Route range online
Sixty seconds, four questions, no contact details demanded. A planning range for your route and home size, the market’s real spread and not a teaser number.
Interstate household moves · Miami / Fort Lauderdale
A range online. A survey on video. A price in writing.
You’ve read the stories: quoted $1,200 on the phone, billed triple at the curb, a truck from a company nobody booked. This page is the opposite process, laid out step by step: where the number comes from, what the federal paperwork actually means, what’s included, and what costs extra.
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The lane
Long-distance is the whole business. Here’s how it de-risks yours.
A long-distance move is a household crossing a state line, federally regulated, USDOT-numbered, priced by weight and distance rather than by the hour. We run that lane and no other, and one consequence matters to you immediately: you’re dealing with the carrier that holds the authority, not a broker reselling your job to whoever bids lowest.
15-minute video walkthrough
Walk us through every room on a video call. The result is a cube sheet you can read: every couch, every box count, line by line, and you keep a copy.
Your exact price, in writing
Binding or non-binding, as federal law requires, built from what the survey actually saw, not from what a phone script guessed.
Know before you sign, with any mover
The three estimate types federal law allows. One of them bites.
Every interstate mover in the country operates under the same federal estimate rules, 49 CFR part 375. Most customers never learn the three categories, which is exactly what the bad operators count on. Five minutes here protects you whoever you end up hiring.
Federal type 1
Non-binding estimate
The mover’s educated guess. The final charge follows what the shipment actually weighs, so the number on the paper is not the number on the bill. Legal, common, and the mechanism behind most bait-and-switch stories: quote low on the phone, weigh high at delivery.
Fine for rough planning. Dangerous as the only paper you hold.
Federal type 2
Binding estimate
A fixed price for the inventory and services listed on it, whatever the load later weighs. Add rooms or services after the fact and the document gets amended in writing, but the base price can’t drift on its own.
Federal type 3
Binding not-to-exceed
The estimate is a ceiling: weigh in under it and you pay the lower actual. It can go down; it can’t go up. Of the three categories, this is the one written for the customer.
If a mover offers one, take it. If a mover will only talk non-binding numbers over the phone, keep shopping.
One federal backstop to know: at delivery, the carrier must release your goods for no more than the non-binding estimate plus 10%. Any verified balance bills afterward, with at least 30 days to pay.
Whichever type applies to your move is put in writing after a video or in-home survey. That’s the federal sequence, and it’s the sentence to hold any mover to, including us.
If something breaks
Released value is close to worthless. Here’s the honest math.
Two coverage levels exist on every interstate move, and the industry is happiest when you don’t look closely at the first one.
$0.60/lb · $800 TV → $15
Fifteen dollars is the whole check. That’s why we walk through valuation with you before the truck is loaded, not after something breaks.
Included by law
Released value: $0.60 per pound, per item
On every interstate move at no charge, because federal law mandates it. It pays by weight, not worth: a 25-pound, $800 TV settles at $15.
Call it what it is: a legal floor, not coverage.
The real option
Full Value Protection
The mover repairs, replaces, or pays current market value for what’s damaged. Across the industry it runs about 1% of your declared shipment value, with declared value defaulting to roughly $6 per pound unless you set it higher, and deductible tiers commonly at $0, $250, and $500.
For a full household crossing state lines, this is the option worth paying for.
Cost figures are the 2026 market band from FMCSA’s valuation guidance and industry cost surveys, not our tariff. Ask for the exact Full Value Protection rate and deductible options on your survey call, and get them in writing.
The number
Weight, distance, season. That’s the whole formula.
Interstate pricing is weight times distance, plus the services you add. No mystery and no algorithm, just the same math every federally regulated carrier runs.
The 2026 market band across interstate movers: $0.50 to $1.30 per pound, with $0.50 to $0.80 typical on the first thousand miles. A two-to three-bedroom household moving 1,000+ miles lands between $4,200 and $7,800 in most of the country. Those are industry survey numbers, not a promise from us. Your route, your inventory, and your month move you inside or outside them.
Weight$0.50 to $1.30 / lb2026 market band
Distance$4,200 to $7,8002 to 3BR · 1,000+ mi
Season+20% to 30%May to Sept peak
Month matters more than people expect. May through September is the national peak and runs 20% to 30% higher. South Florida also runs a second season the national carriers underweight: the snowbird corridor, October through April, when the I-95 lane fills in both directions.
May to Sept · national peak · +20% to 30%
Oct to Apr · snowbird corridor
Sixty seconds in the calculator puts a planning range on your own route and home size, with no phone call required to see it.
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.
On the estimate, in daylight
What the linehaul covers, and the fees that make the horror stories.
Accessorial fees are legitimate. Discovering them on move day instead of on the written estimate is not. That’s the complaint pattern, industry-wide. So here they are, with the ranges the market actually charges.
The load all of this is charged against
Door-to-door linehaul
pickup at one door, delivery at the other
Loading & unloading crews
at both ends
A written inventory manifest
you check it at delivery, box by box
Released-value coverage
at $0.60/lb, the federal minimum, see above
The extras, priced before they happen
Fee · 2026 market range · When it applies
- Stairs$50 to $150 / flightWalk-up buildings with no elevator, at either end
- Long carry$250 to $700The truck can’t park within 75 to 100 ft of your door
- Shuttle truck$100 to $300A full trailer can’t work the street, routine on tight Miami Beach and downtown blocks
- Bulky items$175 to $400Piano, safe, oversized sectional, all beyond standard handling
- Packing materialsPer box / rollPriced separately unless you book a packing bundle
Ranges are 2026 industry cost surveys, not our rate sheet. These are the exact fees that generate federal complaints when they surface on move day, which is why the video survey’s job is to put every one that applies to you on the written estimate before you book.
Who shows up
The question that catches brokers: whose truck is it?
Booked one company, watched an unbranded crew walk up the driveway. It shows up in big-name movers’ own reviews, and it’s one of this industry’s most complained-about patterns. Two questions defuse it, with any mover.
Here’s ours to check: licensed interstate carrier with its own registered fleet. The federal record is public. FMCSA’s SAFER system lists the trucks and drivers registered under USDOT 4022357. Look us up before you call. We mean that: a federal number is expensive to fake and takes two minutes to check, which is why it beats any adjective on this page.
“Are you the carrier of record on my move, or a broker passing it on?”
A broker’s answer has a second company in it. A carrier’s answer is its own USDOT number, which you then look up on SAFER while still on the phone.
“Will my shipment ride on equipment under your USDOT number, in writing?”
The straight answer, from anyone, takes ten seconds and survives being written down. A three-minute answer that never lands on paper is your signal to keep shopping.
Ask us both, on the phone, for your specific move. That’s what the dispatcher is there for.
Scope, plainly
Three jobs we’ll talk you out of.
A local move
A one-bedroom going twenty minutes up US-1 doesn’t need an interstate carrier. It needs an hourly local crew, and we’re not one. We’re built for the state-line leg; for a short in-town job, this is the wrong page and the wrong company.
A dorm-sized load
A few boxes and a mini-fridge is usually cheaper to ship than to put on any full interstate carrier, ours included. Price a shipping service first; if you call anyway, we’ll tell you the same thing.
An exact price today, over the phone
Anyone who hands you one sight-unseen is guessing. Federal rules require a survey or your signed waiver before a binding interstate price exists. We’d rather lose the job to a guesser than start yours with a guess.
Straight answers
Long-distance moving, asked and answered.
Are you a broker or an actual carrier?
A carrier. The operating authority is ours, USDOT 4022357 and MC 1517490, and you can check both on FMCSA's SAFER site before you ever call. A broker sells your move to whichever carrier takes the job; booking here means booking the licensed carrier itself.
What's the difference between a binding and a non-binding estimate?
A non-binding estimate is the mover's guess. The final bill follows the shipment's actual weight, so it can land higher than the paper. A binding estimate is a fixed price for the inventory and services listed on it. A binding not-to-exceed estimate sets a ceiling that can only come down.
All three are federal categories under 49 CFR part 375. Whichever applies to your move is put in writing after a video or in-home survey. No mover can lawfully skip that step for a binding price.
Will the price go up on moving day?
It can change if the shipment changes: a storage unit's worth of boxes added after the survey, or a service the written estimate never listed. That is what the video survey exists to prevent: the number is built from a room-by-room count you hold a copy of.
The version to worry about is the low phone number that grows at the curb because nothing was ever surveyed or written down. That is the pattern this process is built to rule out.
How long does a long-distance move take?
Depends on the corridor. On a 1,000-to-1,300-mile run like Miami to New York, 3 to 5 days of transit is typical for the distance; coast-to-coast takes longer. You get a delivery window before we load. A window, not an exact date, because interstate trucks consolidate shipments, and a single guaranteed date on a shared truck is a promise nobody can keep.
What can't you move?
Hazardous materials (propane tanks, paint, aerosols, fuel left in equipment) plus live plants and perishable food, which don't survive days in a trailer. Jewelry, cash, medication, and irreplaceable documents should ride with you, not on the truck. Firearms carry their own federal and state transport rules; raise them on the survey call.
Ready when you are
Start with the range. The exact price follows the survey, in writing.
You’re calling the licensed carrier, not a broker’s sales floor. Weekdays and weekends, out of Oakland Park, FL.
No name, no number, no email. The range shows first. That part you can test yourself in the next sixty seconds.