Haulest Moving Cost

Description

Haulest Moving Cost adds three shortcodes to any post, page, or widget:

• [haulest_moving_cost] prints a table of moving cost ranges by home size and distance for the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
• [haulest_licence_check] prints a box where a reader types a USDOT or MC number (or a legal name) and opens the live FMCSA authority record on haulest.com.
• [haulest_quote_button] prints a button to request written quotes from licensed movers.

The ranges are planning ranges compiled by Haulest from published industry tables and public quote examples. They are not bids and not a first-party median. A written quote from a licensed mover still wins. Haulest is not a carrier and does not operate trucks.

Shortcode options

• market: us (default), ca, or uk.
• distance: all (default) for the full table, or one band: local, regional, mid, long, cross-country.
• title: your own heading.
• button: 0 hides the quote button under the table.

Examples:

• [haulest_moving_cost market="us"]
• [haulest_moving_cost market="ca" distance="long" title="Toronto to Vancouver, what people pay"]
• [haulest_licence_check title="Is your mover licensed?"]
• [haulest_quote_button text="Compare moving quotes"]

Where the data comes from

The plugin fetches https://haulest.com/data/moving-costs-2026.json once every 12 hours and caches it with a transient. If haulest.com cannot be reached, the copy bundled with the plugin is used. No reader data is sent anywhere: the table renders on your server, and the licence box and quote button are plain links that open haulest.com in a new tab. Each table shows a “Data by Haulest” link.

External services

This plugin connects to haulest.com (operated by Panaweb LLC) to download the cost dataset. The request carries only the plugin version in its user agent. Terms: https://haulest.com/terms. Privacy: https://haulest.com/privacy.