Eight Years in the Army, Four Household Moves on Orders
Derek Simmons spent eight years in the Army, and by the time he got out he’d moved his own household four times — always on somebody else’s timeline, always with a report date that didn’t care what else was going on that week. That’s the actual origin of Good Guys Movers: not a slogan, just eight years of knowing exactly what it feels like to be the one waiting on the truck.
After the Army, Derek spent two years driving for a national van line and didn’t love how its own customers got treated — quotes that grew on move day, dispatchers who never picked up, crews that changed every job. In 2014 he bought one truck and started Good Guys Movers on a simple rule: quote it straight, show up on the date given, no surprises at the door.
The Crew Behind the Trucks
Eleven people keep this company running today, across five trucks. Renee Walcott has managed the office since 2016 and is usually the first voice you hear when you call. Marcus Webb has handled estimating and dispatch since 2018 — he’s the one turning a walkthrough into a written number. On the trucks, Jamal Price has run crews as chief since 2015 and Christina Boyd since 2020, backed by six full-time movers who show up as the same faces job after job.
Licensed for Maryland, Built for PCS Orders
Good Guys Movers is licensed and insured in Maryland, with interstate authority on file for long-distance and PCS moves that cross into Virginia and beyond. With Joint Base Andrews just up the road, a real share of our long-distance calendar is military orders rather than a house sale — Derek and several of the crew have lived through a hard report-no-later-than date themselves, so it’s handled as routine, not as a special case bolted onto a normal moving business.
Most of what we move is still ordinary: rowhouses near National Harbor, colonials out in Fort Washington, apartments along the Beltway corridor. The same crew getting a PCS shipment to Norfolk on schedule is the crew unloading a couch on a Tuesday afternoon in Suitland.