About Bayou Moving

Built by Someone Who Got Stranded Too

Blaine Duplantis didn’t set out to run a moving company. He grew up in Bayou Blue, the son of a shrimp boat captain who kept odd hours chasing the tide out past Cocodrie, and a home-health nurse who drove the back roads to Chauvin and Dulac checking on patients nobody else made time for. After high school he spent twelve years hauling rig equipment and drilling supplies out of the Houma port for an oilfield logistics outfit, learning how to load a flatbed so nothing shifted on the ride up LA-24. He saved for years before buying his own box truck in 2013 — the same year three neighbors on his street got left standing in their driveways by movers who no-showed during hurricane season. Blaine figured Terrebonne Parish deserved a crew that picked up the phone rain or shine, and Bayou Moving has run that way ever since. He still drives the Atlanta and Memphis long runs himself most months, and personally writes a good share of the in-home estimates around Houma and Thibodaux. The trucks still carry a faded parish decal from those first years, because Blaine never saw much reason to hide where the company started.

The Crew Behind the Truck

• Blaine Duplantis, Owner — Twelve years hauling oilfield freight out of the Houma port taught him how to load a truck; hurricane season taught him why Terrebonne Parish needed a mover who shows up.
• Renee Melancon, Office Manager — Running the scheduling board since 2015, she’s the reason a crew shows up in Gray or Schriever exactly when she said it would.
• Kim Tran, Lead Estimator — From Bayou Cane to Raceland, if there’s a walkthrough on the books, it’s likely Kim writing the estimate; she’s done it since 2018 and rarely misses on a truck size.
• Jerome Batiste, Billing & Insurance Coordinator — He keeps certificates of insurance current, and since 2020 no commercial or multi-family job has stalled at the front desk waiting on his paperwork.
• Wade Authement, Crew Chief — Ask him how many times he’s run Houston or Atlanta and he’ll shrug; he’s led the long-distance crew since 2014 and stopped counting years back.
• Dominic Verdin, Crew Chief — Leading the local crew since 2017, Thibodaux and Raceland homeowners probably see him more than they see some of their own neighbors.

Between the six of them, the office has covered nearly every kind of Terrebonne Parish move there is — dock schedules, rig rotations, hurricane evacuations, and the ordinary Tuesday move that just needs doing right. Fourteen of us keep Bayou Moving running, eight on the truck any given week, all W-2 employees — never subcontractors, never day labor off a corner. See how that shows up in the work on our reviews page, or check what’s covered under our services before your move date lands in the thick of hurricane season.