Can Anyone Recommend ?

[midas]

A number of people on this forum must have moved apartment at some stage

in the past .....? So I just wondered if anyone could recommend a company or individual with a pick up or van with driver to move just a few boxes from Sukhumvit Road area to Sathorn Road area - a very short distance ?

The big removalist companies have been quite snooty about it and virtually said

they're not really interested in local moves-only international !

One or two of them simply provided outrageous quotations

in a more diplomatic effort to turn down my request for their services.

So I thought stuff them !

There is no furniture involved - just packed up boxes ready to go ?

[Trevor]

Flag down an estate car / stationwagon taxi, or just approach any guy with a pickup.

Mai mee pan-hah, na khrap.

[midas]

Trevor - thanks for your suggestion.

[SK1972]

Midas...........you can try to call this guy K Moonchai at 016436029. He speaks some English but not very good.........

Cheers!

[Gazza]

Try a tuk-tuk. I've seen MC's strapped to the back of them. Boxes should be no problem.

[jackr]

Yeah, just use a tuk tuk, Midas, if the boxes are already packed-up. Failing that, why don't you hire a 'Budget' pick-up for the day? They should deliver and it's only about 1,200 baht.

[midas]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

In the end someone else suggested i contact

a hotel near to where i will be moving and ask

them if they have a vehicle and driver - which

i did and the concierge was more than

happy to help ( i know he will get a small cut

- but who cares ? ) - as it is - it has turned

out much cheaper than a removalist company

[NedKelly]

A songthaew is great for this sort of thing. You can just approach some guy outside a shop as they usually will be doing paid deliveries for the shop. The tuk tuk option is ok......I did a fridge from Chinatown to Nonthaburi one day ......it was hanging off the back drop tray......what a laugh it was...people were waving at me the whole way. That cost 300 baht and he earned every bit of it.

[midas]

I forgot about those !

Are " Songthaew`s " those red coloured

pick up trucks which serve as small mini - buses

like they have in Pattaya ?