The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 94 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Tulsa, OK, and 26 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Tulsa price measurement, only the Oklahoma range on the Oklahoma page. Moves that stay inside Oklahoma are licensed by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Transportation Division.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Tulsa. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Oklahoma, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Brookside, Cherry Street, Tulsa Hills, Downtown, Midtown.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Tulsa transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 14,913 returns moving out of Osage County, Rogers County, Tulsa County and Wagoner County, the counties Tulsa sits in, and 16,357 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 26,647 individuals leaving and 29,638 arriving.
Tulsa spans 4 counties, so these figures cover all of them: Osage County, Rogers County, Tulsa County and Wagoner County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Tulsa.
The counties receiving the most households from Osage County, Rogers County, Tulsa County and Wagoner County were Creek County (1,339 returns), Oklahoma County (887 returns) and Washington County (447 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Creek County (1,204 returns), Oklahoma County (817 returns) and Muskogee County (491 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 Tulsa?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 94 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Tulsa, and 26 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Tulsa. 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 Tulsa may not.
Moving crews quoting Tulsa work Brookside, Cherry Street, Tulsa Hills, Downtown, Midtown and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Tulsa
Movers working inside Tulsa are licensed by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Transportation Division, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Oklahoma page.
Jim Freeman founded A-1 Freeman Moving Group in Oklahoma City in 1974, and the brand now covers several separately incorporated regional companies operating as North American Van Lines and Allied agents. Its own regulatory disclosure lists multiple USDOT numbers, including the van lines' registrations, which belong to the van lines rather than to A-1 Freeman. The group table on this page names the registrants the federal census returns for the brand.
Why is this company shown here?
A-1 Freeman Moving Group is headquartered elsewhere in OK. That does not by itself confirm an office in Tulsa, and no service claim is made here.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
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.
USDOT 2256609Indianapolis, IN2BR est. $3,000–$7,000
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
23 companies with a Tulsa 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.
121 active registrants in Tulsa tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 59 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 Tulsa: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ROBBOB MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 572983 · 4343 S MEMORIAL DR SUITE I, TULSA, OK 74145
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 26, 1994, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC279584, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 898256 · 5151 W 51ST STREET, TULSA, OK 74107
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 9, 2000, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC414190, active as contract carrier.
USDOT 1603843 · 1871 N 106TH E AVE, TULSA, OK 74116
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 5, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC614789, active as common carrier.
It filed 19 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 16, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC705022, 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 Oklahoma licence?
No. Federal registration and Oklahoma authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Oklahoma licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Oklahoma needs the Intrastate Household Goods Carriers Certificate from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Transportation Division.
Oklahoma issues the certificate itself and requires a $7.00 identification stamp on each vehicle operated under it, so the vehicle stamp and the certificate copy carried in the truck are the practical proof of Oklahoma authority.
Peak demand across Oklahoma runs April–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 Tulsa. 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 April–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 Tulsa, 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 Tulsa 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 Tulsa?
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 Tulsa:
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 Tulsa. 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 Tulsa is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Tulsa?
Late May through August is the peak window in Tulsa, 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 Tulsa 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 Tulsa 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 Tulsa move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Tulsa 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 Tulsa 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
