Real Projects

Case Studies

Anonymized accounts of real commercial moves and office decommissions, run by our own in-house crews as an asset-based direct carrier under USDOT #2551548.

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FROM THE FIELD

How We Run Complex Commercial Projects

Each case study is a real project, anonymized to protect the client. They show how an asset-based carrier plans, phases, protects, and executes high-rise office relocations and secure decommissions, the kind of work that needs one crew and one plan rather than several vendors.

Laboratory Case Study

Case Study: A South San Francisco Biotech Lab Moved Up Fifteen Floors for Plasmidsaurus

A real commercial project, named with the client's permission. Plasmidsaurus, a DNA-sequencing biotech, relocated its lab and office inside its building at 2 Tower Place in South San Francisco, moving up to the 15th floor over two business days with a crew of eight and roughly 190 dolly loads. How Ontrack Moving ran it: two Oxford Nanopore PromethION sequencers carried only on request and only by the lead foreman by hand; sixteen Opentrons liquid-handling robots and fifteen lab refrigerators padded, kept upright, and moved in the team's own labeling order; lab benches rebuilt bench by bench on the new floor; three ROOM soundproof office phone booths disassembled, relocated, and reassembled; and the building certificate of insurance filed with primary and non-contributory general liability for Transwestern and the GNS Tower ownership before move day. $10M building and property liability kept separate from standard $0.60 per pound per article cargo liability, with additional valuation recommended for high-value instruments.

June 2026 | 8 min read Read Case Study

Laboratory Case Study

Case Study: A Contamination-Controlled Lab Move for Wild Type Foods in San Francisco

A real commercial project, named with the client's permission. Wild Type Foods, a San Francisco company that grows salmon from cells, moved its laboratory from an older Dogpatch building with a 1930s loading dock into a new clean space under a decontamination protocol. How Ontrack Moving ran it: many biosafety cabinets moved upright, level, and braced; lab refrigeration and benchtop instruments padded and crated; and a crew that gowned up in decontamination suits, shoe covers, hair covers, and safety glasses and stepped across a sole-decontamination mat to unload inside the controlled area. The client chose Ontrack regardless of price, for accountability. $10M building and property liability kept separate from standard $0.60 per pound per article cargo liability, with additional valuation recommended for high-value instruments.

June 2026 | 8 min read Read Case Study

Residential Case Study

Case Study: A White-Glove Pack-and-Move for a Large Home in Hillsborough

A real residential project, anonymized. A family was moving into a large home in Hillsborough, on the San Francisco Peninsula, and the brief was to handle the house carefully. How Ontrack Moving ran it: a two-day pack-and-move with a full crew packing the home room by room one day and a larger crew with two trucks moving it the next; protective runners over the hardwood and padded door frames and stairs laid down before anything was carried; delicate furniture soft-crated and padded; framed artwork and mirrors in glassine and picture boxes; and an upright piano carried from the ground floor at the origin up to a second floor at the destination on a staircase that was planned and padded in advance. $10M building and property liability kept separate from standard $0.60 per pound per article cargo liability, with additional valuation recommended for high-value furnishings and art.