Trusted Movers in Alhambra, CA

Overnight parking rules and where the truck stands

Parking on every public street in Alhambra is restricted from 2 to 6 a.m., seven days a week, for any vehicle without a valid parking permit or disabled placard. On six streets the city does not allow overnight parking: Main Street, Atlantic Boulevard, Fremont Avenue, Garfield Avenue, Mission Road and Valley Boulevard.

The city's Temporary Overnight Parking Permits, good for up to ten nights at a time, are not issued to vehicles over 6,000 pounds, over 8 feet high, 6 feet wide or 20 feet long, or to trailers. A box truck big enough for a household move is usually past those limits, so on a two-day job we drive it away each evening and bring it back in the morning.

Daytime street sweeping runs Monday to Friday, 8 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 3 p.m., so we read the posted sign on your block before picking where the truck stops. If you want curb space held for loading, ask the city ahead of time what that takes, and we'll tell you how many hours loading should run.

Apartments, attached homes and Main Street buildings

About 35% of Alhambra's roughly 35,100 housing units are in buildings with five or more units, and about 12% are attached single-family homes. Close to 59% of occupied homes are rented, so a lease end date and a manager's rules often set the terms of the move.

The city's Main Street district also has mixed-use buildings that combine residential and commercial space, including Regency Plaza, Plaza on Main, Main Street Collection, Casita de Zen, Alhambra Pacific Plaza and Alhambra Place. Before moving into or out of any managed building, get answers to these questions:

• On which days and at what hours are moves allowed?
• Does the elevator need to be booked or padded?
• Where may the truck load, and for how long?
• Is a certificate of insurance required, and whom should it name?

If a certificate is required, it costs $50 per building (see pricing), and we send it to the manager before moving day. If your attached home has a homeowners association, ask it for the move rules in writing well before the date.

Bean Tract to the Airport Tract: older houses, careful carrying

About one in five Alhambra homes was built in 1939 or earlier. Bean Tract, at the city's northeastern tip on land once owned by orchardist Jacob Bean, has homes built roughly between the 1910s and the 1940s, including period-revival styles such as Tudor Revival. The Alhambra Historical Society lists Arts and Crafts homes in the Ramona Park Tract in the south and in the Wuest-Bushnell and La Marguerita-Souders tracts in the northwest.

Two younger tracts sit on the south side. The Midwick Tract in the southwest corner, on the site of the former Midwick Country Club, is dated by the Historical Society to the 1940s and has Spanish Colonial Revival, Mid-Century Modern and Minimal Traditional houses; the Airport Tract in the southeast, built where the Alhambra Airport used to be, includes Minimal Traditional homes, a style prominent after World War II.

In houses of these ages, the crew lays floor runners, pads walls and door frames, and measures large pieces against each opening before carrying. Tell us about porch steps or a long walk from the curb, and we'll size the crew to match; our residential moving page lists the protection we bring.

Freeway ramps, the 710 stub and weekday peaks

I-10 runs through southern Alhambra, with exit 22 at Fremont Avenue, 23A at Atlantic Boulevard and 23B at Garfield Avenue. The city's 710 North study lists on- and off-ramp reconfigurations at all three, so we check the ramp layout before routing a truck. The Long Beach Freeway (I-710) ends in a six-lane stub at Valley Boulevard in far southwestern Alhambra.

I-10 also carries the Metro ExpressLanes, about 12 miles from Alameda Street near Union Station to just west of I-605 in El Monte. Every vehicle in them needs a FasTrak transponder, and Metro's peak toll periods run weekdays from 5 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.

We try to keep a loaded truck off the freeway during those windows, because drive time counts toward the hourly bill. The minimum is three hours, or four when the job is 30 or more miles from our service area.

Long-distance moves heading east

A move from Alhambra to another state is priced by a binding estimate that reflects distance, shipment weight and the services you choose, not by the hour; our long-distance moving page covers moves to all 50 states. Eastbound, I-10 continues through Rosemead, San Gabriel, El Monte and Baldwin Park to I-605, then meets I-15 at a four-level interchange on the Ontario-Fontana line and I-215 in Colton before crossing into Arizona at Blythe.

Moves that stay close, such as to San Marino or South Pasadena, are billed by the hour like a move within the city. Other cities we cover in the county are listed on our Los Angeles County page.