A Hyattsville Moving Company Run by a Prince George’s County Local
True Blue Movers opened in 2011 with one truck, a dolly Andre had leaned on for years, and a founder sick of seeing distant brokers pad the bill on DMV families come moving day. That founder is Andre Coates.
- Founded2011, Hyattsville MD
- CrewA 14-person payroll team, 7 trucks
- AuthorityMD HHG + USDOT/MC operating authority
- Cargo coverage$1M
Andre grew up in Prince George’s County, around Hyattsville and Riverdale, and as a teenager he was loading trucks for outfits along the Route 1 corridor. He went on to run crews for one of the big DC-area van lines for years before he decided to build something of his own.
What finally tipped him was a pattern he kept seeing. Neighbors in University Park, College Park, and the Port Towns would book a cheap phone estimate, leave a deposit, then wait in the driveway on the big day for a so-called carrier that either no-showed or rolled up with a bill that had ballooned overnight.
Those outfits were brokers, not movers
They sold the work to whoever grabbed it first. Andre figured the DMV had earned a crew that puts its own name on the trucks behind the shop and signs the checks for everyone lifting the sofa.
We Own the Trucks and Employ the Crew
That is still the entire point. Book True Blue and the truck rolling up to your stoop wears our name, while the people climbing down from it draw a paycheck from this company. Here is what that buys you on the big day:
- One outfit boxes the kitchen, pads the dresser, fills the truck, and empties it again at the new place.
- No gig labor and nobody grabbed from a board hours before.
- Whatever flat number Alicia writes is the number our movers honor once they reach your door.
- No go-between, no relayed messages, and no invented “stairs and fuel” line tacked on after loading.
We Know How the DMV Actually Moves
Holding a real Maryland moving license also puts us inside the local quirks, the sort of thing you absorb only by working these streets week after week.
Hometown know-how that rescues the schedule
The crews can tell you which East-West Hwy building makes you reserve an elevator a week ahead, which Mount Rainier staircase will swallow a Saturday, and how Beltway or Route 1 timing turns a short hop into a long afternoon when you pick a bad slot.
The People Behind True Blue
We are a team of fourteen these days, compact enough that the same handful of voices stays with you from the opening call through the final carton set down inside. Andre is still at the helm; here is who handles you:
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Andre Coates | Owner — still on the schedule and setting the bar |
| Tanya Briscoe | Intake and scheduling — the first voice you reach |
| Reggie Dorsey | Move coordinator on local and long-distance jobs |
| Alicia Monroe | Estimator — walks your inventory and writes the flat quote |
| DeVon Hayes & Curtis Vance | Crew chiefs who lead the movers on the truck |
We are not the biggest mover in the DMV. We just try to be the straightest, and a decade-plus on, the repeat neighbors and the friends they send our way suggest it is working.
Moving across Hyattsville or up the Corridor?
Call (888) 711-4778. Someone in Prince George’s County picks up.