He knew the city’s loading docks before he owned a truck
Ray Coleman’s first decade in this business wasn’t spent behind a wheel at all — it was spent on the Strip, keeping the unglamorous machinery of hospitality on schedule: receiving bays, freight elevators, banquet load-ins, and the certificate-of-insurance paperwork no property lets a vehicle past without. What stuck with him from those years was the contrast with household moving, where a friendly phone quote routinely turned into a far bigger figure once the truck was loaded and the family had lost its leverage. A city this transient, he decided, ought to have a mover that names one honest number and rolls up before sunrise. PT Van Lines opened in 2015 to be that mover, and the tougher estimates still get walked by Ray himself.
How a PT job actually runs
Whoever you booked is whoever steps off the truck — one crew, the same faces at the load and at the unload, with no leg of the job farmed out and no stranger’s hands on your furniture. Come summer the truck is staged and the first pieces are moving by daybreak, because a sealed trailer baking in the Mojave by mid-afternoon is the last place you want a sofa, a candle, or a flat-screen sitting. The wrinkles that catch out-of-town vans off guard are the ones we map in advance: dock reservations and COIs at Strip towers like Panorama and Turnberry, gate codes and HOA rules across the master-planned villages, the slab-on-grade garages packed to the rafters, and the I-15 and 215 routing that ultimately decides what time the truck reaches the door.
The people you’ll deal with
Scheduling, the certificates of insurance that high-rise boards and HOAs insist on, and the billing all run through Dana Whitfield in the office, so none of the paperwork is still open when move day comes. On the dispatch side, Greg Soto works the daily truck board, matching crew and gear to each address and threading the schedule past the worst of the heat and the traffic. The trucks answer to three crew chiefs: pianos and specialty pieces are Derek Vance’s; the out-of-state long hauls belong to Jamal Pierce; and the high-rise and stair work that fills the hospitality corridor is Cody Burns’s. Add the office, dispatch, and 14 movers together and it comes to 20 of us — all in the same shirt.
Licensed in Nevada, insured for the long haul
Hauling households for hire in Nevada takes genuine credentials, and ours are all in hand: household-goods authority through the Nevada Transportation Authority for in-state work, and federal USDOT and MC authority the moment a job crosses the state line. Coverage on your shipment reaches a $1,000,000 cargo limit; the standard release runs $0.60 per pound, and full-value protection is available the moment you ask for it. Title, service records, and driver on every truck trace back to us and nobody else — the way it’s been since that first dawn load-out in 2015.
