Estimates
Intrastate estimates
A move that stays inside one state answers to that state, and the states do not agree with each other. Some cap your rates, some file them, some only license you, and some do nothing at all. Yembo helps you handle all of it.
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Four regulatory postures, one estimating engine
Every jurisdiction page names the regulator, the operating credential, and what the state says about estimates, each claim with a source. Here is how the 56 jurisdictions split.
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Tariff states
The regulator prescribes, caps, or files the rates a mover may charge. The estimate is a compliance document, and pricing outside the filing is a violation.
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Authority states
Movers hold an operating credential and insurance, and set their own market rates. The credential is the barrier to entry; the estimate is the differentiator.
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Registration states
Movers register with a consumer agency that polices conduct rather than rates, usually including what a written estimate must contain.
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No state program
No moving-specific authority exists. General consumer protection law applies, and federal rules still govern any move that crosses the state line.
Classifications summarize public information and are not legal advice.
States and the District of Columbia
Each page carries the jurisdiction's regulator, credential, and estimate rules, with sources, and how Yembo prices against them.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- District of Columbia
Territories
The territories run their own moving programs, so a move inside one answers to that territory rather than to any state.
Supported rate types
A rate type is a formula for pricing one piece of the move. Each is listed where movers use it most, but any rate type can price any section of a tariff, because a formula does not care where it is applied.
Transportation
How the move itself is priced.
- Hourly Set
- The classic local model. The total follows from the crew, the trucks, and the hours, with each additional mover and van priced from your own rate table.
- Breakpoint Transportation
- Tiered weight and distance pricing with the breakpoint rule: when the next weight bracket's lower rate makes the total cheaper, the estimate charges the cheaper of the two.
- Weight Mileage
- The rate is read from where the shipment's weight and the move's mileage fall in your tariff's tables and applied directly.
- Weight Mileage by CWT
- The same tabled lookup, multiplied by the shipment's hundredweight.
- Weight Based Rates
- Priced from weight alone with no distance component, which suits handling fees and storage more often than the haul itself.
- Per CWT (Tabled)
- A tabled rate multiplied by the hundredweight, for services whose price scales directly with the size of the shipment.
- Percentage Based Rates
- Not a standalone charge but a percentage of another one. The fuel surcharge is the classic example.
Packing
Materials and the labor on both ends of the move.
- Packing Service
- Granular pricing per container type for the materials, the labor to pack, and the labor to unpack, with separate peak and non-peak season rates.
- Crating Service
- Custom crates for items too large, fragile, or valuable for a box, priced by crate size whether built in house or by a third party, with dimension buffers and overtime rates.
Accessorials
Everything a move adds on top.
- Quantity Pricing
- Anything billed as a count times a rate: per item, per hour, per day, per month, down to cubic feet of storage per month.
- CWT Pricing
- Add-on services priced from the hundredweight of the whole shipment.
- Bulky List
- You define which items qualify as bulky and what each one charges: a flat fee, a weight-based rate, or a per-item price.
- Flat Charge
- A fixed fee that does not vary with any input on the estimate.
Every estimating authority
Wherever the move is headed, the estimate comes from the same engine and the same survey.
Estimates overview
Every kind of move, one estimating engine.
Local
Hourly pricing inside one service area.
Interstate
Weight and distance pricing under the federal rules.
Domestic
In-country moves outside the United States model.
International
Overseas moves across all three transport modes.
International by road
Cross-border truck freight and customs handling.
International by sea
Container and groupage pricing from a survey volume.
International by air
Chargeable weight pricing for fast shipments.
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