The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 144 household goods registrants whose physical address is in San Jose, CA, and 18 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no San Jose price measurement, only the California range on the California page. Moves that stay inside California are licensed by the Bureau of Household Goods and Services.
Bay Area Movers is based in San Jose. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near San Jose, companies based elsewhere in California, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Willow Glen, Almaden Valley, Cambrian, Downtown, Evergreen.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for San Jose is the California statewide range, and it is published in full on the California page.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 53,412 returns moving out of Santa Clara County, the county San Jose sits in, and 43,577 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 87,629 individuals leaving and 65,269 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Santa Clara County were Alameda County (6,578 returns), San Mateo County (3,879 returns) and San Francisco County (3,335 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Alameda County (4,634 returns), San Mateo County (3,874 returns) and Los Angeles County (2,354 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 144 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in San Jose, and 18 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in San Jose. 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 San Jose may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting San Jose work Willow Glen, Almaden Valley, Cambrian, Downtown, Evergreen and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside San Jose are licensed by the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the California page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in San Jose or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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South Bay mover with steady operations across Silicon Valley and the Peninsula. Tech-relocation experience.
Bay Area Movers publishes its headquarters in San Jose, CA.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in California. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in San Jose.
Atlas agent and one of the largest West Coast interstate operators. Strong corporate-relocation track record with Fortune 500 clients.
Ace Relocation Systems is headquartered elsewhere in CA. That does not by itself confirm an office in San Jose, and no service claim is made here.
Chipman Corporation, carrying the Chipman Relocations trading name, files from San Ramon, California, active on the federal census with a household goods cargo entry, and the licensing file returns a freight forwarder docket for the same registration. The company is a UniGroup agent, and the two further registrations printed on its website identify United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit rather than Chipman; they are held in the van-line relationship layer and never attached to this record. A separate registrant in Kent, Washington carries the brand's trading name and a first-party email domain on its filing, which is enough to disclose it and not enough to state the corporate relationship, so it is recorded as unresolved. The business dates itself to 1939.
Chipman Relocation & Logistics is headquartered elsewhere in CA. That does not by itself confirm an office in San Jose, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
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.
29 companies with a San Jose address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 14 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 14 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 San Jose tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 70 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 San Jose: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
SUDDATH RELOCATION SYSTEMS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC, trading as SUDDATH MOVING AND LOGISTICS
USDOT 1038369 · 2020 SOUTH 10TH STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95112
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 1, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC432889, active as common carrier and broker.
ROBERT ALLEN GREGORY, trading as NO PROBLEM MOVERS
USDOT 2085652 · 806 MIDVALE LANE, SAN JOSE, CA 95136
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on October 13, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC727887.
FAIRPRICE MOVERS INC
USDOT 2192738 · 245 MCEVOY ST, SAN JOSE, CA 95126
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 15, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC768242, active as common carrier.
WEST VALLEY MOVING COMPANY
USDOT 3009021 · 1799 LANCASTER DR # 8, SAN JOSE, CA 95124
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 17, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1031349, active as common carrier.
GOLIATH MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 3058520 · 1702L MERIDIAN AVE STE 114, SAN JOSE, CA 95125
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 13, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1803259, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
TREK SOLUTIONS LLC, trading as TREK MOVERS
USDOT 3256910 · 1185 CAMPBELL AVE UNIT H1, SAN JOSE, CA 95126
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on March 12, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1424894.
ALL REASONS MOVING INC, trading as ALL REASONS MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 3799119 · 600 E TRIMBLE RD, SAN JOSE, CA 95131
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 13, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1683112, active as common carrier.
FORTUNE MOVERS INC
USDOT 3836440 · 3507 TELEGRAPH DR, SAN JOSE, CA 95132
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on March 7, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1401139.
2SKINNY MOVERS LLC
USDOT 3949123 · 96 S 10TH ST APT 12, SAN JOSE, CA 95112-3561
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on September 7, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1614896.
HIEU THIEN LE, trading as RYAN'S MOVING
USDOT 4069870 · 733 PINTO DR, SAN JOSE, CA 95111
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 1, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1545936.
PIEDMONT TRANSFER & STORAGE INC, trading as PIEDMONT MOVING SYSTEMS
USDOT 4087917 · 2071 RINGWOOD AVE STE D, SAN JOSE, CA 95131
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 8, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC294400.
SUCCESSFUL MOVING COMPANY LLC, trading as SUCCESSFUL MOVING COMPANY LLC PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL MOVING S
USDOT 4283110 · 151 PICKFORD AVE, SAN JOSE, CA 95127
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 16, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1665320.
IRONMEN MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 4446194 · 1161 PEDRO ST, SAN JOSE, CA 95126
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 30, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1751427.
LUNARDI MOVING SERVICES AND STORAGE LLC
USDOT 4499985 · 1670 S 7TH ST, SAN JOSE, CA 95112
It filed 0 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 26, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1780091.
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 California authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a California licence or permit.
A mover operating inside California needs the Household Movers (HHM) permit, commonly called a Cal-T number from the Bureau of Household Goods and Services. Its rates sit in maximum Rate Tariff 4.
California publishes a licence lookup: Bureau of Household Goods and Services licence search.
Source: Bureau of Household Goods and Services, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across California 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 San Jose. 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 San Jose, 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 San Jose 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 San Jose:
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 San Jose 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