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Why choose SOS Moving?
Our professional teams are equipped for the specialized moves Burbank demands. We have the expertise to safely transport high-value items, from a vintage movie poster collection in Magnolia Park to sensitive editing equipment for a home studio in the Media District.
Your dedicated move coordinator then provides a detailed inventory and a guaranteed delivery window, ensuring a predictable, surprise-free journey for your belongings. Request your free long-distance quote today.
Our office movers in Burbank deliver top-level commercial moving services. We’ll cope with any office furniture, professional equipment, and even medical practice. Due to a professional approach to all stages of your office move, we help you not to lose excitement and inspiration from your new office in the overwhelming packing, lifting, and unpacking process.
Sure, our movers can bring packing materials and boxes if you need them. Make sure you mention that you need them to our operators in advance.
No, tips are not included, and it’s up to you how much to tip your movers. Tips are always appreciated but not required.
Your apartment moving cost depends on factors, such as the type and size of your property, the complexity of your move, the number of bedrooms, the volume of your items, zip code, etc. At SOS Moving, we offer flat and hourly rates. The hourly rate depends on the number of movers to be involved and the size of the moving truck. Flat rate is based on the volume of belongings you need to move, and it’s the best option for long-distance moves. To know your moving cost, please contact us or submit a form on our website to request your free quote.
You should schedule your move date as early as you can. If you’re moving locally, at least 1-2 weeks in advance, for long-distance moves, we recommend getting a quote at least 2-4 weeks before your move date.
You can choose any convenient day for your relocation, and yes, we can help you move on weekends and holidays.
A safe relocation is our goal, so we’ll provide you with a detailed list of items that are prohibited to transport. It includes perishables, hazardous materials, firearms, batteries, etc. We also don’t recommend packing your personal and irreplaceable items, including family heirlooms, family photos, jewelry, documents, etc. Carry them with you during the move.
We accept cash, all major debit and credit cards, and certified checks. We don’t accept personal checks. There will not apply any transaction fee on card transactions.
Yes, we’ll contact you prior to delivery. We’ll deliver your belongings within the given moving arrival window. In case the window is no longer possible, we’ll also contact you in advance and set another delivery time.
On a Burbank house move, the first decision is where the truck's tires go, and the city code is stricter about it than most people expect. No vehicle may stop on a front or side yard in a residential zone, lawn included. A commercial truck may use a residential driveway only while it is actually loading or unloading, so the driveway works as a loading bay for as long as boxes are moving and not a minute longer.
The strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk is off limits too: Burbank bans stopping or standing in any parkway. Our crews keep the truck on the pavement and carry across the parkway rather than rolling a loaded dolly through somebody's turf.
Backing the truck in at an angle to the curb looks efficient, but in Burbank it takes a special permit from the Community Development Director. Without that permit, the truck parks parallel to the curb and the crew works off the rear ramp, which costs a few extra steps rather than a citation.
Where a garage opens onto an alley, loading from the back is tempting. Burbank allows a stop in an alley only for loading or unloading, puts a short time cap on loading materials and forbids blocking through traffic, so a full-house load belongs on the street side. We use the alley for a handful of pieces at most.
Burbank is a small city within Los Angeles County with a big weekday swing: the city council's own findings count about 103,000 residents and about 200,000 people in town on a weekday, and they say that daily influx weighs heavily on traffic and parking. The empty curb you saw on a Sunday walk-through can be full by midmorning on a Tuesday. We plan the truck's spot for the actual move day and hour, not from a weekend look at the block.
Temporary no-parking signs only work in Burbank if they go up early. Under the city code, a street set aside for a use other than traffic can be kept clear only after the signs have been posted for at least 24 hours, and police can tow a car in the way on the same 24-hour notice. If you have reserved curb space through the city, make sure the signs are up a full day ahead; a sign taped to a tree that morning binds no one.
Commercial streets run on their own clock. The code limits heavy commercial vehicles, anything over 6,500 pounds empty, to two hours of parking in a commercial zone, although the time actually spent loading or unloading is exempt. On a shop street our crew stages boxes and furniture at the door before the truck pulls in, so every minute it sits at the curb is loading time.
None of this is SOS house policy: the same code binds every Burbank moving company, and it is what keeps a truck from being cited halfway through a load. Burbank marks its loading zones with LOADING ONLY stenciled in black letters on top of the curb or with a posted sign, so if one fronts your building, send us a photo when you book.
Downtown's core is a paid-parking meter zone written into the city code: San Fernando Boulevard from Magnolia to Angeleno, Palm Avenue between San Fernando and Third, and the blocks of Magnolia, Orange Grove and Olive between First and Third streets. Along the shop frontage of San Fernando Boulevard the two-hour commercial-zone limit for heavy trucks applies whenever the crew is not actively loading. Before a downtown move we ask for the building's loading instructions, because a building's own loading area, where there is one, is simpler than a metered curb.
Metro's North Hollywood to Pasadena bus rapid transit line runs along Olive Avenue in Burbank, with stations planned at Olive and San Fernando downtown and at Olive and Verdugo. Metro's design puts side-running bus lanes on Olive that keep the curb parking, so a truck can still park there, but the lane beside it will belong to buses and the crew keeps ramps and dollies out of it. Through downtown the buses run in mixed traffic instead.
On Metro's current schedule, construction in Burbank runs from September 2026 to January 2028, and Metro lists temporary lane reductions, sidewalk and crosswalk closures, and turn restrictions on Olive, Hollywood Way, Buena Vista Street, Verdugo Avenue and Glenoaks Boulevard, with typical work hours of 7am to 4pm on weekdays. Before a move on any of those streets, the crew reads Metro's active work notices the day before and picks an approach that does not depend on a left turn that may be closed.
Glenoaks Boulevard gets median-running bus lanes, with station work in the center median and fresh paving. Toward the Verdugo Mountains the side streets climb, and two code rules climb with them: where the roadway is 20 feet wide or less the city can post no parking on both sides, and up to 30 feet wide on one side, while on any grade over 3 percent an unattended vehicle must have its wheels turned into the curb or blocked. We ask for the exact street early, check its width and slope, and curb the wheels at every hillside stop.
| Area or home type in Burbank | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Downtown meter-zone blocks: San Fernando Blvd, Palm Ave, Orange Grove Ave | Metered curb; heavy trucks capped at two hours on commercial frontage unless loading; get the building's loading instructions first |
| Olive Avenue | Side-running bus lanes next to the parking lane; Metro work scheduled into January 2028; check work notices the day before |
| Glenoaks Boulevard | Median bus lanes and station work in the center; possible turn restrictions; approach from a side street |
| Foothill streets toward the Verdugo Mountains | No parking may be posted on roads 20 feet wide or less; wheels curbed on any grade over 3 percent |
| Single-family street in the flats, such as Magnolia Park | Truck on the driveway only while loading; never on the lawn or the parkway strip |
| Older block with an alley garage | Alley stops for loading only, time-capped, with through traffic kept open; the bulk of the load goes from the street |
Every SOS crew leaves from one place, our base at 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and Burbank is about 17.3 miles up I-5 from there, around 23 minutes without traffic. The freeway carries nearly the whole trip, so weekday rush hours set the real number, and Metro's weekday work on Burbank's surface streets can add its own slowdown at the end of the drive.
Crews work Monday through Sunday, 8AM – 6PM. A first-thing start puts the truck on I-5 with the morning commute, while a late-morning start misses it but leaves less of the window before 6PM for a full Burbank house. Burbank sits well inside the 30 miles that would trigger a 4-hour minimum, so the standard 3-hour minimum applies, overtime starts after 8 hours, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Two movers with a truck cost $119 cash or $129 by card Monday through Thursday, and $135 or $145 Friday through Sunday. In Burbank the cheaper weekday comes with the weekday population swing and Metro's weekday work crews, while a weekend date costs more per hour; that is the trade to weigh when you pick the date.
Each of our moving services in Burbank has its own page with the local detail, so here is only where each one fits. Multi-day jobs where packing has to be timed around a curb permit go to our packing crews in Burbank. Offices, edit suites and production spaces around the studios are planned on our Burbank commercial moving page. Walk-ups, courtyard buildings and newer elevator buildings are covered on the Burbank apartment moving page.
A piano always goes with a four-mover crew and a $200 charge, and the foothill details are on the piano moving in Burbank page. For a truck headed far beyond Los Angeles County, planning starts on our long-distance moves from Burbank page.
A Burbank moving and storage booking makes sense when one lease ends before the next begins, and the gap has a local wrinkle: no vehicle may stay on a Burbank street or alley for more than 72 consecutive hours, and nudging it along the same block does not restart the count. That covers your own car if it waits on the street between homes. For the furniture, overnight storage costs $200 and longer gaps go to SOS storage until the new place is ready.
West of Magnolia Park, Clybourn Avenue marks the city limit, and the blocks on the far side belong to the City of Los Angeles, where LA's parking and permit rules replace Burbank's. A move from Magnolia Park into North Hollywood can cross that line within a few blocks, so the crew checks both rulebooks for the two curbs. The LA side has its own page: moving in North Hollywood.
Glendale meets Burbank on the east, and Glenoaks Boulevard runs straight from one city into the other. Metro is building median-running bus lanes on Glenoaks in both cities, with Glendale's work scheduled from September 2026 to February 2028, so a Burbank-to-Glendale move in that window can meet the same construction at both ends. The two cities also share the Verdugo foothills, where hillside streets need the same scouting on either side of the line; the Glendale side is on the moving in Glendale page.
