Morning With Movers: Navigating Seasonal Business Demand and Work-Life Balance

Get ready for an insightful discussion on planning for the busy season and optimizing your moving business. 🚚💼 How do you prepare for the upcoming season, especially when it’s expected to be just as hectic as last year? Join us as we tackle these crucial questions and share valuable tips to ensure your moving operations run smoothly.

In this conversation, we explore the balance between being well-prepared and not overcommitting resources, preventing wasteful spending. With approximately 9 trucks in your fleet, finding the right crew size is essential. Being short-staffed during the summer months can result in missed opportunities and lost revenue.

Discover strategies to maintain mental well-being during the busiest times. We discuss the benefits of implementing regular days off, such as Sundays, to boost morale, reduce claims, and enhance overall performance. Don’t miss out on maximizing your moving business’s potential this season!

Mack’s Moving Training was born to help other Moving Owners simplify the process and get their time back. With this day and age, employee turnover is a real thing and to constantly have to repeat yourself has to be the thing of the past in order for us to grow. We hear from a lot of moving companies “we train our crew members on the truck” (which means on the job). This is a very stressful situation for a new candidate and whether you believe it or not it could be stressful for you as well. Hoping and crossing your finger your new mover doesn’t cause damage or hoping your most senior crew member doesn’t up and leave one day. Owners have too much stress to begin with training doesn’t need to be. Now we discussed the moving aspects, how is sales trained? Are they Just thrown on the phone hoping they get a sale and if they don’t, they’re gone? Let’s be intentional about our process, set our employees up to succeed and in the end we all are rewarded.

Join us for another episode of Mornings with Movers as we dive into the world of entrepreneurship in the moving industry. Hosted by Dwyght from Mack’s Moving Training, alongside Clifford Starks, the motivational coach, and special guest Jonathan from Ferguson Moving & Storage in Canada. From tech issues to training initiatives, we discuss the trials and triumphs of running a successful moving company. Don’t miss out on the insights and experiences shared in this enlightening conversation!