HaulestGet moving quotes

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Haulest MCP connector

One URL gives any Model Context Protocol client Haulest's moving research: cost ranges, reviewed movers, licence records, guides, checklists, and a way to request written quotes from licensed movers. No account, no key.

Endpoint

https://haulest.com/mcp

Streamable HTTP, MCP 2026-07-28 with 2025-era fallback. Read tools are free to call within fair-use limits. Haulest is not a carrier; see not a carrier.

Connect

Claude (web, desktop, mobile): Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector, paste the endpoint. In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http haulest https://haulest.com/mcp

ChatGPT: Settings, Apps & Connectors, Advanced, turn on Developer mode, Create, paste the endpoint with authentication set to none. Once the Haulest app is published in the directory you can add it from there instead.

Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and other clients that read an mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "haulest": { "type": "http", "url": "https://haulest.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Clients that only speak stdio can bridge through npx -y mcp-remote https://haulest.com/mcp, or run our small bridge, npx -y haulest-mcp. Both are documented in the public repository.

Try these prompts

  • What would it cost to move a 2-bedroom from Austin to Denver, and who are the best-reviewed movers in Austin?
  • Check USDOT 2250254 before I pay a deposit.
  • I have a quote from a mover with a low rating on Haulest. What should I ask them, and can you get me two more written quotes?
  • Give me the 8-week moving checklist and the guide on binding versus non-binding estimates.
  • Are there reviewed removal companies in Manchester, and how do I check one at Companies House?

Tools

Every tool carries MCP annotations. The read tools are marked read-only; the quote request is the one write and is never destructive.

Estimate moving cost estimate_moving_cost

Returns Haulest's research planning range (low and high, with currency) for a household move in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom, from home size and distance. Pass a distance band, a mileage, or an origin and destination; the tool resolves the distance from stored route data where it can. The range is compiled from published industry tables and public quotes, not a bid from a mover. Use it when someone asks what a move might cost.

Inputs: homeSize, market?, distanceBand?, from?, to?, miles?.

Get route facts get_route_facts

Facts about a city-to-city moving lane that Haulest has a route page for: driving miles and hours, the research cost range by home size, how many households moved between the two states in the latest Census flow, and the page URL. Covers the main US, Canadian, and UK lanes. Use it when someone names both ends of a move; returns a clear not-covered message otherwise.

Inputs: from, to.

Find movers near a place find_movers

Lists moving companies Haulest holds dated, attributed reviews for in a city, state, province, or country (US, Canada, UK), with the average rating, the number of reviews on record, the newest review date, the USDOT number where there is one, and the profile URL. Ratings are means of real reviews on record; Haulest does not rank companies by payment. Use it when someone wants movers in a place; follow with the profile tool for one company.

Inputs: place, market?, limit?, minReviews?, sort?.

Get a mover's profile get_mover_profile

One moving company in detail from its Haulest profile: rating and review counts, the three newest dated reviews, licence identifiers (USDOT, MC) with the live FMCSA authority and insurance summary when available, the company's own phone number from a public record, what reviewers paid, short checkable strengths and questions to ask, and the profile URL. Use it after find_movers or when someone names a company that has a Haulest page.

Inputs: slug. Calls an official register (FMCSA or Companies House) live.

Check a mover's licence record check_mover_licence

Looks a moving company up in the official register: for the United States, the FMCSA census by USDOT, MC, or legal name, with live operating authority, insurance on file, and safety rating when available; for the United Kingdom, Companies House by name or number. Returns the official record URL to confirm on. For Canada it explains the provincial checks instead. Use it before anyone pays a deposit or when a quote names a USDOT.

Inputs: query, market?. Calls an official register (FMCSA or Companies House) live.

Search Haulest guides search_moving_guides

Searches Haulest's written guides, calculators, and checklists about hiring movers, estimates, deposits, consumer rights (US interstate rules, UK and Canadian practice), packing, and timing. Returns each match's title, one-paragraph answer, and URL. Use it for how-to and what-does-this-mean questions about moving.

Inputs: query, limit?.

Get a moving checklist get_moving_checklist

Returns one of Haulest's checklists in full, grouped by section: the 8-week countdown, moving day, the first-night box, change of address for the US, Canada, or UK, or the 12-week international list. Use it when someone wants a to-do list for a move.

Inputs: list.

Request moving quotes request_moving_quotes

Submits a quote request to Haulest so licensed movers can call and email the person with written estimates for the move. Haulest is not a carrier; it introduces the request to movers through its lead desk, and in the US and UK the desk may phone within minutes. Call this only after the person has given their name, phone, and email for this purpose and has explicitly agreed to be contacted (consent must be true); confirm the details back to them first. Each call creates one request; a repeat with the same phone or email within a day is recognised and not duplicated. Returns a request reference and what happens next.

Inputs: from, to, moveDate, homeSize, name, phone, email, consent, moveType?, dateFlex?, packing?, storage?, callWindow?, notes?, excludeMoverSlug?. The assistant must set consent to true only after the person agrees. Repeats from the same phone or email within 24 hours are recognised and not filed twice.

The server also offers a plan_my_move prompt and two resources: the full cost dataset as JSON and a short About text. Prompts, resources, and the tool list are visible in any MCP inspector.

What the tools return

Each answer is plain text for the model plus a structured object with the same facts, including the haulest.com URL of the page the answer came from. Cost figures are research planning ranges compiled in September 2026 and labelled as such, never bids. Ratings are the mean of real, dated reviews on record; Haulest does not invent totals and does not rank companies by payment. Licence facts come from the FMCSA census and the live QCMobile authority feed, or Companies House, with the official URL to confirm on.

Data and privacy

Read tools send Haulest only the arguments needed for the question. Haulest logs each call with the tool name, time, outcome, the assistant product from the user agent, and a salted short hash of the network address, kept 90 days to measure use and stop abuse. Arguments are not logged. The quote request stores the fields the person gives (route, date, home size, name, phone, email, consent) and treats them exactly like the form on this site: see Privacy. Haulest never receives the chat history, and nothing the server returns contains tokens, session identifiers, or other people's contact details.

Fair use and abuse controls

Anonymous callers get a per-minute and per-day ceiling per network address; a 429 carries a Retry-After header. Quote requests are limited per hour per caller and capped per day across all clients, and a repeat from the same phone or email within a day returns the existing reference rather than a new lead. Every tool can be switched off from the Haulest desk without a deploy. Partners who need higher limits can ask for an API key (sent as Authorization: Bearer hk_…) at info@haulest.com.

For directory reviewers

  • Transport: Streamable HTTP at the endpoint above. No authentication; no test account is needed.
  • Every tool has a title, a description that matches its behaviour, and explicit readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, and openWorldHint values.
  • Read and write are separate tools. The only write is request_moving_quotes, which requires consent: true and validates every field.
  • Privacy policy: https://haulest.com/privacy. Terms: https://haulest.com/terms. Support: info@haulest.com, +1 (866) 961-9682.
  • Source for the bridge, directory manifests, and this documentation: https://github.com/Panaweb-LLC/haulest-mcp. Security reports: security.txt.

Who runs this

Panaweb LLC, 8 The Green, Suite 6536, Dover, DE 19901. Haulest is a consumer research and quote site; it does not operate trucks or hold household-goods authority, and a quote conversation is not a booking on Haulest. Read Methodology and Estimate policy for how the numbers are made.