Estimates
Local estimates
Hourly pricing is only as good as the hours. Yembo converts a video survey into weight, weight into labor hours through your own productivity rates, and hours into a quote a customer can sign on the spot.
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The hourly tariff, made of your numbers
A local move prices from four things you already know about your business. Yembo holds them in a tariff so every estimate applies them the same way.
Crew and trucks
Each labor rate is defined by the crew size and truck count that earn it, with a preferred rate and a negotiable floor, so a salesperson discounts inside limits you set instead of inventing a number on the call.
Productivity, not gut feel
A pounds-per-hour figure converts the surveyed weight into labor hours. The hours on the estimate trace to the inventory, so a bigger home quotes longer because it is bigger, not because someone rounded up.
Packing that scales with the job
A packing weight multiplier prices packing labor against the same surveyed weight, and materials price from your own rate table, so full-pack and partial-pack options are one click rather than a second spreadsheet.
Job minimums
Minimum hours are part of the tariff, so the small job that costs more to send a crew to than it bills is priced honestly from the start.
From walkthrough to signature
01
Survey builds the inventory
The customer or your surveyor walks the home with a phone. Yembo AI turns the video into a visual inventory with weight and volume attached.
02
Hours follow from the weight
The estimating engine converts weight to labor hours through your productivity rate, picks the crew and truck configuration, and applies your hourly rates.
03
Estimate signed on the spot
The quote goes out with e-signature built in, as binding, non-binding, or not-to-exceed, while the customer is still engaged.
Local does not always mean unregulated
In most states the same authority that governs intrastate moving covers short moves too, and some states cap or file the hourly rates a local estimate may use. The state pages carry who regulates what, with sources.
States and the District of Columbia
Each page carries who regulates moving in that jurisdiction, the operating credential, and what the rules say about estimates, with sources.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- District of Columbia
Territories
The territories run their own moving programs, so a move inside one answers to that territory rather than to any state.
Supported rate types
A rate type is a formula for pricing one piece of the move. Each is listed where movers use it most, but any rate type can price any section of a tariff, because a formula does not care where it is applied.
Transportation
How the move itself is priced.
- Hourly Set
- The classic local model. The total follows from the crew, the trucks, and the hours, with each additional mover and van priced from your own rate table.
- Weight Based Rates
- Priced from weight alone with no distance component, which suits handling fees and storage more often than the haul itself.
- Percentage Based Rates
- Not a standalone charge but a percentage of another one. The fuel surcharge is the classic example.
Packing
Materials and the labor on both ends of the move.
- Packing Service
- Granular pricing per container type for the materials, the labor to pack, and the labor to unpack, with separate peak and non-peak season rates.
- Crating Service
- Custom crates for items too large, fragile, or valuable for a box, priced by crate size whether built in house or by a third party, with dimension buffers and overtime rates.
Accessorials
Everything a move adds on top.
- Quantity Pricing
- Anything billed as a count times a rate: per item, per hour, per day, per month, down to cubic feet of storage per month.
- Bulky List
- You define which items qualify as bulky and what each one charges: a flat fee, a weight-based rate, or a per-item price.
- Flat Charge
- A fixed fee that does not vary with any input on the estimate.
Every estimating authority
Wherever the move is headed, the estimate comes from the same engine and the same survey.
Estimates overview
Every kind of move, one estimating engine.
Intrastate
State-regulated moves, with a page for every jurisdiction.
Interstate
Weight and distance pricing under the federal rules.
Domestic
In-country moves outside the United States model.
International
Overseas moves across all three transport modes.
International by road
Cross-border truck freight and customs handling.
International by sea
Container and groupage pricing from a survey volume.
International by air
Chargeable weight pricing for fast shipments.
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