Moving and Storage in San Jose

Storage-in-transit (SIT) is temporary storage that stays part of an interstate (state-to-state) move, under 49 CFR 375.609. It's used when your closing date slips, the new house isn't ready, or any other timing gap. While your shipment is in SIT the carrier stays liable for it. Before SIT converts to permanent storage, the carrier has to tell you in writing that its liability is ending, and after that the warehouse's own rules apply. California intrastate moves follow a different rule: the state's MAX 4 tariff caps SIT at 90 days, and after that the warehouse's rules apply. Interstate moves run under USDOT 70719 as a Bekins Van Lines agent.

Our standard residential Storage Vault is 8 ft × 10 ft and climate-controlled, billed per vault per month with no minimum commitment. What you pay depends on how many vaults you need and how long you keep them, so we quote against your actual inventory rather than a flat rate. Move-in and move-out labor is quoted separately against the size of the move. Call (408) 941-0600 or request a free quote.

As long as you need. Some customers store a few boxes through a renovation; others store a whole household through a multi-year placement abroad. If your storage starts as storage-in-transit on a move, it converts to permanent storage when the SIT period ends, and from then on the warehouse's rules apply.

Anywhere in the United States. For local Bay Area and California delivery, our own crews handle it. Out-of-state deliveries run under USDOT 70719 as a Bekins Van Lines agent: we coordinate the long-haul transport and partner with a Bekins agent on the destination end.

It depends on the move and the stage. On an interstate move, the carrier stays liable during storage-in-transit under the valuation you chose for the move (Full Value Protection or released value). Before SIT converts to permanent storage, the carrier has to tell you in writing that its liability is ending; after that, the warehouse's rules apply. On a California move, SIT runs up to 90 days under MAX 4, and after that the warehouse's rules apply. No single cover follows your goods for any length of storage, so we'll go through which rules apply to your move at booking.

Yes. We can retrieve specific items from your storage on request. There's typically a small handling fee, and we recommend giving us a few days' notice so we can pull the right vault without disrupting other shipments. For full delivery, we coordinate the date with you.

Self-storage is a space you rent and manage yourself. Our crew comes to your home, wraps and protects every piece of furniture, and loads it onto our truck, the same process as any SVM move. The truck returns to our warehouse, where our crew unloads your belongings directly into an enclosed Storage Vault assigned only to you, never mixed with anyone else's. Once the vault is full, we close it, security-seal it, and label it, and it stays sealed in our warehouse until you call for it.

That works. We store a single piece of furniture, a few boxes, or a full household. Billing is per 8×10 vault, and your belongings never share a vault with another customer's. We'll tell you how many vaults you need when we quote it.