I've moved some of my hives...and I hate it. The first bunch I did at night. Bad idea. You can't find anything you lose in the long grass. Bees also crawl into every crevice and crease of your bee suit.
The second bunch I screened off at night, moved during daylight hours. Much better, but still too much heavy lifting and you really, really, really need to strap them down into your truck or trailer.
An old fireman once told me, regarding rope and tyeing down loads: "If you can't tie a knot, use a lot." Don't think one rope or strap is enough, and use hive staples on all four sides, along every crack between boxes.
I once moved several three-deep hives by collecting a series of telescoping lids. I went out in the cool, early morning and smoked the heck out of them, then set each of the hive bodies on an inverted hive top, then placed a hive top on top of the brood box. All I was moving was a single brood box, three times over. Each hive body had a hive cover on the bottom and the top. Once at the new location, I gave ample smoke and reassembled the hives.
This was necessary as the new bee yard was not accessible by truck and hand cart. Now there's a lesson I should have seen coming! But it was a friend who wanted a couple of hives for the garden, I was young....and it's a long story.
Now days, anytime I open a new yard I'm much more amenable to splitting my hives with new queens and moving either nuc boxes or single brood boxes. I also procured one of those "two man hive lifters" you see advertised in the ABJ.
Best of luck with the new yard!
Grant
Jackson, MO