Movers in Hawthorne and Richmond, Inner Southeast Portland
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The Hawthorne district and the Clinton and Division blocks both sit inside Richmond, and a move into any of them carries a wrinkle a map keeps to itself. Several of the quietest residential streets here are neighborhood greenways, and on some stretches, the city has installed hardware that prevents cars from driving straight through.
The street your address sits on may not be the street our truck arrives on. Which way the truck comes in and which corner it turns at are decided before the truck is dispatched, well ahead of a driver standing at a barrier with your sofa behind him.
The yard is in Hillsboro, about 30 minutes out. Everything below is about the last four blocks of that drive.
How the Truck Actually Gets to Your Door
What a greenway actually is
A neighborhood greenway is a quiet residential street the city has slowed down on purpose and signed for people walking and biking. Speed bumps, crossing islands, wayfinding signs, and pavement markings are the bulk of one, and a truck drives straight over all of them. One component decides whether a truck gets onto the block at all: traffic diversion, meaning the signs and barriers that hold cars out on the arterials. Plenty of greenway miles have no diverter. Before its last round of work, SE Clinton was already carrying speed bumps, traffic circles, a bike box, a semi-diverter, and pedestrian crosswalks, and a loaded truck feels every one of those, which is why a driver takes them at a crawl.
Diverters exist to beat what a navigation app tries to do
Diversion on these corridors is deliberate. Cars get pushed back onto the main thoroughfares by signs and physical barriers, because navigation apps often send drivers through neighborhoods to dodge traffic, and the barriers are what stop it. So when an app draws a clean line down a greenway to your address, the line and the street can disagree, and the street decides. A driver who has not checked the block first can meet a barrier with the truck already committed.
What the city has built, and what it has planned
SE Clinton and the Ladd, Harrison, and Lincoln runs are two of the east-west greenway corridors through here, and north-south greenway routes cross them too. Clinton runs from 12th to 50th, and 50th is Richmond's eastern edge, so the piece Richmond holds is its east end; the Lincoln run starts west of Richmond and carries on toward Mt. Tabor, so Richmond holds its middle. Clinton's diverters are all in the ground. On the Lincoln run, construction is mostly complete, with one piece outstanding: the interim diverter at 50th and Lincoln, which is to be replaced by a permanent design. A corner open last year may not be open on your date. The city publishes a citywide bike map showing neighborhood greenways, protected bike lanes, and difficult intersections.
A diverter is not a closed street
The 50th and Lincoln diverter changes how residents reach their homes; it does not eliminate access. Along Harrison and Lincoln, four of 103 access points, about 4 percent, were proposed for half closure. The longest extra distance to reach one of those four is about half a mile, which at 25 mph works out to just over a minute. That is the whole cost of the thing, and it is spent before the ramp comes down.
Designs move while they are being drawn
Take 50th and Lincoln. An earlier version of that design allowed no turns onto Lincoln from 50th at all; the design that replaced it allows some, and the right turn from 50th came back along the way. Restrictions come and go like that while a project or a detour is live. Stand at your own corner a week out and read what the signs say a car may do there, and you will know more about your block than any map does.
What going around the long way costs you
Coming in from the far corner usually means a couple of extra blocks of driving and a few minutes of extra time. What it buys is a driver who is not reversing back out of a block he should not have entered. A loaded box truck that meets a barrier may have to back past parked cars to leave, on a street built to be quiet. That is the morning the phone call prevents.
Who decides the turn, and when
We work the turns out when you book. If a detour has gone up in between, the driver can call in, and we swap ends. A routing engine does carry turn restrictions, but it can be a version behind on a barrier that changed last month. Somebody who looked at the corner this week is not.
What Changes Once the Truck Is Parked
The load gets built for the way out
A truck that comes in past a barrier has to leave past one, so departure is decided at the same moment as arrival, which changes how the truck is packed. Long pieces go toward the tail on the side the truck will turn toward, so nothing has to come back off at the corner. You will not see this from the sidewalk; it is the reason the truck leaves the block in one movement.
Calming hardware reads differently loaded
In joint PBOT and Portland Fire and Rescue testing, the largest and heaviest fire trucks were found to be the ones most affected by speed bumps and traffic circles. A moving truck is nowhere near a fire engine's weight, but full, it meets that hardware differently than empty. Lincoln and Harrison carry calming of their own, and a traffic circle is a turning-radius question for a box truck where it is close to nothing for a car. So the shorter route is not automatically the quicker one with a full truck on it.
Where the diverters tend to sit
PBOT has traditionally placed diverters at major cross streets, and traditionally is the operative word: there is one on Clinton at 32nd, an ordinary local corner. So the arterial crossings are where to look first, and the smaller corners get read one at a time.
What a Move on These Blocks Costs
Getting the approach right does not change the card, only how much of it the day uses. The figures below are the same card we quote anywhere in the Portland metro.
Price a Richmond or Hawthorne moveStandard rate: Monday–Saturday, 7 AM–7 PM
- 2 movers + truck: $150.35 per hour · 3 movers + truck: $206.75 per hour · 4 movers + truck: $263.15 per hour
- 3-hour minimum · $56.40 per hour for each additional mover or packer
- Evenings after 7 PM Mon–Sat, and Sundays (3-hour minimum): $195.20 / $273.40 / $351.60 per hour
- Holiday rate (3-hour minimum): $230.50 / $325.50 / $420.50 per hour
The drive from our Hillsboro yard is part of the hours, billed at the same hourly rate as the crew.
Handing off the kitchen or the glassware is a separate line, billed at the packer rate above, plus boxes priced by size. Cartons you already have get filled first. Payment comes at completion, by card, check, or cash.
Released Value, Replacement Cost and Claims
Released value at $0.60 per pound is the legal floor, not a plan. Replacement-cost protection is available if you choose to purchase it. We will submit a claim upon request.
The Work Behind the Approach
Whatever you are moving, the way in gets worked out the same way.
- Residential moving: the bungalows and foursquares that fill Richmond, worked from whichever end of the block the truck reaches
- Furniture moving and disassembly: bed frames and sectionals taken apart at the door, so the biggest piece never decides the corner
- Apartment moving: the courtyard fourplexes off Clinton and Division, where the entrance you use decides which end we come in from
- Specialty and high-value pieces: a glass top or an antique, padded for a route over speed bumps and traffic circles
- Long-distance within Oregon: these blocks to Bend, Salem or the coast, with the corner at this end settled the same way
Questions We Get From These Blocks
Can your truck just go over a diverter?
No. Almost all of the diverters planned for these corridors are designed so a fire truck can drive over or past them, and every proposed diversion is reviewed with Portland Fire and Rescue before it goes in. That allowance is for emergency apparatus. Our driver reads the same signs a car does and takes the legal turn.
Do I have to work out the route myself?
No. Tell us the cross streets at both ends of your block, and whether either end meets a bigger street such as Hawthorne, Cesar Chavez or 50th. That is enough to work out the rest.
Can you park the truck on Hawthorne itself?
We plan around it. SE Hawthorne west of 50th is a District Collector. That is a job description, not a traffic count: those are the streets meant to move traffic between districts over longer distances, and the city classifies streets by the function they serve, since volumes rise and fall. We take the legal turn off Hawthorne onto a smaller street and work in from there.
A barrier went in on our block after we booked. Now what?
Call and say so, and the corner gets read again before the truck leaves the yard. If nobody catches it until the morning, the driver takes the other end of the street, and the job runs a few minutes longer. The approach changes; the crew size and the card it bills off do not.
Our street is one of the greenways. Does that make the move harder?
It makes it a different conversation, and a short one. The way in is the one piece that needs to be worked out, and once it is, the day runs the way it would on any residential street in Southeast.
What Our Customers Say
Two Cross Streets Is All We Need
The call takes a few minutes if you have four things ready. The cross street at each end of your block is the one that decides the approach. Then: whether the driveway will be free and which side of the house the door is on, roughly how many rooms plus a garage or basement, and the date you are aiming at and whether it can move by a day.
Call (503) 506-4149 with those four, and the route in is settled before the date is.
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Neighborhood coverage: Richmond, Hawthorne, Clinton and Division, and the surrounding inner Southeast Portland neighborhoods, plus the rest of the city from our Portland moving page. Oregon intrastate work only.