East Coast Moving & Storage, Inc. v. Flappin

This case illustrates how New Yorkers are being victimized by unscrupulous truckers of household goods. The racket is such that the average consumer can do very little to protect himself. The scenario is something like this. A person in need of a trucker to move his household goods from one abode to another, shops around for the best price. He finds that no trucker will commit himself. Instead he will be told that in the trucker’s estimate the job should take approximately X amount of man hours at so much per man hour plus the cost of packing cartons and the like. Based on this type of an…