Why choose SOS Moving?
Our company has full-service movers who are constantly trained to achieve the highest level of proficiency in all types of moving: local, long-distance, or commercial. Our movers and packers in Chino Hills use the quality supplies and materials to pack your belongings for all our moves. Save your time and enjoy an extremely pleasant move with us.
As well as people moving to a new place in inspiring films, you’ll also literally snap your fingers and get everything in your new home. Our professionals can accomplish a move of any complexity, so even an antique piano of your grandmother will be safely transported to a new place. Moving on to a neighboring city? Our movers across the Inland Empire plan the drive and the booking minimum for the whole region.
By providing in-person estimates to our customers, evaluating the scope of work, and planning all the stages in detail, we minimize the chances of any emergencies. This way, you have the complete plan and dates for your moving process, excluding any unpleasant surprises.
Our office movers in Chino Hills 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.
Chino Hills fills the far southwest corner of San Bernardino County, right where it meets Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. Almost a third of the city is Chino Hills State Park, and the city's Housing Element says most of its hillsides are steeper than 25 percent. So the homes crowd onto the eastern edge of town, and the first thing we ask about any address here is how close the truck can get to the door.
The city's ridges top out at 1,600 to 1,700 feet, and the larger, pricier houses sit in the hillside communities on its west side. Up there a sloped driveway turns a short carry into a long one. Our crew lays floor runners and pads the door frames before the first dresser leaves its room. For a big house on a grade we suggest three or four movers instead of two, because the uphill trips are where a small crew slows down.
State figures in the same report count about four in five local homes as single-family, and roughly three quarters of households own the place they live in. For movers in Chino Hills that makes the whole-house job the common case, and we quote crew size and truck space for a full house unless you tell us otherwise.
Chino Hills sweeps its public residential streets twice a month, and on your block's day nobody may park at the curb from 8 am to 4 pm. That swallows most of our 8AM – 6PM working day. The schedule is posted on signs at neighborhood entrances and on the city's GIS map at maps.chinohills.org, and residents can ask Public Works for up to three sweeping waivers a year, at least 24 hours ahead.
We ask for your sweeping day when you book. If the move has to fall on it, call Public Works about a waiver before the date. Without one, nothing may park on your street from 8 to 4 that day, the truck included, and hauling furniture from around the corner eats paid time.
Not every street here is a city street. On private streets the city doesn't sweep at all, and parking disputes go to the homeowners association or the property manager rather than the police. Send us their contact and any move rules they publish; if they require a certificate of insurance, we issue the COI for $50.
A few blocks are restricted parking zones. South of Eucalyptus Avenue, permits go only to vehicles registered to homes on Reservoir Place, Tact Court, Honeysuckle Avenue, Ermine Drive, Sambar Street, Violet Street and Crest Court, so a moving truck can't get one. If you live on one of those streets, say so at booking and we'll settle where the truck stands before the date.
Los Serranos grew up around the Los Serranos Golf and Country Club, which opened in 1925 and let its members buy small lots. Together with Sleepy Hollow it holds most of the city's pre-1970 houses. On a small lot the truck works from the curb, so this is where the sweeping calendar bites hardest, and older door frames get padded before anything passes through them.
The same east-central part of town holds two of the city's three mobile home parks, Lake Los Serranos, a 55-plus community, and Rancho Monte Vista. In a park we check with the office where the truck may stand, well before move day.
Sleepy Hollow, up in Carbon Canyon, started as a summer resort: by 1928 it had about 90 cabins, and some of them are still lived in. You reach it on Carbon Canyon Road, state route 142, a winding Caltrans highway with a stretch of S-curves. We ask for photos of the approach and the doorways before we quote, because cabin-era houses were never built to tract-home plans.
Since May 2024 vehicles with more than four axles have been barred from that road. The rule targets big rigs, not household moving trucks, and Caltrans said in June 2026 that it may lift it, which the city opposes. Either way, the S-curves set the pace, and we plan the canyon leg as slow road.
Vellano is another world: a 24-hour guard-gated community off Vellano Club Drive, with estates from 4,000 to 10,000 square feet. Put SOS Moving on the gate list the day before, or the crew loses time at the gatehouse. For a house that size, plan on four movers, and consider booking packing crews for a separate day so move day is spent loading, not wrapping.
Apartments and townhomes are the smaller share. The Housing Element lists 26 complexes with 4,969 units, several of them on Butterfield Ranch Road, Chino Hills Parkway, Pomona Rincon Road and Fairfield Ranch Road, each with its own office, parking layout and paperwork. Our apartment moving crews get the complex's move-in rules and any COI request ahead of the date, then work to them.
| Area or home type in Chino Hills | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Los Serranos | Small lots from the golf-club era and many pre-1970 houses: curbside loading, a sweeping-day check, padded door frames. |
| Sleepy Hollow, Carbon Canyon | Cabins dating back to the 1928 resort, reached over the SR-142 S-curves: photos of the approach, slow canyon driving. |
| Vellano | 24-hour guard gate, estates of 4,000 to 10,000 square feet: visitor list, a four-mover crew, packing done ahead. |
| Western hillside communities | Slopes over 25 percent: long driveway carries, floor runners, an extra pair of hands. |
| HOA tracts on private streets | No city sweeping, parking is the association's call: HOA contact, published move rules, a COI if requested. |
| Complexes on Butterfield Ranch Road and Chino Hills Parkway | Each management office sets its own rules: move-in paperwork and the insurance certificate sent ahead. |
Every SOS crew starts from our base at 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles. To Chino Hills it's about 30 miles on SR-60, around 40 minutes without traffic, then down Grand Avenue or SR-71, depending on the address.
That drive crosses the 57/60 Confluence between the City of Industry and Diamond Bar, where the two freeways squeeze into one alignment near Grand Avenue. The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments ranks it first in California for freight delays and truck accidents, and the rebuild, now in Phase 3, is scheduled to finish in July 2028. Until then we plan around the work zone and treat the quiet-road time as a floor, not a promise.
Morning traffic on the 60 runs heaviest westbound, into Los Angeles, and the eastbound lanes load up in the afternoon as the Inland Empire drives home. Crews work 8AM – 6PM, Monday through Sunday, so for a move from Los Angeles to Chino Hills we suggest the 8AM start, which gives the loaded truck its shot at Diamond Bar before the afternoon wave.
Chino Hills sits right on the 30-mile line from our base, so the minimum here is 3 or 4 hours, depending on the address. Double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles, as our local moving page spells out, and we walk through both rules with you when we quote moving services in Chino Hills.
Pomona borders Chino Hills on the north, and SR-71 runs between them, so a move across that line stays on roads our crews already drive to get here. The Pomona side has its own neighborhoods and rules, covered on our page for moving in Pomona.
Ontario lies farther east, past the city of Chino, on the same SR-60 corridor that brings our trucks out to Chino Hills; our Ontario page picks up from there. And since Chino Hills is the southwest corner of the region, the Inland Empire overview is the place to compare the cities around it.
