Picture a moving company. Now shrink it. The median licensed interstate household goods mover in America operates exactly two trucks. 64.2% run one or two; only 2.5% run more than fifty. The national brands you can name are the industry's outliers, not its face.
This isn't a criticism — small movers include some of the best in the country, and the crew that owns its own truck often treats your furniture like it's theirs. But scale has one specific consequence: resilience to schedule shocks. When a two-truck company's truck breaks, or the job before yours runs two days long, there is no spare capacity. That's when dates slip — and week-long delivery windows exist to absorb exactly this.
Every carrier we list shows its fleet size from its own federal filing, so you can weigh the trade yourself: the personal touch of a two-truck firm against the scheduling depth of a fleet. Both are legitimate choices — as long as you're making it knowingly.
Method: POWER_UNITS per latest MCS-150 filing, FMCSA census, same carrier filter, n=19,524. Retrieved 14 August 2026.