Mobile home movers in Florence, SC work the one job almost every Pee Dee relocation runs through: the crossroads. Florence is where I-95 — the East Coast's busiest truck route — crosses I-20, and that interchange makes the city a natural staging point for manufactured-home transport reaching from the Lowcountry to the Carolinas line. Quartz Transport & Install built its South Carolina operation around exactly that geography, dispatching from a Lydia, SC yard at (828) 888-0327 to haul single-wides, double-wides, and modular sections across Florence County and the wider Pee Dee.
Why Florence moves price the way they do
A single-wide in-state move runs $3,000–$8,000 and a double-wide $7,000–$15,000; a cross-state relocation can reach $5,000–$25,000 depending on distance and section count. Florence County's coastal-plain flatness works in your favor — there's no mountain grade burning toter hours, and the I-95/I-20 four-lane spine reaches most sites without a long detour. The cost levers that actually move a Florence quote are distance from the Lydia hub, unit width, the number of certified escorts a route requires, and the condition of the existing setup: a home strapped to old skirting, a wraparound deck, or a hard-piped utility run costs more to free than a clean single-wide on blocks. For a full line-item picture, see our guide on how much it costs to move a mobile home, then get a hard number with a 24-hour written quote.
The routes: I-95, I-20, US-52 and US-76
Florence is a true highway hub, and the route a crew picks decides the escort bill. I-95 is the north–south workhorse — north toward the NC line and Fayetteville, south toward Manning and the Lowcountry. I-20 runs west toward mobile home movers in Sumter and the Midlands. US-52 threads north to Darlington and mobile home movers in Hartsville, and US-76 / US-501 carry loads southeast through Marion toward the Grand Strand and mobile home movers in Conway and mobile home movers in Myrtle Beach. The Pee Dee's hazards aren't grades — they're low rail underpasses through downtown Florence, weight-posted bridges over the Lynches and Great Pee Dee rivers, and the rural two-lanes out toward Lake City where overhead limbs catch a 14-ft-tall load. A crew lead pre-drives the route before we commit to a date.
SC permits, the tax certificate, and titling
South Carolina gates a move differently than North Carolina, and Florence is squarely SC. Under SC Code § 31-17-360, you cannot move a manufactured home on a public road without a moving permit from the county licensing agent, and the Florence County Treasurer must first certify that property taxes on the home are paid current. The statute also requires notice to the home's electric utility before the meter is pulled. Because SC treats a manufactured home as titled personal property through the SCDMV mobile-home titling process, a home that's being severed from land or sold may also need de-titling or a severance affidavit. Quartz files the county and SCDOT permits, pulls the tax certificate, and squares the titling — so the move stays legal and you never chase paperwork.
Setup, anchoring, and Pee Dee wind
The haul is only half the job. On the new site we re-block the piers, level the chassis to a 1/4-inch tolerance, bolt up the marriage line on multi-section homes, and re-anchor the unit. Inland Florence County sits in HUD Wind Zone I (a roughly 70-mph design wind), a lighter spec than the Zone II counties out on the immediate coast, but anchoring still follows the federal frame-tie and auger-anchor standard at HUD 24 CFR Part 3280, Subpart G — and Pee Dee storm exposure is reason enough to set every tie-down to spec. We finish with mobile home setup and anchoring the same week the home lands. Florence is also our Carolinas-South anchor for mobile home transport across SC — from the Midlands to the Grand Strand.