Provencher Van Lines

Provencher Van Lines is a third-generation, family-run mover based in Peabody — the company says its founder's grandfather started it in 1920, making it one of the older moving outfits on the North Shore. Its stated service area stretches across Essex and Middlesex counties into Greater Boston and beyond into neighboring states. Its Google page shows 4.6 stars from 67 ratings, and the last six months alone brought seven reviews, all five stars. Reviewers keep naming the same people — Richard, Kai, Curtis, Landon — for specifics: one recent review credits the crew with disassembling and reassembling two kitchen tables and carrying them up and down a staircase with a stairlift without a scratch, and another describes Richard and Kai as meticulous installing a new area rug and responding to messages even on a Sunday. A separate ranking site independently puts them at 4.8 out of 5 across 20 reviews, though another names professionalism as their strongest mark at a more middling 7.25 out of 10. One recent account describes a quoted 7am arrival getting shifted the night before, so it's worth locking down the arrival window and crew size in writing. Elsewhere, an older, undated review describes a serious, unresolved complaint about a break-in and missing belongings tied to a move or storage job, alongside an unresponsive owner — a real outlier against everything else here, and worth asking about directly if storage is part of the plan. For a straightforward local or long-distance move, especially one with heavy or delicate pieces, the reviews point to a crew that handles the details carefully. Get the crew size, hourly rate, and arrival window confirmed in writing before moving day, and ask directly about how they handle temporary storage.