The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 45 household goods registrants whose physical address is in St. Louis, MO, and 28 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no St. Louis price measurement, only the Missouri range on the Missouri page. Moves that stay inside Missouri are licensed by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$85 to $135 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$2,500 to $6,000
Intrastate regulator
Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Company profiles shown
5
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Quick answer
McGuire Moving & Storage is based in St. Louis. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near St. Louis, companies based elsewhere in Missouri, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Central West End, Lafayette Square, Soulard, The Hill, Clayton.
How far is St. Louis from the places people move to most?
St. Louis to Chicago, IL is 300 driving miles, about 5 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 2 to 4 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your St. Louis moving cost
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate St. Louis transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 13,726 returns moving out of St. Louis city, the county St. Louis sits in, and 12,331 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 22,134 individuals leaving and 17,630 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from St. Louis city were St. Louis County (6,585 returns), St. Charles County (602 returns) and Jefferson County (508 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from St. Louis County (5,157 returns), St. Charles County (559 returns) and St. Clair County, IL (387 returns).
These figures come from federal tax return data and cover all household moves, not only those using professional movers.
How many licensed moving companies are registered in St. Louis?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 45 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in St. Louis, and 28 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. The census records the city name as the registrant filed it, and "ST LOUIS" (43), "ST LOUIS" (1), "ST. LOUIS" (1) all appear for St. Louis; the total above sums them. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in St. Louis. 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 St. Louis may not.
Moving crews quoting St. Louis work Central West End, Lafayette Square, Soulard, The Hill, Clayton and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in St. Louis
Movers working inside St. Louis are licensed by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Missouri page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in St. Louis or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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McGuire Moving & Storage, Inc. files from South Broadway in St Louis, Missouri, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, sixteen power units, eleven drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-294315 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree inside the federal data. The licensing record shows active common carrier authority with property and household goods checked; contract carrier and broker authority are not carried on this docket. The company is a Bekins Van Lines agent, and the USDOT and docket numbers printed in the company's own footer resolve to Bekins Van Lines Inc of Indianapolis. Those are the van line's identifiers, disclosed as such and never stored as McGuire numbers; that the company's own registration is not the one printed in the footer does not change the verified federal identity above. The Illinois Commerce Commission number the site publishes is a state identifier and is not recorded as a federal registration. No federal safety rating was located for this registration in the records reviewed, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states it has served St Louis since 1935.
Why is this company shown here?
McGuire Moving & Storage publishes its headquarters in St. Louis, MO.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
Mayflower Transit is headquartered elsewhere in MO. That does not by itself confirm an office in St. Louis, and no service claim is made here.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
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.
USDOT 1434373Pompano Beach, FL2BR est. $2,200–$6,500
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.
Why is this company shown 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.
USDOT 2293832Coral Springs, FL2BR est. $2,700–$6,400
Which movers are federally registered in St. Louis?
11 companies with a St. Louis address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 6 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 6 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.
47 active registrants in St. Louis tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 30 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 St. Louis: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
DIELMAN MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 1712112 · 8822 ST CHARLES ROCK ROAD, ST LOUIS, MO 63114
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on November 28, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1632147.
USDOT 2086706 · 8454 WATSON ROAD, ST LOUIS, MO 63119
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 18, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC728200, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 3194564 · 1524 HUDSON RD, ST LOUIS, MO 63136
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on September 30, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1115446, active as common carrier.
MD TRANSPORTATION GROUP LLC, trading as WORLD CLASS MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 3295868 · 4625 LINDELL BLVD 2ND FL, ST LOUIS, MO 63108
It filed 21 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 5, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1044476, active as common carrier.
USDOT 4345256 · 2460 SOUTHWIND MEADOWS COURT, ST LOUIS, MO 63129
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 14, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1698289, active as common 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.
Does a federal registration mean a Missouri licence?
No. Federal registration and Missouri authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Missouri licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Missouri needs the Intrastate Household Goods Carrier Operating Authority, issued as a certificate by the State Highways and Transportation Commission from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services. Its rates sit in household Goods Tariff Circular No. 1-2013, filed with the commission.
Missouri publishes a list of Authorized Household Goods Carriers through MoDOT Motor Carrier Services. Confirm a Missouri mover against that list, or by calling Motor Carrier Services on 1-866-831-6277.
Peak demand across Missouri runs May–August. 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 St. Louis. 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:
Mid-month beats month-end. Leases and closings cluster at the turn of the month, so that is when crews are fully booked and least flexible.
Mid-week beats the weekend. Saturday is the single most requested moving day; a Tuesday or Wednesday competes with far fewer households for the same trucks.
Off-peak beats May–August. Outside the peak window, carriers are trying to keep crews working rather than turning jobs away.
Flexibility is the lever, not the calendar alone. On an interstate move, giving the carrier a pickup window of several days rather than one fixed date is usually worth more than any single date choice, because it lets them combine your shipment with another on the same lane.
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 St. Louis, 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:
$10 to $20 per mover for a job of two hours or less.
$20 to $40 per mover for a local move under four hours.
$40 to $60 per mover for a full day, meaning six hours or longer.
These are a BestMovers.info editorial guideline, not a survey result. We hold no tipping survey for St. Louis 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.
Where can you get free moving boxes in St. Louis?
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 St. Louis:
Liquor stores, which have the sturdiest small boxes with dividers
Bookshops, for small boxes rated for weight
Grocery stores, for produce boxes
Offices, for paper boxes with lids
Appliance and furniture retailers, for large flat cartons
Buy Nothing groups and Facebook Marketplace
Craigslist free listings
The U-Haul box exchange
Anyone in your building who has moved in recently
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.
There is no separate cost dataset for St. Louis. Using the national estimate, a one-bedroom local move is estimated at $420–$930 and a two-bedroom local move at $630–$1,395, while a two-bedroom interstate move from St. Louis is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in St. Louis?
Late May through August is the peak window in St. Louis, with the heaviest volume around month-end weekends. Established companies commonly book out several weeks in advance during this period.
Should I get an in-home estimate or an online quote?
For local moves under 2,500 lb, an online or phone estimate is usually accurate. For interstate moves out of St. Louis or 3+ bedroom households, request a video survey or in-home estimate so the binding price reflects your actual inventory.
What's the most reliable way to verify a St. Louis mover?
Check the company's USDOT number on the FMCSA SAFER website, look at their BBB profile and current accreditation, and read recent reviews on Google and Yelp. Avoid any mover unwilling to share a USDOT number on request.
How long does a typical St. Louis move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in St. Louis usually takes 3–5 hours with two movers. A 3-bedroom local move runs 7–10 hours, and most movers won't book a same-day move past 4 PM start time.
How we evaluate St. Louis 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
