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US interstate movers in 2026: what the federal register shows

Every company licensed to move household goods between US states files with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. We read those filings every day. This is what they add up to, from filings retrieved 9 Oct 2026. It counts what companies filed. It does not rate any of them.

8,341

companies hold active federal authority to move household goods between states

51%

of them run one or two trucks

28%

registered with FMCSA since 2022

1,613

are required to file cargo insurance and have none on file

954

companies hold broker authority: they arrange moves that another company performs

83%

of the 53,802 companies with a household goods filing hold no active authority in the latest records

Most movers are small

51% of companies with active carrier authority report one or two trucks. Only 157, 2%, run more than fifty.

  • No truck on file5%
  • 1 or 2 trucks51%
  • 3 to 10 trucks32%
  • 11 to 50 trucks10%
  • More than 50 trucks2%

Trucks are the power units each company reports in FMCSA's census.

Young companies, and old ones

13% of today's active carriers registered with FMCSA in the last two years, and 27% more than twenty years ago.

1974: 439 still active1981: 8 still active1982: 15 still active1983: 17 still active1984: 22 still active1985: 21 still active1986: 25 still active1987: 46 still active1988: 28 still active1989: 33 still active1990: 29 still active1991: 35 still active1992: 46 still active1993: 102 still active1994: 66 still active1995: 70 still active1996: 57 still active1997: 106 still active1998: 80 still active1999: 82 still active2000: 130 still active2001: 92 still active2002: 158 still active2003: 115 still active2004: 152 still active2005: 140 still active2006: 158 still active2007: 162 still active2008: 142 still active2009: 177 still active2010: 167 still active2011: 171 still active2012: 162 still active2013: 161 still active2014: 184 still active2015: 226 still active2016: 247 still active2017: 447 still active2018: 355 still active2019: 299 still active2020: 369 still active2021: 478 still active2022: 416 still active2023: 420 still active2024: 513 still active2025: 674 still active2026: 287 still active
19742026
Year each currently-active company was first registered. 28% registered in the last five years.

Active carriers by the year FMCSA added them to its census.

Where they are

By the state of each company's registered address. The largest share are in Florida, California, Texas.

Alabama — 113 licensed companiesAL113Alaska — 33 licensed companiesAK33Arizona — 140 licensed companiesAZ140Arkansas — 48 licensed companiesAR48California — 571 licensed companiesCA571Colorado — 183 licensed companiesCO183Connecticut — 141 licensed companiesCT141Delaware — 27 licensed companiesDE27District of Columbia — 4 licensed companiesDC4Florida — 578 licensed companiesFL578Georgia — 314 licensed companiesGA314Hawaii — 30 licensed companiesHI30Idaho — 40 licensed companiesID40Illinois — 389 licensed companiesIL389Indiana — 201 licensed companiesIN201Iowa — 67 licensed companiesIA67Kansas — 64 licensed companiesKS64Kentucky — 76 licensed companiesKY76Louisiana — 53 licensed companiesLA53Maine — 22 licensed companiesME22Maryland — 297 licensed companiesMD297Massachusetts — 301 licensed companiesMA301Michigan — 162 licensed companiesMI162Minnesota — 113 licensed companiesMN113Mississippi — 57 licensed companiesMS57Missouri — 229 licensed companiesMO229Montana — 42 licensed companiesMT42Nebraska — 51 licensed companiesNE51Nevada — 87 licensed companiesNV87New Hampshire — 64 licensed companiesNH64New Jersey — 476 licensed companiesNJ476New Mexico — 39 licensed companiesNM39New York — 411 licensed companiesNY411North Carolina — 320 licensed companiesNC320North Dakota — 31 licensed companiesND31Ohio — 243 licensed companiesOH243Oklahoma — 72 licensed companiesOK72Oregon — 114 licensed companiesOR114Pennsylvania — 304 licensed companiesPA304Rhode Island — 45 licensed companiesRI45South Carolina — 113 licensed companiesSC113South Dakota — 24 licensed companiesSD24Tennessee — 182 licensed companiesTN182Texas — 559 licensed companiesTX559Utah — 65 licensed companiesUT65Vermont — 19 licensed companiesVT19Virginia — 338 licensed companiesVA338Washington — 208 licensed companiesWA208West Virginia — 18 licensed companiesWV18Wisconsin — 119 licensed companiesWI119Wyoming — 24 licensed companiesWY24
FewerMore· companies filing a home address in each state
  1. 1. Florida578
  2. 2. California571
  3. 3. Texas559
  4. 4. New Jersey476
  5. 5. New York411
  6. 6. Illinois389
  7. 7. Virginia338
  8. 8. North Carolina320
  9. 9. Georgia314
  10. 10. Pennsylvania304

Cargo insurance

Cargo insurance is the coverage that applies to a customer's belongings. Of the 7,772 active carriers whose filings say it is required, 6,159 have it on file and 1,613 (21%) do not. Another 569 are not required to file it. 279 active carriers have a revocation of their authority pending.

A missing filing is what the record shows, not a finding about any company: a filing can lag a policy, and most statuses here date from 14 May 2026 (see below). Check a specific company's record before relying on it.

How current this is

FMCSA stopped updating its legacy authority file on 14 May 2026 and moved registrations to a new system, MOTUS, which so far holds only companies that have filed since. 3,287 companies take their authority and insurance status from MOTUS, updated 9 Oct 2026; the other 50,515 still show the legacy file's status. Addresses, fleets and registration dates come from FMCSA's census, read 9 Oct 2026. This is a snapshot: trends in licences granted and lost will follow once enough daily records have built up on the new register.

Method

  • Companies are every entity with a household goods filing in FMCSA's authority records: 53,802.
  • Active carriers hold active common or contract authority to carry household goods (alone or together with broker authority).
  • Sources: FMCSA's MOTUS register (inys-ebih), its legacy authority file (6eyk-hxee) and its company census (az4n-8mr2), on data.transportation.gov.
  • Figures are recomputed from the filings every day. How the data is sourced.

Cite this report

vanline.ai, "US interstate movers in 2026: what the federal register shows", from FMCSA filings retrieved 2026-10-09. https://vanline.ai/reports/movers-2026

The records behind every figure are free to use through the vanline.ai API, and any company's record is at vanline.ai/movers/{USDOT}.