Response from Auburn Moving and Storage
Auburn Moving Company is an agent for American Red Ball World Wide Movers for performing interstate (state to state) moving like this customers move from CA to CO. A day or two prior to loading this customers shipment, he informed us that he wouldn't be at his home on the days we were going to pack and load and it would be his neighbor letting us in and acting as his representative. It wasn't until the end of the loading day that the Red Ball driver realized that he knew he wasn't going to have room to fit the entire shipment and there was going to be an overflow. The shipment that was booked by another Red Ball agent that was already on the trailer was under-estimated and is why there ended up not being enough room for all of this customers belongings. That happens once in a while because estimating is not an exact science. As a result, 2,500 lbs. of the total shipment weight of 11,700 lbs. had to be taken back to our storage facility as an overflow to be put on another truck. The next day, Red Ball's dispatcher contacted the customer and notified him of the overflow. The day after that, the customer contacted me to ask why I didn't notify him of the overflow. I explained to him that I didn't because I knew that the Red Ball dispatcher already had and he was the best person to be in communication with since he controlled the drivers schedule/agenda. He asked me if there was any way he could get reimbursed or compensated for the inconvenience of having an overflow. I advised him to contact Red Ball and that they were good about reimbursing a customer for expenses incurred because of a late delivery. I don't know if he ever did contact Red Ball about that. However, I never told him "I have nothing to do with any of it and your on your own to figure out how to get reimbursed or compensated" as he claims I did in this review. I would never say anything remotely close to that to any customer. This customer's shipment was loaded on 9/9/15 and a delivery window of 9/12/15 to 9/16/15 was promised to him. The main portion of his shipment was delivered on 9/14/15 and the overflow portion was delivered on 9/20/15 (4 days beyond the last day of the delivery window - not "weeks late" as the customer states in his review). I don't recall ever being informed by the customer that there was any damage to any of his items. If my memory is failing me and he did, I would have advised him that he needed to contact Red Ball because they are the ones who would process a claim. Again, I would never tell a customer that I have nothing to do with anything and your on your own. I don't know if he ever contacted Red Ball to file a claim and if so, whether or not they denied it. I regret that this customer had to deal with the inconvenience of having any overflow. It is not only an inconvenience for him, but for us as well because we had to pick up and store the overflow without being paid for our extra labor and the storage itself. However, the reality is that every national van line has overflows from time to time due to some jobs being unintentionally under-estimated.