, heaving the heavy goods and arranging them so vibration on the road won’t jostle the stack to pieces. That sums up labor-only, with no extras attached. Pull in aboard your reserved vehicle, keep the keys on your person, and our crew fills or empties it without delay, jammed solid and balanced front to back. Choosing to cover the mileage solo amounts to a conscious swap, and it counts among the main reasons this remains a wallet-friendly route to seasoned muscle.

Part of the Package

  • Tough crew members set to pack or empty whatever POD, container or rental you turned up in
  • A firm, tied-down stack engineered to sit steady over bridge expansion gaps and cratered roadway
  • Moving blankets and shrink film draped over whatever warrants the cushioning
  • Hand trucks running on four wheels, floor runners and lashings carried in aboard our own van
  • Big-ticket furniture taken apart along with bed frames, reassembled afterward

The Flow of It

Park the truck wherever a legal space, or a stretch fit for double-parked loading, allows. The crew then judges every piece by weight and form, anchoring the densest against the front wall for counterweight and wedging the balance behind it snug, so nothing breaks free crossing the FDR or merging onto a span. Whatever separates for extra clearance gets separated. An unload reverses each step, every item lowered where you point and the parts that came off reattached. The instant a nor’easter threatens, salt covers the stoop or dock and cover gets laid before any rolling begins, since a heaped dolly skating over greasy steel and sodden concrete is precisely how a one-person Saturday lands at the ER. Inside a doorman or co-op address we work strictly inside the freight-elevator window you booked, sparing the rental from burning money parked idle.

The Single Limit

Put plainly, we steer clear of the driver’s seat. Running the truck to any spot, towing a trailer behind it, or shuttling a POD between two addresses falls wholly on you, or on whichever outfit rented it out, with no carve-outs. The vehicle plus its gas ride on your bill besides, and whatever travels unsecured or uncovered up high sits outside our guarantee, the exceptions being a piece you closed up yourself or one a photo caught going aboard.

The Figures

Billing runs by the hour, opening at $149/hr for a two-person crew across a minimum of two hours, generally the thriftiest path to capable hands. A dense haul, or several stories of stairs to climb, frequently warrants a third worker at $199/hr, a detail nailed down on a brief call.

Phone (888) 711-4778 to line up a crew for the load-out or unload on your job here in town.

What's included

Book this service and here is everything the crew handles

  • Tough crew members set to pack or empty whatever POD, container or rental you turned up in

  • A firm, tied-down stack engineered to sit steady over bridge gaps and cratered roadway

  • Moving blankets and shrink film, brought along on your end or supplied on ours

  • Hand trucks running on four wheels, floor runners and lashings carried in aboard our own van

  • Big-ticket furniture pulled apart together with bed frames, then put back at the far end

  • Carrying goods through cramped bends and up the flights of a walk-up, whether a rental or an apartment

  • Every piece the crew gets a grip on stands behind our written damage guarantee

Numbers we stand behind

What should this service cost you?

By-the-Hour Crews

Starting from$149/hr

Your figure already includes the crew (two movers, two-hour minimum), the truck itself, and the whole kit we bring — blankets, dollies, straps, ramps — so none of that gear ever turns up as a separate charge.

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★★★★★

I have used Marley several times over the past few years, most recently to relocate my storage unit. These guys are always top notch. Can’t recommend them enough.

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Luis G. Sunnyside · into storage between leases
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Mike and Tony were fantastic to work with! They were super professional, accommodating and fast! I highly recommend Marley Moving for any type of job!

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Sean O.
Sean O. Greenpoint · doorman-building studio
★★★★★

Mike and Tony were excellent! They took such great care unloading my things and made such great time. They are very personable, had great communication, honest, and easy to get along with. Highly recommend this service!

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Service FAQs

What people usually want to know about this service

Does the crew handle the driving, or carry my POD somewhere else?
Neither one, sorry to say. Carry-only covers the hauling alone, leaving the load to us while the entire drive stays with you or whichever company you rented from. Drawing that boundary holds the per-hour figure down and keeps the container squarely in your charge.
Beyond the well-known rental trucks, do you also pack portable pods and freight crates?
Yes to both, with no hassle. The familiar rental nameplates barely register for us, while shipping crates, relocubes and portable storage pods all slot in right beside them. Everything stays compact and front-weighted, so the load runs the whole route without a wobble.
Once the rental is at the fresh place under my own steam, could you cover just the unload?
Of course. A fair share of customers tackle the whole haul themselves and ring us purely at the new place, emptying the vehicle and carrying everything indoors, every walk-up flight included. Engaging us at either end, or only one, is wholly your decision.
How does the load stay put while the truck is rolling?
Weighty pieces line the front wall, the stack rises tier by tier, and each tier is tied off, so stamping the brakes along the BQE leaves no dresser scarred by arrival. Lashing one tier after the next as it goes up is the lone move that almost every self-packed truck skips.