College Hunks prices: by the truckload, quoted at your door

College Hunks publishes no per item price. Ours are below, and they do not change at the curb.

This board is for the pile that is not going with you. If what you need is the move itself, read "which job is yours" below.

College Hunks runs three pricing pages. A main one, one for junk removal, one for moving. As of August 2026, none of the three prints a dollar amount.

That is the model, not an oversight. Their junk removal page names the inputs plainly: how much room your items take up in the truck, where you live, and extra charges on certain items. Tires, paint and hot tubs are the examples they give.

The same page says their franchisees may have different definitions of what a large item is. So what your couch costs depends partly on which franchise picks up the phone.

One number is published, on a FAQ page. $150 to $750 for junk removal. That is a fivefold spread, and it is their figure, not ours.

Their moving pricing page explains the truck and travel fee in their own words. It covers the drive from their office to the start of your move, and from your new place back to their office. You are paying for two legs you never see.

Then there is the minimum. Their FAQ says a two or three hour minimum depending on your area, and that time past the minimum is prorated in fifteen to thirty minute blocks. A ninety minute job and a two hour job can land on the same number.

None of that is a trick. It is normal for movers, and it is the reason an hourly quote cannot be compared against a fixed one. The one input you control is how much is still in the house when they get there.

There is no rate card to quote, so here is who reported what.

College Hunks publishes $150 to $750 for junk removal on its own FAQ page. HomeGuide puts a half truckload at $350 to $500, and a full truckload at $600 to $800 and up.

For moving, HomeGuide reports $110 to $140 an hour for two movers with a truck, and $900 to $1,500 for a typical one or two bedroom move.

Roughly 200 locations, each independently owned, and their pricing page says rates are location based. Treat every number above as one market on one day, including ours if you find it quoted somewhere else.

Book College Hunks if you need the move. They carry things out of the house, load the truck, drive it, and unload it at the other end. Dropcurb does none of that.

Nobody from Dropcurb goes inside your home. If it starts in a bedroom or at the top of a staircase, it is not a job we can take. Same for hourly help loading a container or shifting furniture between rooms. That is real work and they sell it. We do not.

Same for a storage unit packed to the ceiling. Past roughly ten items, a truck volume quote beats per item math, and a dumpster beats both.

Book us for the pile that is not going with you. One to six things you can get outside, priced before you book, gone before the movers arrive. Every item you leave behind is an item nobody bills you to carry by the hour.

Clear the pile before move week. Not on move-out morning, when the truck is booked, the clock is running and the walkthrough is at five.

Book first, then put things out. That order matters. The price is set when you book, so there is no reason to wrestle a couch down to the curb before you know what it costs. Pick the day, then move it out the night before or that morning.

The free routes need a calendar you do not have. City bulk pickup is often weeks out and usually caps how many items go per visit, and the rules are set by your city, so check yours. A free listing needs a stranger with a truck to actually turn up before your lease ends. Both work fine in a normal month. Neither is reliable against a fixed date.

Nothing has to sit out for days either. Book by 2 PM and it goes today where same-day is running. Haulers cover all 50 states, seven days a week, and head out between 8 and 10 in the morning. You get a live ETA text and before and after photos. Almost half of pickups are done by noon, three quarters by 2 PM. You do not have to be home.

Melissa Mader, on Google: "I was concerned this wasn't a legit company, but they absolutely are… I was quoted $1500 by another company."

Tyler Bond had a couch taken for $89 against a $250 quote from a mover, forty five minutes from booking to pickup.

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