The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 89 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Savannah, GA, and 35 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Savannah 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. Historic District homes have narrow lanes and protected oak trees that limit truck access; tourism peak (March, May) restricts downtown loading.
Savannah's market is shaped by Historic District truck-access restrictions and tourism-season congestion. Here's what licensed Savannah movers charge in 2026 and how to schedule around the spring tourist peak.
Common service neighborhoods: Historic District, Ardsley Park, Starland, Isle of Hope, Downtown.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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Savannah's market is shaped by Historic District truck-access restrictions and tourism-season congestion. Here's what licensed Savannah movers charge in 2026 and how to schedule around the spring tourist peak.
Savannah's market is small and seasonal. The Historic District has narrow lanes, protected oak canopies, and squares that limit truck access — most carriers cap truck size at 24 feet inside the historic core. Tourism peaks (March–May, October) tighten downtown loading-zone availability.
GA PSC regulates intrastate; FMCSA covers interstate. Strong I-95 corridor outbound capacity year-round.
Historic District access can stretch the clock with smaller-truck loads or two-trip operations.
Outbound interstate runs typical Southeast pricing on I-95 corridor lanes. Use the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
GA PSC regulates intrastate. Historic District access constraints affect truck size.
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker.
May through September is peak. Tourism season (March–May) compresses downtown access. Cheapest months are November, January, February.
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Savannah 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 Savannah transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 10,516 returns moving out of Chatham County, the county Savannah sits in, and 10,774 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 18,268 individuals leaving and 17,485 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Chatham County were Effingham County (956 returns), Bryan County (607 returns) and Liberty County (444 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Effingham County (586 returns), Bryan County (418 returns) and Liberty County (296 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 89 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Savannah, and 35 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Savannah. 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 Savannah may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Savannah work Historic District, Ardsley Park, Starland, Isle of Hope, Downtown and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Savannah 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 Savannah.
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 Savannah, 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 Savannah, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
Colonial Van Lines Inc files from 1441 SW 29th Avenue in Pompano Beach, Florida, active on the federal census with 25 power units, 25 drivers and an MCS-150 filed 21 March 2025. The licensing record carries motor carrier of household goods authority granted 31 March 2010 and motor carrier of property authority recorded as reinstated on 27 June 2025, both active at the time of reading; no broker authority is carried on this registration. The federal file records a Satisfactory safety rating dated 28 June 2021 alongside a compliance review dated 3 October 2012. A safety rating is a dated federal snapshot of the review that produced it, not a current assessment of the company. The company publishes this USDOT number and MC docket in its own website footer, which is how the registration and the brand were joined. Two further registrations filing from the same address, one under the identical legal name and one under a Texas corporate name, are disclosed separately as related registrations rather than merged into this record. The company states it was founded in 2003.
Colonial 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.
24 companies with a Savannah 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.
120 active registrants in Savannah tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 61 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 Savannah: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
FOUNTAIN MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 29659 · 3507 EDWIN AVENUE, SAVANNAH, GA 31405
It filed 9 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC133282, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
COASTAL MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 261996 · 88 ROSS RD, SAVANNAH, GA 31405-1661
It filed 17 power units, registered with the FMCSA on July 16, 1985, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC178110, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 1761669 · 101 KAHN INDUSTRIAL COURT BLDG 4, SAVANNAH, GA 31405
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 16, 2008, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC644024, active as common carrier.
SAVANNAH AND SONS MOVING LLC
USDOT 3322995 · 114 DYCHES DR, SAVANNAH, GA 31406
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on August 14, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1057726.
EMPEROR MOVING COMPANY LLC
USDOT 4278687 · 2170 BENTON BLVD APT 6203, SAVANNAH, GA 31407
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on August 7, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1662885.
SAVANNAH SOUTHERN MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4539318 · 607 TRANQUILLA DR, SAVANNAH, GA 31419
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on February 24, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1801109.
FULLY INVOLVED LOGISTICS LLC, trading as FULLY INVOLVED MOVING CO
USDOT 4566044 · 538 E VICTORY DR, SAVANNAH, GA 31405
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 14, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1815549.
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 Savannah. 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 Savannah, 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 Savannah 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 Savannah:
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 Savannah 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