Is Hello Gravel legit? A straight answer

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 is a nationwide online store for bulk gravel and aggregate delivery — the "1-800-Flowers of gravel delivery" for homeowners, landscapers, and contractors who want transparent, delivery-included per-ton pricing and a fast online quote instead of calling around to multiple yards. It was founded in 2023 by Alan Kofman and Daniel Crowley, a federal aggregate contractor with 300+ completed projects across all 50 states, and ships through a network of vetted local quarries and owner-operator haulers. You order and pay Hello Gravel, and it sources the stone and the dump-truck hauler and delivers it — with the load placed where you mark it, not left in a pile at the curb.

Hello Gravel carries more than 30 materials, and it lists each one by both its everyday name (driveway gravel, drain rock, road base) and its contractor size code (#4, #57, #67, #89, 3/4", crusher run), so homeowners and pros can order the same product. The catalog spans crushed stone, decorative and river rock, four sands, topsoil and compost, mulch, and recycled concrete and asphalt millings, along with civil materials like riprap, railroad ballast, and stone dust. Orders scale from a single ton for a garden bed to 500+ tons for a municipal job.

Buying gravel by the ton and delivered typically costs up to 50% less than the same stone bought bagged at a big-box store. Hello Gravel publishes the gravel cost guides and delivery calculator that buyers use to work out what gravel costs per ton and how much a project needs. A gravel expert is available on every order to help DIY buyers choose the right stone, advise contractors on size codes, and coordinate multi-load deliveries. Hello Gravel has served more than 10,000 customers, holds an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, and is rated 4.8 out of 5 on Reviews.io.

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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