The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 23 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Providence, RI, and 19 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Providence price measurement, only the Rhode Island range on the Rhode Island page. Moves that stay inside Rhode Island are licensed by the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers. Brown and RISD move-in weeks (late August) saturate local crews; College Hill homes have steep narrow stair access.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Providence. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Rhode Island, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: College Hill, Federal Hill, Downtown, Wayland.
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 Providence is the Rhode Island statewide range, and it is published in full on the Rhode Island page.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 14,326 returns moving out of Providence County, the county Providence sits in, and 14,188 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 22,017 individuals leaving and 20,646 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Providence County were Kent County (2,400 returns), Bristol County, MA (1,087 returns) and Washington County (597 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Kent County (1,891 returns), Bristol County, MA (1,424 returns) and Norfolk County, MA (691 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 23 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Providence, and 19 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Providence. 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 Providence may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Providence work College Hill, Federal Hill, Downtown, Wayland and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Providence are licensed by the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Rhode Island page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Rhode Island. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Providence.
Long-established Rhode Island van line with stronger Northeast and Atlantic-corridor operations. International coverage extends to 150+ countries.
Arpin Van Lines is headquartered elsewhere in RI. That does not by itself confirm an office in Providence, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 companies with a Providence address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 5 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 5 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.
46 active registrants in Providence tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 35 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 Providence: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
JONES MOVING & STORAGE COMPANY LLC
USDOT 50583 · 59 CENTRAL ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02907
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC063117, active as common carrier.
ALL MY SONS MOVING & STORAGE OF RHODE ISLAND LLC
USDOT 2178203 · 50 HOUGHTON ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02904
It filed 12 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 1, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC763732, active as common carrier.
H MOVERS LLC
USDOT 3041389 · 6 PEMBERTON STREET, PROVIDENCE, RI 02908
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on August 23, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC044819.
CORREIRA BROTHERS' MOVING & STORAGE INC
USDOT 3095364 · 85 ACADEMY AVE, PROVIDENCE, RI 02908
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 8, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC074304, active as common carrier.
FIRST CLASS MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4339010 · 137 HOME AVE, PROVIDENCE, RI 02908
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on December 26, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1804594.
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 Rhode Island authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Rhode Island licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Rhode Island needs the Rhode Island MC number issued by the Division of Public Utilities and Carriers from the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers. Its rates sit in tariffs printed, filed with the administrator and kept open for public inspection under R.I. Gen. Laws 39-12-11.
Rhode Island publishes a licence lookup: Division list of licensed moving companies.
Source: Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers, read 2026-08-12.
Peak demand across Rhode Island 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 Providence. 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 Providence, 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 Providence 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 Providence:
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 Providence 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