What a Highland local move truly costs
Most callers guess low on a Region move, usually because a competitor floated a tidy number for a house nobody had actually walked through. For a move that stays inside Lake County, what you owe is the crew, the truck, and everything in between, written as one number.
- 2-mover rate$110/hr, crew & truck
- 3-mover rate$150/hr, crew & truck
- What runs the clockThe home and the driveway, not the mileage
Access sets the number here more than distance
A postwar ranch in Highland with a packed basement and a narrow driveway, a Munster split-level with three flights between the truck and the door, a downtown Chicago high-rise waiting on a booked freight elevator, all of it eats hours a flat Schererville or Dyer subdivision never would. Denise builds those hours into the quote up front instead of pretending the job is identical to the one down the street.
Local rate ranges
Once we’ve walked the rooms and asked about stairs, basements, or building rules, the hourly math turns into one number on paper. These ranges reflect a typical job around Highland and the Region, from Munster and Griffith to Schererville, Dyer, St. John, and Crown Point.
| Home size | Crew & truck | Typical rate |
|---|---|---|
| Studio apartment | 2 movers, 1 truck | $390 – $630 |
| 1-bedroom home or condo | 2 movers, 1 truck | $630 – $1,020 |
| 2-bedroom home or condo | 2-3 movers, 1 truck | $1,020 – $1,780 |
| 3-bedroom house | 3 movers, 1 truck | $1,780 – $2,900 |
| 4+ bedroom house | 3-4 movers, 1-2 trucks | $2,750 – $4,300 |
No hidden add-ons in Highland
The number is the whole number. There’s no separate fuel charge, no toll-road fee, and no early-start surcharge for a local move anywhere in Lake County.
| What people expect to be charged | What we charge |
|---|---|
| Fuel surcharge | $0, built into the rate |
| Indiana Toll Road toll fee | $0 inside Lake County |
| Lake-effect reschedule fee | $0, included |
Where the hours actually pile up
A handful of things swing the total, and each is already priced into the figure you sign, so move day never springs a fresh charge.
- The building. A downtown Chicago high-rise timed around a booked freight elevator and a certificate of insurance takes longer to plan than a move that stays inside Highland, and we build that into the truck and crew size.
- The driveway. A Highland or Munster ranch with a narrow driveway and a packed basement moves slower than a flat Schererville or St. John lot.
- The packing. Boxes already taped shut and labeled keep the crew moving at a steady pace; it’s whatever gets left in the closets and junk drawers for the morning of that stretches a four-hour job into six.
- The heavy pieces. A gun safe, a piano, or shop equipment from a Region garage wants trained hands and the right rigging, quoted up front, sometimes with a 4-mover crew at $195/hr when the job calls for it.
Crew and coverage, plain
Jeff Nowicki started the company in 2010 out of a yard off Ridge Road, and it now runs several trucks, with Denise Kaczmarek writing the quotes, Marcus Delgado on dispatch, and Andre Petrovic leading the crews.
By federal rule your goods default to released-value protection at 60 cents per pound; full-value protection, which pays toward replacing a broken item, runs 1 to 3 percent against the value you declare, backed by $1M in cargo coverage and a nine-month window to file. Have Denise walk the rooms with you, and the figure she writes down is the one you’ll sign.
