Marathon Moving, Your Boston Moving Company

Marathon Moving is a Canton-based moving company that works across Massachusetts and into long-distance relocations, often coordinating with national carriers like Allied Van Lines and North American Van Lines on out-of-state jobs. The through-line across dozens of Google reviews from 2022 through 2025 is a genuinely large, mostly well-regarded crew — reviewers name specific movers over and over (Juan, Billy, Carlos, Dennis, Lillian in the office) and describe careful, efficient work: getting an oversized couch up a tight third-floor staircase, a four-stop move executed without a hitch, antique furniture disassembled and reassembled without damage. One reviewer, a professional senior-move manager who works with many Boston-area movers, called Marathon's crew the best she'd worked with. The written record also carries real complaints, and they cluster around a few specific issues rather than being scattered noise. Several reviewers describe items broken or missing after a move — one in 2024 found broken and missing belongings only after unpacking storage weeks later, another in 2022 discovered damage to items left wrapped in storage. A 2025 review described a delayed interstate delivery that arrived ten days after the promised window, leaving the household without furniture and kitchen equipment in the meantime. Another 2025 review, about a self-storage auction, said the reviewer watched employees remove items from storage vaults before the public sale — a serious claim, though it comes from a single account rather than a pattern seen elsewhere. On long-distance moves specifically, more than one reviewer was surprised to learn work gets subcontracted out under the Allied Van Lines partnership rather than handled by Marathon's own crew start to finish. Recent activity is thin — just one review in the past six months, and it was negative — so the last word here leans on 2024 and 2025 accounts rather than anything current. Before booking, it's worth asking directly who will actually handle a long-distance move (Marathon's own crew or a subcontracted carrier), getting damage and delay terms in writing, and, for anyone using their storage, understanding how the auction process for unclaimed units works.