take it with you in your car!!! we moved back & forth across the continental United States for years ..every few months to once a year ..every moved done by husbands' employer. we have used every moving company out there, some twice ..no choice of movers, the employer chose the moving company ..every time. and every time something else was broken ..from hubby's great grandmothers cabbage leaf bowl to my vintage rocher gas cook stove ..everytime there was the snarky remark "don't worry! you know ******* (a large multinational construction company) will replace it!"
my last move i packed everything myself and hired my own choice of movers ...the company had changed their moving policy (probably tired of so many millions spent in insurance claims for broken treasures over the decades
) and was sending a check for amount they estimated cost would be from point of origin to new jobsite. the only thing that happened on that move was at recieving end ..my favorite 13' extension ladder went missing ..i blame the hubby for that ..he just doesn't pay attention ..gets involved with the "guys talkin' " thing!