What the federal record says about 38 Long Island movers

• 24records that read Active and Authorized for interstate household goodsFMCSA record
• 9records that read NOT AUTHORIZED, meaning no interstate authority on fileFMCSA record
• 6sites that print a van line’s USDOT number rather than their ownfirst party
• 23sites that print no USDOT number of their own at allfirst party

24 companies show an active USDOT status with operating authority Authorized. 9 show NOT AUTHORIZED, which SAFER itself says does not apply to intrastate operations. 4 names returned no record we could tie to the site, and 1 printed number came back inactive. Along the way we found 6 sites that print a van line’s USDOT number, 2 that print an inactive number and 23 that print no USDOT number of their own at all. Each row carries the number we would type into SAFER to check it again.

All 38 records in one table, as read on 21 October 2026

Operating status combines the USDOT status line and the operating authority line from SAFER. Interstate authority is Yes where the authority line read Authorized for Motor Carrier of Household Goods, alone or with property. Power units come from the last MCS-150 on file. Notes record mismatches between the site and the record.

Not Authorized means no interstate authority on file, and nothing more

What the 9 say about themselves runs from New York only to long distance

The record status is the same for all nine. What each site claims is not, and the gap is the question to ask.

6 sites print a van line’s USDOT number, and 4 of them print no USDOT number of their own

A van line agent books the move locally and the interstate haul runs under the van line’s federal authority, so the paperwork can carry the van line’s number. Ask which USDOT number will appear on your bill of lading, because that is the record your claim and your complaint attach to.

Two sites print a USDOT number that SAFER lists as inactive

All The Right Moves prints USDOT 118267 in its footer, and SAFER returned that number as inactive on 21 October 2026. A name search found an active record for ALL THE RIGHT MOVES LTD in New Hyde Park at USDOT 1158267, one digit longer, with MC-459819 matching the MC on the site. We print both numbers.

Long Island Moving & Storage in Hauppauge prints USDOT 578078 and MC281338. SAFER lists 578078 as inactive, and name searches returned no active record. We could not find the active number its trucks run under, so ask for it. Two other printed numbers are odd rather than inactive: Jernick’s footer prints Licence Number 123-456-7890, a placeholder, and Charles Wood’s prints License CAL T-180982, a California style number.

4 names returned no record we could tie to the site

No record found is a statement about our search, with the date. A company can trade under one name and hold its record under another, as LM & Sons does under LITE MOVING & SONS INC. Before booking any of these four, ask for the legal name and the USDOT number and run the snapshot yourself.

Insurance and the New York certificate could not be checked for anyone, and here is how you check them

FMCSA’s Licensing and Insurance system holds the BIPD and cargo insurance filings. On 21 October 2026 it returned a blank form with the text Please enter the challenge question for every number we tried. Insurance on file is therefore could not check for all 38, and nothing on this site says any company lacks coverage.

NYSDOT’s CarCert portal showed its carrier search marked Functionality Under Development on the same date. 16 of the 38 sites print a New York DOT number, which 17 NYCRR 814.1(a) requires in all advertising, and those are first party claims until NYSDOT confirms them.

NYSDOT confirms a mover by phone at (518) 457-6512 or by email at nymoving@dot.ny.gov, and asks for the exact name and, if available, the NYDOT number. The license guide walks through all six lookups.

For the federal side, FMCSA’s mover search at ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/hhg/search.asp and the SAFER snapshot at safer.fmcsa.dot.gov are both free. Complaints about an interstate move go to FMCSA at 1-888-368-7238. Complaints about a move inside New York go to NYSDOT at (518) 457-6512 or to its motor carrier investigators at mci@dot.ny.gov.