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Manitou, KY Moving FAQ

The Manitou, KY movers your neighbors already lean on — house, apartment, storefront or the whole farm.

Booking, licensing, packing, coverage and how the flat rate works — the questions Hopkins County movers put to us most.

  • Whole houses, second-floor apartments, shops and church halls
  • We carry the boxing, the storage and any COI your building needs
  • A uniformed W-2 crew on our own trucks — never day help

Free written quote

Tell us the basics of the move and a signed flat estimate lands back with you — most weekdays inside the hour.

Your signed flat rate lands in your inbox — most weekdays within the hour. No cost, no strings.

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What callers ask first

Most first calls circle back to the same few questions, so I’ve set the answers down here in the open. If yours isn’t among them, fire off a quote request and you’ll have a straight reply from Gail before the day is out.

The local rate at a glance

  • $128/hr — two movers and a truck, with wardrobe boxes, shrink-wrap, dollies and pads all thrown in.
  • $178/hr — a third mover added for bigger loads and the long carries that eat the clock.
  • Once a load crosses a state line, the price becomes a written, binding flat total set before we load out — no fuel line sprung on you at the destination.

Licensing and coverage

Our interstate hauls run on our own US DOT and MC authority, while in-state jobs ride a Kentucky household-goods mover certificate. Free of charge, every shipment begins at the federal released-value level — sixty cents per pound, per article. Choose the full-value upgrade and coverage climbs to as much as $1,000,000 per shipment. If a claim is ever needed, you have nine months from the day we set the last box down.

Are you an actual mover, or do you just book one for me?
We're the mover. Coffman Moving Service is a fully licensed and insured moving company based in Manitou, KY, running our own trucks and uniformed W-2 crews — no broker, no lead-selling middleman — under a Kentucky household-goods certificate plus US DOT and MC authority.
How far ahead should I book a truck?
A week or two suits most jobs; end-of-month and summer Saturdays fill fastest around Madisonville. Tight on time? Call and Rodney will find you a slot if a truck's open.
Do you bring the boxes and packing materials?
Yes. Pads, dollies, shrink-wrap and wardrobe boxes come on the truck at no extra charge, and a full-pack crew can box the whole house if you'd rather not.
What if my things come up bigger than the estimate?
We reprice on paper before anyone lifts a thing. Only three things move a quote — added inventory, an extra stop, or a date change — never a meter running quietly upward.
Do you handle pianos, safes and antiques?
We do. Travis has years on upright pianos, gun safes and farmhouse antiques; it's careful two-person handling with the right straps and pads, quoted as a flat line on your estimate.
Is there a charge for stairs or an elevator?
A standard set of stairs or a working elevator adds nothing to the hourly rate. We only flag it up front when a carry runs unusually long or a piece needs a third hand.
Free printable

Your Manitou move week, planned on one page

One printable sheet that breaks move week into small jobs you can check off — which rooms to box first, how to keep the breakables padded and loaded last, and when to salt the ramp before an icy Pennyrile morning. Put together by a full-service Hopkins County crew that loads farmhouses, rentals and church halls every week.

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Coffman Moving Service movers loading a truck in Manitou
0Local moves finished across Hopkins County since our 2009 start — homes, apartments and offices alike
0Average star score drawn from 28 verified local reviews
0Of quotes committed to paper before a single item is lifted
0W-2 movers in Coffman uniforms, every one of them on our payroll

Three roads to a booked move

Settle on the one that suits you; Coffman’s movers handle everything after that.

Full-service moving

Full-service moving

Our uniformed crew pads, boxes, hauls and rebuilds the whole house for one flat price. Steep farm drives, gravel county lanes and narrow rental doorways are all handled; you simply point out where each piece goes.

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Move-week planner

Room by room and day by day, a checklist that keeps all of move week in one place, from padding the upright to taping the last kitchen box shut.

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Same-day written quote

No back-and-forth phone tag: hand us the particulars once and a locked one-page figure reaches you that same afternoon.

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What is it we are moving?

Tell us what needs to go, we shape the crew around that load, and the price comes to you flat, on paper, and fully backed by us.

Full-home moves Flats & walk-ups Offices & shops Cross-country hauls Pianos & antiques Packing & boxing

From first call to last box: the five steps

1

Hand us the basics

Two addresses, how many floors at each, and the date: send those over and one flat figure emails back to you with nothing buried below it.

2

Set the date

Say which morning works for you and we build the day around it, filing whatever COI a building requires, reserving the freight lift when there is one, and holding a tight arrival window.

3

Wrapping and boxing

Adding packing? We start with the fragile things, then move through the house room by room, boxing either the breakables alone or the whole place, in pads, paper and cartons we supply.

4

Loaded and on the road

The uniformed crew that padded and loaded you at the Manitou curb rides along to the far door and unloads every piece there as well, so your things pass to no one else en route.

5

Settled into the new place

We put every box in the room you labeled, rebuild the beds, and clear out every last sheet of used paper as we leave.

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One crew, whatever you are moving

From apartments to farmhouses to storefronts right across Manitou and the greater Madisonville area, that single crew runs every job.

Apartment & condo

Downtown condos, Earlington second-floor units and Madisonville walk-ups, run by a crew that all but lives on cramped stairwells, tight doorways and building COI paperwork.

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Long-distance

One truck and one crew tracked from pickup to drop-off, whether the run heads south on I-24 to Nashville or east down the Western Kentucky Parkway to Louisville.

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Packing & boxing

Box the entire house or only the fragile items; made-to-measure crates shield uprights, framed pictures and glass tops.

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Storage

Month-to-month units, locked up and climate-steady, for the stretches when your closing dates simply refuse to meet in the middle.

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Commercial moves

We shift offices, retail floors and congregation halls after hours and on weekends, keeping your doors open while the week hardly notices.

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Junk removal

Worn-out couches, dead appliances and the debris left over from moving day, carted to the county landfill either before we load or right after the truck rolls out.

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Hour by hour through move day

Start to finish, your Manitou crew keeps one even, clock-driven rhythm — the same tempo at the first doorway as at the last box carried in.

  1. 7:00a

    Crew arrives

    The uniformed crew shows up early, salts the ramp if there is ice underfoot, has any building COI already on file, and gets the floor runners rolling out.

  2. 7:45a

    Pad & wrap

    Before a single item shifts, the furniture goes under blankets and shrink-wrap, the upright gets padded and belted, and we cover the door frames and hardwood.

  3. 9:30a

    Load up

    One piece at a time heads down the stairs and out the door, gets belted into the truck, and is checked off the inventory as it goes aboard.

  4. 11:30a

    Rolling to the new address

    Whoever loaded you back in Manitou drives that very truck to your new door — nobody hands the job off, no relay carrier picks up the load partway there.

  5. 1:30p

    Carry-in

    Every carton is carried to the room named on its side, and each sofa, dresser and headboard lands on the exact spot you call.

  6. 3:30p

    Rebuild

    We reassemble the beds, stand the upright back in its place, walk the whole home with you one last time, and haul off every sheet of used paper.

Service area

Find your local Coffman Moving Service crew

Based in Manitou, KY — our crews cover the Madisonville area, from Nortonville and Earlington up the Pennyrile Parkway to Mortons Gap and Dawson Springs and out toward Providence and Hanson. Choose your town from the menu and we send whichever crew is closest; whatever the job, the price is a flat number we set down on paper.

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Dale Coffman, owner of Coffman Moving Service
A note from the owner

In Dale’s own words

Back in 2009 I hung my own name on Coffman Moving Service under a rule I have never once bent: whatever price we put in writing is what you settle once the final box is inside, with nothing invented after the truck is loaded. The trucks are ours, paid off, and no one on my crew lays a hand on a family’s upright or heirloom until he has spent his time learning the trade at my elbow.

Whether it is a one-bedroom above a Main Street shop in Madisonville or a four-bedroom farmhouse past Nortonville, the care runs exactly the same: a single Manitou crew you can trust and one written flat rate, curb to doorstep. That is why neighbors keep passing our name around, from Earlington walk-ups to homes down a gravel county lane.

Dale CoffmanOwner & head mover, Coffman Moving Service

What sets Coffman Moving Service apart

A look at how a genuine, locally run Manitou, KY mover holds up next to the other options.

Coffman Moving ServiceBrokersPODs / containersRental trucks
Uniformed W-2 movers on trucks we own
A flat price put in writing before load-day
One crew for both the loading and the unloading
Licensed, insured and COI-ready for any building
Packing and heavy-item carries included
A real person at the Manitou office picks up

All set? Let’s get you booked.

Give us the details and Coffman Moving Service builds you a locked-in flat price at no charge — nothing owed and nothing signed until you decide to go ahead.

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