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National companies are typically organized with local branches or affiliated agents. That affiliation may be in the form Seattle Movers of a franchise, wherein the local agent is a privilege of a national company, or a cooperative, wherein the local agent owns a share of the national company. There are also multifold small independent moving companies who operate within any given local area. In the United States all legitimate moving companies must be licensed with the Federal Highway Administration and / or their State Commerce Commission.

Pianos are a particular problem; removals contractors will normally have specialist piano trolleys and there is a device colloquially known as a shoe which is strapped to the side of a grand piano to allow it to be rested on edge on the trolley without harmful the brightness or applying excessive force to the sides of the instrument.