Piedmont Movers
Ontrack Moving® moves Piedmont households on company trucks sent from our Hayward yard. When a hill is too steep for the big truck, we plan the shuttle at the survey.
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What does a Piedmont hillside move need that a flat-street move does not?
As of October 2026, a Piedmont hillside move with Ontrack Moving® can need one thing most flat-street moves do not: a shuttle, a smaller vehicle running between the truck and the house where the street or driveway is too steep. We plan it at the survey, with roughly 50 to 70 percent more loading or unloading time at that end.
The truck leaves from our Hayward yard at 22950 Clawiter Rd. Ontrack Moving® is the carrier, not a broker: USDOT #2551548 with a DOT inspection record that exceeds the national average, California household goods carrier permit CAL-T190721, and 4.9/5 from 2,847+ reviews.
Why does a shuttle add 50 to 70 percent more loading time at one end of a Piedmont move?
Because it is loading twice. With a shuttle, Ontrack Moving® movers carry your things from the house into the small vehicle, drive it to the big truck, and load them a second time, so loading (or unloading) at that end runs roughly 50 to 70 percent longer than it would with the truck at the curb.
Piedmont's hillside neighborhoods, on the steep slopes of eastern Piedmont, are characterized by “winding narrow streets and multi-level hillside homes”. Not every address there needs a shuttle. The angle at your street and your driveway decides it, which is why we settle it at the survey instead of guessing on the phone.
Which Piedmont streets keep heavy trucks out, and what does that mean on moving day?
Piedmont's City Code, Chapter 11 bars commercial vehicles over five tons from Highland Avenue, Oakland Avenue between Grand and Scenic, and St. James Drive between Park Boulevard and LaSalle, unless the truck is reaching a destination to load or unload by the shortest deviation from the nearest truck route or non-prohibited street (Sec. 11.3(C)).
The truck routes
Sec. 11.5(E) names three: Moraga Avenue across the city, Grand Avenue between the city limits, and Oakland Avenue from Grand Avenue west to the city limit. Trucks may use other Piedmont streets to reach individual properties for local deliveries (Transportation Element).
The street widths
About half of the city's streets are “Marginally Adequate” in width, meaning 20 to 35 feet curb to curb, and a few segments have 15 MPH limits due to narrow road conditions. On a 30-foot street with cars parked on both sides, travel lanes are reduced to just eight feet in each direction (Transportation Element).
Can a moving truck park on a steep Piedmont street?
Two parts of the City Code apply. On a street steeper than three percent, Sec. 11.55 requires a parked vehicle to have its brakes set and its wheels turned against the curb or otherwise blocked. Reserving the curb is separate: Sec. 11.59 provides temporary No Parking signs, used under rules the City Council adopts.
What we could not find published is the procedure, fee or lead time for signs on a move day. So ask the City first: the City lists (510) 420-3040 for street use permits. Then tell us at the survey where the truck can stand, so the shuttle question and the parking question get answered together.
City Code citations are to the Chapter 11 text the City posts online, revised through February 14, 2003. Check with the City for any later change.
How many movers, at what hourly rate, for a local Piedmont move?
As of October 2026, Ontrack Moving® bills local Piedmont moves by the hour:
Valuation options for your belongings are set out in your written estimate. Everything else a local move includes is on our residential moving page.
Final charges will be based on actual labor time, materials used, access conditions, scope changes, waiting time, and any additional services requested or required to complete the move.
Is Piedmont its own city or part of Oakland?
Piedmont is its own city: a charter city of about 11,000 residents on 1.7 square miles in the Oakland Hills, per the City's website, incorporated in 1907 and surrounded by Oakland (2024 General Plan). Ontrack Moving® moves households inside the City of Piedmont from its Hayward yard.
Moving on Piedmont Avenue, the Oakland street, or anywhere else in Oakland? That is our Oakland movers page. Leaving the state from either one starts with our long-distance moving service, priced by survey rather than by the hour.
Chose Ontrack for the Oakland Hills, second truck arranged calmly
We chose Ontrack after reading great reviews as to their navigation of the (sometimes harrowing) Oakland Hills. What I encountered was end-to-end excellence, from customer service to their excellent moving team... The foreman, Guillermo, assessed our situation and calmly confirmed my suspicion that we'd need two trucks (this my error, not OnTrack's). Before I could panic, he had contacted his team and we arranged that ours be a two day move.
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Shuttle from the house to the truck, loaded in one day
On the day of our move a 6 person crew showed up with Jonathan Andres as supervisor. They got everything loaded in one day despite having to use a shuttle to get from the house to the van on the street... With all the packing, shuttling, loading, unloading, unpacking and move in we had only one damaged item. A foot was broken off a storage bench but that was fixed in 10 minutes. Great job done by all.
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A 26 footer in and out of a tight driveway
...They were extremely hardworking and careful with our stuff. They got everything safely out of our house and nicely into our new house in 5 hours... We had a gate leading into our drive way which was tight but IKA did an amazing driving job driving a 26 footer in and out of our driveway very nicely. Very impressed.
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Upstairs and down a narrow driveway
I used both the packing and moving service from Fremont to San Carlos. The whole process from setting up the appointment was extremely easy and the price was fair considering the new location was upstairs and down a narrow driveway. The movers Johnathan and Andres were extremely efficient, helpful, and above all polite, courteous, and understanding.
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Couch down a narrow, winding staircase
...I made an exception this time since I was particularly dreading getting a medium sized couch down a narrow, winding staircase from my old 3rd floor apartment. I do not have any regrets after my experience with Ontrack Moving... All in all, I would definitely use Ontrack for a future move. They are trustworthy, reliable, and efficient.
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