On a recent long-distance move, I was perplexed when it came to moving a large (30-inch or so) drum shade from A to point B. It would have taken a gargantuan box to enclose and protect it. But one other solution worked like a charm:
I suspended the shade overhead.
Tying a line from side to side near the top of the cargo area provides a place to suspend fragile items, thus preventing them being smooshed or knocked around during the move. That upper-most space in moving trucks is often unused and this is a way to put it to use. To keep the shade clean, I wrapped it in a large 55-gallon trash bag before hanging it. On arriving at the destination, I opened the bag and found the shade in perfect condition. It was perfectly safe hanging from above, dangling and swinging its way across the miles!
Image: Uhaul (Note: I did not move by Uhaul as shown in the photo, but with a "ReloCube" from ABF U-Pack Moving. However, most all moving trucks and shipping containers have some sort of tie-back where you could establish a similar hanging line for moving lampshades and such.)
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GENIUS!
During my last move, I put a huge lampshade inside the dryer! It fit so perfectly that it arrived totally unscathed.
I've always treated the moving truck like a 3-D game of tetris with every nook and cranny from floor to ceiling pretty well occupied with boxes and furniture, etc. But if I had a shade that size, I might consider going up a moving truck size just so that I had unused overhead space.
U-Haul refers to that "upper-most space" as "Mom's Attic®" and it's meant for fragile items. I've had my fair share of helping friends move, and one friend's dad in particular, I remember, kept telling me to put stuff there. "Just put that box of dishes in Mom's Attic." Took me a good part of the moving day to figure out he meant the truck and not the house!
Wow, that's ingeniously simple.
Way better than what the professional movers did when I had them pack and move my fragile antique lamps and shades. The packed them fine with lots of stuffing but then didn't read their own writing and put them all at the very bottom of stacks. I was pretty mad when all my irreplaceable lampshades were crushed. I still haven't found adequate replacements for most.