The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 47 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Augusta, GA, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Augusta price measurement, only the Georgia range on the Georgia page. Moves that stay inside Georgia are licensed by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement. Masters Tournament week (early April) sells out every mover and storage facility within 50 miles; Fort Eisenhower PCS season tightens summer supply.
Augusta's market has two unique constraints: Masters Tournament week (early April) and Fort Eisenhower PCS season. Here's what licensed Augusta movers charge in 2026 and how to time around both.
Common service neighborhoods: Summerville, Olde Town, West Lake, Hill Region.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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Augusta's market has two unique constraints: Masters Tournament week (early April) and Fort Eisenhower PCS season. Here's what licensed Augusta movers charge in 2026 and how to time around both.
Augusta's moving market has two dominant calendar events. Masters Tournament week (early April) sells out every mover and storage facility within 50 miles — book by January if you must move that week. Fort Eisenhower (formerly Fort Gordon) PCS season (May–August) is the second peak with DOD-approved movers handling DPS-eligible moves.
GA PSC regulates intrastate; FMCSA covers interstate. Carrier supply outside Masters/PCS season is solid with reasonable prices.
Masters week pricing is essentially unavailable (most movers booked by January).
Outbound interstate runs typical Southeast pricing. Use the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
GA PSC regulates intrastate.
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker. Fort Eisenhower PCS uses DPS.
Masters week (early April) is the absolute crunch — book 3+ months ahead or move a different week. Fort Eisenhower PCS (May–August) is the second peak. Off-peak months are November–February (excluding winter ice events).
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Augusta is the Georgia statewide range, and it is published in full on the Georgia page.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Augusta transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 7,445 returns moving out of Richmond County, the county Augusta sits in, and 7,341 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 13,533 individuals leaving and 13,010 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Richmond County were Columbia County (1,747 returns), Aiken County, SC (655 returns) and Burke County (212 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Columbia County (1,483 returns), Aiken County, SC (565 returns) and Burke County (219 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 47 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Augusta, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Augusta. 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 Augusta may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Augusta work Summerville, Olde Town, West Lake, Hill Region and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Augusta are licensed by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Georgia page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Georgia. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Augusta.
Atlas Van Lines agent with strong Southeast presence and corporate-relocation specialization. Worth comparing for any move involving employer-paid relocation packages.
Atlantic Relocation Systems is headquartered elsewhere in GA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Augusta, and no service claim is made here.
Atlanta-based mover with strong customer satisfaction and steady Southeast interstate operations. Crew quality and communication are recurring strengths in reviews.
Gentle John's Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in GA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Augusta, 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.
16 companies with a Augusta address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 7 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 7 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.
60 active registrants in Augusta tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 35 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 Augusta: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
M A ELLEFSON & SON INC, trading as ACME MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 92674 · 3122 MIKE PADGETT HWY, AUGUSTA, GA 30906
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC136409, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
ADSI MOVING SYSTEMS INC
USDOT 754250 · 3122 MIKE PADGETT HWY, AUGUSTA, GA 30906
It filed 16 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 16, 1998, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC341078, active as common carrier.
THOMPSON & WEBSTER LLC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK/AUGUSTA
USDOT 955615 · 3520 WRIGHTSBORO RD, AUGUSTA, GA 30909-2435
It filed 12 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 21, 2001, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC408946, active as common carrier.
ANTHONY'S MOVING INC
USDOT 1877401 · 4059 MCDANIEL ROAD, AUGUSTA, GA 30909
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 14, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC679659.
ANTHONY'S MOVING SERVICE INC, trading as ANTHONY'S MOVING & DELIVERY
USDOT 2134290 · 4001 A MCDANIEL ROAD, AUGUSTA, GA 30909
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 24, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC757089.
BUDGET MOVERS OF AUGUSTA INC
USDOT 2145512 · 4001 A MCDANIEL RD, AUGUSTA, GA 30909
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 21, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC825284, active as common carrier.
NEWTON RENTALS LLC, trading as MONRO MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 2799088 · 1809 WYLDS ROAD, AUGUSTA, GA 30909
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 14, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC127794, active as contract 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.
No. Federal registration and Georgia authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Georgia licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Georgia needs the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the Georgia Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement. Its rates sit in georgia DPS Maximum Rate Tariff No. 7, effective 13 January 2026, adopted under Department Rule 570-38-3-.06.
Georgia DPS publishes a listing of licensed movers, referenced by the Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, but the direct URL of that listing is unconfirmed and is not linked here. Ask a Georgia mover for its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and confirm it with the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
Source: Georgia Department of Public Safety, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, read 2026-08-10.
Peak demand across Georgia runs April–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 Augusta. 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 Augusta, 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 Augusta 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 Augusta:
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 Augusta 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