The Moving Company
Moving is a cash business built on two things: reliable crews and cheap booked moves. You are not buying a storefront; you are building a fleet of trucks, a roster of crews you can trust not to drop the piano, and a lead engine that fills the calendar through a brutal summer-to-winter swing.
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Estimated Typical bands for this kind of business, estimated from adjacent public data where no direct benchmark exists; treat them as rough. Estimates, not forecasts; a specific business varies with its location, lease, equipment and owner. Last reviewed 2026-10-27. smbnest is a self-assessment tool, not individualized advice.
A fit if you…
- Can recruit, schedule, and keep reliable moving crews
- Can carry payroll through the slow winter months
- Will chase commercial and recurring accounts, not just one-off moves
- Can run tight dispatch and hold a low damage-claim rate
- Are comfortable buying leads and measuring cost per booked move
Probably not if you…
- Want a hands-off business from day one
- Dislike managing crews and chasing no-shows
- Cannot float payroll and trucks through a winter trough
- Expect smooth, predictable revenue month to month
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Sources and method9 public sources, with the year and a link where the source gives one. The benchmark bands on this page are estimated from adjacent data and labeled as estimates.
Sources & Method
Figures are estimated from the public sources below and from adjacent data; the bands are labeled as estimates
How these numbers were built: occupation and wage data for movers come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (SOC 53-7062, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers); establishment counts and industry size come from the U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns for NAICS 484210, Used Household and Office Goods Moving); industry context comes from the American Trucking Associations Moving & Storage Conference; the owner cash flow band and resale multiple come from BizBuySell’s sold moving and shipping businesses and SmartMoving’s margin benchmarks; insurance comes from Insureon; truck and gear prices in the opening kit come from dealer listings and a moving startup cost guide; financing terms come from the SBA 7(a) program; and business survival and dynamics come from the Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics. Every source links to the underlying public material so you can check any figure yourself. These are starting assumptions; the moment you enter a real company’s crews, revenue per crew per day, wages, and claims, your numbers should replace ours. Figures are current as of 2025-2026 and refreshed as the sources update.
The owner cash flow band is an SDE band for a staffed company: BizBuySell’s sold moving and shipping businesses report owner earnings near 25% of revenue (many with the owner on a truck), and SmartMoving puts the average mover’s net margin at 7% to 10% after the owner is paid, so a three-crew company with paid crews sits between. Claims and lead costs follow SmartMoving’s benchmarks; insurance follows Insureon. Crew labor and the other cost ratios remain planning estimates; no audited moving industry P&L is published, so confidence is estimated.
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The full model is the complete, interactive deep-dive, and every business here is built to the same standard: a live economics simulator you tune to your own numbers, an interactive 3D walkthrough, a location scorecard, an owner-fit assessment, a buy-versus-build comparison, and the full breakdown of how it makes money and what quietly kills margin.
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