The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 146 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Tucson, AZ, and 33 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Tucson 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.
Tucson's market is shaped by University of Arizona move-in cycles and monsoon-season afternoon flash flooding. Here's what licensed Tucson movers charge in 2026 and how to time around the weather.
Common service neighborhoods: Catalina Foothills, Sam Hughes, Downtown, Oro Valley, Marana.
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Tucson's market is shaped by University of Arizona move-in cycles and monsoon-season afternoon flash flooding. Here's what licensed Tucson movers charge in 2026 and how to time around the weather.
The market peaks twice: U of A move-in week (mid-August) and snowbird arrival (October–December).
Monsoon season (July–September) brings afternoon flash flooding that can cancel outdoor carries on short notice. Most established carriers carry written reschedule policies for active flood warnings. ADOT regulates intrastate; FMCSA covers interstate.
Monsoon-season afternoon delays may stretch the clock.
Long-distance from Tucson is competitive on the AZ-to-everywhere lanes. Use the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
ADOT regulates intrastate (AZ MC, written estimate over 35 mi).
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker.
Mid-August (U of A move-in) is the absolute crunch — book 6+ weeks ahead. Snowbird inbound (Oct–Dec) is the second peak. Cheapest months are May, June, and September.
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Tucson 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 Tucson transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 21,080 returns moving out of Pima County, the county Tucson sits in, and 22,680 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 34,748 individuals leaving and 37,193 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Pima County were Maricopa County (3,262 returns), Pinal County (772 returns) and Cochise County (625 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Maricopa County (2,720 returns), Cochise County (784 returns) and Pinal County (753 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 146 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Tucson, and 33 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Tucson. 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 Tucson may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Tucson work Catalina Foothills, Sam Hughes, Downtown, Oro Valley, Marana and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Tucson 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 Tucson.
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 Tucson, 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 Tucson, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
International Van Lines services overseas destinations in addition to US interstate work. What it is licensed to do federally is set out in the federal record on this page rather than described here.
International 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.
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.
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.
31 companies with a Tucson address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 20 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 20 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.
184 active registrants in Tucson tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 77 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 Tucson: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
MOVING SERVICES INC
USDOT 516094 · 943 E 17TH STREET, TUCSON, AZ 85719
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 10, 1993, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC246630, active as common carrier.
NICOLOSI MOVING AND STORAGE INC
USDOT 667348 · 501 S PARK AVE, TUCSON, AZ 85719
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on November 20, 1996, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC310976, active as common carrier.
ALL MY SONS MOVING AND STORAGE OF TUCSON LLC
USDOT 1050329 · 5131 E CANADA ST, TUCSON, AZ 85706
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 22, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC439031, active as common carrier.
BLACK WOLF MOVING ARIZONA LLC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
USDOT 1423974 · 3773 W INA RD STE 174, TUCSON, AZ 85741
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 10, 2005, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC538444, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
PERKINS MOVING AND STORAGE INC
USDOT 1857758 · 2261 HIRAM BANKS CT, TUCSON, AZ 85713
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on February 23, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC673654.
ABBA & SONS MOVING LLC
USDOT 1921793 · 237 WEST FORT LOWELL, TUCSON, AZ 85705
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 3, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC032280, active as contract carrier.
TUCSON MOVING SYSTEMS INC, trading as E-Z MOVE
USDOT 1966983 · 890 W GRANT ROAD STE J, TUCSON, AZ 85705
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 16, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC739115, active as contract carrier.
ANDREW JOHN STAPELMAN, trading as OX MOVING SERVICES
USDOT 1995791 · 1010 S CAMINO DE LAS COLINAS, TUCSON, AZ 85748
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 17, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC705247.
SWANSON'S MOVING & DELIVERY LLC
USDOT 2006371 · 7900 S KOLB RD, TUCSON, AZ 85756
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 12, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC766370, active as common carrier.
SWIFT & GENTLE MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 2293951 · 1 S CHURCH AVE SUITE 1200, TUCSON, AZ 85701
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 11, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC783995.
OLD SCHOOL MOVING LLC
USDOT 2411494 · 3816 E 5TH STREET, TUCSON, AZ 85716
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 4, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC869295.
ARIZONA OFF DUTY MOVERS LLC
USDOT 2565236 · 9527 N STONEBROOK DR, TUCSON, AZ 85743
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 15, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1477755, active as common carrier.
AAA SOTO'S MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 2591333 · 5645 S COUNTRY CLUB, TUCSON, AZ 85706
It filed 7 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 20, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1728690, active as common carrier.
SMART MOVE MOVING AND STORAGE LLC
USDOT 3388891 · 3580 W INA RD #200, TUCSON, AZ 85741
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 29, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1515414.
SANTANA ON THE MOVE LLC
USDOT 3484308 · 4151 EAST TENNESEE ST #231, TUCSON, AZ 85714
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on September 9, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1638686.
TACTICAL RELOCATION SYSTEMS LLC, trading as MOVING BUDDIES
USDOT 3531262 · 5502 E 25TH ST, TUCSON, AZ 85711
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on December 4, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1542042, active as common carrier.
AZ MOVERS PLC
USDOT 4207918 · 8282 E 18TH STREET, TUCSON, AZ 85710
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 11, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1624454.
COPPER STATE MOVERS LLC, trading as COPPER STATE MOVERS
USDOT 4242800 · 903 N DESERT AVE UNIT C, TUCSON, AZ 85711
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 20, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1643299.
LOPEZ MOVING SERVICES LLC
USDOT 4263787 · 6200 S CAMPBELL AVE APT 1103, TUCSON, AZ 85706
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 5, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1654816, active as common carrier.
HENRY MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4543650 · 15601 N ORACLE RD, TUCSON, AZ 85739
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 4, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1803498.
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 Tucson. 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 Tucson, 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 Tucson 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 Tucson:
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 Tucson 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