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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.
Rainier Overseas Movers Inc files from Renton, Washington, active on the federal record with freight forwarder docket FF-1072 and docket MC-1567976. The authority presentation read for this registration shows freight forwarder of household goods, freight forwarder of property and broker of household goods; no motor carrier authority was located, so the company is described here as a freight forwarder and broker rather than as a motor carrier. The registration reports zero power units. That is the expected shape of a forwarding and broking business rather than a deficiency, and it is not presented as one. No separate FMC or ocean transportation intermediary licence was verified in the records reviewed, so none is published. No federal safety rating is on file, which is the normal state for a registration carrying no motor carrier authority and carries no implication about service quality. A similarly named Los Angeles forwarding operation was returned during verification with no identity evidence connecting it to this brand, and it is excluded. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1979.
Noted for: Overseas household relocations arranged and forwarded end to end, where the reader wants a single point of accountability across ocean, air and destination handling.
O'Neill Transfer & Storage files from the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon under its own federal registration, carrying docket MC-111617. The registration is the company's own: the corporate registration of Wheaton Van Lines is a separate federal record belonging to a separate registrant, and it is not stored here even though third-party directories have attached the van line's corporate USDOT to this brand. That is a directory error and it is not repeated. The company states first-party that it is a Wheaton agency; an agency relationship is recorded as a relationship and the van line's identifiers stay outside this record. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it has served the region since 1920. A separate first-party phrase describing more than a hundred years of service is a less precise statement of the same history rather than a competing year, so it is not recorded as a source conflict and the founding year is published as stated.
Priestley & Sons Moving files from Gresham, Oregon as a single federal registrant, with no separate corporate parent, no franchise network and no sibling registrations located in the records reviewed. Fleet and driver counts published here are taken from the controlling federal snapshot for this registration and from nothing else: third-party aggregators publish differing counts, and where they disagree with the federal file they are not used. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1929.
Redman Van & Storage files its own federal registration from Salt Lake City, Utah, and that registration is the primary federal identifier for this company. No current MC docket was located on the federal record reviewed. That is a statement about the records read and nothing more: no docket is guessed, none circulating in secondary listings is stored, and nothing here is a finding that the company lacks authority to operate. The company states first-party that it is a northAmerican Van Lines agent, and the northAmerican agency number 070851 is recorded as a van-line identifier belonging to the relationship rather than as a federal registration of this company. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1891.
Golan's Moving & Storage files from the Chicago area in Illinois as a single federal registrant, with no franchise network and no sibling registrations located in the records reviewed. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. On founding, the company's own material states a relative duration — roughly three decades of service — rather than a year. A relative duration changes with the passage of time and does not establish a specific founding year, so no exact year is stored or published for this company, in fact tables, in page metadata or in structured data. The first-party relative claim is recorded as what it is, with attribution, and it is not converted into a date.
Divine Moving & Storage files as a single federal registrant serving New York City. The address on the federal filing is in the Bronx while the company publishes a Manhattan base for customers: a filing address and a published headquarters describe different things, both are recorded as read, and neither is treated as a correction to the other. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. On founding, the company's own material states more than thirty years of service rather than a year. A relative claim of that kind does not establish a specific founding year, so no exact year is stored or published in fact tables, page metadata or structured data; the relative claim is shown as a first-party statement with attribution and is not converted into a date.
Continental Van Lines files from Seattle, Washington as a single federal registrant. The company publishes Alaska and international service, and that service description is not read as evidence of federal authority: no freight forwarder authority was located on the record reviewed, so none is stated, and the character of the business is not used to infer a role the federal file does not show. Nothing here is a finding that the company lacks authority it needs; it is a statement about the records read. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1952.
Welch Transfer & Storage is the trading name on a federal registration filed under the legal name Huseman Logistics Inc, with the Welch and Angelo Transportation names carried as filed trade names on the same record. That is recorded as read: the legal registrant and the consumer-facing brand are named separately rather than collapsed into one another. The company is a Wheaton Van Lines agent; the van line holds its own registration, and no van-line identifier is stored on this record. The federal file shows fifteen power units and sixteen drivers, and carries no safety rating, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. On founding, the company publishes relative wording only rather than a year, so no founding year is stored or published for this company.
Viking Moving Services files as a single federal registrant in eastern Massachusetts, with five power units and five drivers on the federal file. The Viking name is used by unrelated registrants elsewhere in the country; identity on this profile is locked to one registration number and legal name, and same-name registrants are excluded rather than described as related companies. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company publishes no founding year of its own, so none is stored or published here.
Still Transfer Co. files from northeast Tennessee as a long-established registrant with fifteen power units and thirteen drivers on the federal file. The record shows both carrier and broker roles, and the two are kept separate on this profile: work the company hauls itself and work it arranges for another carrier are different functions and are described that way. The federal file carries a satisfactory safety rating dated 25 March 2002 following a compliance review. That is a dated federal snapshot, reported with its date rather than as a current verdict, and it is neither confirmed nor contradicted by anything more recent in the records reviewed. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1928.
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.
