The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 130 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Anchorage, AK, and 23 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Anchorage price measurement, only the Alaska range on the Alaska page. Alaska does not license intrastate household goods movers separately. Most mainland moves go via Tote or Matson barge, 7, 14 day transit; winter dark hours limit move start times.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$120 to $180 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$6,500 to $14,000
Intrastate regulator
No state licensing program
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Company profiles shown
4
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Quick answer
Alaska Terminals is based in Anchorage. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near Anchorage, companies based elsewhere in Alaska, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Downtown, Hillside, South Anchorage, Eagle River.
How far is Anchorage from the places people move to most?
Anchorage to Seattle, WA is 2,269 driving miles, about 50 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 7 to 14 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your Anchorage moving cost
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Anchorage transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 8,959 returns moving out of Anchorage Municipality, the county Anchorage sits in, and 8,195 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 16,456 individuals leaving and 14,084 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Anchorage Municipality were Matanuska-Susitna Borough (1,023 returns), Maricopa County, AZ (251 returns) and Kenai Peninsula Borough (239 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Matanuska-Susitna Borough (697 returns), Fairbanks North Star Borough (298 returns) and Kenai Peninsula Borough (272 returns).
These figures come from federal tax return data and cover all household moves, not only those using professional movers.
How many licensed moving companies are registered in Anchorage?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 130 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Anchorage, and 23 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Anchorage. It is not the number of companies that will serve a move there: a mover registered in a neighbouring city can take the job, and a company registered in Anchorage may not.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in Anchorage or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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Alaska Terminals files from Anchorage as a single federal registrant with nineteen power units and sixteen drivers on the federal file. The registration carries an active docket, MC-508071, and a second docket on the same row that the file marks inactive; the inactive docket is recorded as observed on the registration and no role is asserted for it. The company is an Atlas Van Lines agent, and Atlas corporate identifiers stay van-line numbers and are never attached to this registration. The exact operating-authority classes were not readable in the sources reviewed, so none is asserted. The federal file carries a Satisfactory safety rating dated 27 January 2006; that is a dated federal snapshot from twenty years ago and is not a current safety certification or an editorial verdict. The company states first-party that it opened in 1981.
Why is this company shown here?
Alaska Terminals publishes its headquarters in Anchorage, AK.
Sourdough Express Inc files from Driveway Street in Fairbanks, Alaska, active on the federal census with one hundred and thirteen power units, one hundred and thirty-seven drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-118527 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, tying registrant and brand inside the federal data. This registration is the primary one described on this page. Other registrations sharing the Sourdough name and contact ecosystem were located and are disclosed separately as related registrations with the relationship recorded as unresolved: nothing here calls any of them a predecessor, a sibling or a superseded filing, and the freight forwarder authority carried by one of them belongs to that registrant alone and is not presented as authority held by Sourdough Express Inc. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 18 February 2025, following a compliance review dated 14 February 2025; it is stored as the dated federal snapshot it is. The company states it has served Alaska since 1898.
Why is this company shown here?
Sourdough Express is headquartered elsewhere in AK. That does not by itself confirm an office in Anchorage, and no service claim is made here.
Mayflower Transit is the second large UniGroup brand alongside United Van Lines and runs full-service interstate moves through an agent network under its own federal registration.
Why is this company shown here?
Mayflower Transit publishes broad nationwide moving service on its own site. It is shown separately from companies based in this area and its presence here is not evidence of a local office.
North American Van Lines is part of SIRVA and moves interstate household goods through an agent-affiliate network. The federal registration shown here belongs to the van line, not to the local agent that loads the truck.
Why is this company shown here?
North American Van Lines publishes broad nationwide moving service on its own site. It is shown separately from companies based in this area and its presence here is not evidence of a local office.
Which movers are federally registered in Anchorage?
14 companies with a Anchorage address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 9 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 9 listed below are the ones registered with the agency longest, ordered by the federal registration date, earliest first. Registration age is the agency's own record. It is not a ranking, it is not a quality judgement and it is not a recommendation.
135 active registrants in Anchorage tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 27 of those carry any authority row at all. The cargo tick box is filled in by the registrant, so this list uses the agency grant instead, then sets aside general freight, trucking, logistics and courier registrants that hold the authority without presenting themselves as household movers. It is not every mover serving Anchorage: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ARROW MOVING & STORAGE INC, trading as AIR VAN
USDOT 125012 · 209 POST ROAD, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC118474, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 163057 · 940 RASPBERRY ROAD, ANCHORAGE, AK 99518
It filed 33 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC140586, active as common carrier.
USDOT 223966 · 2512 POST ROAD, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on October 15, 1982, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC134088, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
It filed 58 power units, registered with the FMCSA on July 12, 1984, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC175685, active as common carrier.
USDOT 466500 · 737 E SHIP CREEK AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
It filed 52 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 23, 1991, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC251830, active as common carrier.
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 7, 1992, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC232955, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 807379 · 550 W 54TH AVE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99518
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 26, 1999, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC359080, active as contract carrier.
USDOT 1891972 · 717 EAST SHIPCREEK AVENUE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 20, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC681067, active as common carrier.
USDOT 2077580 · 2216 POST ROAD, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
It filed 13 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 20, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC725677, active as common carrier.
Data as of 2026-08-15 from the FMCSA company census, with authority status as of 2026-08-16. The query behind this list. Information provided by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Does a federal registration mean a Alaska licence?
No. Federal registration and Alaska authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Alaska licence or permit.
Alaska publishes no licence lookup we have verified.
When is the cheapest time to move in Anchorage?
Peak demand across Alaska runs May–September. Dates outside that window, and dates away from the last and first few days of any month, are where carriers have spare capacity — and spare capacity is what makes a crew negotiable on price.
We do not publish a percentage saving for moving off-peak in Anchorage. We hold no month-by-month booking price data for this city, and a discount figure taken from a national average would not describe this market. What we can say is structural, and it holds in every market:
Mid-month beats month-end. Leases and closings cluster at the turn of the month, so that is when crews are fully booked and least flexible.
Mid-week beats the weekend. Saturday is the single most requested moving day; a Tuesday or Wednesday competes with far fewer households for the same trucks.
Off-peak beats May–September. Outside the peak window, carriers are trying to keep crews working rather than turning jobs away.
Flexibility is the lever, not the calendar alone. On an interstate move, giving the carrier a pickup window of several days rather than one fixed date is usually worth more than any single date choice, because it lets them combine your shipment with another on the same lane.
The only reliable way to price a specific date is to put the same date in front of several licensed carriers and compare written estimates. Ask each one what the same move costs two weeks earlier or later — the gap between those two numbers is your real off-peak saving in Anchorage, measured on your move rather than on an average.
A tip is never part of a written estimate and never part of a binding price. It is discretionary, it is paid per mover rather than per crew, and it is handed to each mover directly at the end of the job rather than to the foreman to divide. Our working guideline scales with hours rather than with the value of the shipment, because that is how moving labour is actually priced:
$10 to $20 per mover for a job of two hours or less.
$20 to $40 per mover for a local move under four hours.
$40 to $60 per mover for a full day, meaning six hours or longer.
These are a BestMovers.info editorial guideline, not a survey result. We hold no tipping survey for Anchorage and no federal record covers gratuities, so nothing here is a local figure. Read the full tipping guide for stairs, long carries, storage and interstate deliveries, where the crew that loads is not the crew that unloads.
Where can you get free moving boxes in Anchorage?
Free boxes come from businesses that receive stock in cartons and throw the cartons away, and from households that finished moving last week. The sources are the same in every city, including Anchorage:
Liquor stores, which have the sturdiest small boxes with dividers
Bookshops, for small boxes rated for weight
Grocery stores, for produce boxes
Offices, for paper boxes with lids
Appliance and furniture retailers, for large flat cartons
Buy Nothing groups and Facebook Marketplace
Craigslist free listings
The U-Haul box exchange
Anyone in your building who has moved in recently
Ask in the morning, when the overnight delivery has just been unpacked and the cartons have not yet been flattened. Skip anything damp, greasy or previously used for produce that leaked. The free boxes guide covers how many you need by home size — those counts are BestMovers.info planning estimates rather than measured figures — and which boxes are worth buying rather than scavenging.
Frequently asked questions
How much do movers cost in Anchorage?
There is no separate cost dataset for Anchorage. Using the national estimate, a one-bedroom local move is estimated at $420–$930 and a two-bedroom local move at $630–$1,395, while a two-bedroom interstate move from Anchorage is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Anchorage?
Late May through August is the peak window in Anchorage, with the heaviest volume around month-end weekends. Established companies commonly book out several weeks in advance during this period.
Should I get an in-home estimate or an online quote?
For local moves under 2,500 lb, an online or phone estimate is usually accurate. For interstate moves out of Anchorage or 3+ bedroom households, request a video survey or in-home estimate so the binding price reflects your actual inventory.
What's the most reliable way to verify a Anchorage mover?
Check the company's USDOT number on the FMCSA SAFER website, look at their BBB profile and current accreditation, and read recent reviews on Google and Yelp. Avoid any mover unwilling to share a USDOT number on request.
How long does a typical Anchorage move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Anchorage usually takes 3–5 hours with two movers. A 3-bedroom local move runs 7–10 hours, and most movers won't book a same-day move past 4 PM start time.
How we evaluate Anchorage movers: we verify federal registration and operating authority against FMCSA records, record carrier or broker classification, and note state licensing where the state regulator publishes it. The list above is not ranked and carries no numeric score. Read the full methodology
