About MoverVerify
Making the federal record on movers actually usable
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Hiring an interstate mover is one of the few large purchases most people make exactly once, against a company they have never heard of, at a moment when they are already overwhelmed. It is also one of the few where the federal government has already done the hard verification work and published the answer.
Every interstate household goods carrier must register with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, hold active operating authority, and keep insurance on file. All of that is public. It is just published in systems built for investigators and compliance officers — not for someone with three quotes in a browser tab and a move in nine days. MoverVerify exists to close that gap and nothing more: 18,400 carriers, each fact sourced, dated, and linked back to the government system it came from.
Independence
MoverVerify is an independent private service. It is not FMCSA, the U.S. Department of Transportation, or any government agency, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
We use no federal seals, no ".gov"-style branding, and nothing designed to imply official standing. The data is the government’s; the site is not. If anything here ever reads as though it were an official federal service, that is a bug — tell us.
What we do and don’t publish
We report what the federal record states: operating authority, insurance filings, safety ratings, out-of-service orders, and complaint counts. We do not publish reviews, star ratings, or opinions about whether a company is good at moving furniture — we have no basis for that and pretending otherwise would undermine the part we can actually stand behind.
We also never editorialise beyond the source. You will not find "avoid this company" anywhere on this site. You will find that its authority is revoked, with the date and a link to the federal record, which is more useful and more honest.
Affiliate disclosure
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you request a quote or buy a service through one of them, MoverVerify may earn a referral commission at no additional cost to you. This disclosure is made in accordance with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (16 CFR Part 255).
Three limits on that, which matter more than the disclosure itself:
- No affiliate link appears on a company profile. Quote modules live on state, city and guide pages only, clearly labelled as advertising and visually separated from any verification data.
- No carrier can pay for its status. There are no paid listings, no featured placement, and no way to pay to be removed. A carrier’s verification status is derived entirely from federal records and is identical whether it pays us anything or not. None do.
- Advertising never changes rankings. Carrier lists are ordered by name, never by commercial relationship.
If we ever add display advertising, it will be labelled and will sit under the same wall. The day verification data becomes purchasable, this site stops being worth running.
How the data works
The short version: federal bulk files are pulled daily and rebuilt into the registry that drives every page. Complaint history is the exception — no bulk feed exists, so it is checked on a slower rolling schedule and labelled honestly as such.
The long version, including every source, its refresh cadence, how the three verification labels are assigned and how to get a record corrected, is on the Methodology page.
Contact
- Corrections to a carrier record: [email protected], or the form on any company page.
- Privacy requests: [email protected]
- Anything else: [email protected]
These are inboxes checked periodically, not staffed support lines. If you are in the middle of a dispute with a mover right now, FMCSA’s own complaint channel will move faster than we can — here is how to reach it.