North Highlands is an unincorporated community in Sacramento County with a population of about 49,327. 0 registered motor carriers with a moving-related name is based at a physical address in North Highlands itself. Below is the register as it stands, with the numbers you can check yourself.
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North Highlands is a compact, fully built-out residential area on the old edge of McClellan Air Force Base, which closed under the 1995 BRAC process and reopened as McClellan Business Park.
The core of the community is small post-war housing built for base families - two and three bedrooms, one bathroom in many cases, single story, with modest square footage. Some commercial and industrial property lines the old base perimeter.
The former McClellan Air Force Base is now McClellan Business Park with its own airport, so North Highlands mixes small residential streets with industrial traffic in a way most suburbs do not.
Main roads to know: Watt Avenue, Main Avenue, McClellan Business Park.
| Company (as registered) | USDOT | Phone on file | Trucks | Drivers | MCS-150 filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Sacramento Transfer 8561 Excelsior Rd |
1331255 | (916) 296-2976 | 15 | 15 | 2026 |
| Sierra Valley Moving & Storage 5071 Kelton Way |
786470 | (916) 649-3400 | 11 | 14 | 2025 |
| Sierra Valley Moving & Storage, 5071 Kelton Way |
5921390 | (916) 649-3400 | 11 | 24 | no MCS-150 date on file |
| Sartain Moving 8628 Oldwoods Way |
3741383 | (916) 470-1458 | 5 | 5 | 2023 |
| A2B Storage And Moving 101 Parkshore Dr |
3110400 | (415) 802-5354 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| California Moving Systems 3801 Happy Lane |
917138 | (916) 362-1515 | 4 | 8 | 2025 |
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 The MCS-150 is the form a carrier must keep current: a stale year means the record itself is out of date, not necessarily that the company stopped trading.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.
0 motor carriers with a moving-related name is registered at a physical address in North Highlands itself, and the wider Sacramento County register holds more. The table above lists the companies closest to North Highlands 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 North Highlands 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 Watt Avenue, Main Avenue, McClellan Business Park.
Quote requests go to a licensed moving partner. We do not sell your details on.