The Bay Area run is a corporate-transfer staple for us, because the Eastside and San Francisco trade tech workers constantly. A Redmond-to-San-Francisco move heads south on I-5 the whole length of the state line and into California’s Central Valley, then cuts west to the Bay. It is about 810 miles and thirteen hours of driving, which we run as a two-to-three-day door-to-door move.
Leaving the Northwest? our Seattle Eastside crew keeps the whole haul on one truck with one crew, the price set in writing before we load.
The tech-corridor connection
This is almost always a job move. Engineers and product folks transfer between Eastside campuses and Bay Area headquarters, startups pull people south, and acquisitions relocate whole teams. We also move plenty of people the other direction, but the southbound Redmond-to-SF leg stays busy because the two metros are essentially one extended tech labor market.
The drive down I-5
I-5 through Oregon and into California is long but straightforward: over the Siskiyou grade near the state line, which can see winter snow, then down the flat, fast Central Valley. The climate shifts from Eastside marine gray to California dry and warm as you go. Our long-haul lead plans the Siskiyou crossing carefully in the cold months.
What is different about delivering in San Francisco
- Dense city living with high-rise apartments, COIs, freight elevators, and loading-dock windows we book in advance
- Steep, narrow one-way streets where we sometimes shuttle with a smaller truck
- Permit street parking instead of the driveways most Redmond homes have
- A Mediterranean climate, dry summers and mild wet winters, a real change from Puget Sound drizzle
Your shipment, our crew, start to finish
Redmond Movers is a licensed Washington mover, WUTC plus USDOT/MC, running our own trucks and crews. The crew that loads in Redmond is the crew that carries your things up to your San Francisco unit. No carrier swap, no broker, no mystery driver. Get my free moving quote and we will hand you a flat Bay Area number in writing.
How this run goes · ~810 mi
One crew and one truck handle the whole haul out of the Eastside, GPS-tracked door to door on one binding flat rate. We set your delivery day and we hold it — no outside hands ever touch the load, and the written number is the number you settle.