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Anyone can find a mover.
Almost nobody can check one.

That gap is the whole reason this site exists.

Every moving company in the United States sits on a federal register that records whether it may legally do your move, whether it carries insurance, how large its fleet is, how many crashes and inspections it has, and how long it has been registered. That record is public — and almost unreadable.

We read it for all 13,511 active carriers, join it to 253,466 reviews from two independent platforms, and publish the result in one place — ordered by a rule you can read in full.

What we check today

The things you cannot check in an evening

A person moves house once every few years. They open Google, see ten near-identical sites all showing five stars, and have no way to answer the questions their money and belongings actually depend on. We answer them from records, not from marketing.

What we holdRecords
Carriers from the federal FMCSA register23,813
Of them still active, with a phone we can show13,511
Holding active interstate authority and insurance6,036
Customer reviews, Google and Yelp combined253,466
Roadside inspection records7,327
Active carriers with a crash on record2,959
Registration dates, so we can show years in business52,538
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Two rules we do not bend

  • A rating built on one review is not a rating. Every score is pulled towards the middle until enough reviews accumulate, so a single five-star entry cannot outrank a company with two hundred.
  • A carrier missing from the current register is never shown. Whatever you filter by, companies whose federal registration has lapsed do not appear — there is no way for you to verify them, and often no way to reach them.
Read the full ranking rule

Where we cover

Alabama — 159 active carriers Alaska — 33 active carriers Arizona — 237 active carriers Colorado — 293 active carriers Florida — 1,787 active carriers Georgia — 605 active carriers Indiana — 221 active carriers Kansas — 84 active carriers Maine — 38 active carriers Massachusetts — 419 active carriers Minnesota — 179 active carriers New Jersey — 768 active carriers North Carolina — 476 active carriers North Dakota — 27 active carriers Oklahoma — 101 active carriers Pennsylvania — 438 active carriers South Dakota — 28 active carriers Texas — 1,067 active carriers Wyoming — 36 active carriers Connecticut — 185 active carriers Missouri — 270 active carriers West Virginia — 26 active carriers Illinois — 443 active carriers New Mexico — 50 active carriers Arkansas — 70 active carriers California — 1,048 active carriers Delaware — 69 active carriers District of Columbia — 9 active carriers Hawaii — 32 active carriers Iowa — 74 active carriers Kentucky — 122 active carriers Maryland — 442 active carriers Michigan — 251 active carriers Mississippi — 65 active carriers Montana — 38 active carriers New Hampshire — 67 active carriers New York — 758 active carriers Ohio — 366 active carriers Oregon — 141 active carriers Tennessee — 246 active carriers Utah — 110 active carriers Virginia — 483 active carriers Washington — 290 active carriers Wisconsin — 159 active carriers Nebraska — 60 active carriers South Carolina — 187 active carriers Idaho — 59 active carriers Nevada — 159 active carriers Vermont — 23 active carriers Louisiana — 91 active carriers Rhode Island — 50 active carriers
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Every state, and the District of Columbia

We do not pick markets. The federal register covers the whole country, so we do too — including the states where a directory has no commercial reason to bother.

Largest markets we holdActive carriers
Florida1,787
Texas1,067
California1,048
New Jersey768
New York758
Georgia605
Virginia483
North Carolina476

Shading shows how many carriers are currently active in each state. Your state is outlined.

How we are paid

Movers pay. You never do.

Moving companies pay us for placement and for quote requests. That is the entire business model, and it is why the site costs you nothing and asks you for no account.

Paying does not move a company up the list, does not remove a crash record and does not change a rating. There is no field for money anywhere in the ranking formula — and you do not have to take our word for it, because the formula is published with a calculator you can run on real companies.

We are not a moving company. We never carry anything, we never quote a price ourselves, and we hold no completed bookings.

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What happens under the hood

What happens when you send a request

You fill in one short form. Everything after that is ours to do.

  1. 1The request is qualified. Route, home size and timing are matched against what each carrier is actually licensed and equipped to do — an interstate move goes only to companies holding active interstate authority, not to whoever paid the most.
  2. 2Candidates are ranked on evidence. Licence, insurance and the amount of cover, fleet size, crash and inspection history, years on the federal register, and a review record we have already tested for manipulation.
  3. 3One carrier is chosen, not twenty. The highest-trust company that also answers quickly — because a perfect record is worth nothing if nobody calls you back.
  4. 4The request goes straight to them. Your number is not broadcast to a bidding pool. One company, one call.
One request routed to a single matching carrier out of five

The checks you never see

This is the part that separates us from an evening spent on Google. None of it is visible on the page, and all of it stands behind every company we show.

  • The federal register, read in full. Operating authority, insurance on file and the amount of cover, fleet size, crash records, roadside inspections and the date a company first appeared on the register — for all 23,813 carriers, not a hand-picked few.
  • Reviews analysed, not counted. 253,466 reviews from two independent platforms, combined so a company cannot look strong by being visible on one and invisible on the other.
  • Manipulated review profiles detected and demoted. We look at when reviews arrived, not only what they say. A large share landing on one day or inside one week is the signature of a bought batch: those profiles are marked and pushed down. 98,026 reviews across 2,508 profiles have been through this check.
  • Companies are called to confirm they are trading. A register entry proves a company existed. A phone call proves it still answers, still moves households, and still takes the kind of job you are asking about.
  • Estimates are collected and compared. We keep what carriers actually quote, so an unusual number stands out against what the same move costs elsewhere before it ever reaches you.
  • Response times are measured. How long a carrier takes to pick up a request is recorded and fed back into who gets the next one.
  • Ratings weighted by evidence. A single five-star entry is pulled towards the middle and cannot outrank a company carrying two hundred reviews.
  • Two groups never reach you at all. Carriers whose federal registration has lapsed, and carriers with no working phone, are removed before ranking — whatever you filter by.
See every weight, and run it yourself
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Where the data comes from

  • FMCSA, U.S. Department of Transportation — USDOT numbers, operating authority, insurance on file, fleet size, inspections and crash records. Our copy is a snapshot, loaded 30 July 2026.
  • Google and Yelp — customer reviews and business photos, last collected 9 July 2026.
  • IRS and the U.S. Census — county-to-county migration behind our city and route pages.

A licence can lapse the day after a snapshot. Always confirm a carrier's USDOT status yourself before you sign anything.