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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.
Earle W. Noyes & Sons files from Portland, Maine as a single federal registrant, with fourteen power units and seven drivers on the federal file and no parent, franchise network or sibling registration located in the records reviewed. The registrant's legal name and its longer trading name are recorded as the federal file carries them. The file shows a satisfactory safety rating dated 11 August 1983 following a compliance review of that era; that is a dated federal snapshot and is reported with its date rather than as an assessment of the company today. The company states first-party that it has been moving Maine households since 1923.
Exodus Moving & Storage files from northern Colorado with twenty-seven power units and seventeen drivers on the federal file, one of the larger owned fleets among independent movers in its region. The address on the federal filing is in Johnstown while the company publishes a Fort Collins base for customers: a filing address and a published headquarters describe different functions, both are recorded as read, and neither is treated as a correction to the other. The federal file carries a satisfactory safety rating dated 24 October 2019 following a compliance review, reported with its date as the dated snapshot it is. The company states first-party that it has operated since 1996.
Ontrack Moving & Storage files as a single limited liability company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fleet figures on this profile come from the controlling federal file, which shows twenty power units and twenty-five drivers; smaller counts circulating in aggregator listings are stale mirrors and are not used. The California household goods permit the company publishes is a state licence identifier and is not recorded as a federal registration. 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.
A. Fazio Moving & Storage files from Ramsey, New Jersey as a single federal registrant with five power units and two drivers on the federal file, and no parent, franchise network, van-line relationship or sibling registration located in the records reviewed. The company prints its own federal identifiers on its website and they match the registration described here. The exact operating-authority classes carried on the registration could not be read from the sources reviewed, so no authority role is asserted in either direction. No federal safety rating is carried on the file; a compliance review date from the 1960s exists in the record but a review date is not a rating and is not published as one. The company describes its history only in relative terms, so no founding year is stored.
Mother Lode files from Rancho Cordova, California as a single federal registrant with nineteen power units and eight drivers on the federal file. The federal legal name records the company as a van and storage corporation while the consumer brand reads Moving & Storage; that is an ordinary brand and legal-name distinction and is not treated as a discrepancy. The company operates one live site reached through a redirect from an older domain it also owns, and both addresses resolve to the same business, so no duplicate identity is recorded. The exact operating-authority classes on the registration were not readable in the sources reviewed and none is inferred. No federal safety rating is on file. The company states first-party that it has served the Sacramento region since 1965.
Daly Movers files from Garden Grove, California as a single federal registrant with eleven power units and eleven drivers on the federal file. The registration's operation code is recorded exactly as filed, an intrastate non-hazardous operation, and this profile does not restate that filing as independently verified interstate authority; equally, nothing here concludes the company cannot handle interstate work through its verified Wheaton agency relationship. The two layers are kept apart. The Wheaton docket number that appears in the company's published material belongs to the van line and is never recorded as a Daly identifier. The exact authority classes on Daly's own registration were not readable in the sources reviewed. No federal safety rating is on file. The company's own history wording is relative and inconsistent, so no founding year is stored.
A. Santini Moving & Storage files from Dayton, New Jersey. The federal registrant is a New Jersey storage corporation trading under the Santini moving name, with sixteen power units and six drivers on the federal file. A second registration in the same name is carried on the federal file as inactive and shares the company's published telephone number; that shared number is a real bridge, but no corporate filing establishing the relationship was read, so the registration is disclosed as related and unresolved and nothing about succession or ownership is asserted. The exact operating-authority classes on the active registration were not readable in the sources reviewed. No current federal safety rating is on file; an old compliance review date exists and is not published as a rating. The company's own history wording is relative, so no founding year is stored.
Bookstore Movers files from Hyattsville, Maryland with twenty-three power units and twenty-three drivers on the federal file, an unusually even fleet-to-driver ratio for an independent of its size. Maryland is the address on the federal filing; the Washington DC geography the company markets is a service market rather than a competing headquarters claim, and no location discrepancy is recorded from service-area marketing. No parent, franchise network, van-line relationship or related registration was located. The exact operating-authority classes on the registration were not readable in the sources reviewed, so none is asserted. No federal safety rating is on file. The company states first-party that it started in 2005.
Maher Brothers Transfer & Storage files from Cedar Rapids, Iowa as a single federal registrant with thirty-two power units and twenty-six drivers on the federal file. The company prints its own federal number on its website as 087390; that is zero-padding of the same registration this profile describes, not a competing identifier, and it is recorded as agreement rather than as a conflict. The company is an Allied Van Lines agent, and every Allied corporate identifier is held as a van-line number and is never recorded as a Maher identifier. The exact operating-authority classes on the registration were not readable in the sources reviewed, so none is asserted and none is ruled out. The federal file carries a Satisfactory safety rating dated 18 March 2009, which is a dated snapshot rather than a current certification. The company states first-party that the moving and storage business was founded in 1922.
Alaska Terminals files from Anchorage as a single federal registrant with nineteen power units and sixteen drivers on the federal file. The registration carries an active docket, MC-508071, and a second docket on the same row that the file marks inactive; the inactive docket is recorded as observed on the registration and no role is asserted for it. The company is an Atlas Van Lines agent, and Atlas corporate identifiers stay van-line numbers and are never attached to this registration. The exact operating-authority classes were not readable in the sources reviewed, so none is asserted. The federal file carries a Satisfactory safety rating dated 27 January 2006; that is a dated federal snapshot from twenty years ago and is not a current safety certification or an editorial verdict. The company states first-party that it opened in 1981.
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.
