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Moving companies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked on public records

We found 3,215 moving companies working in the Philadelphia area and checked each one against federal carrier records. Of those, 51 had active authority, insurance on file and enough reviews to judge, and the 9 that scored highest are listed below. The top three are Broad Street Movers LLC (4.9 stars, 1,040 Google reviews), WellKnown Moving Company (4.9, 358) and College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving of Levittown (4.9, 9,505).

Scores weigh operating authority, insurance history, complaints per truck per year and whether a revoked carrier once used the same address. Reviews are one input of five, and a thin one counts for less.

Last updated September 2026 Sources: FMCSA · FMCSA complaints · Google reviews · AI website analysis · Google organic results · Reddit Algorithm 0.11.0 How we rank

Covers the whole Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, not only the city. About half the movers serving Philadelphia are registered in the suburbs.

Ranked movers in Philadelphia

Every company below has an active USDOT number, liability insurance on file with the FMCSA and enough public reviews to judge. We list at most one company per parent van line, and no company can pay for a place.

Showing 9 of 9 published movers

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Score 78

Broad Street Movers LLC

12 yrs · 10 trucks · broadstreetmovers.com
★ 4.9
1,040 Google reviews
Published pricing No price shown on their site No binding estimate — they can require 110% of the quote at delivery
Checks out
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Surveys the job before quoting it
Recent reviews rather than a stale back catalog
Recommended in 2 Reddit threads
Watch
The website claims materially more years in business than the DOT registration supports. Worth asking what the earlier entity was.
In-home survey USDOT 2472401 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (215) 275-1924
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Score 74

WellKnown Moving Company

2 yrs · 6 trucks · wellknownmoving.com
★ 4.9
358 Google reviews
Published pricing No price shown on their site
Checks out
Explains valuation coverage rather than burying it
Offers a binding estimate
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Recommended in 2 Reddit threads
Watch
The website claims materially more years in business than the DOT registration supports. Worth asking what the earlier entity was.
Binding estimateIn-home surveyPiano and specialty USDOT 4224986 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (610) 477-6644
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Score 70

College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving of Levittown

14 yrs · 19 trucks · collegehunkshaulingjunk.com
★ 4.9
9,505 Google reviews
Published pricing $99.00–$699.00$150.00–$750.00
Checks out
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Larger verified fleet than most movers in the metro
Recent reviews rather than a stale back catalog
Watch
Nothing on the public record stands out. Still get the estimate in writing.
USDOT 2251093 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (215) 383-0569
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Score 69

BR Moving LLC

12 yrs · 7 trucks · brmoving.com
★ 4.7
183 Google reviews
Published pricing No price shown on their site
Checks out
Explains valuation coverage rather than burying it
Offers a binding estimate
Surveys the job before quoting it
Recommended on Reddit
Watch
Put out of service at 2 roadside inspections out of 3 in the last two years. Ask what was found and what changed.
Binding estimateIn-home survey USDOT 2508433 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (215) 620-5796
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Score 67

Forward Moving LLC

8 yrs · 6 trucks · forwardmovers.net
★ 4.9
674 Google reviews
Published pricing No price shown on their site No binding estimate — they can require 110% of the quote at delivery
Checks out
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Surveys the job before quoting it
Publishes its DOT number, and it matches the registry
Watch
A small fleet books out fast in peak season. Ask what happens if your date slips.
Video surveyPiano and specialtyStorage USDOT 3078473 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (484) 473-4605
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Score 63

Payless Moving Inc

17 yrs · 4 trucks · paylessmovingsj.com
★ 4.5
179 Google reviews
Published pricing $975 from, East Coast$1,125 from, Tri-State$1,295 from, FL-ME
Checks out
Offers a binding estimate
Surveys the job before quoting it
Publishes its DOT number, and it matches the registry
Watch
The website claims materially more years in business than the DOT registration supports. Worth asking what the earlier entity was.
Binding estimateIn-home survey USDOT 1917883 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (856) 784-4977
7
Score 63

Eversafe Moving Company

14 yrs · 4 trucks · eversafemoving.com
★ 5.0
857 Google reviews
Published pricing $176/hr, 2 movers$264/hr, 3 movers$88/hr, add'l mover3 hr minimum
Checks out
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Publishes its DOT number, and it matches the registry
Recent reviews rather than a stale back catalog
Watch
Most of the reviews are more than a year old, so they describe a crew that may have turned over since.
Phone only USDOT 2261303 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (215) 826-3181
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Score 62

The Move Smith LLC

10 yrs · 3 trucks · themovesmith.com
★ 4.9
201 Google reviews
Published pricing No price shown on their site No binding estimate — they can require 110% of the quote at delivery
Checks out
Explains valuation coverage rather than burying it
Strong rating once adjusted for how many people left one
Publishes its DOT number, and it matches the registry
Watch
Most of the reviews are more than a year old, so they describe a crew that may have turned over since.
USDOT 2878415 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (484) 455-4554
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Score 61

Litemoverscom LLC

15 yrs · 9 trucks · litemovers.com
★ 5.0
25 Google reviews
Published pricing $0.60/lb
Checks out
Surveys the job before quoting it
Publishes its DOT number, and it matches the registry
Larger verified fleet than most movers in the metro
Watch
The website claims materially more years in business than the DOT registration supports. Worth asking what the earlier entity was.
In-home surveyStorage USDOT 2173383 active · State certificate not checked
Visit the site (610) 755-5535

We publish 9 rather than padding to a round number. 3164 of the 3215 companies we checked failed eligibility outright — no active authority, broker-only, no insurance on file, outside the metro, too few reviews, or a duplicate listing.

Ranking method

What a move costs in Philadelphia

A local move in Philadelphia costs $380 to $880 for a studio or 1 bedroom and $1,450 to $3,200 for 4 or more bedrooms, according to the 5 guides that publish Philadelphia prices. MovingCRM's own job records put the average local move at $900. The guides disagree and several copy each other, so the table shows the full spread and which guide said what. A guide written by a company on this list is marked with its rank.

Moving within the area
Studio or 1 bedroom
$380–$880
3 sources
2 bedrooms
$790–$1,420
3 sources
3 bedrooms
$1,050–$2,400
3 sources
4+ bedrooms
$1,450–$3,200
3 sources
Hourly crew rate
$60–$390/hr
4 sources
Usually in the price
basic cover2crew2materials2assembly1fuel1minimum charge1
Usually charged on top
heavy items3packing3stairs3storage3long carry2assembly1

The number is how many of the guides say so. An item on both sides is one the guides disagree about — worth asking before you book.

Moving out of state
Studio or 1 bedroom
$1,400–$7,200
2 sources
2 bedrooms
$1,900–$8,400
1 source
3 bedrooms
$2,400–$9,500
1 source
4+ bedrooms
$2,900–$13,000
1 source

These are wider than the local ones for a reason: a long-distance price follows the mileage more than the size of the home, so Philadelphia to New Jersey and Philadelphia to California sit inside the same row. Nobody can quote you usefully without asking where you are going — get the answer in writing as a binding estimate.

Read fromwellknownmoving.com #2 on this list extraspace.commoveadvisor.comeversafemoving.com #7 on this list letsgetmovingusa.comChecked September 2026
From MovingCRM’s own data
$900average local move in Philadelphia

Taken from real moves recorded on our partner companies' own websites — the software they quote and invoice in — rather than an estimate written for an article.

What Philadelphia says on Reddit

3 of the 9 companies here are recommended by name in Philadelphia subreddit threads from the last five years. We read those threads and sorted each mention into recommended, spoken well of, or only named. A recommendation adds a little to the score, a plain mention adds nothing, and a complaint counts against the company.

Recommended by name

6 of the 9 companies here came up in no thread at all. That is not evidence against them — plenty of good movers are simply never posted about, and a company can be excellent and invisible. No usernames are collected and no reviewer is identified. We count threads, not people, and a thread that names a company twice is one thread.

How to check a Philadelphia mover before you book

Ask for the mover's USDOT number and look it up on the FMCSA mover search before you pay any deposit. Then hold the quote up against the list below.

What the law requires

Intrastate: PA PUC certificate

Moving households within Pennsylvania requires a Certificate of Public Convenience from the Public Utility Commission. The PUC publishes no downloadable register, so we cannot check it. A company holding one gets no credit for it here, and a mover working only inside Pennsylvania, which needs no federal authority at all, cannot currently appear on this page. It is the largest known gap in what we check.

Interstate: USDOT number and HHG authority

Crossing a state line requires an active USDOT number and FMCSA operating authority registered for household goods. Registration alone is not authority — plenty of active USDOT numbers are not allowed to move your furniture. We check the USDOT number and the insurance filings. We stopped scoring or showing the household-goods flag itself in September 2026, because FMCSA's own systems disagree about it and a flag we cannot check is not evidence in either direction.

Insurance on file, and continuously

Public liability and cargo insurance must be filed with the FMCSA and kept current. A filing that lapses and is reinstated leaves a record, and we count lapses in the last 24 months against the score.

Complaints are public

The FMCSA runs a national consumer complaint database. We count complaints per truck per year rather than the raw total, because a 200-truck carrier will always have more complaints than a four-truck one.

What a real quote covers

Written estimate before the day Always ask
Binding or not-to-exceed price Ask explicitly
Survey of the job, in home or by video Expect one
Valuation coverage explained in writing Not insurance by default
Travel time and how the clock runs Get it in writing
Stairs, long carry and shuttle charges Named up front

Walk away if you see any of these

A quote given over the phone with no survey, for a job the company has never seen.
A large deposit demanded before the truck arrives, especially by cash or wire.
No USDOT number on the website, or one that resolves to a different company.
A name that changed recently while the address and phone number did not.
An estimate that is not in writing, or a blank document you are asked to sign.
Refusal to explain what valuation coverage pays out when something breaks.

Frequently asked

MovingCRM's own job records put the average local move in Philadelphia at $900. The guides that publish Philadelphia prices put a local move at $380 to $880 for a studio or 1 bedroom, $790 to $1,420 for 2 bedrooms, $1,050 to $2,400 for 3 bedrooms and $1,450 to $3,200 for 4 or more bedrooms. The table on this page shows which guide said what. A long-distance price follows the miles more than the size of the home, so those ranges are much wider.
The guides we read put a Philadelphia crew at $60 to $390 an hour. That is the rate for a crew of two or three with a truck, not a rate per person, so "one mover for three hours" is not usually something you can book. Before you compare two quotes, check what the hour covers. The guides agree that the truck, the crew and basic valuation cover are normally included, and that heavy items, packing labor, stairs and long carries are normally extra.
Nobody can tell you from a list, because your price depends on your date, your stairs and how much you own, and we do not rank on price. What we can show is who gives you a number before you call: 4 of the 9 companies here publish a price on their own website, and each card shows which. Also check whether the company offers a binding estimate, a price it has to hold to. On a move across state lines, federal rules let a mover without one ask for up to 110% of the estimate before it unloads, and that matters more to what you pay than the hourly rate.
Walk away if a company gives you a price over the phone for a job it has never seen, asks for a large deposit before the truck arrives (above all in cash or by wire), or has no USDOT number on its website. Other warning signs are a USDOT number that belongs to a different company, a recent name change at the same address and phone number, an estimate that is not in writing, a blank form to sign, and a refusal to explain what valuation coverage pays when something breaks.
On public records, the top three of the 9 we ranked are Broad Street Movers LLC, WellKnown Moving Company and College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving of Levittown. All 9 have an active USDOT number and liability insurance on file, and none has a federal complaint on file. We rank on licenses, insurance history, complaints per truck, reviews and what a company tells you before you book. Nobody pays to be here. Read the "Watch" line on each card before you call.
On five groups of evidence, in this order of weight: regulatory integrity, customer evidence, transparency, operational substance and market presence. Regulatory integrity covers operating authority, insurance continuity, complaints per truck per year and whether a revoked carrier once operated from the same address. Customer evidence is ratings adjusted for how many people left one, plus how recent they are. Operational substance means verified fleet size, years in operation and whether the company staffs its own crews. Transparency is what a company tells you before you book: a binding estimate, how it surveys a job and how valuation coverage works. It weighs more than operational substance because a company can change it simply by being straight with you. Market presence is organic search position and Reddit recommendations. It is the smallest group by some distance, it is shown beside the score, and it is dropped for any city we have not searched; read the conflict note before you weigh it. We publish the groups and their order but not the exact weights, because the weights are the first thing a reputation management firm would try to game.
No. There are no sponsored slots and no paid placement. Nothing a company buys from us, software, advertising or anything else, is visible to the scoring code. A test enforces that: it re-scores every company with all commercial data removed and fails the build if a single score moves. Where MovingCRM has a commercial relationship with a listed company, the listing says so. No company on this list has one today.
A carrier owns trucks and moves your goods. A broker sells the job to someone else, and you often do not learn who until the truck arrives. Both are legal and both must be registered with the FMCSA, but only a carrier is answerable for what happens to your things. Broker-only companies are excluded from this ranking, which is one of the reasons the list is shorter than the directories you will find elsewhere.
Because only 51 of the 3,215 movers we found in the Philadelphia area passed our checks, and we publish at most one company per parent van line. To pass, a company needed active federal authority, insurance on file, an address inside the metro and enough reviews to say anything about. In Pennsylvania a state certificate cannot qualify a company yet. From the 51 we publish the 9 highest scorers, spread across local, long-distance, specialty and storage work. A short list with the reasons shown is more useful than a long one padded out.
Yes, and there are two separate licenses. A company moving households inside Pennsylvania needs a certificate from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. A company crossing a state line needs an active USDOT number and FMCSA operating authority for household goods, plus public liability and cargo insurance on file. A company can hold one and not the other. We show neither on this page. The PA PUC publishes no downloadable register, and FMCSA's household-goods flag is not reliable enough to print because FMCSA's own systems disagree about it. What we do check is that the USDOT number is active and that insurance is on file. You can look up a USDOT number yourself on the FMCSA mover search.
Federal carrier and authority records are refreshed daily, safety measurement monthly, and the federal complaint database whenever it is republished. The PA PUC register is not read at all yet. Reviews and company websites are re-read monthly for published cities. Every published ranking is a dated snapshot that never changes, and a correction produces a new snapshot instead of editing the old one.

How this list was built

We found 3,215 movers in the Philadelphia area. 51 passed our eligibility checks and 9 made this list. Every number on this page comes from a federal or state record, a public review profile or a company's own website, and nothing a company pays for is an input.

Movers we checked
3215
Every mover we could find in the Philadelphia area
Passed our checks
51
Licensed, insured, and based here
On this list
9
The highest scoring, across different kinds of move
Typical rating here
4.8
What an average Philadelphia mover scores on Google
Typical cost here
$900
The average local move, on MovingCRM's own data

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