Long-Distance Moving from the Pine Belt

I-59 is the spine of most long-distance jobs we run — north to Meridian, south to Hattiesburg and on down toward the Gulf Coast, or up to Birmingham, with Memphis on its own I-55 corridor. The mileage varies a lot: Hattiesburg is a forty-minute drive, Memphis is closer to five and a half hours. What doesn’t change is how we run the load.

Reuben Castellano has driven our long-distance runs since 2019, and he drives them himself — he doesn’t hand a loaded truck off to another driver at a depot partway to Gulfport or New Orleans, and your belongings don’t get transferred between trailers at a warehouse you’ll never see. The crew that loads your furniture in Laurel is on the truck when it’s unloaded at the other end, which matters more than people expect until something arrives with a corner knocked off from a mid-route transfer that never should have happened.

We quote long-distance jobs by the actual load — cubic footage and distance — rather than guessing at an hourly rate that stretches once you’re three states away and can’t do much about it. Simone Beckwith handles most of these estimates herself, either in person or over video, so the number you get before moving day is the number you pay on it.

Overnight stops are the exception, kept for the longest runs like Memphis. The goal on every route is a same-day or next-day delivery, not a truck sitting at a rest stop in Alabama while you wait on a call back to find out when it’ll actually arrive. Every long-distance load carries standard valuation coverage as a baseline, with additional protection available if you want it, so you know what’s covered before anything happens rather than after. Reuben’s also spent enough years on these roads to know the stretches through longleaf pine country where the GPS route isn’t the fastest one — after seven years driving to the coast and back, he generally beats the app’s estimated time, not the other way around.

Where We Run

• Hattiesburg, MS — about 30 miles down I-59
• Meridian, MS — about 60 miles up I-59
• Gulfport, MS and the Coast — around 100 miles via I-59/US-49
• Mobile, AL, New Orleans, LA, Birmingham, AL and Memphis, TN for longer relocations

If your new place isn’t ready the same week the truck arrives, we can hold your load at our own warehouse on Ellisville Blvd rather than leave it sitting in the truck or handing it to a storage company we don’t run ourselves. Call (601) 552-9034 to get a route and a driver locked in.