The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 31 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Boston, MA, and 15 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Boston price measurement, only the Massachusetts range on the Massachusetts page. Moves that stay inside Massachusetts are licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Oversight Division.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Boston. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Massachusetts, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Back Bay, South End, Beacon Hill, Allston, Cambridge, Somerville, Jamaica Plain.
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Boston is the Massachusetts statewide range, and it is published in full on the Massachusetts 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 Boston transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 40,590 returns moving out of Suffolk County, the county Boston sits in, and 36,567 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 57,015 individuals leaving and 44,916 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Suffolk County were Middlesex County (9,674 returns), Norfolk County (5,965 returns) and Essex County (2,693 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Middlesex County (7,512 returns), Norfolk County (4,217 returns) and Essex County (1,949 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 31 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Boston, and 15 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Boston. 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 Boston may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Boston work Back Bay, South End, Beacon Hill, Allston, Cambridge, Somerville, Jamaica Plain and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Boston are licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Oversight Division, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Massachusetts page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Massachusetts. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Boston.
Boston-based mover that states it employs its crews directly as W2 staff rather than subcontracting. We hold no customer-satisfaction dataset for this company.
Gentle Giant Moving Company is headquartered elsewhere in MA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Boston, and no service claim is made here.
Long-running Boston-area mover with full-service interstate operations through the United Van Lines network. Storage facilities accommodate multi-month transitions.
Humboldt Storage & Moving is headquartered elsewhere in MA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Boston, 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.
13 companies with a Boston address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 5 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 5 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.
35 active registrants in Boston tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 16 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 Boston: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ANCA BUNGARDEAN, trading as A-PLUS MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 1656354 · 48 SUMNER ST, BOSTON, MA 02128
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 15, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC609373, active as common carrier.
YOURELO YOUR FULL-SERVICE RELOCATION CORPORATION, trading as GENTLE MOVERS
USDOT 2252143 · 25 BOSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02127
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on November 30, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC768338.
EXELA MOVERS LLC, trading as EXELA MOVERS
USDOT 2588687 · 867 BOYLSTON ST 5TH FL, BOSTON, MA 02116
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 13, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC907693, active as common carrier.
OTTO'S MOVING AND STORAGE LLC
USDOT 3126897 · 90 CANAL STREET SUITE 400, BOSTON, MA 02114
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on April 23, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC090986, active as common carrier.
MOVERS IN ACTION CORP
USDOT 3300397 · 82 HAVRE ST, BOSTON, MA 02128
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 17, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1753361.
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 Massachusetts authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Massachusetts licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Massachusetts needs the DPU operating authority for household goods movers (carriers are identified by an MDPU number) from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Oversight Division. Its rates sit in an intrastate tariff that each licensed mover files with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, published by the DPU alongside its list of regulated companies.
Massachusetts publishes a licence lookup: DPU list of regulated moving companies, published with each company's tariff.
Source: Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Oversight Division, read 2026-08-10.
Peak demand across Massachusetts 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 Boston. 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 Boston, 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 Boston 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 Boston:
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 Boston 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