History of our company

​Our company was founded around the 1950’s by Roy Dean Sr. in the mechanic shop he worked out of. He was known in town as the guy that could fix anything and help anyone. This brought many people his way with all kinds of different things, one day someone came in and asked him if he could move a house for 200 dollars. He said yes and got right to it! This house was a one-bedroom cotton picking house that needed to be moved to another location. He used telephone poles and put them under the house. With the telephone poles to hold up the house he then drug the house to the location it was needed, and the move was successful! People heard about this and more began asking him to move other buildings and houses. He started to build his own house moving equipment to use and by 1953 he was a full-time house mover. He bought out a company so he could be licensed and continued his trade. Roy Dean Jr. grew up in his father’s footsteps and learned the trade during summers when he was not in school. At just 12 years old he was driving a tool truck behind the main truck when they moved a house 100 miles. He felt so good to be a part of the crew at such a young age and continued to be apart of it. When he was 18, he was the foreman of his own crew. He continued to work in the family business as he grew up and eventually took over. He still runs the business today and enjoys doing it. “You get a sense of accomplishment after finishing a move that you can’t get at a regular job.” Says Roy Jr. Our company has been in continuous business for 66 yrs., going into the third generation of Structural Movers.