Movers in Ellisville, MS

Ellisville and Laurel have shared a highway, a hospital, and half their daily traffic for so long that most of Jones County just treats the two towns as one long stretch of the same community. Ellisville holds the county courthouse; Laurel holds most of the shopping. Harper Transfer & Storage sits right in between, which means an Ellisville move is about as close to a hometown job as we get.

Cole Reddick started Harper in 2015 with one truck and a short list of Laurel-area customers, and Ellisville was on that list from the first year. He still walks our warehouse floor most Saturdays, checking on what’s in storage and making sure nothing sits forgotten in a corner — a habit that matters more than it sounds, since everything stored for our Ellisville customers stays in that same building.

The homes we move in and around Ellisville run the gamut, from older houses near the square with narrow staircases and original doorframes to newer construction further out with wide-open floor plans. Our crews have worked both kinds long enough to know which pieces need to come apart before they’ll clear a doorway and which ones don’t.

Moving Day in Ellisville, Handled by People Who Live Down the Road

Because the drive between our shop and most Ellisville addresses is short, we can stack the day — a house move in the morning, a business relocation or a storage run in the afternoon, without burning half the schedule just getting there. Our crews also know the back way between the two towns that doesn’t always show up as the fastest route on a phone, which keeps things moving when a loaded log truck slows traffic on MS-15 or US-84.

• Local home moves within Ellisville and between Ellisville and Laurel
• Business and office relocations scheduled around store hours
• Short- and long-term storage in our own warehouse on Ellisville Blvd

Whether it’s a two-bedroom house a few blocks off the courthouse square or an office relocating in from somewhere further out, the same Harper crew handles the whole job — loading, driving, and unloading — with no subcontracted truck showing up under a different name.

We’ll walk an Ellisville property in person or over video before quoting a truck size, so the crew that shows up on moving day is sized right the first time, with no second trip tacked on because someone guessed short-handed over the phone.

Parking around the courthouse square can be tight on a weekday, especially with other downtown business going on, so we scout the block ahead of time and figure out exactly where the truck needs to sit before the crew starts carrying anything out the door. It’s a small detail, but it’s the difference between a downtown Ellisville move that runs smoothly and one that turns into an hour of shuffling a truck around the block while everyone’s patience runs thin.