What our moving services cover
Titan Moving & Delivery runs four kinds of moving services out of our yard at 4200 Burch Dr in Del Valle, just off SH 130 southeast of Austin: local household moves, long distance and statewide moves, packing and unpacking, and labor-only jobs where you rent the truck and we do the lifting. A local move with two movers and a truck runs about $120 to $180 an hour, and you get that number in writing before you book. There is no deposit to get a quote.
We are seven people, not a call center. Eliseo “Lee” Lucio III owns the company, answers the phone, and prices the jobs himself. He started carrying furniture alongside his father in the late 1990s and built this crew in January 2020. Across 47 Google reviews we hold 4.7 stars, with 44 of those at five.
Local moving in the Austin metro
Most of what we do is a house or apartment inside the metro: Austin, Del Valle, Manor, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Kyle, Buda, Georgetown. These are billed by the hour, two movers and a truck, with the clock starting when we arrive and stopping when the last box is inside. A one-bedroom apartment is usually 3 to 4 hours. A two-bedroom home is usually 4 to 6. A three-bedroom with a garage and a full attic can run into a second truck or a longer day, and we say so at the estimate instead of at the curb.
Furniture gets blanket wrapped and strapped. Beds, tables, and sectionals get taken apart and put back together at the other end, and that is part of the job, not a line item you find later. Full detail on hourly rates, crew sizes, and how a local day is scheduled is on our local moving page.
Most of that hourly work happens inside the city, where the building decides the day more than the furniture does. How an Austin move actually gets priced, from a Rainey Street tower with a two-hour elevator window to a two-story out in Circle C with a full garage, is broken down neighborhood by neighborhood on its own page.
Long distance and statewide moves
We hold our own interstate operating authority, MC-1789546, which means we are not a broker. Nobody sells your job to a stranger. The crew that loads your house in Austin is the crew that unloads it in Dallas, Houston, El Paso, Denver, or Phoenix, on one truck, with one inventory list.
That matters because the most common long distance complaint in this trade is the handoff: you book with one name, a different truck shows up, and the delivery window stretches into weeks. Long distance pricing is quoted as a flat number based on weight or truck space and mileage rather than an hourly clock, and we give you a delivery window we can actually hit. See the long distance moving page for how those quotes are built. If the destination is still inside the state, which it usually is, the run is priced as one of our statewide Texas moves, with the drive built into the written number rather than showing up later as a line you did not agree to.
Packing and unpacking
Packing is sold two ways. Full pack means we bring the boxes, paper, tape, and wardrobe cartons and pack the entire house, usually the day before the truck comes. Partial pack means we handle the parts people dread, normally the kitchen, the garage, and anything breakable, and you do the closets and the clothes yourself. Unpacking on the other end is available as its own booking.
Packers are billed hourly like a move, plus materials at cost. A 2,000 square foot house is typically a full day for a two-person packing team. Details and material lists are on the packing services page.
Labor only, when you already have the truck
If you rented a truck or a moving container and you just need the muscle, we load it, unload it, or both. This is the cheapest way to work with a professional crew, because you are only paying for the hours and the hands. We load rental trucks, containers dropped in your driveway, and freight trailers, and we stack and strap them so the load survives the drive. That service lives on the moving labor page.
Specialty items other crews turn down
We also run a delivery arm, which is the reason we own the equipment for the pieces that get refused elsewhere. We move upright pianos, gun safes, hot tubs, marble and stone table tops, and appliances, either as part of a move or as a single-item delivery with nothing else on the truck.
- Gun safes: moved with a safe jack and stair equipment, not four guys and hope.
- Hot tubs: dollied and crane free where access allows, with the fence gate and yard path checked first.
- Pianos: uprights on a piano board, strapped and blanketed at the corners.
- Marble and glass tops: crated or edge-protected and carried vertically, never flat.
- Appliances: disconnected, hand trucked, and reset in place at the new address.
Apartment and office moves
Apartments have their own rules, and they are usually the building’s rules rather than ours. Most towers and mid-rises around downtown, the Domain, and East Riverside require a reserved elevator window, a certificate of insurance filed with the property manager before the truck arrives, and loading in a specific spot. We send the insurance certificate ahead of time and we plan the day around the elevator window you were given, because a crew standing in a lobby waiting on a freight elevator is the fastest way to burn an hour you paid for.
Office moves work the same way, only with more weight and less patience. Desks come apart, monitors and computers get boxed and labeled by workstation, and file cabinets get emptied or strapped shut. Most offices want it done on a Friday evening or a Saturday so nobody loses a workday, and we schedule those the same way.
What moving day actually looks like
The crew arrives inside a window we agreed on, walks the whole house with you, and confirms what is going, what is staying, and what is fragile. Then the truck gets loaded in a deliberate order: heavy and square first along the walls, soft goods and boxes filling the gaps, fragile items last and on top. A well-loaded truck is not just tidy. It is the reason nothing shifts on the drive.
Furniture comes apart before it moves. Dressers, headboards, table tops, and anything with a finish get blanket wrapped and shrink wrapped on the spot. Floors get runners, door jambs get padded where the path is tight. At the new address we ask where you want each piece before we set it down, put the beds and tables back together, and take the trash and used wrap with us. If something is not right, tell the crew lead while they are still standing there, because that is when it is easy to fix.
How much do movers cost in Austin, Texas
Two movers and a truck in this market land around $120 to $180 an hour, and most companies bill a minimum of two or three hours plus a travel or trip fee that covers driving to you and back. A one-bedroom apartment commonly lands between $500 and $800 all in. A three-bedroom house is usually $1,200 to $2,500 depending on stairs, walk distance, and how much of it is packed when we get there.
Four things move that number more than anything else: how many stairs or elevator floors are in the path, how far the truck can park from the door, how much is still loose in cabinets and closets on the morning of the move, and whether there is a piano, safe, or hot tub on the list. Tell us about all four up front and the written estimate you get is the invoice you sign.
Is it cheaper to rent a truck, use a container, or hire movers
Renting a truck yourself is the cheapest option on paper. You will spend a few hundred dollars on the truck, fuel, pads, and a dolly, and then you supply the labor and the risk. A moving container sits in the middle: you pay for the container and the transport, and you still have to load it. Hiring a full-service crew costs the most and takes the day, the lifting, the disassembly, and the liability off you.
The honest middle path is the one people skip. Rent the truck or the container, then hire a crew for labor only. You keep the cheap equipment and still get trained loaders stacking the box so the couch does not arrive with a leg through the drywall. If money is tight, ask us to price both a full move and a labor-only load, and pick the one that fits.
Red flags to watch for when hiring movers
The moving business has a scam problem, and it shows up in patterns you can spot before you book.
- No license number: a Texas mover must be TxDMV registered, and anyone crossing a state line needs a USDOT number and interstate authority. Ours are TxDMV 008916353C and USDOT 3370717. Look them up on the TxDMV and FMCSA sites before you pay anybody, including us.
- A quote with no walkthrough: a number given without seeing or discussing what is in the house is a number that can change on the truck.
- A large cash deposit: a quote should cost nothing.
- A rented truck with no company name: the crew that shows up should be the company you hired.
- A price far under everyone else: it usually gets corrected once your furniture is already loaded.
The hardest room to pack is the kitchen
Ask any crew and they will say the same thing. The kitchen has the most items per square foot, the most fragile ones, and the widest range of shapes, from stemware to a stand mixer to a half-used bag of flour. It is also the room people leave for last, at midnight, when the truck comes at eight. The garage is a close second for weight and sharp edges. If you only buy packing help for two rooms, buy it for those two.
The rest of the house is mostly a question of starting early. Pack the rooms you do not live in first, label every box with the room it is going to rather than a list of contents, and do not make any box heavier than you can carry across a driveway. Boxes that are closed, taped, and stacked by the front door when we arrive shave real time off an hourly bill.
Where we work
We are based in Del Valle and we work the whole Austin metro from there: Austin, Manor, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Bastrop, and Elgin. Statewide, we run to Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Waco, Lubbock, and the Valley. Out of state, our interstate authority lets us go wherever the job goes.
North of the river, the two markets we run hardest are Round Rock, where the work is split between two-story family homes and small office suites moving on a Friday night, and Georgetown, where a Sun City downsize and a Wolf Ranch move-in are two completely different jobs on the same street map.
Because our yard sits right off SH 130, we can get to most of the metro without fighting I-35, which is part of why we can hold an arrival window instead of guessing at one.
Getting a quote
Send us the address, the date, the size of the home, and anything heavy or awkward on the list, and Lee will put a written estimate together. Quotes are free, there is no deposit, and the estimate spells out the hourly rate or flat price, the crew size, the truck, and what is included, so there is nothing to argue about on moving day. If the date you want is in spring or summer, book early. Those weekends fill first.