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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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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.
College Bound Movers LLC files from Continental Boulevard in Merrimack, New Hampshire, active on the federal census with a household goods classification, four power units, nine drivers and docket MC-301665 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain and the company publishes the same registration and docket numbers itself, so the consumer-facing brand and the federal registrant are the same identity read from two sources. No van-line affiliation was established in research and none is asserted here. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 7 March 2008, following a compliance review dated 5 March 2008; that is a dated federal snapshot and not a current safety score or a recommendation. The company states it has moved New Hampshire and New England since 1991.
B. Von Paris & Sons Inc, trading as Von Paris Moving & Storage, files from Larkin Road in Savage, Maryland, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, thirty-one power units, thirty-seven drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-42334 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree inside the federal data. The licensing record carries more than one authority role on this docket, and the roles are reported separately rather than merged: active common carrier authority and active broker authority, with property and household goods both checked. Holding broker authority is a fact about the docket and is not a statement that any particular household move is brokered. The company is a northAmerican Van Lines agent; the federal identifiers printed in the company's own footer belong to North American Van Lines Inc and are disclosed as that van line's identifiers rather than stored as Von Paris numbers. Any state permit number the company publishes is a state identifier and is not recorded as a federal registration. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 2 November 2009, following a compliance review dated 8 October 2009; that is a dated federal snapshot rather than a current assessment. The company states it was founded in 1893.
Noted for: Baltimore and Maryland household, commercial and international relocations handled by a long-established registrant that files its own household goods registration.
Piepho Moving & Storage, Inc. files from Highway 14 West in Rochester, Minnesota, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, eighteen power units, twenty-one drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-133951 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree inside the federal data. The licensing record shows active common carrier authority and active contract carrier authority with property and household goods checked; the roles are reported separately rather than merged, and no broker authority is verified on this docket. The company is an Allied Van Lines agent; Allied holds its own separate federal registration and no Allied identifier is stored here or presented as Piepho's number. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 4 February 1997, following a compliance review dated 8 January 1997; that is a dated federal snapshot rather than a current assessment. The company states it has provided professional moving services since 1952.
Noted for: Southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin household and commercial moves handled by an Allied agent that files its own household goods registration.
McGuire Moving & Storage, Inc. files from South Broadway in St Louis, Missouri, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, sixteen power units, eleven drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-294315 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree inside the federal data. The licensing record shows active common carrier authority with property and household goods checked; contract carrier and broker authority are not carried on this docket. The company is a Bekins Van Lines agent, and the USDOT and docket numbers printed in the company's own footer resolve to Bekins Van Lines Inc of Indianapolis. Those are the van line's identifiers, disclosed as such and never stored as McGuire numbers; that the company's own registration is not the one printed in the footer does not change the verified federal identity above. The Illinois Commerce Commission number the site publishes is a state identifier and is not recorded as a federal registration. No federal safety rating was located for this registration in the records reviewed, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states it has served St Louis since 1935.
Noted for: St Louis household and commercial relocations handled by a long-established registrant that files its own household goods registration and moves interstate freight as a Bekins agent.
George Moving & Storage, Inc. files from Tri County Drive in Freedom, Pennsylvania, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, thirty-two power units, twenty-three drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-158885 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain and the company's own site publishes the same USDOT and docket numbers, so registrant and brand agree from two directions. The licensing record shows active common carrier authority with property and household goods checked; broker and contract carrier authority are not carried on this docket. A second Pennsylvania registration under a near-identical name carries the same docket number on its census row; it is disclosed separately as a related registration with the relationship recorded as unresolved, and it is not called a predecessor, a former registration, a superseded filing or a sibling. The company is a northAmerican Van Lines agent; the van line holds its own separate registration and no van-line identifier is stored on this record. The Ohio PUCO number and the Pennsylvania PUC number the site publishes are state identifiers and are not recorded as federal registrations. No federal safety rating was located for this registration in the records reviewed. The company states it has operated since 1975.
Noted for: Pittsburgh-area household and commercial relocations handled by a registrant that files its own household goods registration and hauls interstate through the northAmerican network.
National Van Lines Inc files from West Roosevelt Road in Broadview, Illinois, active on the federal census as a carrier and broker with 212 power units, 160 drivers, an MCS-150 filed 8 August 2025 and docket MC-42866 on the registration. The company is an independent van line rather than an agent of another van line, so the federal identity above is the brand's own registration and no van-line corporate number belonging to a third party is stored here. The licensing record carries four authority roles on this docket and they are reported separately rather than merged: motor carrier of household goods, motor carrier of property, broker of household goods and broker of property. Holding broker authority is a fact about the docket and is not a statement that any particular household move is brokered. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 13 March 2002, following a compliance review dated 26 July 2011 that the file records as non-ratable; that is a dated federal snapshot and not a current safety score or a recommendation. The company states on its own site that it has moved families since 1929, publishing that year alongside its USDOT number.
Noted for: Long-distance household moves booked with an independent van line that holds its own household goods carrier authority and runs a national agent network.
Air Van Moving and Storage Inc, filing the trade name Air Van, is registered at 51st Avenue East in Fife, Washington, active on the federal census with seven power units, nine drivers, an MCS-150 filed 11 March 2025 and docket MC-1457028 on the registration. The licensing record shows the registration authorised as a motor carrier of household goods and a motor carrier of property; broker authority is not carried on this docket. The company presents itself as a northAmerican Van Lines agent, and the USDOT number printed in its own footer resolves to North American Van Lines Inc rather than to this registrant. That number is disclosed as the van line's identifier and is never stored as an Air Van number. The Washington and Oregon permit numbers the site publishes are state identifiers and are not recorded as federal registrations. No federal safety rating was located for this registration; the file records a compliance review dated 13 July 2023 that did not produce a rating, which is neither a pass nor a failure. No first-party founding year was located on the company's own site, so none is stated here.
Noted for: Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest household moves handled by a regional agent that files its own household goods registration and hauls interstate through a van-line network.
Mayzlin Relocation LLC, filing the trade name Long Distance & Out Of State Movers Mayzlin Relocation, is registered on Fairview Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, active on the federal census with 37 power units, 36 drivers, an MCS-150 filed 24 March 2025 and docket MC-127375 on the registration. The company publishes the same USDOT number and docket on its own site, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree from two independent directions. The licensing record shows the registration authorised as a motor carrier of household goods and a motor carrier of property; no broker authority is carried on this docket, so the company is described here as a carrier and not as a broker. No van-line affiliation was established in research and none is asserted. No federal safety rating was located; the file records a compliance review dated 17 April 2024 that did not produce a rating, which is neither a pass nor a failure. No first-party founding year was located on the company's own site, so none is stated here.
MiniMoves Inc files from Roosevelt Road in Hillside, Illinois, active on the federal census as a carrier and freight forwarder with five power units, six drivers, an MCS-150 filed 25 April 2025 and two dockets on the registration: MC-268180 and FF-1562. The licensing record shows four authority roles and they are reported separately rather than merged: motor carrier of household goods, motor carrier of property, freight forwarder of household goods and freight forwarder of property. Freight forwarder authority is a distinct federal role from carrier authority and is stated as such rather than folded into the carrier line. The company publishes the same USDOT number and both dockets on its own site. The Illinois Commerce Commission number it also publishes is a state identifier, and the FMC licence number is a Federal Maritime Commission credential rather than an FMCSA registration; neither is recorded as a federal motor carrier registration. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 31 July 2001, following a later compliance review dated 18 August 2016 that the file records as non-ratable; that is a dated federal snapshot and not a current safety score. The company states that MiniMoves was created in 1991 and has specialised in small moves since.
Noted for: Small shipments, studio and one-bedroom apartment moves and single-item long-distance jobs that are too large to ship and too small for a full van-line trailer.
Einstein Moving Company LLC files from Brown Lane in Austin, Texas, active on the federal census with 80 power units, seven non-commercial units, 182 drivers and an MCS-150 filed 27 March 2026. The registration is filed as intrastate only for non-hazardous cargo and the federal record carries no MC, MX or FF docket and no interstate operating authority. That is what the federal file shows and it is stated as a description of the filing, not as a finding about the company's right to operate: an intrastate Texas operation does not require interstate authority. A docket number circulated in secondary sources for this brand was not located on the federal record and is therefore not stored. The company publishes this USDOT number in its own footer together with a Texas Department of Motor Vehicles number, and it publishes a separate Florida registration for its Tampa operation; the Texas registration is the primary record this profile describes and the Florida registrant is disclosed separately as a related registration rather than merged into it. The state numbers are state identifiers and are not recorded as federal registrations. No federal safety rating was located for this registration, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states it was founded in 2012.
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.
