The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 70 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Newark, NJ, and 31 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Newark price measurement, only the New Jersey range on the New Jersey page. Moves that stay inside New Jersey are licensed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Regulated Business Section.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$115 to $175 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$3,100 to $7,200
Intrastate regulator
New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Regulated Business Section
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 Newark. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in New Jersey, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Ironbound, Downtown, Forest Hill, Weequahic.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Newark transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 23,354 returns moving out of Essex County, the county Newark sits in, and 19,593 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 39,590 individuals leaving and 32,807 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Essex County were Union County (2,803 returns), Hudson County (1,745 returns) and Morris County (1,452 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Hudson County (2,594 returns), Union County (1,955 returns) and Kings County, NY (1,621 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 Newark?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 70 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Newark, and 31 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Newark. 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 Newark may not.
Moving crews quoting Newark work Ironbound, Downtown, Forest Hill, Weequahic and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Newark
Movers working inside Newark are licensed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Regulated Business Section, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the New Jersey page.
A. Fazio Moving & Storage files from Ramsey, New Jersey as a single federal registrant with five power units and two drivers on the federal file, and no parent, franchise network, van-line relationship or sibling registration located in the records reviewed. The company prints its own federal identifiers on its website and they match the registration described here. The exact operating-authority classes carried on the registration could not be read from the sources reviewed, so no authority role is asserted in either direction. No federal safety rating is carried on the file; a compliance review date from the 1960s exists in the record but a review date is not a rating and is not published as one. The company describes its history only in relative terms, so no founding year is stored.
Why is this company shown here?
A. Fazio Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in NJ. That does not by itself confirm an office in Newark, and no service claim is made here.
A. Santini Moving & Storage files from Dayton, New Jersey. The federal registrant is a New Jersey storage corporation trading under the Santini moving name, with sixteen power units and six drivers on the federal file. A second registration in the same name is carried on the federal file as inactive and shares the company's published telephone number; that shared number is a real bridge, but no corporate filing establishing the relationship was read, so the registration is disclosed as related and unresolved and nothing about succession or ownership is asserted. The exact operating-authority classes on the active registration were not readable in the sources reviewed. No current federal safety rating is on file; an old compliance review date exists and is not published as a rating. The company's own history wording is relative, so no founding year is stored.
Why is this company shown here?
A. Santini Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in NJ. That does not by itself confirm an office in Newark, and no service claim is made here.
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
33 companies with a Newark address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 16 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 16 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 Newark tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 87 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 Newark: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
BRANTLEY BROS MOVING & STORAGE CO INC
USDOT 163359 · 168 ELIZABETH AVE, NEWARK, NJ 07108
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC143870, active as contract carrier.
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 5, 1993, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC375932, active as common carrier.
PAY LESS MOVING LLC, trading as GREAT EASTERN MOVERS
USDOT 792922 · 54 FREEMAN ST, NEWARK, NJ 07105
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 2, 1999, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC477496, active as common carrier.
It filed 5 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 8, 2005, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC520641, active as common carrier.
USDOT 2104954 · 254 ELIZABETH AVENUE UNIT#10, NEWARK, NJ 07108
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 21, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC771529, active as common carrier.
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on April 12, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1229578, active as common carrier.
SAGE AIO LLC, trading as DAVID & SONS MOVING AND TRUCKING
USDOT 4181707 · 11 CLINTON STREET 3D, NEWARK, NJ 07102
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on January 18, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1610134, active as common carrier.
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 19, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1791986, 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 New Jersey licence?
No. Federal registration and New Jersey authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a New Jersey licence or permit.
A mover operating inside New Jersey needs the Public Mover and Warehouseman licence from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Regulated Business Section. Its rates sit in tariff, a formal schedule of rates and charges kept at the mover's main office and on file with the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Peak demand across New Jersey 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 Newark. 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–September. 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 Newark, 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 Newark 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 Newark?
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 Newark:
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 Newark. 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 Newark is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Newark?
Late May through August is the peak window in Newark, 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 Newark 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 Newark 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 Newark move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Newark 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 Newark 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
