Andre Castellanos grew up in the San Gabriel Valley and spent years running crews for one of the big Los Angeles van lines before he put his own name on a truck in 2015. Loading out of downtown towers on a reserved freight elevator left him with two rules he does not bend: know the access before you quote, and give the customer a written number they can hold you to.
Why Global Movers exists
Andre went out on his own because the van line kept selling jobs nobody from the crew had ever walked. The company started with one truck he owned outright and a rule that whoever priced a move had to have seen it first. Payroll movers came next, then a second truck, then a yard big enough for eight. He still works the downtown high-rise jobs and the hillside ones himself.
The van-line habit that stuck
A tower move on 7th Street lives or dies on a freight elevator reservation and a building certificate of insurance that clears in time. Our crews prep a Glendale bungalow to the same standard as a Bunker Hill high-rise, because a second run back across the 110 at four in the afternoon is not a plan, it is a lost day.
Global Movers, at a glance
- OwnerAndre Castellanos, on the job since 2015
- FleetEight company trucks, nothing leased or borrowed
- CrewFourteen people on payroll, uniformed and trained here
- PricingFlat rate, written down before your date
What an in-house crew changes on move day
| With a Global Movers crew | With a crew hired for the day |
|---|---|
| The estimator who priced your job briefs the crew chief who loads it | Whoever quoted it has never seen the property |
| Elevator reservations and building insurance certificates are sorted before your date | The crew hears the dock rules from a security guard |
| The crew already knows which beach-city blocks are permit-only | The truck circles while somebody reads a parking sign |
| Ask for the license and insurance paperwork and it lands in your inbox that afternoon | You are told it exists and never shown it |
We are a licensed California household-goods mover, insured on every truck in the fleet and authorized for interstate work. When a downtown property manager or an HOA board wants that paperwork on file, Andre emails it the same day, because there is no corporate department here to pass the request to. If you would rather see who does the work, the crew page lists everyone by name, and the reviews go up the way customers wrote them.
