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To Effectively Serve Our Military, Movers Need Clear Guidance from USDOL

2024.07.23 - Government regulations are notoriously difficult to navigate, particularly for small businesses without big legal departments or even bigger bank accounts. The moving industry – which is primarily made up of small family-owned businesses – is struggling with this difficult reality as it attempts to navigate the rules and regulations associated with the Service Contract Act (SCA).

Suddath President & CEO Mike Brannigan

2024.07.23 - Suddath President & CEO Mike Brannigan: Congress should take a closer look at changes to military household moves Published by the Florida Times-Union and Yahoo Finance

DOD Analysis Gets an Unsatisfactory Review from Movers

2024.06.18 - Per the ATA: In an attempt to undermine our industry and bolster DOD’s argument that a new Government Household Goods Contract is necessary to correct for poor moving satisfaction rates, DOD and TRANSCOM recently published a blog post falsely claiming only 77% of military customers are satisfied with their moving experience.

DOD Self-Promotion of GHC Leaves Out A Lot

2024.06.07 - The DOD’s misleading new puff piece about the GHC program, “DOD Kicks Off Improved Household Goods Shipment Program” is laden with inaccuracies and off-base industry criticisms that will hardly woo professional movers who have been reluctant to sign up under the new system, given low reimbursement rates and layers of new regulations.

DOD Kicks Off Improved Household Goods Shipment Program

2024.06.04 - Stressful station-to-station moves due to poor quality service and broken or delayed household goods could soon be a thing of the past.