Every federally authorized moving company, by state

There are 1252 companies in the entire United States holding active federal authority to move household goods. Not tens of thousands. 1131 of them own trucks and carry your things themselves; 189 are brokers, who own nothing and sell your job to somebody else. This is all of them, from the government’s own file, grouped by the state their business address is in.

Being on this list is not a recommendation and we are not vouching for anybody. It means one thing: as of 8 September 2026, this company held active federal operating authority for household goods. It is not a rating, not a vetting, and not an endorsement. FMCSA itself says it does not endorse any moving company on the basis of registration status, and we are in no position to do what the regulator declines to do.

What the difference actually costs you — the disclosure a broker owes you, the list of carriers you can ask for, and why the estimate rules bind a company you did not choose.

1252 companies, 51 states and territories.

No match in Alabama.

No match in Alaska.

No match in Arizona.

No match in Arkansas.

No match in California.

No match in Colorado.

No match in Connecticut.

No match in Delaware.

No match in District of Columbia.

No match in Florida.

No match in Georgia.

No match in Guam.

No match in Hawaii.

No match in Idaho.

No match in Illinois.

No match in Indiana.

No match in Iowa.

No match in Kansas.

No match in Kentucky.

No match in Louisiana.

No match in Maine.

No match in Maryland.

No match in Massachusetts.

No match in Michigan.

No match in Minnesota.

No match in Mississippi.

No match in Missouri.

No match in Montana.

No match in Nebraska.

No match in Nevada.

No match in New Hampshire.

No match in New Jersey.

No match in New Mexico.

No match in New York.

No match in North Carolina.

No match in North Dakota.

No match in Ohio.

No match in Oklahoma.

No match in Oregon.

No match in Pennsylvania.

No match in Rhode Island.

No match in South Carolina.

No match in South Dakota.

No match in Tennessee.

No match in Texas.

No match in Utah.

No match in Virginia.

No match in Washington.

No match in West Virginia.

No match in Wisconsin.

No match in Wyoming.

What the list does not cover, which is most moves

Federal authority is for moving between states. A move entirely inside one state is regulated by that state, or in some states barely regulated at all, and those companies do not appear here. A local mover being absent from this list is normal and means nothing. A company that told you it moves across state lines being absent means a great deal.

State regulation is genuinely uneven, and we have only read two of them at source, so those are the only two we name. For a local move, search your own state’s moving-company registration, and note that FMCSA itself sends people to their state or local consumer affairs agency for exactly this.

One more thing this list cannot tell you. A company holding authority today may not tomorrow, and a company with clean paperwork can still do a bad job. Authority is the floor, not the ceiling. The checks that actually protect you — the estimate type, the inventory, the 110 percent rule — are on the moving page, and they matter more than this page does.

Compiled from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s operating authority file, published daily on the US Department of Transportation open data portal and pulled on 8 September 2026. Filtered to entities whose authority type is a household goods motor carrier, broker or freight forwarder, and whose authority status is active. Names, towns and USDOT numbers are as FMCSA records them. FMCSA does not endorse any moving company on the basis of registration status, safety rating or any other data in its records, and neither does The Cusp.

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