“Owen and Derek were awesome!”
Donna Kilpatrick
Monroeville · local
Since 2013, Six Of Our Own Trucks Have Covered Greater Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Trusts The Moving Firm Because The Owner Still Answers The Phone And Still Rides The Truck
Nolan Brennan took over his uncle’s two-truck outfit out of a Turtle Creek garage back in 2013, and he still sizes most jobs himself — a Pitt student clearing out an Oakland walk-up, a family leaving a hillside rowhouse in Homestead, it doesn’t matter which. Every mover on the truck draws a real paycheck, and whatever number you agree to beforehand is the number that gets paid on move day.
- Nolan Brennan took the keys to a two-truck garage operation in 2013 and still climbs into the truck for the hard jobs
- Six trucks, six crews, every mover a direct hire we trained ourselves — nobody pulled off a gig app that morning
- 13 years based in Pittsburgh, registered with Pennsylvania as a household goods carrier the entire time
Lock In Your RateA real person calls back, usually same business day
A Single Number, Not An Estimate That Grows
The figure on your invoice when the truck pulls away is the exact one we handed you after the walkthrough — whether that walkthrough happened in person or over a video call.
Get My Flat Rate →A Walkthrough On Your Terms
Point a phone around the rooms on a video call, or have someone show up with a tape measure — either way, every stairwell and doorway gets logged before a price ever gets written down.
Book a Walkthrough →Real Numbers Before You Call
A one-bedroom near Oakland, a family home out toward Monroeville, a haul out to Cleveland — see what jobs shaped like yours actually ran before you ever pick up the phone.
Check Sample Pricing →No Surprises Waiting On Move Day
The garage, the attic, whatever’s stacked in the basement — we go through it together ahead of time, so the truck that shows up is already sized for everything, not just a quick guess.
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Step By Step
What Booking The Moving Firm Actually Looks Like
1
Give Us The Shape Of The Move
Pickup address, drop-off address, and a rough week — that’s already enough for the office to start building a number.
2
We Look At The Real Thing
In person or over video, the crew walks every stairwell and counts furniture, noting anything a steep Homestead hillside street or a narrow rowhouse doorway is going to add to the day.
3
Tell Us About The Extras
A piano, a gun cabinet, a few weeks of storage before the new place is ready — bring it up now and it gets built into one number instead of turning into a surprise later.
4
The Number Goes In Writing
The figure Grant emails over is final the moment it lands — there’s no revised total waiting for you on move day.
5
The Crew Shows Up When Promised
Whatever’s on the calendar is what pulls up at your door, full payroll crew included — a closure on the Rankin Bridge or a patch of ice on a Wilkinsburg hill doesn’t change that.
Late-August dates around Greater Pittsburgh book up before most people even start looking. Grant already blocks off extra crews for Pitt and CMU move-in week, and between that and everyday cancellations the calendar tightens fast — get a slot locked in while one’s still open.
Claim A SlotWhat The Moving Firm Handles Across Greater Pittsburgh
Six trucks, one crew roster, no subcontractors ever brought in — a Squirrel Hill duplex and a house out past Monroeville get the same people, held to the same standard.
Pittsburgh & Allegheny County Local Moving
A Monroeville rental, a Homestead rowhouse with a steep front stoop, a Churchill property at the top of a hill — our own crew bills it…
Learn More ›Pittsburgh Long-Distance Movers
Pick a direction — Philadelphia, Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo — and the crew loading your Pittsburgh driveway is the same crew shaking your hand when the truck…
Learn More ›Rowhouse & Hillside Home Relocation
Every Pittsburgh house throws its own wrinkle at moving day, whether it's a century-old Braddock rowhouse with a narrow staircase or a newer build out in…
Learn More ›Oakland & Squirrel Hill Apartment Moves
Pitt and CMU move-in week alone fills most of our late-August calendar — Oakland walk-ups, Squirrel Hill third-floor units with no elevator — so our crew…
Learn More ›Whole-House Packing Service
Hand us the whole house and everything fragile gets boxed and cushioned for the road, or keep a room or two for yourself and let us…
Learn More ›Short-Term & Closing-Gap Storage
Between a closing that slipped and a lease that hasn't started yet, your things sit safely at our own Turtle Creek facility, tracked and billed month…
Learn More ›Find Your Kind Of Move
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- The hourly rate already has the truck built into it, no separate line-item fee tacked on for it
- Pads, straps, and a hand truck are already loaded before the truck ever leaves the yard, nothing to wait around for
- Whoever carries a box out of your old place is the same person setting it down at the new one
- Allegheny County jobs wrap up at the number we quoted, full stop — nothing extra shows up on the invoice
- The number gets signed on paper before the truck ever leaves East Pittsburgh, and it covers the whole trip
- Cleveland and Erie sit close, a bit over two hours out; Columbus and Harrisburg run a little further; Buffalo and Philadelphia are the long lanes
- Our own US DOT and MC authority stays on the load door to door — nobody hands it off to a second carrier partway there
- A $1M cargo policy rides with the truck the entire way, first mile to last
- We handle the elevator reservation and the building’s paperwork before the leasing office even brings it up
- An Oakland walk-up with three flights of narrow stairs is just another Tuesday for this crew during move-in week
- Late August fills up fast — our whole summer schedule is built around when Pitt and CMU turn over
- A written number reaches you weeks before move-in day, not the week it happens
- Weekend or after-hours scheduling keeps the business running without ever closing its doors for the move
- Desks and file boxes get tagged with a numbering system, so the new office goes back together fast instead of by guesswork
- Your office manager has the certificate of insurance in hand before anyone even has to ask for it
- Office moves are booked around your lease dates, not ours, right down to the elevator reservation
- The crew sets its pace off the family, not the clock — nobody’s rushing anyone that day
- Anything irreplaceable gets extra padding as a default, not something you have to request
- This crew has cleared out plenty of houses holding three generations of belongings under one roof
- A written number goes out weeks ahead, giving the family real time to plan the date around it
Where We Cover
Pittsburgh And The Towns Around It
Every pin on this map, Wilkinsburg through Monroeville, gets the same trucks and the same crew — we don’t bring in outside help to cover the map.
Pittsburgh Customers In Their Own Words
We post these exactly as people wrote them — straightforward jobs and complicated ones both, gathered from across Greater Pittsburgh.
“Gabriel and Marcus were fantastic early on a cold Pittsburgh morning. Getting everything into the third-floor walk-up was a challenge — they made it happen anyway!”
Jennifer Hauf
Wilkinsburg · local
“I had a great experience with The Moving Firm. I'd researched several companies and was hesitant to commit to anyone at first — glad I did.”
Jenna Richardson
Swissvale · local
“Owen and Gabriel were awesome! They went above and beyond to make sure everything was taken care of.”
Ryan Larson
Turtle Creek · local
“We used The Moving Firm to move us from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and I was so impressed with the customer service, speed, and safety. Owen and Derek were fantastic.”
Zoraya Southward
Pittsburgh · long_distance
“I had a great experience with The Moving Firm. From start to finish, the team was organized, friendly, and efficient. Marcus made sure our storage pickup was scheduled around our closing delay without any hassle.”
Sheena Houston
North Versailles · short_term
How The Moving Firm Stacks Up Against The Alternatives
A self-service rental truck, a pod dropped off in the driveway, a broker passing your info to whichever crew bid lowest that week — none of it comes with a number in writing, our own people doing the carrying, or belongings that never leave hands we put on payroll ourselves.
| The Moving Firm | Brokers | Containers | Truck Rentals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The dollar figure is in your hands before a single box gets touched | – | |||
| Every truck is ours and every paycheck is cut by us — no rig gets rented for the day | ||||
| Registered with Pennsylvania as a household goods carrier, bonded and insured on every job we run | – | – | ||
| The same hands that load your boxes in East Pittsburgh are the hands that carry them into the new place | ||||
| Packing and unpacking sit inside the same flat number — no separate line waiting on the invoice | ||||
| A piano, a gun cabinet, anything oddly shaped — our own crew rigs it, never a specialty sub brought in | ||||
| Week-to-week or month-to-month storage is available whenever a job needs it | ||||
| One carrier runs the whole trip — nothing changes hands partway there |
No Add-Ons, No Surprises
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Get Your Number Before You Sign Anything
Beyond Allegheny County
Where Pittsburgh Customers Haul Longest
The truck that pulls out of East Pittsburgh is the truck that arrives, driven by the same crew the whole way, at a price locked in before it ever leaves the driveway.
What you sign is the only number that’ll ever show up on this move.
Why The Number Doesn’t Move
We Set The Price Weeks Out, Never The Morning Of
A patch of ice on a Wilkinsburg hill, an extra half-hour because a rowhouse stairwell turned out tighter than expected — neither shows up as a line item, because whatever’s written down ahead of time is exactly what you owe once the truck backs in. And whoever’s carrying your boxes already draws a paycheck from The Moving Firm, not someone brought on that same morning.
- A single number, locked in long before move day
- Every mover clears a background check and lands on payroll before ever climbing into one of our trucks
- A $1M cargo policy rides along whether the job’s a mile down the road or clear out to Buffalo
Who Actually Shows Up At Your Door
Every person pictured here draws a paycheck from us and drives a truck we own free and clear — nobody’s a same-day hire off a job board.
Nolan Brennan
Owner & Founder 13+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Owen Talbot
Lead Crew Chief 9+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Derek Panko
Senior Mover 7+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Gabriel Nowak
Mover 5+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Marcus Boyle
Move Coordinator & Storage 6+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Grant Petrosky
Operations Manager 8+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Whichever Way Works For You
Video Call Or In-Person Walkthrough — Your Call
Plenty of people would rather just film the rooms on a phone; others want an actual person walking through with them. Either path lands in the same place — a written number once we’ve looked, nothing signed on the spot, and no charge if you decide to go another direction.
Start My Walkthrough1
Pick a time
Mornings, evenings, Saturdays — tell the office what works and they’ll build the appointment around it.
2
Show us around
Whichever format you picked, Grant notes the stairs, the heavy pieces, and anything else that'll shape the truck size and crew count.
3
Your figure arrives
It's usually in your inbox before the day is out, and there's nothing owed unless you decide to book.
Quick Answers First
What Pittsburgh Callers Ask Us Most
Are you an actual moving crew, or do you farm the job out to someone else?
A working Pittsburgh moving company, registered with Pennsylvania as a household goods carrier and carrying US DOT/MC authority for anything that crosses state lines. The person who quotes your job, the crew that drives it, and the hands that carry your boxes are all on our own payroll — nothing gets routed to another outfit, and your information never gets sold to a call center.
How do you land on a final price?
Someone from our team walks the job with you, room by room, either in person or on video, and comes back with one written figure — no hourly clock running in the background, and no surprise charge for a steep driveway or an extra flight of stairs anywhere in Allegheny County.
What happens if my move falls during Pitt or CMU move-in week?
We plan for it well ahead of time. Grant sets aside extra crews for the last week of August specifically, since that’s when both campuses turn over at once, so booking early still gets you first pick of dates.
Can your crew handle a piano or something else awkward to move?
Regularly. Derek keeps rigging gear on hand for uprights, baby grands, gun cabinets, and anything else heavy or oddly shaped, and he’s moved enough of them that it rarely slows a job down.
Do you only run local jobs, or do you go out of state too?
Both. Cleveland and Erie sit a little over two hours out, Columbus and Harrisburg run a bit further, and Buffalo and Philadelphia are our longer lanes. Distance doesn’t change the pricing model — one flat figure covers the trip, and the same hands that loaded it in East Pittsburgh are the hands unloading it at the other end.
How far out should I book?
Two to three weeks ahead gets you first choice of dates, especially heading into late August when Pitt and CMU both turn over at once. Past that window, call anyway — cancellations open up slots more often than people expect.
Whenever You’re Ready
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