Charleston, SC · Free quotes

About Our Charleston Movers — SC

Serving Charleston and the Lowcountry since 2013 with an in-house crew and quotes that hold

Google ★★★★★ 4.9 Trusted by Charleston families since 2013
Get Your Flat RateTakes less than a minute

Wade or Mara looks over every request personally before a number goes back out. Filling this out doesn't lock you into anything — sit on the quote a day, a week, however long you need. We price off the actual ZIP codes you give us, not a citywide guess, which is why most quotes land in your inbox before the afternoon's out. Nobody outside our Charleston office ever sees what you send us.

✓ No mailing lists, ever. Whatever contact info you leave us gets used once, for a callback about your Charleston move, and it never gets sold, shared, or folded into a marketing list. If a text works better for you than a call, say so on the form and that becomes the plan — standard carrier messaging rates may apply. The full breakdown of how we handle your information sits in our Privacy Policy.

Before the company, there was a habit

Wade Calhoun spent his high school summers on a loading dock, working for a regional carrier that ran I-26 in and out of Charleston, while his father was a few years into driving freight out of the Port of Charleston docks not far away. Neither of them thought much of a crew that showed up without checking the schedule first. What Wade noticed, watching other movers over the years, was that the ones who struggled usually weren’t short on muscle, they’d simply never checked the alley width, the tide, or the bridge timing before quoting a price. So when he opened Momentum Movers in 2013, he built the company around checking those three things first and writing the number down only after.

Everybody in this business has a story about a quote that grew legs the moment the truck actually showed up. I didn’t want that story attached to my name, so I bought one truck, hired people I trusted, and made the number final before the job ever started. — Wade Calhoun, owner

The company today

More than a decade after that first truck, the operation is still built the same way: same North Charleston yard, same short list of people making the calls.

  • Started2013 by Wade Calhoun
  • Fleet sizeFive trucks, titled to the company
  • StaffingEvery mover is a W-2 hire, nobody subcontracted
  • StandingSouth Carolina-registered and insured to move households
  • Yard4110 Ashley Phosphate Rd, North Charleston, SC 29418

How the roster grew

Nobody got hired ahead of the workload here; each name below joined once the job list actually called for it.

  1. 2013: Wade starts the company with one truck and the flat per-truck rate it still runs on today
  2. 2015: Silas Vance signs on and becomes the crew’s go-to for historic-district and alley-access jobs
  3. 2018: Mara Bennett takes over the office and starts writing every quote by hand
  4. 2019: Reggie Combs joins, focused on James Island and Johns Island marsh-front properties
  5. 2020: Tobias Kern steps into dispatch, routing crews around the Ravenel Bridge and Septima Clark corridor
  6. 2021: Odessa Pruitt comes aboard for storage coordination as the fleet reaches five trucks

What a fly-in crew never catches

A crew that only shows up for one day ends up solving problems in real time, on the clock, on your dime. We’d rather have already solved them the week before.

  • Alley permits and parking paperwork for historic-district addresses south of Calhoun Street get confirmed before dispatch even assigns a truck
  • Ravenel Bridge rush-hour patterns get built into tomorrow’s route tonight, not discovered mid-drive
  • Tidal ground and marsh-lot conditions on James Island and Johns Island get checked before a truck ever tries to park close
  • A PCS order shifting a date means the schedule moves a day, not a crew stuck at a gate with nowhere to park

The people behind your move

Six people keep this company running, each with a lane that doesn’t overlap the others.

  • Wade CalhounFounder, still takes on the toughest historic-district and marsh-front jobs himself
  • Mara BennettOffice manager and scheduling, writes every quote by hand
  • Tobias KernOperations and dispatch, plans daily routes around the Ravenel Bridge and Septima Clark corridor
  • Silas VanceLead crew chief, runs historic-district and cross-town jobs
  • Reggie CombsSenior mover, handles James Island and Johns Island marsh-front properties
  • Odessa PruittMove coordinator and storage, manages closing delays and PCS reschedules

A decade-plus in, I still walk the alley myself before quoting a historic-district job, same as day one. That’s not sentiment, it’s why most of our calendar fills from referrals instead of ads. — Wade Calhoun, owner, Momentum Movers

Why Charleston families call us for a move that has to beat Ravenel Bridge rush hour, a historic downtown home with alley-only access, or a James Island marsh-front lot with a tidal driveway

Google Reviews Yelp Angi Thumbtack HomeAdvisor BBB Accredited
Our Word, In Writing

Six Promises Every Charleston Job Gets

This isn't ad copy — it's what Wade and the crew hold to on every Lowcountry job, from a historic single house south of Calhoun Street to a marsh-front cottage out on James Island.

One Rate, No Redo

The number Mara reads you over the phone is the same one on the invoice once the truck is parked on Ashley Phosphate Road — a slow crossing over the Ravenel Bridge and a walk-up on a narrow alley, none of it tacked on later.

South Carolina-Registered, Fully Insured

Our South Carolina household-goods carrier registration stays current and on file, every load carries cargo coverage, and if a Daniel Island or Mount Pleasant HOA board needs proof of either, it's in their hands the same day they ask.

Payroll Crew, Not Day Labor

Every set of hands on your crew draws a paycheck straight from Momentum Movers — nobody gets phoned in off a labor board the morning of the move.

What You Sign Is What You Owe

Book the number Wade quotes and that's the number due once the truck is unloaded, full stop. A backed-up Ravenel Bridge, an alley-only carry south of Calhoun Street, a soft tidal approach out on Johns Island — none of it shows up as an extra line.

No Substitutions Mid-Move

Whoever shows up at your old address in the morning is still there when the last box comes off the truck at the new one — we don't swap in a second crew partway through to save time.

A Window That Actually Holds

If the crew ahead of you is running behind, that's not your problem to absorb — Tobias calls with an update before your slot would be affected, and we make good on any inconvenience it causes.

Lock In My Flat Rate →

The Full Momentum Movers Story

A Charleston company built on one flat, honest rate — our own trucks, our own crew, bridge traffic and historic-district access already planned around

See Our Charleston Homepage →

Why Lowcountry families keep calling us back

Ask for an estimate and the number Wade sends back stands on its own — no fine print waiting to surface once the truck is already loaded.

Grab your no-cost rate →
South Carolina-registered and insured across the Lowcountry, every estimate committed to writing