Our own Birmingham crew, our own trucks, and a flat written price before we lift a box.
When you hire Earls Moving Company for a move across town, you get Earl Caldwell’s own uniformed crew and one of our five trucks — the same movers load your house, ride with it, and set it back down on the other end. We have run local jobs out of Avondale since 2010, and most days you’ll still find Earl out on one of them.
Birmingham is a hilly old steel town, and moving here takes a crew that knows it. We work the craftsman streets of Highland Park, the condos in Five Points South and Lakeview, and the newer two-stories out past I-459 every week.
Drop us the basics and someone in our Avondale office writes back with one firm price for the whole move — you owe nothing, and it’s usually in your inbox within the hour.
A local move with us is priced by the hour, with the pads, dollies, hand trucks, and basic tools already in the truck, with nothing tacked on at the curb. A two-mover crew with a truck runs $115 an hour; add a third mover for bigger or stair-heavy jobs and it’s $155 an hour. Before move day, our estimator Wade Ferguson walks the job (in person or by video) and hands you a flat written price, so the number you see is the number you pay.
What makes a Birmingham move tricky usually isn’t the distance — it’s the houses. The old homes in Forest Park and Crestwood sit on steep drives or no drive at all, with tight switchback stairs and narrow doorways built in the 1920s. Our crew leads, Dewayne Tucker and Travis Bonner, have been carrying sofas up those staircases for years and pad-wrap the tricky pieces before they ever leave a room.
Most jobs land in one of these bands. The flat price depends on your home size, the stairs and access on both ends, and how much is going.
| Home size | Typical flat price |
|---|---|
| Studio / small apartment | $300 – $480 |
| 1-bedroom | $510 – $840 |
| 2-bedroom | $880 – $1,420 |
| 3-bedroom home | $1,500 – $2,300 |
| 4-bedroom house | $2,100 – $3,200 |
A $89 deposit locks your date and comes straight off the total. Every shipment carries up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage; standard released value is $0.60 per pound, with full-value protection available if you want it.
We keep it honest about the line items that aren’t baked into a standard local rate:
If any of those apply to you, Wade builds them into the written quote up front — no surprises after the truck is loaded. We move through hot, sticky Alabama summers and the rare January ice storm all the same, and we show up when we say we will.
Everything our Birmingham crew rolls up with on move day — nothing added later, nothing sprung on you.
“Can't believe how amazing they were! I dread moving, but this was a joy. Earl and crew are absolutely the best. I will always call them first for all of my moving needs. You should definitely hire these folks! I am so happy!”
“It was easy to schedule with them. They arrived on time. The crew worked well. They were careful, wrapping many items in b44433333343333343343lankets or plastic wrap. Everything arrived in good shape. I would hire them again.”
“They come and jump right to and you don’t have to worry about anything”
Send us both ZIP codes and the move date — Earl or Brenda writes back a flat price that same day. Our own uniformed movers, our own trucks, all hired and trained in-house, and the figure you’re quoted holds firm on move day.
