Quick Studies

With over 50 years of moving experience, we’ve learned and grown. While we’ve never considered solving challenging situations to be ‘going above and beyond’, we were asked to compile some unique success stories.

Our Quick Studies are short form retellings of these stories. While we consider these stories to be business as usual, we’re reminded regularly that our customers are more then delighted by the outcomes.

• Quick Study # 1 - CEO Transfer
• Quick Study # 2 - Large Office Relocation
• Quick Study # 3 - Craned Truck Move

Quick Transfer manages corporate moves across Canada and the United States with unrivaled experience, servicing executives and high value customers.  One such move involved the CEO of one of the largest grain companies in North America.  He was moving from Winnipeg to Calgary due to a shift in corporate head offices.  As part of the process, everything in the house was photographed prior to the move.  Positioning, placement and layout of all furniture and accessories was documented.  At destination, a full unpack of all belongings was required including placement of all goods according to previous photographs.  All dishes and utensils were washed before being placed in assigned cabinets.  All food and groceries were setup in the kitchen.  All electronics were hooked up.  Every notepad, pen and accessory was placed as it had been in the previous home.  At the end of it all, the owners wanted to just come home.  There was not to be a box left in the house.  When they stepped through the doorway they did not know that they had moved.  The process took almost two weeks to complete but every detail was met and every demand was fulfilled to help the family come home in a new city.

Quick Study # 2 - Large Office Relocation

Skilled competencies in Move Management and Project Management are necessary in large scale office and industrial moves.  With the largest supply of office moving equipment in Manitoba, Quick Transfer has handled some of the largest office and industrial moves ever to take place in the province.  In 2003, Quick Transfer completed an office move of 500 individuals in a 48-hour time span.  This move included all computers, phones, effects and filing systems across 8 floors of a high rise building.  Employees were to enter the new offices on Monday morning with all phones and computers working and all chairs and desks set to their previous ergonomic settings.  All clean-up had to be completed and there was a zero tolerance policy towards any deficiencies.  If everything was not completed and working on Monday morning, the cost would be $10,000 per hour of down time.  The move required 90 employees, 120 file carts and 250 dollies with teams working around the clock.  There was a 2-month ramp up for the project including weekly project management meetings onsite with the customers.  One slow service elevator served as a bottleneck during the move and would have greatly hampered timing had Quick Transfer not created a box slide down an escalator that allowed boxes to quickly and efficiently reach high speed elevators.  The entire project was completed in 36 hours, leaving 12 hours for clean-up and finishing touches.  Not a single deficiency was recorded and all business began as usual on Monday morning.

Quick Study # 3 - Craned Truck Move

Quick Transfer has always focused on innovation to best serve the needs of customers.  This continual focus on innovation began with the founding of the company and was never better displayed than when one large client we were moving, needed to vacate from a four story building that was to be torn down in 1979.

                                                                      

There was no elevator in the building and many pieces of furniture that had been assembled in the building could not be broken down into small enough pieces to fit down the stairwells.  Quick Transfer had a special hoist created and used a crane to lift a truck to each floor of the building where the furniture was loaded through windows into the waiting vehicle and then lowered to the ground to be taken to a new building.