At about 165 miles, Austin is the closest of the long-distance lanes leaving Houston, and US-290 west through Brenham makes it one of the simplest to put on the calendar. Damon Pierce stood this route up early to serve the constant flow of Houstonians chasing capital-city work, and every job rides our own trucks. We load wherever you live across the four counties, the same people drive out past Brenham toward the Hill Country edge, and the same people walk each carton into your Austin place. No backup team, no transfer point, nobody in Austin signing off on your belongings.
| Leg | Detail |
|---|---|
| Distance | Around 165 miles |
| Highway | US-290 west through Brenham toward the Hill Country |
| Drive time | Roughly 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Pickup | The four Greater Houston counties |
| Crew | One Houston team on both ends |
This lane earns its place on Damon’s board because Austin’s tech and state-government economy keeps pulling people up from Houston. Software hires bound for a north-side campus, agency staff, university recruits, and young professionals trading the inner loop for a spot near the lakes fill the calendar week after week.
What the US-290 trip into the capital really involves
Driving west is the straightforward half of any Austin job; the Houston pickup is where the planning lives. That covers the certificate of insurance for a tower downtown, in the Galleria, or by the Medical Center, the freight elevator and loading slot held in advance, and the gate code plus HOA hours arranged for a gated address in Cypress or The Woodlands. On a third-floor Montrose or Heights walk-up with no elevator, we map the staircase early so the lot stays open and nobody stalls.
Once everything is wrapped and braced, the driver gets out of town ahead of the Loop and Beltway crush, picks up US-290 west through Brenham, and runs it toward Austin along the Hill Country edge. Most apartments fit our standard truck; a full house is what calls out the larger one, putting the whole move across on a single pass.
The highway behaves; the buildings on each end need a head start
On a hop this short, US-290 looks after itself. A downtown Austin condo tied to a booked dock slot, or a Houston Medical Center tower with a narrow elevator window, does not. All Some operates on its own Texas and federal authority, USDOT and MC authority, so all 165 miles register as one regulated job with $1M in cargo coverage that takes hold the moment the doors latch in Houston. No brokering, no interlining, nothing dropped on an Austin agent.
The All Some jobs heading west out to Austin
✓ Our own trucks, movers on the All Some payroll
- Ring us and Damon or another All Some staffer answers in person, never a rented call floor
- Whatever the contract reads is what you hand over at the curb — no move-day surcharges, no inflated line items.
- A single All Some crew packs, loads and unloads from start to finish
- Every load carries $1M in coverage, and your high-rise or HOA office gets its COI the same day
- If something goes wrong, Damon reviews the claim himself, and it never leaves our office
× Broker chain
- Anything you submit elsewhere lands in a call floor and gets resold to the next low bidder.
- A delivery-day bill quietly fattened with surprise “add-ons”
- A truck you do not recognize shows up with a crew of total strangers
- COI and building paperwork you wind up tracking down on your own
- Damage claims brushed off with a “that was another contractor” line
Work keeps the US-290 current flowing, and the office tends to field calls like these:
- A tech or startup hire leaving a Midtown or EaDo rental for a spot near the north-Austin campuses
- A state-government or university staffer giving up an Energy Corridor apartment for one inside the capital’s loop
- A young household trading a Bellaire or West University place for room out by the Hill Country lakes
- Parents leaving a master-planned home in Katy or Sugar Land for one nearer their Austin-metro jobs
One All Some figure, with nothing added later
Short Hill Country run, simple terms:
- Around $650 to $1,050 for a one-bedroom, $1,050 to $1,750 for a two-bedroom, and $1,750 to $2,850 for a three-bedroom, locked on paper before loading begins
- One crew loads across the four counties in Houston and unloads at the Austin address
- $1M in coverage sits on your goods the entire 165-mile drive
- A light load can go by the hour instead: $120/hr for two movers, $165/hr for three, $215/hr for four
Reach Damon’s team at (888) 711-4778 for a written figure on your Houston-to-Austin move. We get the date and the dollar amount onto paper before the day comes around.
