Of every destination on our books, Orlando comes up the most. It makes sense, because by the standards of a cross-city move this one is short: leave Tampa Bay, merge onto I-4 heading east, glide past Plant City and Lakeland through the theme-park belt, and roughly 85 miles later you are pulling into Orlando, an hour and twenty or so of driving. When Brett Donovan and Greg Hayes founded B and G Movers in 2015, the whole point was to staff jobs like this with people who actually work for us. So whoever walks your couch down a Hyde Park staircase at first light is the one resting it in your Orlando living room by midday.
Why a Tampa loadout, not I-4, decides your Orlando day
Eighty-five miles of interstate practically runs itself. The variable that actually moves your schedule is how cleanly the loadout goes back here, which hinges entirely on your address:
- High-rise in downtown, Channelside, or along Water Street? We file the certificate of insurance, book the freight elevator, and claim a dock window in advance so nobody in the building office sends us back downstairs.
- Living inside FishHawk, Westchase, or Tampa Palms? We confirm your entry code along with the HOA’s posted move hours before arrival, which keeps the guard booth from eating into your morning.
- Third-floor garden walk-up in Brandon or Carrollwood, no lift? We scope the stairwell ahead of time and reserve curb space so our truck keeps its spot on every trip up and down.
| Leg | Detail |
|---|---|
| Distance | About 85 miles |
| Route | I-4 East past Plant City and Lakeland through the Disney corridor |
| Drive time | Around an hour and twenty |
| Origin | Tampa and the wider Tampa Bay area |
Tampa Bay folks who book this Orlando lane
✓ Our own trucks, staffed by movers on the B and G Movers payroll
- Call and Brett, Greg or someone else at our Westshore office answers in person, never a rented call floor
- The total on the written estimate is what you pay at the door — no move-day surcharge bolted on, no padded line items slid into the invoice.
- One B and G Movers crew packs, loads and unloads the whole way through
- Every load carries $1M of coverage, and any certificate of insurance your HOA or high-rise requires goes out the same day
- If something goes sideways, Brett and Greg handle the claim themselves, and it stays inside our Westshore office
× Broker chain
- Run those same details through a broker and they ricochet around a call floor before getting sold to whoever bids lowest.
- Unexpected “extras” added to the invoice the second the truck arrives
- An unfamiliar truck shows up carrying a crew of strangers
- The certificate of insurance and the building paperwork land on you to track down
- Broken items waved off with a “that was not our subcontractor” excuse
Reach out about an Orlando move and odds are you fit one of these:
- Hospitality and theme-park staff after steadier hours in the Central Florida labor market
- A Riverview or Wesley Chapel family wanting to land nearer the schools around Orlando
- Renters done with a cramped South Tampa unit and chasing more room inland
- Remote employees keeping the Bay paycheck while settling near Lake Nona or Winter Park
I-4 through the Disney belt practically minds itself; a Water Street dock slot is what we plan around
This short ribbon of highway seldom causes us a headache. The genuine puzzle is something like a Water Street tower that only grants a 60-minute dock reservation, or a FishHawk board that permits moves inside one narrow stretch of the day. Our authority is USDOT/MC authority, so all 85 miles fall under one federally regulated job, and $1M in cargo coverage kicks in the instant the truck doors latch at your Tampa curb. Same crew, same truck, zero handoffs the whole way to Orlando.
Orlando number, fixed in writing, before anybody lifts a box
The dollar amount goes on paper up front, so whatever you agree to here is exactly what you pay there:
- A one-bedroom lands near $760 to $1,200; a two-bedroom near $1,200 to $1,950; a three-bedroom near $1,950 to $3,150, every figure confirmed ahead of the date
- The Orlando drop is run by the very Tampa Bay crew that did your pickup
- Your $1M policy travels with the shipment for every mile of I-4
- Small load? Skip the flat rate and pay hourly: $125 with two movers, $170 with three, $215 with four
Phone B and G Movers at [bc_phone] for a Tampa-to-Orlando quote in writing. We lock both the date and the figure on paper before a single item leaves Tampa Bay.
