Moving companies simply won’t transport a number of items in order to protect themselves and the rest of your possessions from harm during the trip to your new home. Before your professional movers arrive, make sure you haven’t packed up anything they won’t allow. Here’s what All American Moving and Storage can't move:

Hazardous Materials

If it looks or smells dangerous, you can bet we won’t be piling it into the back of one of our trucks. Items that are considered hazardous include:

  • Aerosol cans
  • Ammonia
  • Batteries
  • Bleach
  • Car batteries
  • Charcoal/lighter fluid
  • Chemistry sets
  • Cleaning solvents
  • Darkroom chemicals
  • Fertilizer
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Fireworks
  • Fuels/Oils
  • Kerosene
  • Matches
  • Nail polish
  • Pesticides
  • Poisons

Perishable Items

Transporting food goods can attract all sorts of critters and problems along the way, and moving these critters can put your food items – and your movers – at great risk. That’s why we won’t move items like:

  • Food that hasn’t been properly preserved
  • Frozen foods
  • Open containers of foodstuffs
  • Plants
  • Produce
  • Refrigerated food

Personal Items

There are some items that need to be carried along with you when you move. If you have items of real personal or sentimental value.


  • Insurance policies
  • Keys (to anything)
  • Laptops
  • Medical/dental records
  • Medicine
  • School records
  • Work files
  • Address books
  • Airline tickets
  • Car titles
  • Cash
  • Cell phones
  • Checkbooks
  • Computer data or backup files
  • Financial documents

Sentimental Items

There are some items that need to be carried along with you when you move. If you have items with sentimental value, don’t risk anything happening to them by packing them along with the items in the back of our trucks, there could break or loose on way.


  • Family photographs
  • Furs
  • Jewelry
  • Watches
  • Antiques