Dale’s story
Dale Ashworth grew up in Kempsville, where his father served out of Little Creek, and he spent his high school summers loading a regional van line’s trucks out of a Norfolk terminal instead of working a beach job like his friends. He noticed early that the crews who struggled weren’t the ones short on muscle, they were the ones who never checked the report date, the driveway, or the tunnel before quoting a number.
That’s the standard he built the company on: a price only counts as fair once somebody has actually confirmed the PCS paperwork, measured the lane, and picked the tunnel crossing, and done all three before writing anything down.
I kept hearing the same complaint from neighbors about their last move: a low number on the phone, then a much higher one once the truck was stuck at the HRBT during rush hour. I bought my first truck in 2013 so nobody would tell me that story about my own company. — Dale Ashworth, owner
Where the company stands now
More than a decade in, everything, the trucks, the crew, the paperwork, still runs out of the same yard on Holland Road.
- Started2013 by Dale Ashworth
- Fleet sizeFive trucks, titled to the company
- StaffingEvery mover is a W-2 hire, nobody subcontracted
- StandingRegistered and insured to move households in Virginia
- Yard3117 Holland Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23453
Growth, one hire at a time
Every addition to the crew tracked actual demand, nobody joined ahead of the workload.
- 2013: Dale starts the company with one truck and the flat per-truck rate it still runs on today
- 2016: Tyrell Banks signs on and becomes the crew’s specialist for PCS and tunnel-timed jobs
- 2017: Kayla Whitfield takes over scheduling and starts writing every quote by hand
- 2018: Cody Ransom joins, focused on Sandbridge and Croatan’s beach cottages
- 2019: Sean Marbury steps into dispatch, routing crews around tunnel backups and storm season
- 2020: Faith Delgado comes aboard for storage coordination as the fleet grows to five trucks
What an outside crew misses
A crew that only shows up for the day has to react in real time. Ours plans most of it out beforehand.
- Report dates for Oceana and Little Creek families get confirmed before dispatch even assigns a truck
- HRBT and Monitor-Merrimac rush-hour patterns get built into the route the night before, not discovered mid-drive
- Sandbridge and Croatan’s sandy lanes and HOA rules get checked ahead of time, before a truck tries to squeeze down one
- A slipped closing or a shifting hurricane track means a storage unit gets booked, not a crew standing around with nowhere to put anything
Who actually handles your move
Five people run this company, and each one has a specific job that doesn’t overlap with the others.
- Dale AshworthFounder, still takes the toughest PCS and tunnel-timing jobs personally
- Kayla WhitfieldScheduling, writes every quote herself
- Sean MarburyDispatch, plans daily routes around the tunnels and I-64
- Tyrell BanksLead crew chief, runs PCS and cross-town tunnel jobs
- Cody RansomSenior mover, handles Sandbridge and Croatan’s beach properties
- Faith DelgadoStorage coordinator, manages closing delays and hurricane reschedules
More than ten years in, I still walk the property and check the tunnel schedule myself before a number goes on paper. That habit is why people call us back instead of getting three more quotes. — Dale Ashworth, owner, JBR Moving Team
