Before I owned trucks, I rode in the back of somebody else’s. I spent about seven years on moving crews all over the Triangle — Duke dorm turnovers in August, RTP office shuffles, faculty houses in Chapel Hill, the kind of red-clay driveway in Hope Valley that eats a dolly wheel. I learned the work the long way, on my back and on my feet.
What I also learned was how often the customer got the short end. A quote that drifted up by lunchtime. A crew that showed at two when they said nine. Guys who treated a stranger’s grandmother’s dresser like a thing to be gotten rid of. I figured I could do it straighter than that, so in 2013 I bought one truck and started Bull City Movers with a short list of promises I have not broken since.
How we run the company
Every mover on a Bull City truck is on my payroll — uniformed, full-time, trained by us. We do not subcontract your move to whoever is free that day, and we are not a broker handing your job to a stranger. The crew that loads you in Trinity Park is the crew that unloads you, whether that is two miles down Roxboro Street or two states away.
We quote a flat written price before we touch a box, and that number is the number. A $99 deposit holds your date and comes right off the total. We keep our US DOT and MC authority current for interstate work and our North Carolina Utilities Commission household-goods registration on file for moves inside the state, and every truck rolls bonded and insured. None of that is bragging — it is just the floor for doing this job right.
Bull City Movers, by the numbers
- 2013 — year I started the company, with one truck
- 8 — trucks in the fleet today
- ~14 — full-time uniformed movers on staff
- $1,000,000 — cargo coverage available per shipment
- 0 — moves we subcontract out
What we care about
The team that makes it run is small and steady: Tasha Reynolds has managed the office since 2014, Cody Mercer has handled estimates since 2015, and crew leads Jerome Pittman, Will Hargrove, and Andre Foster have logged years carrying furniture down Durham staircases. We are proud of this town — the American Tobacco campus we walk past, the Duke Forest trails on a day off, the way I-40 ties the whole Triangle together — and we like that our work keeps families planted in it. If we move you once and you call us again for the next place, we did the job right.
