Plenty of folks figure an in-town move is the easy kind, then they meet the reality of a 1920s Mount Rainier row house: a narrow stoop, a stairwell built for nobody carrying a couch, and Baltimore Avenue bunched up at the East-West Highway signal. Andre Coates started True Blue Movers in 2011 precisely because Prince George’s County moves like these reward a crew that already knows the block. Ours does.
- In business since2011, Hyattsville MD
- CredentialsMD HHG, USDOT/MC authority
- Insurance$1M cargo, full-value optional
- Runs the scheduleOwner Andre Coates
Book with us and the truck at your curb is ours, the movers stepping out of it are on Andre’s payroll, and the hands that wrap your dresser are the same hands that carry it back upstairs at the new address. Across the DMV, a studio through a three-bedroom usually wraps between sunup and supper.
Reading the Beltway, Not Fighting It
Half of doing a DMV move well is knowing when the roads turn ugly and loading around it. A few things our dispatch already accounts for:
- I-495 north of town locks up at the peaks, and downtown traffic on US-1 stacks up right alongside it
- Certain Port Towns lanes through Brentwood and Edmonston won’t take a full-size box truck, so we right-size the rig
- Towers near Hyattsville Crossing and along East-West Highway hand out timed freight-elevator slots we book in advance
- The stoop-lined streets of the Gateway Arts District need the truck staged before the crew ever touches a box
The payoff: we show with the correct truck and the correct headcount on the first try, garden apartment in West Hyattsville or four-bedroom colonial up in University Park.
Inside your locked price
Settle on a flat number before move day and it holds the truck, the labor, the moving pads, the plastic wrap, the dollies, the road time. Nothing runs on a clock during a lunch break, and a poky elevator on Queens Chapel Road never finds its way onto your invoice.
Employees, in Uniform, Not Whoever Showed Up
✓ Our crew, our trucks
- Andre or someone in his office picks up — no call center
- One flat written rate is exactly what you settle at the curb
- The same True Blue crew loads and unloads, every time
- $1M cargo coverage, same-day COI for your building manager
- Claims stay in-house — Andre signs off himself
× Broker chain
- A call center bounces you and sells your number on
- Quote rebilled at delivery for “extras”
- A different stranger’s truck shows up each time
- Generic certificate, COI is a fight
- “Not our crew” runaround on damage claims
Everybody on the truck is W-2, trained to baby hardwoods, thread furniture through cramped row-house stairs, and clear those old University Park door frames without a scuff. Andre dispatches the in-town jobs himself. Beds, sectionals, wall units, anything needing tools, gets taken apart at your door and stood back up at the destination.
| Crew size | Hourly rate | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 2 movers | $150/hr | Studio or 1-bedroom apartment |
| 3 movers | $205/hr | 2-bedroom home or condo |
| 4 movers | $265/hr | 3-bedroom and up |
Rather lock a single figure? Most DMV homes settle into a band: studio $450 to $710, one-bedroom $710 to $1,180, two-bedroom $1,180 to $1,980, three-bedroom $1,980 to $3,250, four-bedroom $3,150 to $4,950, with access and stair count nudging where you land.
The whole operation rides on Maryland household-goods authority, USDOT authority, and MC authority, every job insured to $1M cargo with full-value protection available above the $0.60-per-pound released-value baseline. One company, start to finish. Ring (888) 711-4778 to lock your Hyattsville rate.
