The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 90 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Mesa, AZ, and 15 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Mesa price measurement, only the Arizona range on the Arizona page. Moves that stay inside Arizona are licensed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Task Force, Household Goods Enforcement.
Mesa is a fast-growing East Valley suburb with a heavy snowbird population. Here's what licensed Mesa movers charge in 2026 and how to navigate the storage crunch from November through April.
Common service neighborhoods: Downtown Mesa, Las Sendas, Eastmark, Dobson Ranch.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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Mesa is a fast-growing East Valley suburb with a heavy snowbird population. Here's what licensed Mesa movers charge in 2026 and how to navigate the storage crunch from November through April.
Mesa's market is dominated by suburban single-family moves and a growing snowbird population that fills storage facilities November through April. Local carrier supply is solid — most Phoenix-based movers also service the East Valley.
ADOT regulates intrastate; FMCSA covers interstate. New-build subdivisions in Eastmark and Las Sendas often have HOA-approved-mover lists.
Slightly cheaper than Phoenix due to less corporate premium.
Long-distance from Mesa is essentially Phoenix metro pricing. Pull the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
ADOT regulates intrastate.
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker.
Snowbird arrival (October–December) and departure (March–April) are the two peaks. Storage tightens November–April — book SIT 4+ weeks ahead. Heat scheduling rules apply May–October same as Phoenix.
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Mesa is the Arizona statewide range, and it is published in full on the Arizona page.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Mesa transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 86,691 returns moving out of Maricopa County, the county Mesa sits in, and 91,952 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 146,581 individuals leaving and 150,790 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Maricopa County were Pinal County (10,805 returns), Pima County (2,720 returns) and Yavapai County (2,297 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Pinal County (6,549 returns), Los Angeles County, CA (3,562 returns) and Pima County (3,262 returns).
These figures come from federal tax return data and cover all household moves, not only those using professional movers.
IRS SOI county outflow fileIRS SOI county inflow fileData as of tax filing years 2022 to 2023
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 90 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Mesa, and 15 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Mesa. 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 Mesa may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Mesa work Downtown Mesa, Las Sendas, Eastmark, Dobson Ranch and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Mesa are licensed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Task Force, Household Goods Enforcement, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Arizona page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Arizona. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Mesa.
Atlas agent with concentrated Southwest operations and strong corporate-relocation business. Snowbird-season experience is an advantage in Phoenix and Tucson.
Alexander's Mobility Services is headquartered elsewhere in AZ. That does not by itself confirm an office in Mesa, and no service claim is made here.
Dircks Moving Services Inc trades as Dircks Moving & Logistics from 4340 W Mohave Street in Phoenix, the address on both its site and its federal filing, with 24 power units and 24 drivers on the census and active common authority carrying household goods. It states first-party that it is a Mayflower agent, so interstate shipments move inside the UniGroup network while the local company handles origin and destination work. The company's own newsletter marks a twenty-fifth anniversary in 2015, dating the business to 1990.
Dircks Moving & Logistics is headquartered elsewhere in AZ. That does not by itself confirm an office in Mesa, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
One of the oldest moving brands in the US, Bekins runs an agent-affiliate model similar to Allied, with interstate shipments booked under the Bekins registration and performed by affiliated agents.
Bekins Moving Solutions 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.
Budd Van Lines Inc is an independent nationwide carrier rather than an agent of a national van line, which is rare at this size: the federal census records 124 power units and 102 drivers filed from Somerset, New Jersey. Because the company holds its own active common and contract authority with household goods on the licensing record and no broker authority, the entity you contract with is the entity that hauls the shipment. The company's own history pages date the business to 1975.
Budd 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.
16 companies with a Mesa address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 8 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 8 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.
118 active registrants in Mesa tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 45 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 Mesa: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
CMH INVESTMENTS LLC, trading as TIGER TEAM MOVERS
USDOT 1106755 · 4613 E IVY ST SUITE 101, MESA, AZ 85205
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 13, 2003, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC455544.
MUNADHIL ALAWY, trading as MOVERS OF THE VALLEY
USDOT 1169886 · 835 W BROADWAY RD, MESA, AZ 85210
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 19, 2003, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC522211.
JUST-IN TIME MOVING AND DELIVERY LLC
USDOT 1759501 · 4627 E IVY STREET, MESA, AZ 85205
It filed 20 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 10, 2008, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC823394, active as contract carrier.
AIMMIA GROUP INC, trading as 5 STAR MOVING & TRANSFER
USDOT 2459917 · 460 S SOLOMON, MESA, AZ 85204
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on December 11, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC850184.
VALLEY FIREFIGHTER MOVERS
USDOT 3102342 · 540 N MAY ST, MESA, AZ 85201
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 27, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC078020.
AACTION MOVING & STORAGE OF ARIZONA
USDOT 3214828 · 303 W SOUTHERN AVE, MESA, AZ 85210
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 21, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1004791, active as common carrier.
BLACK WOLF MOVING PHOENIX LLC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
USDOT 3229932 · 1916 S GILBERT RD STE 2, MESA, AZ 85204
It filed 18 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 8, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1012455, active as common carrier.
AZ MOVING MOUNTAINS MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4390858 · 465 W IVYGLEN ST APT 109, MESA, AZ 85201
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on April 7, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1722459.
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.
No. Federal registration and Arizona authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Arizona licence or permit.
Arizona publishes no mover licence lookup because it issues no mover licence. For a move inside Arizona, confirm the company is registered with the Arizona Corporation Commission. For a move crossing a state line, check the carrier in the FMCSA online search application or call 202-385-2423.
Source: Arizona Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Task Force, Household Goods Enforcement, read 2026-08-10.
Peak demand across Arizona runs October–April. 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 Mesa. 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:
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 Mesa, 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:
These are a BestMovers.info editorial guideline, not a survey result. We hold no tipping survey for Mesa 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.
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 Mesa:
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.
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Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
How we evaluate Mesa 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