The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 135 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Cleveland, OH, and 39 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Cleveland price measurement, only the Ohio range on the Ohio page. Moves that stay inside Ohio are licensed by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).
Harris Movers is based in Cleveland. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near Cleveland, companies based elsewhere in Ohio, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio City, University Circle, Detroit-Shoreway, Downtown.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Cleveland is the Ohio statewide range, and it is published in full on the Ohio page.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 25,265 returns moving out of Cuyahoga County, the county Cleveland sits in, and 21,862 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 39,258 individuals leaving and 32,137 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Cuyahoga County were Lorain County (2,947 returns), Summit County (2,262 returns) and Lake County (2,063 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Lorain County (2,213 returns), Summit County (1,895 returns) and Lake County (1,610 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 135 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Cleveland, and 39 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Cleveland. 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 Cleveland may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Cleveland work Tremont, Ohio City, University Circle, Detroit-Shoreway, Downtown and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Cleveland are licensed by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Ohio page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in Cleveland or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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United Van Lines agent serving the Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh corridors with consistent on-time performance.
Harris Movers publishes its headquarters in Cleveland, OH.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Ohio. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Cleveland.
Bell Moving and Storage Inc files from Fairfield, Ohio, active on the federal census with seven power units and six drivers, and carries docket MC-137495 on the registration. The operating-authority presentation read for this registration shows motor carrier of household goods authority; nothing further is stated, and no property or broker authority is inferred from the household goods entry. The filed address is in Fairfield while the company publishes the Cincinnati area as the market it serves: a filed address and a published market describe different things, and neither value is treated as a correction to the other. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it holds a Wheaton certification; Wheaton is a separate registrant and any Wheaton corporate identifier is recorded as a van-line identifier rather than stored on this record. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1922.
Bell Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in OH. That does not by itself confirm an office in Cleveland, and no service claim is made here.
E.E. Ward traces its business to 1881 and describes itself as the oldest continuously African-American owned moving company in the United States. The federal registration behind the brand is E E Ward Moving and Storage Company LLC at 2235 Southwest Blvd in Grove City, the Columbus-area address the site publishes, with 20 power units and 20 drivers on the census and a household goods cargo entry. The licensing record shows common and contract authority both active with household goods authority. Interstate work is routed through the northAmerican network, whose own registration belongs to the van line and is not stored on this record.
E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in OH. That does not by itself confirm an office in Cleveland, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
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.
34 companies with a Cleveland address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 11 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 11 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.
198 active registrants in Cleveland tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 106 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 Cleveland: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
BEREA MOVING & STORAGE CO
USDOT 213414 · 4755 W 150TH ST #J, CLEVELAND, OH 44135
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 2, 1982, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC161128, active as common carrier.
APARTMENT MOVER COMPANY
USDOT 1041929 · 3117 WEST 16TH STREET, CLEVELAND, OH 44109
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 17, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC435666, active as common carrier.
KASH MOVING CORP, trading as MOVING COMPANY
USDOT 1677634 · 3115 BEREA RD, CLEVELAND, OH 44111
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 15, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC616625.
ELITE MOVERS LLC
USDOT 2443910 · 3807 RIVERSIDE AVE, CLEVELAND, OH 44109
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 8, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC843255.
TODA MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 2504993 · 2292 MIRAMAR BLVD, CLEVELAND, OH 44118
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 12, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC868036, active as common carrier.
AMERICAN KNIGHTS MOVING OHIO
USDOT 2818276 · 16912 MILES AVE, CLEVELAND, OH 44128
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 19, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC939550, active as common carrier.
DAVIS PROFESSIONAL CLEANING & MOVING LLC, trading as DAVIS PRO CLEANING & MOVING
USDOT 3672471 · 13110 SHAKER SQ STE 103, CLEVELAND, OH 44120
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 6, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1274050.
JW'S THUNDER MOVING & HAULING LLC, trading as CARRY MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 4111180 · 14750 INDUSTRIAL PKWY, CLEVELAND, OH 44135
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on August 1, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1570318, active as common carrier.
AFFORDABLE MOVING SOLUTIONS OF OHIO, trading as CLEVELAND'S DOWNTOWN MOVERS
USDOT 4144026 · 8980 TRAIL RUN, CLEVELAND, OH 44144
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 13, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1589486.
SUNNY MOVING LLC, trading as MOVING USA
USDOT 4304161 · 1468 WEST 9TH ST SUITE 100, CLEVELAND, OH 44113
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on October 2, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1676718, active as common carrier.
MOVING USA LLC
USDOT 4513704 · 1468 W 9TH ST STE 100, CLEVELAND, OH 44113
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 6, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1787363, 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.
No. Federal registration and Ohio authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Ohio licence or permit.
PUCO publishes no confirmed public household-goods lookup. Verify an Ohio carrier's certificate number through the PUCO call centre on 1-800-686-7826.
Source: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), read 2026-08-10.
Peak demand across Ohio 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 Cleveland. 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 Cleveland, 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland:
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 Cleveland 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