How I got here
I grew up in West Akron, off Highland Square, in a house with a porch and a staircase that turned at the worst possible angle for a couch. I learned what a move really takes by doing it the hard way for about seven years on other Akron crews before I started CLC Services. I loaded trucks in July humidity and dug them out of snow-belt driveways in January. I saw moves done carefully and I saw moves done in a rush, and I knew which kind I wanted my name on.
By 2013 I’d had enough of watching corners get cut. I bought a truck, called a couple of guys I trusted, and started taking jobs around Summit County. The first promise I made was the one I still make: a flat written price, locked before we start, and a crew that pads and wraps everything. Word got around West Akron and Highland Square, then out to Fairlawn and Hudson, and we grew one careful move at a time.
What we are today
CLC Services is a real, licensed Akron moving company — not a broker, not a middleman. We run our own eight trucks and employ about fifteen full-time, uniformed movers on our own payroll. When you hire us, you get us: I do not subcontract your move to anyone, and the crew that quotes the job is the crew that drives away with your furniture.
We keep our US DOT and MC authority current for interstate moves and our Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) household-goods authority current for moves within the state. We’re bonded and insured, with up to a million dollars of cargo coverage per shipment. I still ride along on the tricky ones — the century home near Stan Hywet with the staircase that won’t cooperate, the downtown loft with one slow elevator, the long haul down I-77 toward the Cuyahoga Valley and beyond.
2013
The year I started CLC Services with one truck and a short list of trusted hands.
8 trucks
Our own fleet, maintained for snow-belt winters and long Ohio interstate runs.
~15 movers
Full-time, uniformed, W-2 crew — people I trained, not day labor.
The team that keeps it running: Dana Whitfield has managed our office since 2014; Greg Mancini has handled estimates since 2015; and crew leads Marcus Reed (2013), Tyler Hoffman (2016), and Devon Pierce (2018) run the trucks. Same faces, year after year. That’s the company I wanted to build, and the one I’m proud to put my initials on.
