Allied Van Lines Filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and Delivered My ...

I was a commercial customer of Allied Movers who was shippinghundreds of thousands of dollars of products with it, so I understand how itoperates inside and out. Allied Movers Allied Van Lines progressively became very late onshipments, started failing to pay back damaged claims, thereby ripping peopleoff, and Moving Allied began losing and damaging my products at a very obscenerate. If you are thinking about hiring Allied Moving for your home move, thinkagain. In fact, wemust start a movement to have Allied Vans shutdown. This company already has dozens of complaints already on the heavilyrated Consumer Affairs account. Read them and you'll see why you shouldn't use Movers Allied. In fact, Allied Movers wasthree weeks late for the pick-up dates, then usually more than 2 weeks late onthe actual delivery time. In fact, Allied Vans acts like a corrupt politician everyoneknows is guilty of criminal acts. The company works with third party agents who very likely stealgoods. Allied Vans has no control over these third parties whatsoever. I havemany photos of products damaged by forklifts, yet AlliedMovers takes no responsibility for Moving Allied actions, refusing to payyou back for its mistakes. They deliberately delay returning e-mails, phone calls or snail mailfor unreasonable periods of time. The company claims to be a "white glove" company thatdelivers on time and with great care and effort. However, I discovered that,once an item is close to its destination, it is passed off to the third-rate,incompetent agents who do not know how to deliver anything. After moving Allied delivered our products over a monthlate, we disputed the bill it gave us for an outrageous sum. While our dispute occurred, Allied Van Lines held ourinventory worth over tens of thousands of dollars, refusing to deliver any ofit. As a result, we lost the order income we should have gotten. Allied Movers shipped them to customers with only one ofthe parts included. The error cost my company many cancellations and producedangry customers. AlliedMoving Company admitted it made the mistake, claiming that a new warehouseemployee screwed up. This problem occurs because Allied Vans has many shippingagents who are third party companies – huge warehouses improperly trained tohandle your products. Even when you tell Allied Moving how to do it, it isimpossible for the company to pass those detailed instructions to its manycarriers. Yet even though Allied Van Lines admitted its mistakes, it stilldemanded I pay the full bill for incompetent shipping. They provide the worst customer service you can imagine andobviously do not care one whit about you or the items you've entrusted to them. I kept trying to get Allied Movers to make good on itspromises, but to no avail. And the customer service agents wouldn't do a thingto help. Some one needs to get a hold of this company and dosomething. This made it virtually impossible for these poorpeople to get their products where they wanted them to be. In fact, we had manycomplaints about this, yet were powerless to do anything about it. The driver wanted 450 extra to off load her when he couldhave gone in the back way of the apartment complex. He chose not to and wantedthis additional fee up front or her things would wind up in storage. Allied VanLines is a shady company – do not use it. My point is there all thiefs not just to customers but to the owner operators ( truck drivers ) that sub contract to them. Here's the problem they don't care about being taken to court. The laws are set up to protect them and hhey know driveres can't afford to hire an attorney. They take between 200$ and 7500$ escrow from drivers they say so when a driver quits it's there in case a claim comes in after they leave. They never give it back it's like a joke to them just like a customers complaint . I really don't know the answer but I know if I could find a laywer who knows about the moving industry there is a class action suit just waiting to be filed againstvthe whole industry . Having a Moving Company with a scale as acway to charge you, well you figure it out. There all in it together it might sound like a crazy accusation but it's all true they steal with impunity. The drug testing is a joke they call us and say( you have to do something by this date call when your ready)I'm as quilty as them so if a DA wants info I want imunity. They need to stop the way they treat people drivers included. Your stuff should be under protection though, right. This company really sucks but the insurer are more idiot that they still insuring transit goods from this company. I specifically told them not to put my card through until the move was completed. Throughout the move I made numerous calls to the office complaining about the move & the accused me of trying to get something for nothing. The manager, (who claimed to be President of the company), was rude beyond belief. They actually employed an ex-con & illegal immigrants to enter my house & literally rob me. I noticed things missing during the move, (2 Ipods still in the boxes),& the company did absolutely nothing when I brought this to their attention. When I was on active duty, (during my entire career in the Air Force), I never experienced a sham/move such as this.