College students often don’t live in their dorms or rooms all year round, they a rent place for the nine months of the school year, then go back home for the summer. This means that they have to take all their stuff with them, only to bring it back the following fall. After doing this inconvenient back and forth for four years, two Virginia Tech students, Dan Burdi and Ryan Carter, saw a business opportunity, and last year launched Campus Carriers, a startup designed specifically around the students’ needs.
The company’s service is threefold: first it will deliver boxes and packing to materials to a student’s place of residence, then it will come pick up all the student’s belongings and take them to be stored in the firm’s storage facility. Then, when the new school year starts, Campus Carriers will deliver the student’s belongings to his or her new address, whether it is on campus or off campus.
So far Campus Carriers only offers its services to students of Virgina Tech, but I can’t imagine it will take long to move to other universities as well, anywhere in the U.S. but also perhaps in other countries with university systems similar to America’s.