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Sep 3, 2023 | Moving Advice

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Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa is a family-owned moving company founded in 2010 by Gary Thacker, who built the business from a single pickup truck into a multi-truck operation serving Tampa Bay and beyond. A motivational speech Gary wrote and delivered to his crew reveals the values behind the company, including a commitment to excellence, accountability, and treating every move as a reflection of personal character.

Most people hire a moving company without knowing much about who is actually showing up. That is a reasonable thing to want to fix. Below is a speech Gary Thacker, founder of Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa, wrote and delivered to his crew. It gives you a straight look at what drives this company and what Gary expects from every person on the team.

What does Gary actually tell his crew?

BLOOD ALONE MOVES THE WHEELS OF HISTORY!

Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation – which everyone finds during the day – how long we have been striving for greatness?

Not only the years we’ve been at war – the war of work – but from the moment as a child, when we realize the world could be conquered.

It has been a lifetime struggle a never-ending fight, I say to you and you will understand that it is a privilege to fight. IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO FIGHT!

We must give! give! give! to gain! We must work with our hearts and do it for the love and respect for our talents, not for a paycheck that is already spent before it hits the bank! We must work because we love to work! Its not a strategy, it’s a way of life. When we learn to work this way we have found true success! It is this wealth that will not fade or wither. It is the wealth of self worth and knowing that we are the greatest person that we can be. Knowing that we have set the bar so high that most people can not understand it and don’t have the courage to try! It take guts to fight!

In eight years we have taken a start up company with $2000 and a beat up pick-up truck to the best and most dominant moving company in Tampa! We now have ten trucks and a Penske fleet backing us up! With franchising at our finger tips!

We have grown every month we’ve been in business for 97 months!
We deliver anywhere in the continental US in five days!
We have the best online reputation and grass root marketing campaign in this great state!
We are earning something far greater than money! We are creating a legacy!
These accomplishments are not worth anything unless TODAY we can exceed customer expectations! Today is the day.

I ask you once more rise and be worthy of this historical time.
We must take this great system and duplicate it again and again, day after day, move after move!
Some people will tell you moving is a bad word.

They think that moving is stressful and they’ll conjure up images in there heads of drifters, derelicts and the lost of society who dont care about anything and are just here for a quick dollar. They will assume that you are unprofessional and untrained. They have this preconceived idea that moving is hard and no one wants to do it. They will think of fly by night operations and bait and switch scams.

Our duty to change their perception! Our goal is to be the role models of this great industry!
Here at this great company we will not stop until there is no question or no doubt that we are this country’s authority on moving.

We must come together. Every part, every person on this team moving as one!
Here at Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa… we must unite.

We must never acquiesce, for it is together… TOGETHER THAT WE PREVAIL! WE MUST NEVER CEDE TO BE SECOND BEST! FOR IT IS TOGETHER THAT WE WILL Prevail!

Why does this matter to you as a customer?

A speech like this does not write itself on a slow afternoon. Gary started Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa in Riverview in 2010 with $2,000 and a beat-up pickup truck. The fact that he still puts words like these in front of his crew tells you something about how seriously he takes the work. When you call (813) 505-2560, you are not reaching a broker or a call center. You are reaching a company that has been building something specific since day one, move after move, and intends to keep doing it.

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It shapes almost everything. Gary built the company in Riverview without outside investors, which means decisions have always been made around what actually works for customers rather than what looks good on a pitch deck. That scrappy start is why the pricing model is still straightforward: one hourly rate quoted before booking, no fees hidden in the fine print.

It also explains why the movers are partner crews with real stakes in each job rather than day labor hired through an app. When the person carrying your furniture owns or rents the truck they arrived in, they have a reason to care beyond the next few hours.

The most concrete thing is crew structure. Because the movers are partners who are paid on the job, not hourly employees pulled from a staffing pool, the same people tend to show up consistently across Tampa Bay. That continuity matters because skill in moving is specific: knowing how to wrap a marble tabletop, navigate a narrow St. Petersburg stairwell, or load a truck so nothing shifts on I-75 takes repetition.

The company also carries $2 million in liability coverage and holds MC 1817 and US DOT 2349033, but Gary would be the first to tell you that licensing alone does not protect you. Florida's default carrier liability is 60 cents per pound, so the team explains valuation options before moving day, not after something breaks.

Long-distance moves are priced on inventory, distance, and dates rather than by the hour, and the company uses its own trucks and crews for the entire haul. There are no brokers involved, which means the people who loaded your belongings in Tampa are accountable for what arrives at the other end. Broker arrangements often hand your move off to a third party you never vetted.

The practical difference shows up in communication. When one company controls the truck from origin to destination, there is one phone number to call if something changes on the road, not a chain of middlemen pointing at each other.

That is a fair thing to wonder. The honest answer is that the speech is about pride in craft, not about beating a sales quota. The specific goal Gary keeps returning to is exceeding customer expectations move by move, not chasing a revenue number. After 25,000 moves since 2010, the measure that matters most to the company is whether the person in Riverview or St. Petersburg who hired them would call again.

Motivation and customer focus are not opposites. A crew that takes genuine pride in the work tends to handle your furniture more carefully than one that is just running out the clock on an hourly shift.

No. The moves booked through Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa in Tampa Bay are handled by Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa crews. The company's three locations cover Tampa, Riverview, and St. Petersburg, and the partner-crew model means the people on your job have a direct financial stake in how it goes. That structure does not change based on what the company might do in other markets down the road.

If you want to confirm who will actually show up, call (813) 505-2560 and ask directly. Any company worth hiring should be able to answer that question without hesitation.

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