Everything you own,
on a stranger's truck

A tool to check, not to condemn.

Moving fraud works because the timing is cruel. You research for a week, you pick a company, you pay a deposit, and for a while everything looks fine. Then moving day comes, the price doubles on the sidewalk, and everything you own is already on someone else's truck. By the time you discover the problem, you have no leverage left. Some families are told to pay thousands more in cash or never see their furniture again. The federal government has a name for that: a hostage load.

Here is the part that made us build this site: almost every one of those stories was predictable. The company had no trucks registered to its name. Or it was never a mover at all, just a broker, a sales office reselling your move to a carrier you never chose. Or it had years of hostage-goods complaints sitting on its federal record. All of it public, all of it free, all of it published by FMCSA, the same agency that licenses every interstate mover in America.

The problem is that nobody moving a household has ever heard of the Motor Carrier Census, the NCCDB complaint database or Licensing & Insurance filings, let alone knows how to cross-check all three between packing boxes. The data protecting you exists. It is just scattered across three government systems that were never designed for a person with a moving date and a phone in their hand.

So we did the boring, useful work: MoverAudit pulls those three federal records together into one report card. Type a company name or a USDOT number and in five seconds you see whether it is licensed, whether it is a real carrier or a broker, how many trucks it actually operates, and four years of complaints, category by category, hostage goods included. No account needed to search. No jargon. One grade, A to F, computed the same way for every single company.

And we want to be just as clear about the other side. Most movers are honest. Crews that show up, wrap the furniture, drive through the night and unload with a handshake. Those companies are hurt most by the scammers, because every hostage-load headline makes their customers distrust them too. A clean federal record is the best salesman an honest mover has, and on MoverAudit that record finally gets seen. We do not take a cent from moving companies, there are no sponsored placements, and no company can pay to change, hide or polish its report. Corrections happen in one place only: at the source, with FMCSA.

The whole idea is simple: the facts, in the open, for everyone. What was built as three government databases becomes one honest answer to one honest question: can I trust these people with everything I own?

Independence and corrections

MoverAudit is independent. We are not affiliated with the US Department of Transportation or FMCSA, we take no payments from moving companies, and no company can buy its way to a better report. To verify anything you see here against the official source, visit protectyourmove.gov.

If you represent a moving company: federal records can lag or contain errors, and we want your report to be right. The underlying record must be corrected at the source: update your MCS-150 filing with FMCSA or dispute complaints through the NCCDB, and your MoverAudit report refreshes from the federal database automatically. That is the only correction channel, for everyone, which is exactly what makes the reports worth trusting.