Interstate route · I-95 corridor · both directions
About 1,280 miles of I-95, door to door, with regular departures on this corridor in both directions: north for job starts and August lease cycles, south for the snowbird winter. Get a planning range in 60 seconds; your exact price goes in writing after a 15-minute video walkthrough.
Northbound leg
The northbound run goes against the snowbird tide: job starts, family moves, and the August lease cycle that crowds much of Brooklyn's moving calendar into one month.
COICertificate of insurance. Most doorman buildings require one days before the elevator reservation. A hard deadline, so send requirements early.
± 1,280 mi ÷ 280 TO 500 MI A DAY = 3 TO 5 DAYS
New York is the hard end of this lane, and pretending otherwise is how budgets die. Most doorman buildings in Manhattan and a good share of Brooklyn condos and co-ops, Park Slope and Williamsburg included, want a certificate of insurance from your mover before the service elevator gets reserved, and management offices usually want it several business days ahead.
Send us the building’s requirements early; the certificate comes from our insurer, and the deadline is the part that bites.
Two more New York facts worth pricing in before you fall for a fourth-floor walk-up in Astoria: stairs and curb space. New York City doesn’t issue moving-day parking permits, and there is no placard that reserves the curb, so crews work from legal parking or a building’s loading dock, and on a tight block in Park Slope a smaller shuttle truck is sometimes the practical fix. The stair, long-carry, and shuttle bands are in the box on the right. We’d rather name those numbers now than have you meet them on an invoice.
Timing: May through September is national peak season, and industry-wide prices run 20% to 30% higher. This leg feels it hardest because the national peak stacks on top of New York’s summer lease turnover. If your dates flex, a shoulder-month pickup is the cheapest version of this move.
And a scope note we owe you: if you’re a student hauling a few boxes and a mini-fridge to a New York dorm, a full interstate carrier is usually the wrong and most expensive tool. Ship the boxes instead.
Southbound leg
Southbound is the corridor's famous direction: the snowbird flow that adds roughly a million winter residents to Florida every year, most of them landing in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.
4 to 8 wksRealistic booking lead time for an October-to-April move date. Winter is this lane's peak, the reverse of the national calendar.
CLAIMS CLOCK: 9 MONTHS TO FILE, 30 DAYS TO ACKNOWLEDGE, 120 TO SETTLE
October through April is the real season on this leg, peaking in January and February. That’s the reverse of the national moving calendar, and it matters for planning: while movers everywhere else are quiet in winter, this corridor is at full winter demand. Four to eight weeks of lead time is realistic between October and April. That’s what the migration data says about this lane’s winter, not a booking-pressure line, and we publish it because finding out two weeks before a January move-in is the avoidable version of that story.
On the Miami end the buildings run vertical too, just newer. High-rises in Brickell and Edgewater work on reserved service elevators and scheduled move-in windows, so your closing date and the building’s calendar both matter, and a Saturday delivery is something some towers simply won’t take. Houses in Coral Gables and most of Fort Lauderdale are simpler; a driveway beats a loading dock. Either way, your delivery window is set before we load in New York, and the building rules get asked about before the truck rolls, not during.
One more note on this direction: New Yorkers now land all over Florida, and Tampa Bay and Orlando are drawing more of the migration than they used to, so if Miami is a maybe rather than a decision, say so on the survey call. A different Florida destination changes the linehaul and the price, and it’s cheaper to change before the paperwork than after.
Before the truck
Packing yourself is genuinely cheaper, and we won’t pretend otherwise. The trade-off is liability: industry-wide, a carrier’s responsibility for an owner-packed box is limited unless the box itself shows damage. What shifted inside a carton you sealed is your risk, not the mover’s. Over 1,280 miles that math changes for anything fragile.
The split: pack your own books, linens, and closets; let the crew pack glass, art, TVs, and anything you’d photograph for an insurance claim. Materials are priced as a range on the survey, not discovered on move day.
Before loading, federal rules have you settle a valuation level, and Full Value Protection is the federal default. Released Value applies only if you sign for it on the bill of lading, and that signature is the trap:
Full Value Protection costs roughly 1% of your shipment’s declared value and obligates the mover to repair, replace, or pay current value. On a short hop, signing it away is defensible. Across 1,280 miles of I-95, it’s the one line on the paperwork we think is worth paying for.
Planning bands · this corridor
Market planning bands for this corridor, built from published interstate pricing and not our tariff, so you can sanity-check any number a salesman throws at you, including ours.
$1,700 to $2,800
Market band, door to door
$3,400 to $5,600
Market band, door to door
$5,100 to $8,400
Market band, door to door
$7,150 to $11,750
Market band, door to door
Basis, in the open: interstate moves price on weight and distance. $0.50 to $0.80 per pound is the typical published band for the first 1,000 miles, and route aggregators report real Miami ⇄ New York jobs landing between $2,419 and $6,912 across home sizes. Peak months, May through September, run 20% to 30% above these bands industry-wide; winter is this corridor’s own southbound peak. This is a planning range, not an estimate. Your exact price is put in writing after a video or in-home survey, as federal law requires.
Sixty seconds, four questions, no contact details demanded. A planning range for this corridor and your home size.
Every room on camera. We build the inventory with you watching, so the price is set from what’s actually there.
After the survey your price goes on paper, binding or non-binding as federal law defines them, before anything is loaded.
What the estimate is actually made of
Miami ⇄ New York
Plan on $3,400 to $5,600 for a 2-bedroom home. That is a market band built from published interstate pricing for this distance, not our tariff and not an estimate. Studios run closer to $1,700 to $2,800; a 4-bedroom household runs $7,150 to $11,750, more in peak months. The number that counts is the one put in writing after a video survey, and the calculator on our homepage gives you a range scoped to your size and month in about 60 seconds.
Three to five days on the road is typical for a linehaul of about 1,280 miles. Pickup-to-delivery can stretch past that when a shipment shares the truck. Consolidation is how interstate pricing stays affordable, and it is the reason you get a delivery window before we load rather than a single guaranteed date.
Because federal rules require a survey, or your signed waiver, before a binding estimate on moves like these. The regulation (49 CFR 375.401) mandates the survey itself; FMCSA-permitted practice is what lets it happen over video. An exact number for a home nobody has seen is a guess, and the confident phone guess is where most bait-and-switch stories on this corridor start: a low number wins the job, and the real one shows up on moving day. Fifteen minutes of video gets you a figure that means something.
A window, set before we load. Long-haul trucks carry more than one household, and weather, traffic, and building schedules across 1,280 miles are real variables. Any mover promising an exact interstate date at booking is telling you what you want to hear.
Carrier. USDOT 4022357, MC 1517490. Look us up yourself on FMCSA's SAFER system before you believe a word of this page. The difference matters: a broker resells your move to whoever bids for it, and the crew that shows up is a stranger to the company you called. Booking direct with the carrier removes that hand-off.
Probably, if there's a doorman or a board. Most Manhattan buildings and many Brooklyn and Queens condos and co-ops require a COI from the mover before they'll reserve the service elevator, and management offices often want it several business days ahead. Send us the building's requirements as soon as you have them. A missing COI on move-in morning is the most preventable delay on this route.
You file a claim, and what it pays depends on the valuation you chose before loading. Released Value is free and close to worthless: $0.60 per pound per item means a 25-pound, $800 TV pays out $15. Full Value Protection costs roughly 1% of your shipment's declared value and covers repair, replacement, or current value. Across 1,280 miles, FVP is the option we think is worth paying for, and it has to be chosen before the truck is loaded, not after.
Four to eight weeks ahead for an October-to-April move date. Florida gains roughly a million seasonal residents every winter, most of them landing in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, so southbound winter capacity on this corridor is genuinely tight. That's the corridor's published demand pattern, and we'd rather publish it than use it as a pressure line. Northbound in the same months is the calendar's quiet direction, and often cheaper.
Timing the corridor
The bottom of the range holds steady all year. The top rises in national peak season. Here’s the next twelve months for this lane, by home size.
When the top of your range rises, and when it doesn't
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Basis: national peak moving season runs May through September, when most U.S. moves happen and published market pricing runs higher at the top of the band. Snowbird-season demand out of Florida is real, but there’s no evidenced price differential for it, so we don’t show one.
Ready when you are
You’re calling the licensed carrier, not a broker’s sales floor. Weekdays and weekends, out of Oakland Park, FL, at either end of I-95.
No name, no number, no email. The range shows first. That part you can test yourself in the next sixty seconds.