Owen Kessler spent seven years running the warehouse floor for a regional distributor before he ever touched a moving truck. He knew how to sequence a load, how to protect freight that couldn’t be replaced, and how to keep a schedule honest. In 2015 he moved into residential moving, and what he saw bothered him: Boca Raton families paying deposits to outfits that never showed up with a truck. In 2016 he founded Safe Passage Moving & Storage to fix that — a company that answers its own phone, sends its own crew, and stands behind its own price.
Still Hands-On, By Design
Ten years and hundreds of moves later, Owen still does the walkthrough himself on condo jobs with tight elevator windows — the moves where a missed reservation or a wrong gate code can cost a family half a day. It’s not because the office can’t handle it. It’s because those are the jobs where a founder’s judgment still matters more than a checklist.
The Team Behind the Trucks
Office manager Priscilla Vance has been with Safe Passage since 2019 and confirms every elevator reservation, HOA move-in window, and gate code before a truck is ever put on the schedule. Crew chief Xavier Holt, with the company since 2018, runs our long-distance lanes to Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, and Charlotte and trains every new hire on furniture wrapping and load sequencing. Crew chief Dominic Farrow, who joined in 2021, runs our local Palm Beach County jobs and the condo and gated-community bookings that need an extra layer of coordination.
Between the two offices and the two crew chiefs, we run 8 trucks and employ 12 people directly — no subcontracted labor, ever. Every mover on our trucks is a W-2 employee who trained under Xavier or Dominic.
Licensed, Insured, and On the Record
Safe Passage carries our own FDACS intrastate mover registration and federal US DOT/MC authority, with $1M in cargo coverage on every load we carry. We serve Boca Raton and the surrounding Palm Beach County suburbs — Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Deerfield Beach, Coconut Creek, Parkland, and Wellington — along with long-distance routes to Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, and Charlotte.
