The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 66 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Albany, NY, and 13 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Albany price measurement, only the New York range on the New York page. Moves that stay inside New York are licensed by the New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Modal Safety and Security.
Albany's market runs on state-government turnover cycles (January and July) and university calendars. Here are our editorial cost estimates for Albany moves in 2026 and how to time around the legislative-session crunch.
Common service neighborhoods: Center Square, Pine Hills, Delaware Avenue, Downtown.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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Albany's market runs on state-government turnover cycles (January and July) and university calendars. Here are our editorial cost estimates for Albany moves in 2026 and how to time around the legislative-session crunch.
Albany's moving market runs on a unique calendar. New York state-government turnover concentrates in January (legislative session start) and July (post-session), which compress local mover availability beyond the normal summer peak. SUNY Albany and the regional college network add another layer of late-August demand.
NYSDOT regulates intrastate moves; FMCSA covers interstate. Center Square brownstones and Pine Hills student housing have narrow stair access common to most Albany historic districts.
Outbound interstate is competitive year-round on the Northeast corridor lanes. Use the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
NYSDOT regulates intrastate (T-number, bonded, written estimate over 25 mi).
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker before signing.
May through September is peak, with January and July adding state-government turnover crunches. SUNY move-in week (mid-August) saturates local crews. Cheapest window is February–April and October–November.
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Albany is the New York statewide range, and it is published in full on the New York 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 Albany transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 9,497 returns moving out of Albany County, the county Albany sits in, and 8,979 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 14,503 individuals leaving and 13,627 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Albany County were Rensselaer County (1,588 returns), Schenectady County (1,160 returns) and Saratoga County (1,144 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Rensselaer County (1,557 returns), Schenectady County (994 returns) and Saratoga County (826 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 66 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Albany, and 13 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Albany. 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 Albany may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Albany work Center Square, Pine Hills, Delaware Avenue, Downtown and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Albany are licensed by the New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Modal Safety and Security, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the New York page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in New York. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Albany.
NYC-based long-distance moving broker. Useful as a comparison quote alongside direct carrier estimates.
All Around Moving Services is headquartered elsewhere in NY. That does not by itself confirm an office in Albany, and no service claim is made here.
Long-running NYC mover with both local and interstate operations. Storage facilities support multi-week transitions.
Ben Hur Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in NY. That does not by itself confirm an office in Albany, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
One of the oldest moving brands in the US, Bekins runs an agent-affiliate model similar to Allied, with interstate shipments booked under the Bekins registration and performed by affiliated agents.
Bekins Moving Solutions 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.
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.
15 companies with a Albany 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.
83 active registrants in Albany 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 Albany: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
DON'S MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 134890 · 981 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC141611, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
SCHAAP MOVING SYSTEMS INC
USDOT 31675 · 6 BROWN ROAD, ALBANY, NY 12205
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC047624, active as common carrier.
SKYLINE VAN LINES INC
USDOT 2487251 · 90 STATE ST STE 700, ALBANY, NY 12207
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on March 21, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC861176, active as common carrier.
PROTOCOL VAN LINES INC
USDOT 3736265 · 4 WALKER WAY, ALBANY, NY 12205
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 4, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1320865, active as common carrier.
VOJVODINA MOVE INC, trading as ART OF LIVING MOVING
USDOT 3916522 · 401 NEW KARNER RD, ALBANY, NY 12205
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on July 13, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1457019, active as common carrier.
MUSSALLIN CORP, trading as ASATA VAN LINES
USDOT 3986794 · 600 BROADWAY STE 200, ALBANY, NY 12207
It filed 0 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 16, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1494438, active as broker.
THE BLAKE EXPERIENCE MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4517565 · 6 DEER PATH DR, ALBANY, NY 12205
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 13, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1789431, active as common carrier and contract 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.
No. Federal registration and New York authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a New York licence or permit.
The public carrier search on the New York CarCert portal is marked as under development, so verification runs by phone on 518-457-6512 or by email to nymoving@dot.ny.gov.
Source: New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Modal Safety and Security, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across New York 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 Albany. 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 Albany, 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 Albany 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 Albany:
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 Albany 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