Long distance movers in Texas

Q: How many licensed long distance movers are based in Texas?

1,476 active interstate household goods carriers list a Texas address on their federal filing, operating 9,466 trucks between them. Carriers routinely work far beyond their home state, so this is a measure of where the industry is registered rather than where it operates.

Q: Do Texas movers have safety records?

Mostly thin ones. 56% of Texas-based carriers have never had a roadside inspection, and 94% hold no federal safety rating. 153 have a reportable crash on record and 15 have been involved in a fatal one. Nationally, 48.0% of licensed movers have never been inspected, so Texas is above the national average.

Planning a move out of Texas? You're in good company — and so are we: 1,476 licensed interstate carriers are based here, and we've pulled the federal safety record for every one. Pick your city below to see them side by side, or just call and we'll help you narrow it down.

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1,476licensed carriers based in Texas

9,466trucks across those carriers

56%never inspected at the roadside

153with a reportable crash on record

15involved in a fatal crash

Texas cities

Every licensed carrier within 50 miles, with its USDOT number, fleet size, inspection record and crash history.

Flower Mound537 carriers within 50 mi
Dallas531 carriers within 50 mi
Keller530 carriers within 50 mi
Argyle529 carriers within 50 mi
The Colony529 carriers within 50 mi
Plano524 carriers within 50 mi
Little Elm518 carriers within 50 mi
Frisco510 carriers within 50 mi
Allen489 carriers within 50 mi
Prosper489 carriers within 50 mi
Wylie482 carriers within 50 mi
Rockwall449 carriers within 50 mi
Mckinney443 carriers within 50 mi
Celina438 carriers within 50 mi
Houston376 carriers within 50 mi
Humble372 carriers within 50 mi
Cypress369 carriers within 50 mi
Spring367 carriers within 50 mi
Katy364 carriers within 50 mi
Sugar Land363 carriers within 50 mi
New Braunfels129 carriers within 50 mi
Cedar Park125 carriers within 50 mi
Leander125 carriers within 50 mi
Round Rock124 carriers within 50 mi
Austin114 carriers within 50 mi
San Antonio99 carriers within 50 mi

67 further Texas communities are covered by these carriers and have pages in preparation.

Where people leaving Texas go

Households that filed taxes from Texas one year and from another state the next.

Destination	Households	People
California	24,970	41,232
Florida	20,050	35,016
Colorado	14,923	25,282
Oklahoma	11,582	21,762
Louisiana	10,522	19,642
New York	9,433	13,765
Washington	9,307	15,695
Georgia	9,120	16,796
North Carolina	8,694	15,847
Arizona	8,463	14,676

IRS Statistics of Income migration data, tax years 2022–2023. Households = returns filed; people = exemptions claimed. Suppressed cells excluded.

Who moves into Texas

Largest origin states by household count.

California (44,417) · Florida (24,196) · Louisiana (15,068) · New York (12,961) · Colorado (12,275) · Illinois (12,078)

Net balance

In the most recent year published, more households moved into Texas than left — a net difference of 56,473 tax filers.

How Texas compares on safety oversight

56% of Texas-based movers have no roadside inspection on record, against 48.0% nationally. That gap is driven mostly by fleet size and state enforcement capacity rather than by how carefully anyone drives — small carriers are stopped less often simply because they put fewer trucks on the road. A carrier with no inspection record is not a carrier with a bad record. It means nobody has checked. Read the full study →

Questions about moving from Texas

How many licensed long distance movers are based in Texas?

1,476 active interstate household goods carriers list a Texas address on their federal filing, operating 9,466 trucks between them. Carriers routinely work far beyond their home state, so this is a measure of where the industry is registered rather than where it operates.

Do Texas movers have safety records?

Mostly thin ones. 56% of Texas-based carriers have never had a roadside inspection, and 94% hold no federal safety rating. 153 have a reportable crash on record and 15 have been involved in a fatal one. Nationally, 48.0% of licensed movers have never been inspected, so Texas is above the national average.

Where do people leaving Texas move to?

The table on this page ranks destination states by the number of households that filed taxes from Texas one year and from another state the next. In the most recent year published, more households moved into Texas than left — a net balance of 56,473 filers.

How do I check a mover myself?

Take the USDOT number from any carrier listed on this site and enter it at safer.fmcsa.dot.gov. That gives you the federal record directly: operating authority, insurance, inspection history and crash reports. If a moving company will not give you its USDOT number, that is the answer.

What this site is, plainly

VettedMove is a free referral service. We do not own trucks and we do not move anything. When you call, we connect you with a moving company from the licensed carriers listed on this site. We are paid by the moving company when a move goes ahead — you are never charged. The federally required disclosure block under 49 CFR Part 371 sits here pending counsel; this page does not launch without it.