# 2025-00819: Government Still Obsessed With Your Moving Company's Paperwork

2025-00819, Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved Information Collection: Transportation of Household Goods; Consumer Protection, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00819
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00819
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved Information Collection: Transportation of Household Goods; Consumer Protection
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Government Still Obsessed With Your Moving Company's Paperwork

## Summary

The Department of Transportation is renewing a paperwork rule that helps protect people moving their household goods by truck. This update changes how many companies must report info, how long it takes, and the costs involved. Movers and customers should know comments are open until March 17, 2025, so speak up if you want to help shape the rules!

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests OMB's renewed approval of the ICR titled "Transportation of Household Goods; Consumer Protection," which applies to household goods motor carriers who are procured by the public (household goods shippers) to transport their household goods. This renewal revises the previous information collection's number of respondents, total respondent hours, and cost burden.

## Effects PRIA read

- Movers' Paperwork Burden Updated: cost, medium. The FMCSA renewed its information collection for household goods motor carriers and reports an estimated 7,861 respondents and a total annual burden of 3,722,704 hours. The agency says this is an increase of 14,609 annual burden hours from the previously approved estimate and the collection expires…
- Required Protections for Household Shippers: benefit, medium. If you hire a carrier to move household goods, carriers must conduct a physical survey of your items unless you waive it in writing and must give you a written estimate based on that survey. Carriers must also prepare an inventory and bill of lading, obtain weight tickets, keep records of shipment…
- Retention Period for Waiver Receipts Cut: benefit, low. FMCSA's earlier rule change reduced the required retention period for a shipper's written waiver of printed consumer materials from 3 years to 1 year. That change was made on July 16, 2012, and applies to household goods motor carriers' recordkeeping for waiver documentation.

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## Sources
- [2025-00819 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00819/agency-information-collection-activities-renewal-of-an-approved-information-collection)
- [2025-00819 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00819.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00819 (as of 2026-06-08).