Long-Distance Routes

Long-distance moves out of Laurel run through Reuben Castellano, who’s driven our Hattiesburg, Meridian, and Gulf Coast routes since 2019 and coordinates directly with our warehouse whenever a long-distance move needs a storage gap on either end. Every long-haul job is driven by Reuben or one of our other trained crew — never handed off to an outside carrier partway through. Between Reuben and the rest of our long-haul team, we’ve driven most of these routes enough times that timing and drive estimates aren’t guesswork on our end.

Most of our long-distance work follows the I-59 corridor, which runs close enough to Laurel to make it the backbone of most of the routes we drive. Closer moves head to Hattiesburg, about 30 miles down the road, and Meridian, roughly 60 miles northeast. From there we run regularly to Jackson (about 90 miles) and down to Gulfport (around 100 miles) on the coast. Longer hauls take our trucks to Mobile, Alabama (about 115 miles) and New Orleans, Louisiana (roughly 140 miles), and our furthest regular routes reach Birmingham, Alabama (about 230 miles) and Memphis, Tennessee (around 330 miles). Each of these runs sees regular traffic from our trucks, so scheduling around them is routine rather than a special case.

Wherever the destination, the process stays the same: one Harper crew loads the truck in Laurel, and in most cases that same crew or Reuben himself drives it and unloads it at the other end. If timing doesn’t line up perfectly between the two addresses, we can hold your items in our own climate-controlled warehouse at 2204 Ellisville Blvd rather than putting them into a storage company we don’t control. That holds true whether the gap is a few days or a few weeks.

If your move is headed out of Jones County, call (601) 552-9034 or request a free quote — we’ll walk you through the route, the timeline, and whether a storage gap makes sense for your dates.