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Warehouse, Ag & Light Industrial

Packing Shed Office Moving in Yuba-Sutter and Butte County

Move the front office, QC room furnishings, break room and lockers between packing seasons, with your shed team directing yard access.

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Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Packing Shed Office Move

A packing shed office changes character through the year. During the run, the front office is booking trucks for buyers, the QC room is pulling samples off the line all shift, and a seasonal crew fills the break room at every change. Between runs, the same rooms sit half empty. That quiet gap is when an office wing in Yuba City, Live Oak, Gridley or Marysville can move without slowing the line.

We move the rooms around the shed, not the shed. Front-office desks, shipping and grower files, QC tables and shelving, the time-clock corner, lockers and break-room furniture are ours to pack and carry. The sizer, sorting tables, washers and cold rooms are installed equipment and stay with the line manufacturer or the refrigeration contractor. Your QC lead decides what happens to testers and sample fruit.

If the whole operation is changing buildings, we start from the equipment contractor's calendar and fit the office around it, so staff areas are ready when the seasonal crew is called back.

Who usually signs off: Packing shed manager or operations manager, with the QC lead and crew supervisor approving room contents
Timing that works: Between packing runs. A stone-fruit shed is usually free once peaches finish in September; a shed that packs later crops has its gap in late spring or early summer.

What typically moves

Shipping desks and bill-of-lading filesCurrent-season shipping paperwork stays at the desk until the last truck is out; the rest goes in cartons marked by buyer or season.
Grower receiving counter and intake paperworkMoved after your office lead closes receiving for the day, with counter drawers taped and labeled.
QC tables, sample trays and shelvingTables are padded and their legs taped. Pressure testers and refractometers go with your QC lead, not in our cartons.
Seasonal-crew lockers and cubbiesEmptied by workers before release, then marked for the new wall so a returning crew finds the same layout.
Break-room tables, benches and appliance cartsWrapped for the yard crossing. Loose appliances ride in the truck; anything plumbed or wired in stays behind.
Hairnet, glove and apron shelving by the time clockMoved as a set with the benches beside it. The time clock itself belongs to your payroll vendor.
Office computers and shipping-label printersReconnected at the same desk in the new office; label templates and shipping software stay with your IT contact.

Access and scheduling

Shed yards are tight. Bins stack along the fence, grower trucks come in to unload, and outbound trailers back to the cold dock. Off-season, bins and maintenance vehicles still fill it. We look at the approach before the date is set: where a box truck can turn, which door is closest to the office, and whether the carry crosses a bin lane.

If the move has to happen during the run, it fits inside the shed's own pauses. Office pieces can load while the line is down for sanitation or after the last shift, and your yard lead can stop a crossing when a trailer needs the lane. Peach-season work falls in the hottest weeks of the year, so carrying starts early and heavy pieces go first. Saturday or Sunday loading can be arranged. For a leased shed, send the landlord's move rules and we will put the owner on our insurance certificate.

Protection and handling

Packing sheds are wet and dusty by turns, so office contents are boxed and closed before they leave the building and are never set down on the shed floor or the dock. QC tables are wrapped with their legs taped so they do not pick up water from a washed floor.

The shed's food-safety rules apply to our crew too. If the route passes through a packing area, we follow whatever hair and glove rules your QC lead sets and stay on the path they mark. Nothing from the office crosses the line itself. At the new building the QC room and front office are set up first, so the shed can take its first grower load, and the break room and lockers follow before the seasonal crew starts.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Dumpers, washers, sizers, sorting tables and line conveyors: The line manufacturer or your maintenance crew. Our crew does not disconnect, lift or reposition any part of the packing line.
Cold rooms, forced-air coolers and refrigeration: Your refrigeration contractor. Cold-room panels and compressors are not part of an office move.
QC testers, refractometers and sample fruit: Your QC lead packs and carries the instruments and clears sample fruit before our crew arrives.

Not part of our work

Moving bins, fruit or packed product, or driving forklifts in the yard.
Any work on the packing line, cold rooms or their wiring.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Fruit packing and grading operations are spread across Sutter and Yuba counties around Yuba City, Live Oak and Marysville, with more in Butte County near Gridley and Biggs. Most sit on county roads off Hwy 99 and Hwy 70 rather than in business parks, so the turnaround for a box truck and the gate hours are checked before a date is held.

The crew that shows up

Two Murdock’s box trucks staged outside a single-story building in the Sacramento Valley

Murdock’s crew carrying a pad-wrapped piece through a tiled entryway

Murdock’s crew rebuilding cubicle panels in an office, one mover on a step ladder

Packing Shed Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Our seasonal crew comes back in July. Can the break room and lockers be ready first?

Yes. Tell us the call-back date and we put the break room and lockers on the final load, so they are the first rooms set up at the new shed. Workers empty their lockers before the old room is released, and each unit is marked with its new wall position so the room is in order before the first shift.

Can the QC room move while peaches are still running?

With your QC lead's plan, yes. Most sheds keep a temporary QC table near the line so sampling continues, while the permanent room's shelving, cabinets and files move after a shift. Testers and sample fruit stay with QC staff. The tables and shelves from the old room then go to the new building in one trip.

What happens to the cold room if we are moving to a different shed?

Your refrigeration contractor and the landlord decide whether the cold-room panels and compressors come out at all; many stay with the building. We work around their schedule and move the office, QC and crew-room contents. If the contractor needs the same door, tell us their visit day so the two jobs are not on site together.

Do you move packed fruit or empty field bins along with the office?

No. Packed product, fruit in bins and empty field bins are handled by your shed crew and your trucking. Our work is the front office, QC room and crew areas, with their files and furniture. Cartons of office-side supplies, such as labels or liners stored in the front office, can be boxed and moved with the rest.

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