How Cole got started
Cole Whitfield grew up off Poplar, right between Germantown and Collierville, and knocked around the moving trade for years before he ran his own crew — learning that most of a good move is planned long before the truck rolls up.
What stuck with him was that muscle is the easy part. A move is won or lost on whether anyone counted the rooms honestly, sized the crew right, and quoted a number the family could actually hold him to.
I got tired of watching neighbors get a low phone quote, then a fat invoice at the curb once the truck was loaded. So in 2013 I bought one truck and built a company to do it affordably and do it right. — Cole Whitfield, owner
The company by the numbers
Since 2013 the trucks, the crews, and the office have all stayed under one Germantown roof.
- Founded2013, by Cole Whitfield
- TrucksSix, all titled to the company
- CrewsW-2 movers, never day-labor
- LicensingLicensed & insured Tennessee mover
- Base7161 Wolf River Blvd, Suite 210, Germantown, TN 38138
From one truck to a full crew
The company grew the way Cole planned it — one honest move at a time, priced to stay affordable.
- 2013 — Cole buys one truck and starts Andrews Affordable Moving on a flat per-truck hourly rate
- 2015 — Trey Bolden joins as a crew lead and driver, adding a second truck to the calendar
- 2017 — Renata Alcorn comes on to run the office and write every flat quote
- 2019 — Marcus Delaney takes over dispatch, mapping each day across Shelby County
- 2022 — Danielle Prescott joins as in-home estimator, and the fleet reaches six trucks
The part the cheap crews skip
What a lowball outfit leaves on your shoulders is the honest planning that actually keeps a move on budget, and that’s the part we carry.
- Every quote is walked and written down, with no fuel, stair, or mileage surcharges added at the curb inside Shelby County
- Townhomes and walk-ups off Germantown Pkwy get crews who plan the flights and the carry before move day
- Family homes in Collierville, Cordova, and Bartlett get movers who size the crew right so the day doesn’t drag
- When a closing slips, we hold the load in storage rather than letting the schedule fall apart
Who you’ll deal with
The same crew runs every job, each owning a piece of the work.
- Cole WhitfieldOwner — still walks the big jobs and quotes them himself
- Renata AlcornOffice manager & scheduling — writes every flat quote
- Marcus DelaneyDispatch — maps each day across Shelby County and the metro
- Trey BoldenCrew lead & driver on the local and long-distance runs
- Danielle PrescottIn-home estimator — walks the rooms and sizes the crew
More than a decade in, I still quote the big jobs myself and hold the family to that number. Affordable and honest is the whole reason the phone keeps ringing. — Cole Whitfield, owner, Andrews Affordable Moving