2026 Moving Company Enforcement Tracker: Month-by-Month

This is MovingRated's 2026 Enforcement Tracker: the index of every documented enforcement action against moving companies and moving brokers this year — FMCSA actions, DOT Office of Inspector General cases, and state attorney-general actions — with each action sourced to the official record and covered in depth in its monthly roundup. Through early July 2026, the year's resolved actions total roughly $2.5 million in penalties, restitution, and fees across two federal-state settlements and one permanent state court ban, alongside the launch of FMCSA's identity-verified registration system.

Settlements resolve allegations by agreement; the Kentucky outcome is an adjudicated court ruling. Each linked roundup carries the primary sources — the DOT-OIG announcements, the Kentucky filings and release, and the FMCSA notices.

• January 2026 — What the year inherited: the 2023-2024 enforcement baseline, the cases already in motion, and the complete database walkthrough for vetting any mover (SAFER, Licensing and Insurance, complaints, state licenses).
• February 2026 — The $1.83 million Navistar settlement, and how settlements actually work: penalties versus restitution, settlement versus judgment, and how affected customers pursue money without getting scammed twice.
• March 2026 — A continuation month, used well: how to read a moving company's complaint record like an investigator — categories, denominators, and the patterns that predict enforcement.
• April 2026 — The second Navistar settlement ($474,123, broker services), Motus reaches the Federal Register, and the complete moving-broker explainer: when brokers are legitimate and the five checks that expose the other kind.
• May 2026 — The year's biggest month: Kentucky's permanent ban of Margaret's Movers, the Motus launch, and the storage-leverage playbook — the four contract lines that keep your belongings reachable.
• June 2026 — Peak season opens: the federal-state partnership machinery behind the year's cases, sweep-season history, and the high-pressure booking self-defense playbook.

The July 2026 roundup publishes in early August; from there the series continues monthly in Enforcement Watch.

• Naming standard. A company is named here only when an official public record exists — an FMCSA or DOT-OIG action, a filed state attorney-general case, or a court ruling — and every named action links its primary source in the monthly roundup.
• Language standard. Allegations are labeled as allegations; settlements are distinguished from judgments; where a matter involves an indictment, defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
• No ratings. MovingRated does not rate, rank, or score the companies named in enforcement coverage, and enforcement stories carry no sponsored placements.
• Updates. If a case status changes after publication — dismissal, modification, appeal — the affected roundup is updated prominently, and this tracker reflects it.

The tracker is the record; the protection is the twenty-minute check, whatever month you are reading this:

• FMCSA SAFER — operating status, legal name, carrier versus broker.
• Licensing and Insurance — authority history and insurance filings.
• National Consumer Complaint Database — complaint categories and patterns (and where to file your own).
• Mover licensing guide — the full federal and state walkthrough, and the moving cost calculator to anchor every quote you collect.

Which moving companies faced enforcement actions in 2026?

Per the official records through early July 2026: NYC Holdings, LLC and Navistar Van Lines, LLC settled twice with DOT-OIG and the Florida Attorney General — February 10 with owner Zane Taranto ($1,834,058) and April 7 with owner and officer Douglas Miller ($474,123), both over alleged deceptive trade practices. And on May 14, a Kentucky court permanently banned Margaret's Movers and owner Margaret Weathers, with more than $234,000 in penalties and restitution. Each monthly roundup linked above carries the primary sources and case details.

How much have moving companies paid in 2026 enforcement actions?

Roughly $2.5 million in resolved actions through early July: $1,834,058 (February settlement) plus $474,123 (April settlement) plus more than $234,000 (May Kentucky judgment) — a combined $2,542,181-plus in civil penalties, consumer restitution, and legal fees. Portions designated as restitution are administered by the enforcing offices; the February roundup explains how those processes reach affected customers.

Where do I report a bad moving company?

Interstate moves: FMCSA's National Consumer Complaint Database at nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov (1-888-368-7238), and the DOT-OIG hotline at 1-800-424-9071 for intentional, patterned fraud. Moves inside one state: your state attorney general's consumer-protection office — the channel that produced Kentucky's 2026 ruling. File while the dispute is live; complaints are the targeting data behind every action on this page.

How often is this tracker updated?

A new monthly roundup publishes in the first week of each month covering the prior month, and this tracker is updated with it. Outside that cadence, material case developments — a dismissal, modification, or appeal affecting anything named here — trigger prominent updates to the affected articles per the series' standing policy.

Enforcement Watch documents enforcement actions against moving companies from the official record and links the primary source for every named action. Statuses reflect the linked records as of publication. Browse the full series in the Enforcement Watch section.