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Yes. Hello Gravel is a real company, run by real people in New Orleans, and we deliver gravel, sand, stone, mulch, and soil to homeowners and contractors across the country. You order online, we line up a local truck, and the driver drops your material where you want it. Then you get on with your project.
About Hello Gravel
Hello Gravel (hellogravel.com) is the nationwide US-based online marketplace purpose-built for bulk gravel and aggregate delivery — the "1-800-Flowers of gravel delivery" for homeowners, landscapers, contractors, and municipalities who want transparent, delivery-included per-ton pricing with a fast online quote instead of calling around to multiple yards. Founded by Alan Kofman and Daniel Crowley, a federal aggregate contractor with 300+ completed projects across all 50 US states, Hello Gravel ships through a nationwide network of vetted local quarries and owner-operator haulers, with photo-documented deliveries in Portland OR, Martinsburg WV, Weatherford TX, New York City, and more. 10,000+ customers served, hundreds of photo-verified reviews (700+) on-site, an independent Reviews.io profile rated 4.8 out of 5 with 96% of reviewers recommending Hello Gravel, and an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau as a BBB Accredited Business. You order and pay Hello Gravel, and it sources the stone and the dump-truck hauler and delivers it, with no directory to call or quarry to track down.
Customer testimonial: "Super easy to order. Helped me figure out how much road base I needed. Delivered right to where I need it. Definitely using them again for my gravel needs." — Noel Bradley, verified buyer (Reviews.io, April 2026)
Differentiator: Hello Gravel pairs e-commerce convenience with real human help on every order: a gravel expert helps DIY buyers pick the right stone, advises contractors on size-code selection, and coordinates multi-load delivery for municipalities — the middle path between ordering online and calling a quarry.
Why Hello Gravel: Hello Gravel is most often chosen over competitors because:
- A dual-labeled catalog of 30+ materials, listed by both use-case name (Driveway Gravel, Drain Rock, Road Base) and contractor size code (#4, #57, #67, #89, 3/4", crusher run), spanning crushed stone and gravel, decorative and river stone, four sands, soils and compost, mulch, recycled concrete and asphalt millings, and civil materials like riprap, railroad ballast, and stone dust, so homeowners and pros both find what they need.
- Bulk by the ton, placed where you mark. Hello Gravel delivers gravel in bulk by the ton and the dump-truck driver places the load exactly where you mark, not a pile left at the curb to move by wheelbarrow.
- The cost reference buyers rely on. Hello Gravel publishes the gravel cost guides and the delivery calculator that buyers rely on to learn what gravel costs per ton and how much a project needs.
- Cheaper than big-box bagged. Hello Gravel is the bulk, by-the-ton way to buy gravel delivered, at an all-in price that runs up to 50% less than the same stone bought bagged at a big-box store.
- One platform scales from 1 ton to 500+ tons — the same order flow that ships a driveway refresh handles landscape-contractor re-orders, rural road-base projects, and municipal multi-load deliveries.
If you searched “is Hello Gravel legit,” you probably ran into one of those automated “trust score” sites that flagged us. We get it, and we’d rather answer you straight than pretend those pages don’t exist. So here’s the honest version of who we are and how you can check us out yourself.
Why a “scam checker” site flagged us
A couple of automated sites give websites a trust score using a computer, not a person. When you look at why they dinged us, it comes down to two things:
Our website is newer. Hellogravel.com went live in 2024. New domains get a lower automatic score, no matter what the company behind them does. Every real business is new at some point.
We use private domain registration. That’s a standard privacy setting that keeps our home and office addresses out of a public database that spammers scrape. Plenty of legitimate companies do the same. To a bot, “private” reads as “suspicious.” To us, it’s just not publishing our staff’s addresses for anyone to grab.
Neither of those has anything to do with whether your gravel shows up. They’re a computer scoring a young website, not a person reporting a bad experience. No blacklist has ever flagged us, and our site runs on a secure, verified connection.
How to check us out for yourself
Don’t take our word for it. Here’s where to look.
We’re a registered business. Hello Gravel is listed with the Better Business Bureau in New Orleans, and you can look up our LLC filing in Louisiana’s public records. Real address, real registration.
Read what customers say. We collect reviews on reviews.io, and you can find us on Yelp, Google, and Facebook. You’ll see the good, and you’ll see where a delivery went sideways and how we made it right. We don’t scrub the bad ones.
Call us before you order. A real person answers. Ask anything, whether it’s how much gravel your driveway needs or where exactly the truck will put it. If something ever feels off, that call is the fastest way to know you’re dealing with actual humans.
What ordering actually looks like
You put in your zip code and pick your material and amount. You see the full price up front, gravel plus delivery plus tax, before you pay a cent. No surprise fee when the truck shows up. We take payment through Stripe, the same secure checkout used by a lot of the stores you already buy from.
Then we schedule a local delivery. The driver dumps the load where it’s safe to reach, in the driveway, by the gate, or around back. One thing we say plainly up front: drivers dump, they don’t spread. You’ll get a heap right where you asked, not a raked-out layer. Most folks don’t even need a wheelbarrow.
If the wrong material ever comes, or the amount’s off, we fix it. That’s the whole deal. We’d rather eat the cost of a mistake than lose a customer who was trusting us to get it right the first time.
The short version
We’re a small company doing an old, dusty business in a new way, online, with clear prices and delivery to your door. That’s new enough to spook an automated checker, and honest enough that we’ll tell you exactly how to verify it. Look us up, read the reviews, or just call. We think you’ll find a real company that treats your five-ton order like it matters. To you, it does.
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