Moves within Texas
Texas 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 Texas
Texas Transportation Code chapter 643 requires a household goods certificate from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for any for-hire move inside the state, whatever the truck size, along with intrastate USDOT registration and state minimum insurance. Each mover files a tariff with TxDMV and must charge the rates it filed, so its fees are publicly searchable.
A Texas estimate must follow the mover's tariff on file with TxDMV. Filed pricing is the pricing, and the tariff must be updated before the rates on an estimate change.
This page summarizes public information for movers and is not legal advice.
How Yembo prices a Texas move
One estimating engine covers local, intrastate, interstate, and international authority, so a Texas 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.
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.
Intrastate
State-regulated moves, with a page for every jurisdiction.
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.
Estimates in every other state
Intrastate rules stop at the state line. Pick the jurisdiction the move stays inside.
- 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
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- District of Columbia
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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