Hank’s Moving & Hauling in Minnesota
When Minnesota homeowners need a mover they can actually find again afterward, Hank’s Moving & Hauling is the name they get. Hank Dolan has been driving his own truck and writing his own binding estimates since 2005, and for over 29 years he’s been serving local communities the old way: you call, he answers, he shows up, and the price he writes down is the price you pay. As part of the Locally family, every Minnesota job carries our guarantee - the owner’s name, his address, his license number, and a live voice on the phone, published before you ever make the call.
Why Minnesota Homeowners Choose Hank’s Moving & Hauling
Minnesota’s got no shortage of moving companies with 800 numbers and out-of-state plates. What it doesn’t have enough of is a guy who puts his own name on the truck and his own cell number on the card. Hank Dolan does both. He founded Hank’s Moving & Hauling in 2005 because he’d watched too many neighbors get a quote on the phone that turned into something else entirely once the crew was standing in the living room. His fix was simple, and he hasn’t changed it since: a binding written estimate, signed by both of you, before a single box gets lifted.
The crew that loads your house in the morning is the crew that unloads it at the other end. They’re on Hank’s payroll, background-checked, and they’ve worked together long enough to know who takes the heavy end of the dresser. There’s no day labor pulled from a parking lot, no handoff to some outfit you never agreed to, and no surprise crew showing up with a clipboard full of surcharges. Hank drives the truck himself. If something shifts on the road, he’s the one who knows how it was packed.
That 90-day written guarantee means something in a state where winter moves can mean ice, mud, and a narrow window between closing and the first storm. One call brings Hank back. Seniors and veterans always get 10% off. There’s no trip charge inside the county, and if you’ve got another estimate in hand, he’ll give you a free second opinion on it. The $40 off any repair over $200 isn’t a promotion - it’s just how he handles the dings and scrapes that honest movers own up to.
Hank runs every job against the same five-point code we ask every Locally company to live by: Local roots - he’s here, not three states away; On time - the window he gives you is the window, and he calls if it slips; Community first - he hires here, buys fuel here, and you’ll see him at the youth hockey fundraiser; Accountable - his name is on the truck and his address is published; Loyal - he’d rather move your kids out of college in ten years than pad one invoice today. That’s the L.O.C.A.L. values code, and it’s the framework every job is built on, not just printed on a magnet.
The Written Price Promise is what closes the deal for most Minnesota homeowners who’ve been burned before. The estimate you sign is the price you pay. Anything Hank’s crew packs or carries, they make right. No asterisks, no move-day arithmetic, no “that was just the base rate” conversation on the front porch. A guess is not a price, and Hank puts the number in writing because he knows the difference.
Calls get answered by a live person, 24 hours a day. Ask for Hank - he picks up. That’s not a slogan. It’s the reason the Locally family added him to the network.
Backed by the Locally Family
Locally started in 1997 when a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby got tired of hearing the same story: out-of-state truck, phone-quote tripled at the door, number disconnected by Monday. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes - a local phone number, a drivable address, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up - and decided that any company willing to publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
Every Hank’s Moving & Hauling job across Minnesota meets that standard before the truck ever leaves the yard. The person who answers the phone is the person who shows up. The price he says is the price on the invoice. And when we say “are you actually local?” should be a question you can answer before you call, not after you’ve been burned - we mean Hank’s published address, his published license, and the fact that you’re going to run into him at the hardware store on Saturday.
Written by Hank Dolan, Owner at Hank’s Moving & Hauling, serving Minnesota since 2005.