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Moves within New York

New York regulates what a mover may charge, so the estimate is a compliance document as much as a sales one. Yembo builds it from your filed tariff and the surveyed inventory, so the number quoted is the number the state allows.

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Who sets moving rates in New York

Every mover in New York State files a tariff with the Department of Transportation, an organized schedule of the rates and charges for its services, and may only charge what the tariff shows. Changes take effect on 30 days statutory notice, and each vehicle carries an intrastate identification receipt.

A New York estimate may only use rates that appear in the mover's filed tariff. Penalties for operating outside it reach $10,000 and revocation of authority.

This page summarizes public information for movers and is not legal advice.

How Yembo prices a New York move

One estimating engine covers local, intrastate, interstate, and international authority, so a New York mover runs regulated and unregulated work from the same tariff library.

The tariff is the pricing engine

Your filed rates load into Yembo as a tariff with an effective date and a revision history, and every estimate prices against it. When the filing changes, the tariff changes once and every estimate after it follows.

Priced from what is actually in the home

The estimate starts from the visual inventory the survey produced, not from a guess over the phone. Weight and volume come from the AI-built cube sheet, and the line items follow from linehaul, accessorial, fuel surcharge, and service area rules in the tariff.

Binding, non-binding, or not-to-exceed

Offer the estimate types you are comfortable standing behind. Yembo supports binding, non-binding, and not-to-exceed quotes on the same tariff, and the survey accuracy is what makes the binding one safe to offer.

Written, signed, and on record

Estimates go out as documents with e-signature built in, and every revision is kept. Where the state requires a written estimate signed before work begins, this is that paper trail, produced as a side effect of selling.

Estimates in the United States territories

The territories run their own moving programs, so a move inside one answers to that territory rather than to any state.

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