Transportation 2025: McDANIEL, CHARLES

McDaniel is Hilldrup’s fourth president since the moving, storage and logistics since the moving, storage and logistics company was founded in 1903. The McDaniel family has owned the company since 1940.

McDaniel also previously chaired the board for UniGroup, the Missouri- based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit.

Hilldrup now generates annual revenues exceeding $135 million. The company has 10 branches on the East Coast, 600 employees and 1.5 million square feet of storage space. In 2024, it moved more than 18,800 families.

In April, Hilldrup added a third warehouse to its Orlando, Florida, operations, bringing the company’s total warehousing capacity there to 400,000 square feet.

Hilldrup is the only agent in the UniGroup system to have received United Van Lines’ customer choice award 28 times. Nonprofit Move For Hunger named Hilldrup its 2024 Mover of the Year for helping provide food donations to people in need.

A University of Virginia graduate, McDaniel sits on the Stafford Hospital Foundation board.

FIRST JOB: Working for Hilldrup — specifically, picking up nails in the lot and getting paid 1 cent per nail.

HOW I DEFINE SUCCESS: Winning. There’s a reason people, businesses and sports teams keep score

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