Texas State-to-State Movers

50STATE MOVERS INC box truck in its own livery parked at the front door of a house on delivery day after a Texas move

Blue floor runner laid from the front door through the entry of a Texas home on moving day

Sofas, tables and a mattress blanket-wrapped and shrink-wrapped, ready to carry out of a Texas home

Blanket-wrapped furniture and wardrobe cartons stacked and strapped in tiers inside the truck

The day itself

Your Texas load, step by step.

Photographs of our Texas movers at work: the four parts of your day, in order.

Protection goes down first

Walkways covered and corners padded before the first carry out.
Nothing travels bare

Every piece gets a blanket and shrink, not just the obvious fragiles.
Strapped for the miles

Built in strapped tiers, because a load that cannot shift cannot rub.
At the far end

Placed where you want it at the far end, on the date we committed to.

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Coverage

We service every city, village, and town in Texas and deliver to any state. Call +1 (888) 505-1086.

Coverage here isn't limited to the big cities. If you don't see your town below, ask anyway: most addresses in Texas sit on an existing route. Call +1 (888) 505-1086 and we'll confirm the truck can reach you first.

Houston

San Antonio

Dallas

Austin

Fort Worth

El Paso

Arlington

Corpus Christi

Plano

Lubbock

Laredo

Irving

Garland

Frisco

McKinney

Amarillo

Grand Prairie

Brownsville

Killeen

Denton

Mesquite

Pasadena

McAllen

Waco

Midland

Lewisville

Carrollton

Round Rock

Abilene

Pearland

College Station

Richardson

League City

Odessa

Beaumont

Allen

New Braunfels

Tyler

Sugar Land

Conroe

Edinburg

Wichita Falls

San Angelo

Georgetown

Temple

Bryan

Mission

Baytown

Longview

Pharr

What we do

Pick the level of help you want.

Texas demand is spread across every service we offer, but packing and storage lead. Summer heat requires climate-controlled handling for electronics, art, and anything with adhesive, master-planned community approvals can delay a move-in by days, and the state's enormous corporate relocation volume keeps commercial work steady year-round.

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Long Distance

Interstate and cross-country moving, end to end. We plan the lane, handle the paperwork, and unpack you at the other side.
White Glove

Our highest tier of service. Packed, carried, unpacked, placed — down to the pictures back on the walls before the crew leaves.
Residential

From studio apartments to five-bedroom homes. We disassemble, transport, and reassemble — and we never leave before everything's in its place.
Commercial

Commercial relocations run overnight or across a weekend, so the business closes on Friday in one building and opens on Monday in the next.
Packing & Crating

Museum-grade packing for art, antiques, and anything fragile. We build custom crates on site when off-the-shelf won't do.
Storage

Climate-controlled, 24-hour-monitored units in secure facilities. Short-term overflow or long-term, fully insured and inventoried throughout.

Two 50STATEMOVERS crew carrying a blanket-wrapped item up the ramp into a loaded truck, moving blankets and cartons stacked inside

Pricing

What shapes the price of a Texas move.

Anyone quoting a Texas move sight-unseen is estimating, and estimates get revised at delivery. So rather than a rate card, here is what actually decides the number. All of it appears as a line in your written quote, and the total on that quote is the total you pay.

01Distance and lane

Your route sets the floor. Our Texas lanes run from about 720 miles to Tennessee out to roughly 1,450 miles to California. Sharing a trailer with other households costs less than a dedicated truck; a dedicated truck buys you a delivery date instead of a spread.

02Access at both ends

How close the truck can park is half the labour. Narrow streets, walk-ups, booked-out service elevators, city permits, and shuttling from a legal parking spot in a smaller vehicle all take crew hours. We measure the approach at both ends during the survey, not on the morning of the move.

03How much packing you want

How much of the packing you hand over is yours to decide, and it changes both the price and the odds of a clean delivery. Cartons built for a cross-country haul are packed differently from ones carried down the street. Plenty of customers pack their own clothes and books and leave us the kitchen, the artwork, and the fragile shelf. Crating for oversized or valuable pieces is a separate line.

04Storage between dates

A gap between handing over one set of keys and getting the next is normal. Storage-in-transit covers it: goods stay inventoried and sealed until your date, with the holding cost agreed before the truck loads. For furniture, instruments, and electronics, pay for the climate control.

05Valuation and protection

Two levels of protection exist on any state-line move. Released value is included by law at no charge and is calculated by weight. Full Value Protection is the paid upgrade: repair, like-for-like replacement, or cash at current market value, and the right answer for a household carrying real value.

Local notes

What Texas does to a moving schedule.

Local conditions decide how a Texas move actually runs. These are the four that come up on almost every job we book here.

STEP 01

Roads & access

I-35, I-45, I-10, and I-20 form the state's skeleton, and Texas distances are genuinely large — Dallas to El Paso is over 600 miles without leaving the state. Suburban access in Frisco, Katy, Plano, and The Woodlands is straightforward, though most master-planned communities require gate registration and a certificate of insurance. Downtown Austin, Houston, and Dallas high-rises need reserved freight elevators and dock time slots. Main corridors: I-35, I-45, I-10, I-20, I-30.

STEP 02

Timing your move

Peak is May through August, which is also when Texas heat is most punishing — crews start at dawn and heat-sensitive items get flagged. Gulf Coast moves face hurricane season from June through November, and we monitor named storms against Houston and Corpus Christi delivery windows. Winter is mild and quiet, and the easiest time of year to get the date you want, with the caveat that rare hard freezes can shut down highways for a day.

STEP 03

Who is moving, and why

Texas leads the country in net inbound migration, and the largest single source is California, followed by Florida, Illinois, New York, and Louisiana. Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, and Houston absorb the bulk of it, with San Antonio and the I-35 corridor between it and Austin growing fast. Outbound Texas volume has grown as well, going to Oklahoma, Tennessee, Colorado, and Florida, often on cost and climate.

STEP 04

Licensing to check

Interstate moves out of Texas are federal: look for an active USDOT number and FMCSA authority. Ours are USDOT #4575745 and MC-1820728. Movers operating only inside the state answer instead to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Motor Carrier Division, which licenses intrastate household-goods movers — a registration that is not authority to take your belongings across the line.

Good to know

What catches people out in Texas.

Three recurring ways a Texas move gets costlier than expected. None of them are surprises to us; we check each one before the quote is written.

Summer heat handling

Trailer interiors across Texas exceed 140°F in July. Electronics, candles, artwork, vinyl, and medications should be flagged at survey so they travel climate-controlled or with you.

Master-planned community rules

Most of the DFW, Houston, and Austin suburbs are governed by HOAs requiring gate registration and a certificate of insurance. Approvals take a few days and are the most common cause of avoidable delay on a Texas move.

Getting to the state line

Texas is large enough that the run from your door to the state line is a real leg of the job. An El Paso pickup heading east covers roughly 550 miles before it even leaves Texas, so we schedule origin-side transit as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.

FAQ

Leaving Texas: your questions, answered.

The answers people ask for before committing to a Texas move with any interstate movers.

Do you pick up outside the major Texas metros?

Yes. We run interstate lanes out of the whole state, not just Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio — Lubbock, El Paso, Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley, and the smaller towns between them are all on routes we serve. Distance is the thing to plan around: a West Texas pickup can add most of a day before the shipment even leaves the state, so those bookings want a little more lead time. Tell us the address and we will confirm access and scheduling before quoting.

What do Texas HOAs require from a moving company?

Most master-planned communities require advance gate registration for the driver and crew and a certificate of insurance naming the association. Some restrict move hours to weekdays. We handle the filings, but they take a few days, so name the community at booking.

How do you protect belongings from Texas summer heat?

Dawn starts, doors closed while staged, blanket-wrap and shrink on all wood and leather, and a climate-controlled section for heat-sensitive items. For summer moves we also recommend against uncooled storage-in-transit.

How long does a move from Texas to Florida take?

Houston to Central Florida is about 1,000 miles and Dallas to South Florida roughly 1,350 — 4 to 8 days consolidated, 2 to 3 days dedicated. Both ends are hurricane-exposed from June through November, so we build the window accordingly.

Are moving companies in Texas required to be licensed?

Yes — and the licence you need depends on where the truck is going. Crossing a state line requires an active USDOT number plus interstate operating authority from the FMCSA. Ours are USDOT #4575745 and MC-1820728; both are public on the FMCSA's SAFER database, and you should look them up before any money changes hands.

Purely local movers hold a the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Motor Carrier Division, which licenses intrastate household-goods movers registration rather than federal authority. The difference is not paperwork pedantry — an intrastate-only registration does not permit anyone to carry your household out of Texas, and it is the gap we most often find in quotes customers ask us to look over. Two further questions are worth asking anyone: whether the quoted price is binding or an estimate open to revision on delivery day, and whether you are hiring a carrier or a broker. We own the trucks, employ the crew, and quote binding fixed prices.

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Your Texas load, step by step.

Protection goes down first

Nothing travels bare

Strapped for the miles

At the far end

We service every city, village, and town in Texas and deliver to any state. Call +1 (888) 505-1086.

Pick the level of help you want.

Long Distance

White Glove

Residential

Commercial

Packing & Crating

Storage