Most moving directories rank on star ratings, which are the easiest thing in the industry to buy. We start from federal and state carrier records: whether a company is a licensed carrier or an unlicensed broker, whether its insurance has lapsed, how many federal complaints it has per truck per year, and whether a revoked carrier once operated from the same address.
We publish one city at a time, after a full sweep of the metro. Why cities arrive slowly · Ask for your city
Each city takes a full sweep of the metro, a join against federal bulk files and a human pass over the entity matching. We add them one at a time rather than generating a thousand thin pages, because a page we have not checked is worth less than no page.
Household movers operating inside Pennsylvania need a Certificate of Public Convenience from the PA PUC. Movers crossing a state line need active FMCSA authority and household-goods registration. The PUC publishes no downloadable register, so we verify federal authority directly and note where a state certificate could not be checked.
Moving household goods within North Carolina requires a certificate from the NC Utilities Commission, which publishes the full list of certificated carriers. We read that register and check every company against it, alongside federal operating authority and insurance for moves that cross a state line.