To cut down on the bill, consider a group move.

Parcels hurriedly piled up, suitcases heaped in heaps, brown tape hastily pasted on: every summer, almost a million and a half French people sail to a new home, move to another place. In this summer heat, logistics quickly become stuffy, crates are heavy, budget is tight. Nextories, a French moving brand, has come up with a solution that immediately reduces the costs, carbon emissions and mental stress of moving: group transportation, a kind of car sharing, but for your furniture, beds and sofas.

Groupage “brings together several customers in one truck,” explains Julien Bardet, co-founder of the brand: the things of those who move to the same city travel together and ensure that the heavy vehicles do not return empty. For displacements from 1 to 30 m3, this allows “sharing the bulk of transport costs: diesel fuel, tolls and travel time”, which are growing noticeably: + 20% from 2021 to the price of diesel fuel.

Serious logistical challenge

Benefiting from 250 km, the logistical problem of groupage is significant: “You have to load in the reverse order of delivery”, but this saves 30 to 40% of the cost of moving. “This is important when it comes to amounts exceeding a thousand euros,” the leader notes. In particular, your belongings will be placed in a truck and separated vertically from the belongings of others with a net, which reduces the bill, for example, from 2940 euros to 1728 euros for a 20 m3 shipment between Paris and Toulouse.

The only consideration for this formula, which is chosen by a third of customers: the requirement for flexibility and a slightly longer term. “In 2-3 days of flexibility, we manage to make small optimizations” with 5 possible transfer dates, we can fully occupy a 100 m3 truck with “up to 10 small movements”. Julien Bardet concludes: “It’s a virtuous circle: the more flow we have, the more we optimize, the lower the prices, this dynamic accelerates. »