Philadelphia sits barely north of us, and our trucks cross into the city so often the run hardly counts as a trip. From a Delaware pickup it pencils out to about 30 miles straight up I-95, over the state line past Marcus Hook and Chester, then into Center City or wherever in the metro you are headed, well under an hour behind the wheel on a clear morning. Spencer keeps a crew floating on this short lane most weeks, so a household leaving Wilmington, the Brandywine, or up near the Pennsylvania line can be loaded after breakfast and set back down in Fishtown, South Philly, or out the Main Line that same afternoon. We book it as one round trip, no overnight, no fuss.
Thirty miles is nothing for the boxes. The piano is where this lane earns its name. The Greenville and Centreville estates along Kennett Pike often send a baby grand or a full concert grand up to a city townhouse, and our piano crew skids the instrument, blankets it head to foot, and keeps it riding upright the whole short hop. The catch on a 30-mile city move is rarely the road; it is the destination. Philadelphia rowhouses and Center City high-rises bring narrow Trinity stairwells, tight elevators, and street-parking permits, so we measure the far-end doorways before the first leg leaves the truck, and the office files for a parking hold and a building certificate ahead of your date.
The same Delaware hands run the job curb to curb. Whoever wraps the last mirror in Hockessin is whoever carries it up your Philadelphia steps, all on one truck for the full I-95 stretch. A Lewis move is never posted to a board, never sold to a hauler you have not spoken with, and never swapped to a fresh crew at the state line. The price is your pick: two movers run $140 an hour with the truck and pads included, three go $190, four go $250, or Spencer walks the home and writes one flat number. Uprights ride $300 to $480, baby grands $540 to $880, a concert grand $800 to $1,400, every figure on paper before we roll.
Moving up to Philadelphia for work, a city place, or to be near family across the line? Send us both addresses, tell us the floor and building on the Philadelphia end, name your date, and a firm written number lands back in your inbox.