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(USGovernment-News.Com, August 23, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- Recently a disturbing trend in moving has started. Once moving companies get hold of your possessions they tend to take things for granted. They take advantage of the customer’s vulnerability by charging them more than the agreed terms, placing extra conditions and sometimes threatening never to return the goods unless the barbaric conditions are met. This senseless trend has to stop and a new law promises to change that.
According to various news sources like USA TODAY and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, President Obama signed the law earlier this month. This law will allow the transportation authority to charge a massive penalty, having a minimum worth of $10,000, on these cynical companies.
Many incidents depict this disturbing trend over the past years. Statistics prove that these incidents are a norm now, especially with unlicensed personnel or companies. There was a 17% increase in complaints in 2011 compared to previous years regarding moving companies according to a division of the Transportation Dept., Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which received a staggering 2,851 complaints in 2011.
An anonymous online poll that was conducted by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) showed that two out of five people have run into issues with moving companies.
According to an official press release in 2011, the Better Business Bureau received an astonishing figure of 9000 complaints that were targeted at different moving companies.
The Transportation department will be allowed to exercise these new authorities only in cases which involve moving possessions between states. This law does not apply to intra-state cases. There have been many appalling instances lately. These cases mostly involve a company trying to rip off people who are moving.
Some of these instances include a woman in Georgia who was forced to pay thousands of dollars more than the agreed sum and is still awaiting the arrival of her possessions, a company reluctant to give a woman from Washington her goods back and threatening her for extra cash, and a woman in New Jersey who claims that the company significantly raised the price of moving her goods once they got them in their moving vans and then added the incentive of a discount if she agreed to spend a night in bed with them.
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