Carmichael is an unincorporated community in Sacramento County with a population of about 79,793. 6 registered motor carriers with a moving-related name is based at a physical address in Carmichael itself. Below is the register as it stands, with the numbers you can check yourself.
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The American River Parkway runs along the southern edge, with the oak-canopied Ancil Hoffman Park and the Effie Yeaw Nature Center inside it.
Most of Carmichael was built out in the 1950s and 1960s as post-war ranch subdivisions, with a smaller crop of later custom homes near the bluffs above the river. Single-story plans dominate, so hallways are narrow and doorways are 30-inch, not today's 36-inch.
For scheduling, what matters is that Carmichael sits between Fair Oaks Boulevard and Winding Way and is cut by no freeway at all - a local move here is almost never exposed to peak traffic, only to narrow streets and shared driveways.
Main roads to know: Fair Oaks Boulevard, Walnut Avenue, Arden Way, Winding Way, Manzanita Avenue.
| Company (as registered) | USDOT | Phone on file | Trucks | Drivers | MCS-150 filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Better Moving And Storage Co 6640 Fair Oaks Boulevard |
528679 | (916) 489-3322 | 3 | 5 | 2026 |
| American Movers Group 6520 Moraga Dr |
3018790 | (323) 435-7777 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| 916Movers 5137 Kipp Way |
3186315 | (916) 529-2409 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grigsby's Movers 4725 Marconi Ave |
3120513 | (916) 385-9346 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Shawn Caesar Moving Business 3625 Walnut Ave N A |
3019809 | (916) 841-9883 | 1 | 2 | 2017 |
| Tetris Masters Moving 5813 Manzanita Ave |
3436036 | (916) 410-9618 | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Colonial Van & Storage 6001 88Th St |
2973 | (916) 381-1372 | 31 | 23 | 2025 |
| Mother Lode Van & Storage 11255 Pyrites Way |
1885461 | (916) 631-4285 | 19 | 8 | 2026 |
US DOT numbers, fleet counts, driver counts and the MCS-150 filing year are taken from the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census (datahub.transportation.gov, dataset kjg3-diqy). The MCS-150 is the form a carrier must keep current: a stale year means the record itself is out of date, not necessarily that the company stopped trading. Fleet and driver counts are self-reported.
6 motor carriers with a moving-related name is registered at a physical address in Carmichael itself, and the wider Sacramento County register holds more. The table above lists the companies closest to Carmichael first, then the largest registered carriers in Sacramento County.
Every company listed has a USDOT number and a physical address on file with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is the federal register of motor carriers. Companies moving household goods for hire inside California also need a permit from the California Public Utilities Commission, so ask for both numbers and check the permit before you sign: a USDOT number alone does not tell you whether household-goods authority is active.
It is the last time the carrier filed its MCS-150 registration form with the FMCSA. A recent year means the record is current; a year five or more back usually means the company is no longer keeping its registration up to date. Treat it as a hygiene signal and nothing more.
A carrier owns trucks and crew and moves your goods. A broker sells the job on to a carrier and may never touch your furniture. Both are legal, but the paperwork differs: with a broker you want the name of the actual carrier in writing before the truck arrives. If a quote comes from a website with no trucks in the register above, assume you are speaking to a broker.
Ask every company for the same five numbers: hourly rate and crew size, minimum hours, travel or fuel charge, valuation or insurance cover, and the deposit. A quote that is silent on one of those is not cheaper, it is just less complete. Get the crew size in writing, because two movers and four movers at the same hourly rate are very different final bills.
Two to three weeks ahead is comfortable for a weekday. The last weekend of the month in summer is the busiest window of the year in the Sacramento region, so book three to four weeks out if your date is tied to a closing or a lease.
The same three things that decide any Carmichael job: stairs and carry distance, where a truck can stand legally for the length of the load, and the access roads. Streets that matter most here are Fair Oaks Boulevard, Walnut Avenue, Arden Way.
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