The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 82 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Richmond, VA, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Richmond price measurement, only the Virginia range on the Virginia page. Moves that stay inside Virginia are licensed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$100 to $150 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$2,800 to $6,500
Intrastate regulator
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Company profiles shown
5
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Quick answer
Dunmar Moving Systems is based in Richmond. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near Richmond, companies based elsewhere in Virginia, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: The Fan, Church Hill, Scott's Addition, Downtown, Westover Hills.
How far is Richmond from the places people move to most?
Richmond to Raleigh, NC is 155 driving miles, about 3 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 1 to 3 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your Richmond moving cost
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Richmond transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 12,225 returns moving out of Richmond city, the county Richmond sits in, and 12,845 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 18,692 individuals leaving and 17,955 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Richmond city were Henrico County (3,409 returns), Chesterfield County (2,452 returns) and Hanover County (309 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Henrico County (2,521 returns), Chesterfield County (2,108 returns) and Fairfax County (443 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 Richmond?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 82 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Richmond, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Richmond. 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 Richmond may not.
Moving crews quoting Richmond work The Fan, Church Hill, Scott's Addition, Downtown, Westover Hills and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Richmond
Movers working inside Richmond are licensed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Virginia page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in Richmond or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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The federal registrant behind the Dunmar Moving Systems brand is Centre Carriers Corp, filing from Richmond, Virginia, active on the federal census with 20 power units and 20 drivers, and carrying docket MC-137503. Dunmar Moving System is recorded on that registration as a trade name, alongside Virginia Moving & Storage and Dunmar Logistics; all three are trade names on the single registration and none of them is a separate federal company. The operating-authority presentation read for this registration shows motor carrier of household goods and motor carrier of property authority under both common and contract carrier classifications; broker authority was not verified and none is inferred. No current federal safety rating is on file. The federal file records a compliance review dated 14 September 2010 that did not result in a rating, which is stored here as a dated review event and is neither a pass nor a failure. The company states first-party that it is an agent of Allied Van Lines; Allied is a separate registrant and its corporate identifiers are recorded as van-line identifiers rather than stored on this record. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1970.
Why is this company shown here?
Dunmar Moving Systems publishes its headquarters in Richmond, VA.
Northern Virginia mover with strong federal-government and corporate relocation operations. Reliable choice for DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland moves.
Why is this company shown here?
Able Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in VA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Richmond, and no service claim is made here.
DC-area mover with experience in military PCS, federal-government, and corporate relocations.
Why is this company shown here?
All American Relocation Group is headquartered elsewhere in VA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Richmond, and no service claim is made here.
United Van Lines is the largest brand under UniGroup and publishes the annual National Movers Study. It offers shipment tracking and a published claims process; we hold no dataset that compares its claims outcomes with other carriers.
Why is this company shown here?
United 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.
Wheaton World Wide Moving shares a parent company with Bekins and moves interstate household goods through an agent network under its own federal registration.
Why is this company shown here?
Wheaton World Wide Moving 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.
Which movers are federally registered in Richmond?
18 companies with a Richmond 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.
113 active registrants in Richmond tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 66 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 Richmond: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
TANNER VAN LINES INC
USDOT 363969 · 2250 CHARLES CITY ROAD, RICHMOND, VA 23231-4341
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 29, 1989, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC222066, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
CENTRE CARRIERS CORP, trading as DUNMAR MOVING SYSTEM
USDOT 392896 · 8030 WHITEPINE ROAD, RICHMOND, VA 23237-2263
It filed 20 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 9, 1990, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC137503, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 796233 · 2208 STATION RD, RICHMOND, VA 23234
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 22, 1999, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC355209, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 2341454 · 5711 CHARLES CITY CIRCLE, RICHMOND, VA 23231
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 11, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC807957, active as common carrier.
NBF RICHMOND LLC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK RICHMOND VA
USDOT 2430443 · 8403 SANFORD DR, RICHMOND, VA 23228
It filed 15 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 17, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC837779, active as common carrier.
USDOT 2574535 · 2601 MAURY ST UNIT 37, RICHMOND, VA 23224
It filed 14 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 23, 2015, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC900273, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3139358 · 3809 CASTLEWOOD ROAD, RICHMOND, VA 23234
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 21, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC098101, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3677419 · 4108 SQUIRE HILL CT, RICHMOND, VA 23234
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 12, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1277620, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3865625 · 2107 DABNEY RD, RICHMOND, VA 23230
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 18, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1413617, 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 Virginia licence?
No. Federal registration and Virginia authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Virginia licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Virginia needs the Household Goods Carrier for-hire intrastate operating authority from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services.
Peak demand across Virginia 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 Richmond. 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 Richmond, 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 Richmond 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 Richmond?
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 Richmond:
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 Richmond. 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 Richmond is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Richmond?
Late May through August is the peak window in Richmond, 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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Richmond 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 Richmond 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
