Interstate & Long-Distance Movers in Texas
We move Texas households to all 48 contiguous states as the carrier, not a broker. The crew that loads your home is the crew that travels with it.
Matthew & Mois is a family-owned company of long-distance movers in Texas, licensed under MC 1710429 and USDOT 4368130 and based in Alvarado, just south of Fort Worth. We move households from Texas to all 48 contiguous states as a direct carrier, not a broker. The company that quotes your move is the same company that packs your home, loads the truck, and travels with it to your new door. Our fleet is three semi-trucks and four box trucks, staffed by four in-house crews, most of whom have been with us four years or longer. We handle everything from studio apartments to 4-6 bedroom homes. Every move starts with a real inventory, and you get a confirmation call 48 hours before pickup and an ETA call 24 hours before delivery.
What “direct carrier, not a broker” means for you
Many of the companies you find when searching for interstate movers are brokers. A broker takes your deposit, then sells your move to whichever carrier will haul it. You often don’t learn who is actually coming to your house until they pull up.
We don’t work that way. Matthew & Mois holds its own interstate operating authority. Our trucks, our crews, our warehouse.
That matters most when something needs sorting out. If your closing date slips, if a piece needs different handling than expected, if you want to know where your shipment is, you call us and we already know your move. There’s nobody in the middle to relay it to.
It also removes the most common cause of a quote changing. Broker estimates frequently leave out fees and the broker’s own commission, which surfaces later. Our estimate is built from your inventory by the people who will actually do the work.
Talk to the company that will actually do the move, not a middleman.
Built for big homes
Plenty of movers are set up for one-bedroom apartments and struggle past that. A 4-6 bedroom house is a different job: more volume, heavier furniture, more disassembly, and a load that has to be planned before anyone picks up a box.
That’s the work we’re built around. A household that size often fills most or all of a trailer on its own, and our crews load semis regularly rather than occasionally.
Big homes also tend to hold the items people worry most about. A piano. A gun safe. A dining set that’s been in the family three generations. We ask about those during booking so the right equipment and materials are on the truck before we arrive, instead of being improvised on move day.
How your belongings actually travel
Here’s something most moving companies won’t put in writing.
On interstate routes, your shipment may share a trailer with another household’s. Loads are separated with divider systems, and every item is inventoried and labeled to your move before it goes on. This is standard practice for interstate carriers, and it’s the reason long-distance moving is affordable at all. A half-empty trailer crossing four states costs the same to run as a full one, and that cost lands somewhere.
What we won’t tell you
That your things ride alone when they don’t.
What we will tell you
It’s our trailer and our crew. Your shipment isn’t handed off to a stranger’s truck partway across the country, and the crew that loaded your home in Texas travels with it. In some distant states we bring in experienced local helpers for the unload. They work under the supervision of your Matthew & Mois crew, who are on site the whole time. We’d rather explain that plainly than let you discover it on delivery day.
Straight answers before you book. Ask us anything about your route.
How long does an interstate move take?
The most common thing people get wrong about interstate moving is expecting it to finish in a day or two, the way a local move does. Across state lines it doesn’t work that way, and any company promising you a guaranteed delivery date is telling you something they can’t control.
Delivery timing depends on distance, the route, weather, and federal hours-of-service rules that cap how long a driver may legally be behind the wheel. Those rules exist for good reasons, and they mean a truck cannot simply drive straight through.
What we give you is a delivery window based on your actual route, and then we keep you posted against it. You get an ETA call 24 hours before delivery. If something on the road changes the window, you hear it from us when we know, not after you’ve spent a day waiting on a couch that isn’t coming.
An estimate we keep you updated on is worth more than a promise nobody can keep.
How interstate moving costs are calculated
Four things set the price: how much space your shipment takes in the trailer, how far it’s going, which services you want, and whether anything needs special handling.
That’s it. There’s no seasonal markup we spring on you and no fee that appears at delivery.
Space in the trailer
How much room your shipment takes
Distance
How far it’s going
Services you want
Packing, unpacking, storage
Special handling
Pianos, safes, antiques, crating
The honest part is the inventory. Almost every “the price went up” story in this industry traces back to the same thing: the estimate was built on incomplete information. Items in the attic that never got mentioned. A garage nobody walked through. A shed. When the truck arrives and the load is a third bigger than quoted, the price moves, and the customer feels ambushed even when nobody set out to ambush them.
So we’d rather spend the extra twenty minutes upfront. Walk us through everything, including the storage closet you’re hoping to deal with later. Send photos or video, we accept both, or we’ll walk the house with you for a complex move. A complete inventory is what makes an estimate hold.
We won’t quote you the lowest number to win the job. A low-ball estimate is just a correction waiting to happen.
Ready for a real number built on a real inventory?
What happens, step by step
Before the move
Consultation
We go through your inventory, addresses, and anything that affects access: stairs, elevators, a long driveway, a tight street. Photo or video inventory works. For larger or complicated homes we’ll do a walkthrough.
Estimate and booking
You get the estimate. If it works, a one-third deposit reserves your date.
Confirmation call, 48 hours out
We confirm your arrival window.
Move day & in transit
Move day
Walkthrough first. Then furniture is disassembled, wrapped, labeled, and inventoried. Loading is planned rather than improvised, because how a trailer is packed determines what survives the trip. Final walkthrough, paperwork, pickup balance.
In transit
We contact you by call, text, or email, whichever you prefer. You don’t have to chase us for updates.
Arrival
ETA call, 24 hours out
So you can plan the day.
Delivery
We unload, place furniture room by room, and reassemble what we took apart. Unpacking if you asked for it. Final walkthrough, remaining balance.
Protecting what can’t be replaced
Our crews match the protection to the item rather than wrapping everything the same way. Moving blankets and shrink wrap on furniture. Dish packs and layered protection for glassware and china. Anti-static materials for electronics. Custom crating where a piece genuinely needs it.
Labeling is the part customers mention most in reviews, and it’s not glamorous. Every box is marked by room and contents. It’s why unloading goes quickly and why your kitchen boxes end up in your kitchen instead of stacked in a garage for a month.
Furniture assembly and disassembly is where crew tenure shows. Most of our crew members have worked together for years, and a bed frame that takes an unfamiliar pair forty minutes takes them a fraction of that. Hardware gets bagged and labeled to the piece it came from, so nothing is missing at the other end.
Specialty items we handle regularly: pianos, antiques, gun safes, oversized furniture, artwork, and fragile household pieces.
Blanket-wrapped and shrink-wrapped furniture
Every box labeled by room and contents
Hardware labeled to the piece it came off
Custom crates built around the piece
If your new home isn’t ready
Closing dates move. Leases don’t always line up. It happens on a good number of interstate moves and it doesn’t have to become a problem.
We own our warehouse in Texas: temperature-controlled, with 24/7 video surveillance. It isn’t a third-party facility we rent space in and hope for the best. Your belongings stay inventoried and in our custody, short-term while you wait on a closing, or long-term if you need it.
Where we move
From Texas to all 48 contiguous states.
Based in Alvarado, Texas
Just south of Fort Worth. Our crews work across the DFW metroplex and North Texas daily.
Our heaviest routes
Our heaviest activity runs to the neighboring states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri, along with regular coast-to-coast relocations.
Inbound moves too
Moving into Texas rather than out of it? We handle inbound relocations as well.
Frequently asked questions
Are you licensed and insured?
How do you determine the delivery date?
Is your storage temperature-controlled?
Do you pack, or do I?
Can you move a piano or a gun safe?
What can’t go on the truck?
How far ahead should I book?
Texas families, in their own words
Let’s talk about your move
Tell us where you’re going and what’s coming with you, and we’ll put together an honest estimate built on a real inventory.
We’re a family company. The name on the truck is the family that runs it, and we handle your belongings the way we’d want someone handling our own.