Moving Near the University of Oregon
Moving Fellows started in this neighbourhood in 2009. We know which streets a truck fits down and which buildings will not let one stop.
- Move-in & move-out
- Summer storage
- Graduate & faculty moves
- Family households
What we are, and are not
- We are
- A full-service moving company that began in the campus area in 2009
- We are not
- Affiliated with, endorsed by or contracted to the University of Oregon
- Who we move here
- Graduate students, faculty and staff, parents moving a household, and families in the surrounding neighbourhoods
- Busiest weeks
- Mid-June and mid-September, when the whole neighbourhood turns over at once
We started here in 2009, between classes
Two people, a set of straps, and whatever jobs fitted around a university timetable. There was no truck for a while.
That is the honest beginning of Moving Fellows: labor-only work in the streets around the University of Oregon, carrying other people’s furniture up other people’s staircases for beer money and rent. Seventeen years later it is a full-service moving company with crews in two Oregon markets, insured, equipped, and mostly moving whole households.
We keep the origin story on the page because it explains something useful rather than because it is charming. This company learned the campus-area streets before it learned anything else. We know which blocks a twenty-six-foot truck cannot turn into, which buildings release a service lift and which do not, and what mid-June looks like on Patterson at nine in the morning.
What that does not mean
Being straight about this matters more than the marketing would.
- We are not affiliated with the University of Oregon. No partnership, no sponsorship, no endorsement, no university contract. We are a private moving company that happens to have started nearby.
- We are not a student moving service. Most of our work now is full households. If you want the cheapest possible option for a dorm room and a bicycle, we are probably not it, and we would rather say so.
- We do employ student-athletes in Eugene. It is demanding, well-paid, schedulable work for people who already train seriously, and they work alongside full-time crew rather than instead of them.
What actually makes a campus-area move difficult
Everyone moves in the same fortnight
Mid-June and mid-September the whole neighbourhood turns over at once. Every mover in Lane County is booked, every lift in every managed building is spoken for, and the streets are full of other people’s trucks. Book three to six weeks out for those windows, or take a weekday.
Parking decides the price
Near campus this is the single biggest variable. Eugene Parking Services issues temporary permits, and the city can post temporary no-parking signage at short notice, so a kerb that looked available last week may not be on the day. We check the block and arrange what needs arranging in advance — carry distance is what you pay for, not the furniture.
Older houses split into flats
A lot of the housing around campus is period family housing subdivided into units. That means narrow staircases with turns, shared entries, and the occasional sofa that simply will not make the half-landing. All fine if somebody looked first; all expensive if nobody did.
Managed buildings have rules
The newer purpose-built blocks generally require a lift reservation and a certificate of insurance naming the building. We issue those as routine — see apartment moving in Eugene for how that works.
The services that fit a campus-area move
Not everything on this list suits every move — these are the three that come up most here.
Summer storage
Between one lease ending and the next beginning. Inventoried in, delivered back out and placed.
StorageApartment moving
Lift reservations, loading zones and certificates of insurance handled before the day.
Eugene apartment movingLabor only
You have the truck or the container; we bring the crew. The service this company was built on.
Labor-only movingArriving from or leaving for somewhere else
A lot of campus-area moves are not local at all.
A full household
Faculty, staff and graduate families moving a whole house rather than a room.
Residential movingFrom out of state
Arriving into Eugene for a post or a programme, on a delivery window given before you book.
Long-distance movingThe rest of Eugene
Everything we do across the city and Lane County.
Eugene moversCampus-area moving, answered
Are you affiliated with the University of Oregon?
No. Moving Fellows is a private moving company with no partnership, sponsorship, endorsement or contract with the University of Oregon. The company started in the campus neighbourhood in 2009, which is a matter of history rather than affiliation.
Do you store belongings over the summer?
Yes. The household goes into storage at the end of one lease and comes back out when the next one starts, inventoried both ways. It is the same storage service we run for house moves between closing dates.
When should I book for move-in or move-out week?
Three to six weeks ahead for mid-June or mid-September. Those two fortnights are the busiest of the year in Eugene and the good slots go first. A weekday inside those weeks is easier to get than a weekend.
Can you move a graduate student or faculty household?
Yes, and this is a large share of the work here. A postdoc arriving with a family and a full household is a residential move, not a dorm move, and gets quoted as one.
Do you handle certificates of insurance for campus-area buildings?
Yes. Most managed buildings require one naming the building as certificate holder before a crew is allowed in. Tell us the management company and we issue it.
Are you the cheapest option near campus?
Almost certainly not. If the job is a dorm room and a bicycle, a friend with a pickup will beat us on price. Where we are worth the money is a full household, an awkward staircase, or a deadline that cannot slip.
Can I just hire a crew if I have my own truck?
Yes. That is labor-only moving, booked by the hour, and it is how this company started.
Moving near campus?
Tell us the building and the week, and we will tell you what it actually takes.