One truck in 2011. The same promise today.
Boxed, hauled, and unpacked — by a crew that treats your stuff like its own.
Cardinal & Crate started in 2011 with one box truck, two friends, and a simple promise: tell people the real price, show up on time, and don’t break their stuff. Fifteen years and four trucks later, that’s still the whole playbook. We’re licensed and insured, our crews are background-checked and trained on our own dollies, blankets, and shrink-wrap, and we’d rather lose a job to an honest quote than win one with a lowball. No bait-and-switch, no hostage loads, no surprise fees at the truck.
Why we’re different
This industry has a deserved reputation for lowball quotes, surprise fees, and worse — “hostage” loads held for more cash at the truck. We built Cardinal & Crate as the opposite of all that: a written estimate (binding if you want it), no large up-front deposit, vetted crews on our own equipment, and a dispatcher you can actually reach.
Licensed, insured, verifiable
We operate under USDOT 3194872 and MC-1184026 for interstate authority and Colorado PUC HHG-00471 in Colorado, with cargo and liability coverage. You can verify us — or any mover — at protectyourmove.gov.
The people on the truck.
Not day-labor strangers — a trained, uniformed team who’ve done this thousands of times.
Ray Okafor
Founder & Operations
Started Cardinal & Crate with one truck in 2011. Still does the tricky long-distance surveys himself.
Jamie Soto
Dispatch & Logistics Lead
Runs the board — routes the trucks, sizes the crews, and is the voice on the dispatch line.
Marcus Bell
Lead Mover · Specialty
The guy you want on a piano or a 700-lb safe. Trained the rest of the specialty crew.
Dana Pike
Pack-Out & Customer Care
Heads the packing crews and answers your questions before, during, and after the move.
What we stand behind.
Transparent, no-surprise pricing
A written estimate before we lift a box, a binding option if you want it, and no fees that weren’t on the quote.
On-time arrival
We give you an arrival window and a dispatcher you can call. If we’re running late, you hear it from us first.
No large up-front deposit
Legitimate movers don’t hold your move hostage for cash. You pay when the work is done — a rogue-mover red flag we refuse to be.
We protect your stuff
Blankets, shrink-wrap, floor runners, and a 99.4% damage-free record. If something goes wrong, our claims process is fast and fair.
Fully licensed & insured
USDOT 3194872, MC-1184026, CO PUC HHG-00471, cargo + liability insured. Verify us on protectyourmove.gov.
Vetted, trained crews
Background-checked, uniformed movers trained on our own equipment — not day-labor strangers with a rented truck.