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U.S. household goods movers: federal checks by state and city (MoverGrade, 2026-10)

Counts of the 8,125 household goods movers listed on MoverGrade (https://movergrade.com/): companies with an active FMCSA operating authority for household goods, carriers and moving brokers. The counts are given by headquarters state and by MoverGrade city page, with how many movers have each MoverGrade grade and, for each of the 8 federal checks behind the grade, how many movers fail it and how many it was applied to. A third file gives the thresholds of the three statistical checks. FMCSA records read on October 18, 2026.

This dataset is not a ranking or a recommendation of any mover, and MoverGrade grades are not FMCSA safety ratings. MoverGrade is not a moving company or a broker, and it is not affiliated with FMCSA or the U.S. Department of Transportation.

What the files never contain

No row is about a single company: no USDOT or MC number, no company name, no address, no person. Company-level facts stay on the MoverGrade company pages, which are read again from FMCSA. When a row covers fewer than 10 movers, or when its counts could be worked out by subtracting other rows from a total, only its movers count is published and the other cells are empty.

Files

• movers-by-state.csv: one row for all movers, one per state (50 states and DC, by the headquarters state the company declares to FMCSA), and one for movers headquartered elsewhere (U.S. territories, Canada, Mexico; this row has no page).
• movers-by-city.csv: one row per MoverGrade city page (76 pages). A city page lists the movers headquartered in the city's county or counties, named in counties, not only in the city itself.
• grade-thresholds.csv: for the vehicle and driver out-of-service checks, the smallest number of out-of-service inspections at which a mover fails, for selected numbers of inspections; for the crash check, the smallest number of counted crashes at which a carrier fails, for selected fleet sizes.

Columns

• area_code, area (state file) or state_code, city_page, counties (city file); movergrade_page: the page that lists these movers.
• movers: movers listed on MoverGrade in the row.
• grade_a, grade_b, grade_c, grade_d, not_rated: movers with each grade. A: no failed check, and at least 5 vehicle or driver inspections. B: one failed check. C: two. D: three or more, or a revocation pending, or an out-of-service order in effect. Not rated: no failed check, and fewer than 5 inspections of each kind or a broker with no carrier authority.
• <check>_failed, <check>_checked: movers that fail the check, and movers the check was applied to (the others have no data for it). The 8 checks pass when:
  1. authority: no revocation of operating authority pending (6eyk-hxee).
  2. insurance: the insurance FMCSA requires is on file: liability (BIPD) at the required minimum, and cargo insurance and a broker bond when required (6eyk-hxee, ypjt-5ydn).
  3. oos_order: no out-of-service order against the company in the last 24 months, and none in effect (p2mt-9ige).
  4. revocation: no operating authority revoked by FMCSA in the last 24 months; a revocation the company asked for doesn't count (9mw4-x3tu, sa6p-acbp).
  5. safety_rating: the FMCSA safety rating, if the company has one, is Satisfactory; Conditional or Unsatisfactory fails. Judged only for companies with a rating (az4n-8mr2).
  6. vehicle_oos: the vehicle out-of-service rate is not clearly above the U.S. reference rate. Judged from 5 vehicle inspections (rbkj-cgst).
  7. driver_oos: the driver out-of-service rate is not clearly above the U.S. reference rate. Judged from 5 driver inspections (rbkj-cgst).
  8. crashes: crashes with an injury or a death, except those FMCSA judged not preventable, are not clearly above the reference per power unit. Judged for every carrier with power units; a carrier fails only from 2 such crashes (4wxs-vbns).
• Thresholds file: check, size_measure (what size counts), size, fails_at.

Method

A rate fails only when it is clearly above the reference: at least 25% above it, and with less than a 5% chance for a mover exactly at the reference to reach that count (binomial law for inspections, Poisson law for crashes). Reference rates, fixed on October 17, 2026 until January 17, 2027: 22.6% of vehicle inspections (levels 1, 2, 5 and 6) and 6.1% of driver inspections (levels 1, 2, 3 and 6) end with an out-of-service order, across all carriers in the inspection dataset; 0.0106 counted crashes per power unit in 24 months, the average of the carriers in MoverGrade's records on October 17, 2026. Inspections from September 25, 2024 to September 24, 2026; crashes from September 25, 2024 to September 11, 2026. Full method: https://movergrade.com/method/

Sources

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), through data.transportation.gov. As works of the U.S. government, the records are in the public domain.

• Carrier - All With History (6eyk-hxee), updated by FMCSA on October 17, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/6eyk-hxee
• Company Census File (az4n-8mr2), updated by FMCSA on October 17, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/az4n-8mr2
• SMS Input - Inspection (rbkj-cgst), updated by FMCSA on October 13, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/rbkj-cgst
• SMS Input - Crash (4wxs-vbns), updated by FMCSA on October 13, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/4wxs-vbns
• OUT OF SERVICE ORDERS (p2mt-9ige), updated by FMCSA on October 18, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/p2mt-9ige
• Revocation - All With History (sa6p-acbp), updated by FMCSA on October 17, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/sa6p-acbp
• AuthHist - All With History (9mw4-x3tu), updated by FMCSA on October 17, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/9mw4-x3tu
• Insur - All With History (ypjt-5ydn), updated by FMCSA on October 17, 2026, read on October 18, 2026: https://data.transportation.gov/d/ypjt-5ydn

Limits

• The FMCSA register can lag behind reality: an insurer's filing can take days to show. A pending revocation can end within days, and the grade with it. These counts describe the register on October 18, 2026, not today.
• The state is the headquarters state, not where a mover works. A van line's inspections count under its USDOT number, even when its agents own the trucks.
• Crashes are compared per power unit, not per mile.
• Companies whose name is a person's name (with no business name to show instead), companies whose USDOT number is inactive, and companies removed on request before this read are not listed on MoverGrade and are not counted here. This edition doesn't change after it is published.

License and citation

The counts, tables and texts of these files are by MoverGrade and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The underlying FMCSA records are in the public domain. Cite as: MoverGrade (2026). U.S. household goods movers: federal checks by state and city (MoverGrade, 2026-10) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23451467

Corrections to a company page: https://movergrade.com/corrections/ or contact@movergrade.com. Legal notice: https://movergrade.com/legal/

Also published at

• Zenodo (citable, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23451467): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23451467
• MoverGrade: https://movergrade.com/