Houston to New Orleans Movers

I-10 east through Beaumont, Lafayette, Baton Rouge — French Quarter restrictions.

Your ZIPs land on Amanda’s desk at the Katy office — reviewed personally, no broker handoff, used only to price your Houston local move.

ProMover AMSA Certified
BBB Accredited A+ Rating
US DOT FMCSA Registered
State Licensed TX HHG Mover
IAM Member Intl. Movers Assn.
NJWMA Warehousemen Assn.

The I-10 east Gulf corridor

New Orleans is 350 miles east on I-10, and the haul follows the same Gulf weather corridor we work all summer in Houston. We load Heights, Montrose, River Oaks or Memorial in the morning, ride I-610 east to I-10, and clear Beaumont, Orange, Lake Charles, Lafayette and Baton Rouge before the bridge stack on the east side of the Mississippi. Roughly five to six hours plus city restrictions.

Mile marker Pass-point Detail
0 Spring Branch yard Truck rolls; humidity-rated wrap on the load
85 Beaumont, TX Fuel; first Gulf coast checkpoint
160 Lake Charles, Houston State line, log update, weather radio scan
270 Baton Rouge Mississippi bridge stack — we time it
350 New Orleans I-10 exits French Quarter narrow-street walk-in

French Quarter and downtown protocol

The Quarter is cramped, permitted, and unforgiving. Sarah walks Google Street View before the haul, calls the receiving building or property manager twice, and confirms permit-zone parking windows. We use smaller box trucks for Quarter unloads when needed and shuttle from a staged 26-footer at the curb. Garden District and Uptown shotgun homes get full pad runs around the porch columns.

Neighborhoods we deliver to

  • French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny (permit, narrow-street)
  • Garden District and Uptown historic homes
  • Lakeview and Mid-City rebuilds
  • Metairie and Kenner suburb runs
  • Slidell and Mandeville north-shore deliveries

Hurricane-season clauses matter east of Beaumont

The Louisiana leg sits inside the same Gulf hurricane corridor we work in Houston June through November. Every move contract in season carries a NOAA cone-projection clause — if a named storm tracks within range, we reschedule without a second deposit. Long-distance protocol page → covers the federal authority side.

What your day looks like

  1. 5am: crew loads under cool air, sealed-pad shrink applied
  2. 9am: truck on I-10 east of Spring Branch
  3. 12pm: Lake Charles fuel; Devin walks the deck
  4. 3pm: Baton Rouge bridge cleared
  5. 5pm: NOLA arrival, Quarter or Garden District unload
  6. 9pm: signed delivery sheet

Same crew that loaded the Houston residential home walks the boxes up the Garden District porch. More on interstate authority or return home.

What Sets Us Apart

Why Houston Households Stay With 1st Choice Moving & Storage

Licensing Closed Before Move Day

Fully licensed TX household-goods mover, DOT and MC authority filed for interstate work, $1M cargo coverage on every move — whether it’s a Memorial walk-up or a Katy-to-Vegas haul on I-15, every legal stack is closed before Trent’s crew rolls.

Old Floors, Plaster Walls, Estate Banisters

Original oak in a Heights Spanish, Italian travertine in a River Oaks foyer, painted plaster in a Bellaire bungalow — floor runners, jamb pads, banister shrink go on before a single box gets touched. Same protocol at both ends, pickup and drop.

24/7 Owner-Answered Dispatch

Call mid-afternoon and Kyle Bennett answers; call at 2am and Sarah Whittaker handles overnight dispatch from the Katy yard. Both Houston movers at your door are W-2, background-checked, and trained inside Pro Express Moving — never leased, never temp, never sourced same-day.

One Written Houston Price, No Curbside Surprises

The figure Bryan sends from the Sugar Land estimator desk is the same figure on your receipt — never an hourly clock that drags into sunset rush, never a fuel surcharge tacked on at the curb, never a heavy-item line the office never mentioned.

Four Lines, A Signed Flat Rate, And Kyle’s Countersign

Kyle pulls the calendar against the Greater Houston hitch-shifts and writes the binding figure on Long Point Rd letterhead, and the reply lands in your inbox — bilingual EN loads inside an hour, ES paperwork within two. No deposit, no chase calls if you walk.

See My Bilingual Flat Figure ☎ (888) 278-9005