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How to read a moving-company profile
Every carrier on this page lists the same baseline: USDOT number, MC number, BBB rating, year founded, and headquarters. Those five fields settle whether the company is real and trading. They don't, by themselves, tell you whether the company is good — that's where the editorial summary, complaint history, and price range come in.
The directory currently profiles 182 national, regional, and DIY brands. Nothing here is ranked and no company carries a score: the order on the hub is for browsing only, and the sourced detail lives on each company's own page.
What the license line actually means
USDOT is the federal carrier ID assigned by the FMCSA. Anyone moving household goods across state lines has to have one. If a website doesn't list it, that's a yellow flag at minimum.
MC number (Motor Carrier authority) is what gives the company permission to move freight for hire across state lines. It's a separate filing from USDOT and shows up on the same SAFER record.
BBB rating runs A+ through F. The letter is the BBB's own scoring of the company, not customer reviews. A company can have an A+ from BBB and still average 2.5 stars from customers — both numbers belong on the page.
National carrier, van line, or local independent
National carriers (Allied, United, Mayflower, North American, Atlas) operate as agent networks. The brand handles dispatch, billing, and tracking; the actual crew is a local agent. Quality often tracks more closely with the agent in your specific city than with the brand on the truck.
Regional and local independents own their fleet, hire their own crews, and usually price 15–25% under the national brands on local jobs. Trade-off: limited geography, smaller claims department, and capacity that disappears in peak season.
DIY platforms (PODS, U-Pack, U-Haul U-Box, 1-800-PACK-RAT) are container-and-driver services. You load and unload; they handle the long-haul. For interstate moves under 1,500 miles with a flexible delivery window, this is consistently the cheapest option that's still safe.
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The directory
Click any carrier for the full review, pricing range, and verdict.
Company summaries are based on publicly available information from official mover websites, FMCSA records, BBB profiles, and recent customer review patterns. Logos are displayed for brand identification in an independent directory and do not imply partnership, sponsorship, or endorsement.
Safebound Logistics LLC operates as Safebound Moving & Storage from West Palm Beach under its own federal registration, with 33 power units on the federal census and household goods, general freight and motor vehicles registered as cargo. The census records cargo classifications, not operating authority, so nothing about the authority this registration holds is stated here. A separately registered sibling, Safebound Van Lines LLC, is a different legal entity and is not covered by this record.
Beltmann Group Incorporated, filed with the DBA Beltmann Relocation Group, holds its own federal registration and files 269 power units from Roseville, Minnesota. It has been trading since 1923 and operates as an agent of North American Van Lines, whose own USDOT number appears on Beltmann's site. The two registrations are separate, and the one that governs a Beltmann-contracted job is the agent's.
Coleman Worldwide Moving LLC carries its own federal registration from Midland City, Alabama, with 191 power units and household goods registered on the federal census. The business dates to 1914 and trades as an Allied Van Lines agent. A related registrant, Coleman American Moving Services Inc, holds its own separate federal registration and is a separate legal entity with its own compliance history and is not merged into this record.
Suddath was founded in Jacksonville, Florida in 1919 and now trades as The Suddath Companies, a group of separately registered operating businesses spanning household moving, commercial relocation, freight forwarding and logistics. The federal census returns dozens of registrants under the name, of which Suddath Moving & Storage LLC files the largest household goods fleet. Because no single registration covers the brand, this page publishes the group table instead of one number.
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.
Corrigan Moving & Storage Company trades as Corrigan Moving Systems and Premier Relocations, filing from Dearborn, Michigan with 245 power units and 215 drivers on the federal census, an unusually large in-house fleet for a regional agent. The company has been family-owned since 1929 and describes itself as the third largest mover inside the United Van Lines system, so a long-haul leg may be performed by that network rather than by Corrigan directly. Corrigan Moving Systems - New York LLC is a separately registered company and is not covered by the record on this page.
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.
The trading name is Republic Moving & Storage, but the registered legal entity behind it is Lovejoy's Family Moving Inc, and that is the name a reader should look for on the federal record shown below, filed from the same San Diego address the website publishes. The company operates as a North American Van Lines agent with 21 power units and 20 drivers of its own. Its history pages date the business to 2008, while the federal registration was added at the end of 2019.
Dircks Moving Services Inc trades as Dircks Moving & Logistics from 4340 W Mohave Street in Phoenix, the address on both its site and its federal filing, with 24 power units and 24 drivers on the census and active common authority carrying household goods. It states first-party that it is a Mayflower agent, so interstate shipments move inside the UniGroup network while the local company handles origin and destination work. The company's own newsletter marks a twenty-fifth anniversary in 2015, dating the business to 1990.
Federal Companies dates its business in East Peoria, Illinois to 1913 and today runs household moving, warehousing and logistics through separate legal entities rather than one carrier. Federal Logistics LLC files the transport registration, and the Normal, Champaign, Lindenhurst and St Louis moving businesses are each registered in their own name with their own household goods cargo entry. The historic Federal Warehouse Company registration is inactive and last filed in 2008, so it is shown here as a legacy entity rather than as the group's current federal identity. The brand is an Allied Van Lines agent, which means long-distance shipments travel inside that network under Allied's own separate registration.
Look up the USDOT number on safer.fmcsa.dot.gov. The record shows active status, insurance on file, and complaint history. Takes about 30 seconds and should be done before any deposit.
What does the BBB rating actually mean?
It's the BBB's own scoring of the company's complaint resolution and trading history. It runs A+ to F and is independent of customer review averages. A company can have A+ from BBB and 2.5 stars from customers — both numbers belong on the same page.
Are national van lines better than local movers?
Better for what? National brands win on interstate logistics, claims handling, and tracking. Local independents almost always win on local-job pricing and crew familiarity with your specific neighborhood.
Why do quotes from the same company vary so much?
Online quotes use generic ZIP-to-ZIP rates. In-home and video surveys use actual inventory. The difference between the two is often 20–40%. Always get the latter for moves over 5,000 lb.
What's a fair deposit to pay?
Under $100, ideally on a credit card (which gives you chargeback rights). Anything over that — especially in cash or wire — is a red flag in this industry.
