A Hyattsville moving company, built on Route 1
Ivy Movers is a licensed and insured moving company headquartered at 5121 Baltimore Avenue in Hyattsville, Maryland — right on the Route 1 corridor that owner Marcus Bell grew up along. Marcus spent eight years working for a big DC-area van line before he started Ivy in 2012, and he left for a simple reason: he was tired of watching University of Maryland students and PCS-military families get quoted one price and charged another. He founded Ivy to be the flat-rate outfit those neighbors could actually trust — a real crew with real trucks that tells you the number up front and sticks to it.
More than a decade later we are still right here, still locally owned, and still doing it the same way: our own uniformed movers, our own trucks, and a written price you can count on.
We are the movers — not a middleman
This matters, so we say it plainly: Ivy Movers is the company that actually moves you. We are not a broker, a matching service, or a lead app that sells your phone number. When you book Ivy, the uniformed crew that shows up at your door is on our payroll, driving a truck with our name on it. We never use day labor, we never subcontract your move to a stranger, and we do not pull jobs off a load board. From the first wrapped chair in Hyattsville to the last box set down at your new place, one Ivy crew is responsible the whole way.
The people who move you
We run ten full-time movers and a fifteen-person team, and our crews are led by chiefs who each own a specialty. Hector Salazar leads our piano and specialty moves — the gun safes, the baby grands, the antique pieces that need someone who has done it a thousand times. Andre Coleman runs our long-distance hauls up and down I-95 and the New Jersey Turnpike, so he knows the corridors and the timing cold. Rosa Mendez heads up apartment and condo moves, which around here means she is fluent in tight stairwells, freight-elevator windows, and building certificates of insurance. In the office, manager Tanya Brooks keeps the whole operation running, and dispatcher Devin Carter is the person lining up your COIs, parking, and elevator reservations before move day.
Licensed, insured, and accountable
Ivy Movers is fully licensed for Maryland intrastate moves and carries interstate USDOT/MC authority for the out-of-state lanes we run, backed by $1 million in cargo coverage. That license is not a formality — it is what makes us accountable to you in writing. Every truck is GPS-tracked, every long-distance move is a binding written quote, and every local move is billed hourly from $149/hour or locked to a flat written rate after a quick survey — whichever you choose. If something needs a claim, you have a licensed company standing behind it, not a phone number that goes dead.
We know this metro
Because we have worked out of Hyattsville since 2012, we know the DC metro the way only a local crew can. We know which Columbia Heights condos demand a COI before the truck rolls up, how the Beltway and the Wilson Bridge behave at 7am, where you can legally park a 26-footer on a Capitol Hill rowhouse block, and how to time the BW Parkway and I-95 to get you to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, or the coast without the day blowing up. We serve Hyattsville, all of Prince George’s County, and the wider DC metro — and we move families up and down the East Coast every week. If you want a mover that treats your move like it’s happening in its own backyard, that’s us. Call (888) 711-4778 for a free flat-rate quote.