Wakefield Moving & Storage

Wakefield Moving & Storage, based at 100 Cummings Center in Beverly, says it's been at this since 1959 — starting as a local moving outfit and growing into a New England-wide commercial relocation and storage operation that's now part of Tobin Scientific. Its own site leans heavily on institutional work: universities, hospitals, laboratories, and corporate clients moving offices, labs, and records, not the typical household move. That focus shows up in how it's licensed, too. It carries an active USDOT and MC number as a registered carrier, and a Massachusetts DPU tariff certificate covers its in-state hourly rates — the kind of paperwork a commercial mover accumulates over decades, not proof of how any particular move goes. What's harder to pin down is how it treats customers day to day. There's no meaningful third-party review history here: the company isn't BBB accredited and carries no BBB rating, and the only outside rating that turns up is a secondhand mention of a 2.3-star Yelp average — a number worth confirming directly rather than taking on faith, since neither the reviews behind it nor their dates are available to check. Its name also turns up attached to more than one address and legal entity — a Beverly-registered LLC, a separately DOT-listed 'Inc.' in Rowley, and a Newburyport listing — which is common enough for a company with this much regional reach, but worth asking about directly if you want to know exactly who you'd be contracting with. This reads like a company built for office and institutional relocations rather than a homeowner calling about a residential move — worth confirming upfront whether they take on household jobs at all before requesting a quote.