About Us

Harper Transfer & Storage started in 2015 because Cole Reddick got tired of watching Pine Belt families get burned by a promise that sounded better than it was. Before Harper existed, Cole spent eleven years managing inventory and dock operations at a furniture distribution warehouse outside Hattiesburg — the kind of job where a mislabeled pallet could disappear into a rented storage bay for weeks before anyone noticed it was gone. He saw the same pattern play out with local movers: a company would quote a customer “storage included,” then quietly sublet a unit at a self-storage lot across town, with no one really accountable if something went missing between drop-off and pickup.

Building the Warehouse Instead of Renting One

Cole’s fix was straightforward — if storage was going to be part of the job, Harper would own the building it happened in. That’s why every item we store sits inside our own climate-controlled warehouse at 2204 Ellisville Blvd, tagged and logged by our own crew, instead of getting handed off to a company we don’t control. More than a decade later, Cole still walks the warehouse floor most Saturday mornings checking inventory tags himself, and he can usually tell you within a pallet or two how full the bay is in any given week. Since opening, Harper has completed more than 3,172 moves and put over 610,000 miles on our trucks across Jones County, the Pine Belt, and the routes beyond it.

The Crew Behind Every Move

Trent Okafor has handled dispatch and route coordination since 2018, which in the Pine Belt means more than just mapping the fastest road. Trent routes crews around US-11 and I-59 traffic — including the pulpwood trucks that roll out of the local mills — and keeps warehouse pickups and drop-offs scheduled tight enough that nothing stored with us ever sits overnight on the loading dock.

Simone Beckwith has been our move coordinator and estimator since 2019. She walks every household through their in-home or video estimate personally, and when a move includes storage, she’s the one who tags and logs each item going into the warehouse, so you know exactly what’s in there and where — no guessing, no vague inventory sheet.

Boyd Lassiter has led the same crew as foreman since 2016, ten years now — and personally signs off on anything that goes into or comes out of the Ellisville Blvd warehouse. Nadia Fitch joined in 2017 and helped design the warehouse shelving system herself; she trains every new hire on how fragile items actually get logged and shelved, not just stacked and hoped for. And Reuben Castellano, our long-distance driver since 2019, drives the Hattiesburg, Meridian, and Gulf Coast runs himself, coordinating directly with the warehouse whenever a long-haul move needs a storage gap on either end. Between the five of them, there’s more than three decades of combined experience keeping Harper’s trucks and warehouse running the way Cole set them up to run.

Together, this crew handles everything from local and long-distance moves to full and partial packing, commercial relocations, furniture assembly, piano moves, senior and retirement-community moves, and last-minute jobs when a date changes fast — all backed by the same warehouse and the same trucks, across Laurel, Jones County, and the wider Pine Belt. If you’d like to talk through a move, call us at (601) 552-9034.