What a moving company in Round Rock costs by the hour
Two movers and a truck run about $120 to $180 an hour, and that is the honest working range for movers in Round Rock, TX. A one bedroom apartment near La Frontera is usually 3 to 4 hours. A two bedroom is 4 to 6. A four bedroom in Teravista with a packed garage and a staircase is a full day, and on that job it is cheaper to add a third and fourth crew member than to watch two people wrestle a treadmill down alone. Titan Moving & Delivery is family owned, seven crew, licensed and insured, and every job gets a written quote before a date is held.
Teravista and Behrens Ranch move like big houses
The newer subdivisions on the south and east side of town are two-story production homes on neat lots, and that shapes the whole day. Three things eat the clock in these houses. The bonus room over the garage, which is where the heavy things end up living: the safe, the treadmill, the sleeper sofa somebody swears came in through a window. The switchback staircase with a tight landing at the turn, which is why we pull doors off hinges and pad the newel post instead of forcing a dresser around it. And the garage, which in a nine-year-old house is attic bins, tools, a deep freezer, and bikes hanging from the ceiling. An unsorted garage can add two hours by itself, so we count it as a room when we quote it.
These neighborhoods also have gates, callboxes, and an HOA that would like to know who is bringing a 26-foot truck down the street. We collect the gate code and the resident name at quote time. A truck idling at a callbox at eight in the morning is billable time, and it is the dumbest hour anybody ever pays for.
Forest Creek, Old Settlers, and streets built before big trucks
Closer in, the housing stock changes and so does the job. Forest Creek homes back onto the golf course under mature oaks that hang low over the driveway, and a box truck needs roughly thirteen and a half feet of clearance to get under a limb without pruning it for you. Around Old Settlers Park and the original part of town, you get single-story homes from the 1970s and 1980s on narrow streets, carports instead of garages, cars parked on both sides, and nowhere to swing a truck around. When we cannot get the truck close, we either shuttle the load in with a smaller vehicle or we carry it, and we tell you which one at the quote, not at seven in the morning on moving day.
Why we come up SH 130 and not I-35
We are based at 4200 Burch Dr in Del Valle, which puts Round Rock about 30 to 40 minutes away straight up SH 130 with no I-35 in the trip. That matters on an hourly job. A crew that crawls up through the I-35 construction burns an hour before it lifts anything, and somebody pays for that hour. Ask any moving company you call how their truck gets to your street and whether drive time is on the clock. It is a fair question and the answer tells you plenty.
Hidden costs and red flags
Almost every bad moving story is really a story about a number that changed. Here is what to watch:
- A price with no walkthrough: nobody can price a four bedroom off a phone call and a hunch. Lee Lucio walks the job or reviews photos and a room count before he quotes it.
- Fuzzy hourly terms: ask what starts the clock, whether drive time bills, and what the minimum is. Get it on paper.
- A deposit to hold a date: you should never have to pay to get a quote.
- No license numbers on the site: ours are public on the FMCSA and TxDMV databases. Look them up. A company that will not show you those is telling you something.
Those cheap two-hour ads work because two hours covers almost nothing once you add drive time, wrapping furniture, and one staircase. A real two bedroom is 4 to 6 hours. A quote that pretends otherwise is not a low price, it is a low first number.
The cheapest way to move here, honestly
The cheapest move is always you, a rented truck, and friends who still owe you. The next cheapest is renting the truck or a container yourself and hiring moving labor to load and unload it, which is what a lot of Round Rock families do when they are only going one exit up the highway. After that, weekdays beat Saturdays, the middle of the month beats the first and the last three days, and winter beats June and July. If your date can move, a Tuesday in October is the cheapest crew you will ever hire, and it is the exact same crew that would show up on a Saturday.
What we move and what we will not touch
We handle local moving across Williamson County, full or partial packing services, labor-only loading, apartment and office moves, and the pieces most crews turn down: pianos, gun safes, hot tubs, marble tops, and appliances that have to be pulled and reinstalled. Long distance runs under our own interstate authority, so the crew that loads your house in Round Rock is the same crew that unloads it in Denver. No broker, no handoff, no stranger with your headboard. We do not do junk hauling, car transport, or storage facilities, and we will say so up front instead of taking the job and figuring it out later.
Getting a written quote
Send a room count, the address, whether there are stairs, and anything unusual: the safe, the upright piano, the 700-pound tool chest in the garage. You get back a written quote with the hourly rate, the crew size, and the estimated hours, and there is no deposit to get one. Forty-seven Google reviews, 4.7 stars, forty-four of them five. That is the closest thing to a promise we are willing to put in writing, and it took six years of Saturdays to earn.
