Interstate 5 north out of Portland is about as direct as a long-distance move gets — through Vancouver, past Olympia and Tacoma, and into Seattle inside a single stretch of driving. Because the whole run sits inside one day’s drive, we don’t hand it off between a pickup crew and a separate delivery crew; the truck that gets loaded at your Portland address is the one Tobias Kwan’s or Selena Marsh’s crew backs into the driveway in Seattle.
Short as the corridor is, Russell Voss still walks every Seattle-bound job in person before he prices it. Whatever that walkthrough turns up — a walk-up unit with no elevator, a piano, a storage stop on the way — gets built into the number that day, so the figure you sign off on in Portland is the number on the invoice once the truck is empty in Seattle.
Because a 175-mile run rarely throws I-5 anything unusual, most Seattle moves land same-day or by the following morning. Denise Okafor blocks the loading and delivery windows together on one schedule, so there’s no gap where boxes sit on a truck waiting on a second driver.
Portland → Seattle — What It Runs
| Home Size | Flat-Rate Estimate | Usual Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1BR / Small Load | $600 | Same day, direct up I-5 |
| 2-3BR Home | $770 | Same day to next-morning delivery |
| 4BR+ Household | $950 | 1-2 days with a full pack-out morning |
Treat these numbers as a starting budget — Russell Voss locks in the one-number estimate once he’s priced your home size and the access at both ends of the route, and that number doesn’t move once it’s written.
Moving Portland to Seattle?
One crew handles both ends of the haul — the same people who load the truck at our Portland yard are the ones carrying it in at the delivery address
The crew that loads the truck in Portland is the same crew that rides the route and unloads it in Seattle — nothing gets transferred to a different truck partway, there’s no reweigh at a scale, and no broker is splitting the job between two companies. Russell Voss prices the lane off real distance and cubic footage before the truck ever leaves Portland, and the number he writes that day is the number on the invoice — a run out to Sacramento gets locked in the same way a same-day job across the metro would.
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