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Affordable Moving Company, Inc.

Legal name: AFFORDABLE MOVING COMPANY INC

Chicago, ILUSDOT 1147641MC 463896(773) 637-3131
NMB Verification
Serious problems on the record

FMCSA safety rating: CONDITIONAL

2 problems found · checked Sep 3, 2026

What we found

Checked Sep 3, 2026 · every line links to its source
  1. SERIOUS
    FMCSA safety rating: CONDITIONAL

    Federal safety rating on record: Conditional.

    Source: SAFER snapshot · as of Sep 3, 2026

  2. PROBLEM
    Says “licensed and insured” — prints no licence number

    “or our excellent services and outstanding customer care. At Affordable Moving Co., we are fully licensed and insured, providing you with pea”. No USDOT, MC or state licence number appears anywhere in the site text we read.

    A licence claim with no number is unverifiable.

    Source: company website · as of Sep 3, 2026

  3. NOTE
    Self-declared: “best movers”, “most reliable”, “top-rated”

    “ms to transporting everything safely, you want to ensure you have the best movers on the job. So turn to Affordable Movi”. No source is given for any of these claims.

    Source: company website · as of Sep 3, 2026

  4. ON RECORD
    No consumer complaints filed with FMCSA in the last four years

    FMCSA's National Consumer Complaint Database shows no complaints against USDOT 1147641 in the last four years (registry data as of 07/31/2026).

    Source: FMCSA Protect Your Move — complaint history · as of Sep 3, 2026

  5. ON RECORD
    FMCSA investigation on record: 1 — most recent 07/10/2003 (Compliance Review)

    07/10/2003 Compliance Review. No FMCSA enforcement cases in the last six years.

    Source: FMCSA SMS overview · as of Sep 3, 2026

  6. ON RECORD
    Owner of record: WILLIAM LARDNER (PRESIDENT)

    Company official(s) on the FMCSA registration for USDOT 1147641, AFFORDABLE MOVING COMPANY INC.

    Source: MOTUS · as of Sep 3, 2026

  7. CHECKS OUT
    Active federal household-goods authority (MC-463896)

    FMCSA: ACTIVE; authorized for Motor Carrier of Household Goods; insurance filings on file.

    Source: SAFER snapshot · MOTUS · as of Sep 3, 2026

What kind of company is this?

Interstate household moves

Federally authorized to move household goods across state lines.

21+ years online

How long this company’s website has existed, from Internet Archive records. Very new websites are a common scam signal.

13 trucks on file

Fleet size reported in federal filings.

What we checked

3 passed
  • Federally licensed (FMCSA)
    Active federal authority on file with FMCSA (USDOT 1147641).
  • Authorized to move household goods
    FMCSA confirms household goods (HHG) carrier authority. This mover is allowed to move home contents.
  • State household-goods licence
    Not checked for this profile.
  • Insurance currently on file
    We have not been able to confirm this company’s insurance status.
  • Operates under a single brand name
    No alternate marketing brand names found on the company website.

Other concerns we want to surface

  • 5 medium-confidence identity matches awaiting review (advisory; does not block publishing)
  • State licensing still unverified

FMCSA regulatory snapshot

Authority status
What does this mean?"Authority" is the FMCSA permission to operate as a federal interstate carrier. NOT AUTHORIZED / INACTIVE means the carrier cannot legally accept interstate moves under federal rules. ACTIVE means they have permission to operate.
AUTHORIZED FOR: Motor Carrier of Household Goods
Carrier operation
Interstate
Authorized for HHG
What does this mean?"HHG" stands for Household Goods, the federal category covering home moves. A carrier without HHG authority is not allowed to move home contents across state lines under federal law.
Yes
Operating status
ACTIVE
Trucks
What does this mean?FMCSA calls these "power units", meaning trucks, tractors, and other registered moving vehicles the carrier owns or leases.
13
Drivers
What does this mean?Drivers the carrier has registered with FMCSA. This is the official number; some carriers operate with more drivers than registered.
13
Insurance status
Safety rating
Conditional
DOT complaints (FMCSA)
No consumer complaints filed with FMCSA in the last four yearsBy year: none in the last four years · registry data as of Jul 31, 2026 · FMCSA complaint history
FMCSA enforcement & investigations
No enforcement cases (six years) · SMS recordInvestigations: 2003-07-10 Compliance Review
Physical address
2060 N KOLMAR AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60639
Operating authority dockets
ActiveMC463896Motor Carrier of Household Goods

A company can hold several federal dockets over its lifetime. Only an Active docket grants operating authority. An inactive one is history, not a violation.

Reviews and complaints — every platform we check

Checked Sep 3, 2026

Each platform is shown whether or not this company has a listing. “No listing found” means we searched by name and city and nothing matched — it is a fact, not a rating.

Google
4.2/5
★★★★
96 reviews
View on Googlematched by phone + website
Yelp
No listing found
Searched Yelp for “Affordable Moving Company, Inc.” in Chicago; no listing matched.
BBB
No listing found
Searched BBB for “Affordable Moving Company, Inc.” in Chicago, IL; no profile matched.
Trustpilot
Could not read
Trustpilot returned HTTP 403.

What the reviews show

0 reviews read
No reviews could be read on any platform; nothing to assess.

Verified customer experience reports

Structured accounts from customers who proved their move with a bill of lading or final invoice, a verified email, and a verified phone. No star ratings, no anonymous reviews, and nothing a company can pay to change — how this works.

No verified customer reports yet. Only customers who can document their move may submit one — that keeps the count honest, and it means it grows slowly.

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The full verification report

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Insurance & authority history
Checked against federal filings
Their claims vs. what we verified
3 marketing claims reconciled against official records
Owners, officers & related businesses
Ownership history from state filings, archives, and press
Every review profile we found
All listings located per review site, including ones under different contact details than the federal registration
Every contact channel on file
5 contact records across all sources
Fraud-pattern analysis
Address legitimacy, review authenticity, broker disclosure, cloning, entity links
Full source ledger
60 source links across 196 evidence records
How current is this report?

Last refreshed Sep 3, 2026. First published Sep 3, 2026. This report pulls from 196 pieces of information across federal, state, review, and identity sources, and is re-checked on a regular cadence. Every claim above links back to its original source.

NMB does not invent facts. When a section reads "—" or "this check has not run yet," that means we have not been able to verify the information from a primary source. It does not mean the answer is good or bad.

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