The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 186 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Omaha, NE, and 54 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Omaha price measurement, only the Nebraska range on the Nebraska page. Moves that stay inside Nebraska are licensed by the Nebraska Public Service Commission, Transportation Department. Berkshire Hathaway shareholder weekend (early May) saturates lodging and adds rental-truck demand.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$80 to $125 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$2,500 to $5,800
Intrastate regulator
Nebraska Public Service Commission, Transportation Department
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Company profiles shown
4
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Quick answer
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Omaha or elsewhere in Nebraska. This page shows movers that publish nationwide service, alongside pricing, licensing and federal filing data.
Common service neighborhoods: Old Market, Dundee, Benson, Aksarben, Elkhorn.
How far is Omaha from the places people move to most?
Omaha to Denver, CO is 540 driving miles, about 9 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 2 to 5 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your Omaha 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 Omaha transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 14,668 returns moving out of Douglas County, the county Omaha sits in, and 14,272 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 24,829 individuals leaving and 22,943 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Douglas County were Sarpy County (3,901 returns), Pottawattamie County, IA (787 returns) and Lancaster County (693 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Sarpy County (3,452 returns), Lancaster County (1,038 returns) and Pottawattamie County, IA (692 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 Omaha?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 186 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Omaha, and 54 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Omaha. 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 Omaha may not.
Moving crews quoting Omaha work Old Market, Dundee, Benson, Aksarben, Elkhorn and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Omaha
Movers working inside Omaha are licensed by the Nebraska Public Service Commission, Transportation Department, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Nebraska page.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
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.
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
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 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.
25 companies with a Omaha address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 12 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 12 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.
217 active registrants in Omaha tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 69 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 Omaha: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
KINGS MOVING LLC
USDOT 960979 · 7530 F ST, OMAHA, NE 68127
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 11, 2001, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC954013, active as common carrier.
It filed 12 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 16, 2003, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC458312, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
KWIK BUT CAREFUL MOVERS OF OMAHA LLC, trading as ALL MY SONS MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 2293175 · 8611 F STREET, OMAHA, NE 68127
It filed 5 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 9, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC786789, active as common carrier.
It filed 20 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 18, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC908616, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3708029 · 5508 HICKORY STREET, OMAHA, NE 68106
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on August 24, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1300221, active as common carrier.
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on October 31, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1488747, active as common carrier.
USDOT 4137207 · 11421 S 146TH STREET, OMAHA, NE 68137
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 27, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1691645, active as common carrier.
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 2, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1638899, 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 Nebraska licence?
No. Federal registration and Nebraska authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Nebraska licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Nebraska needs the Nebraska household goods mover license from the Nebraska Public Service Commission, Transportation Department.
Peak demand across Nebraska 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 Omaha. 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 Omaha, 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 Omaha 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 Omaha?
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 Omaha:
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 Omaha. 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 Omaha is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Omaha?
Late May through August is the peak window in Omaha, 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 Omaha 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 Omaha 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 Omaha move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Omaha 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 Omaha 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
