The New Jersey Warehouse Corridor: Where Consumer Belongings Go Between Pickup and Delivery

When a consumer books an interstate move through a Florida-based broker, the broker dispatches a carrier. The carrier picks up the consumer's belongings, loads them onto a truck, and drives them to a warehouse. At the warehouse, the goods may be consolidated with other shipments, transferred to a different truck, or simply stored until a delivery crew is available.

The consumer is rarely told about the warehouse. The bill of lading may list a Florida broker address or a carrier address, but the physical location where their belongings spend days or weeks in transit is usually not disclosed.

Trunk queried its database of 2,231 interstate household goods carriers and brokers and identified four warehouse addresses in northern New Jersey that appear repeatedly across companies with high federal complaint counts. Together, these addresses form a corridor running through Passaic and Bergen counties, roughly 15 miles of suburban industrial space that serves as the physical infrastructure for a significant portion of the complaints in FMCSA's database.

This address appears on the FMCSA registrations of at least four interstate moving companies:

- Moving Systems (USDOT 4340834, Suite 6): 145 NCCDB complaints. Connected to Farah Al-Ibrahim, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud (D.NJ, Case 2:19-cr-00140) and sentenced to probation and $75,193 in restitution. Authority status: not authorized. - Space Moving Vanlines LLC (USDOT 4013518, Suite 6): 2 NCCDB complaints. Same suite as Moving Systems. - Four Seasons Movers LLC (USDOT 4134685): 3 NCCDB complaints. - Premiere Moving & Storage LLC (USDOT 4439271, Suite 1): Newly registered.

Combined complaints at this address: 150.

The Sherwood Lane facility was identified by KMBC 9 Kansas City investigators when consumers used Find My iPhone and Apple AirTags to track their belongings. The signal led to 30 Sherwood Lane, where goods from multiple consumers, shipped by different brokers through different carriers, were sitting in the same warehouse.

Goodview Moving and Storage (USDOT 3883187) operates from 16 Passaic Avenue in Fairfield, less than half a mile away, and has 90 complaints. The Fairfield cluster alone accounts for over 240 federal complaints.

This address appears on the registrations of:

- Howards Vanlines Inc (USDOT 4391903): 166 NCCDB complaints. 1 registered truck. Authority status: authorized. Subject of KMBC 9 Kansas City investigative series. Independence, MO police referred the case to the FBI. - Express Movers Services Inc (USDOT 2553031, Unit 28-1D): 54 NCCDB complaints.

Combined complaints at this address: 220.

Howards Vanlines is connected to Farah Al-Ibrahim and the Moving Systems operation at 30 Sherwood Lane through Trunk's entity_links data. The Lanza Avenue address also connects to The Seven Brothers Inc, a related entity.

Note the address spelling in FMCSA's records: the city is listed as "GARFILED" rather than "GARFIELD," a data entry error that has persisted in the federal database. This kind of inconsistency makes it difficult for consumers or regulators to identify address clusters through simple searches.

This address appears on the registrations of:

- Star Line Trucking LLC (USDOT 4083083): 20 NCCDB complaints. - New State Transport Inc (USDOT 4123810, Suite 5): 13 NCCDB complaints. - Two additional DOT registrations (USDOT 3539058 and USDOT 3463106) list this address with no company name in Trunk's database.

The Wagaraw Road address is connected to Shadi Qarmout, who is listed as managing member of multiple companies in the Hawthorne network. Qarmout is also linked to Cross State Vanlines (274 Getty Ave, Paterson NJ), AMM Trucking (subject of FBI investigation), Movers and Packers, and Lucrative Van Lines.

Penske Truck Leasing sued and settled with Qarmout over overdue and stolen rental trucks used to perform consumer moves. The lawsuit documented that rental trucks were being used by companies registered at this address to perform interstate moves, a practice that keeps the trucks invisible to FMCSA's safety inspection system.

Jennifer DeHaas (also known as Jennifer Tattoli), who is linked to Lucrative Van Lines (USDOT 3999967, 15 complaints) and Frontier Moving Solutions (USDOT 4354217, 46 complaints), operates from addresses in Hawthorne and Clifton. Consumer reports describe hostile and threatening communications from DeHaas, including documented instances of calling consumers "sneaky" for making legally compliant payments. The operation is associated with Warehouse 18.

This address appears on the registration of:

- Lucrative Van Lines LLC (USDOT 3999967): 15 NCCDB complaints.

Lucrative Van Lines is operated by Jennifer DeHaas (Tattoli) and connected to Shadi Qarmout and the Wagaraw Road network. Additional Clifton addresses appear in the network: 193 Union Ave (Nationwide Relocation Van Lines, 7 complaints) and 111 Mount Prospect Ave (All Together Movers LLC, 5 complaints).

Clifton sits between Hawthorne and Garfield, completing the geographic corridor. A driver picking up goods in Florida can deliver them to any of these four warehouse clusters within a single day's drive up I-95.

The warehouse model works as follows:

1. A consumer in Texas, Georgia, or California books a move through a broker in Florida. 2. The broker dispatches a carrier. The consumer may not know the carrier's name until the truck arrives. 3. The carrier loads the consumer's belongings and drives to a New Jersey warehouse. This leg of the trip may take 1 to 3 days. 4. At the warehouse, the consumer's goods are unloaded and stored alongside belongings from other consumers. 5. The goods may sit in the warehouse for days or weeks. During this time, the consumer cannot reach the broker, the carrier, or the warehouse by phone. 6. Eventually, a delivery crew (which may be a third company the consumer has never heard of) loads the goods onto a different truck and delivers them. 7. At delivery, the consumer is presented with a new price, often significantly higher than the original estimate. Payment is demanded in cash, cashier's check, or money order before goods are unloaded.

The warehouse is the critical node. It is where the chain of custody breaks. The pickup carrier delivers goods to the warehouse and has no further obligation. The delivery carrier picks up goods from the warehouse and has no knowledge of the original estimate. The consumer has no documentation showing where their belongings are, who is responsible for them, or why the price changed.

FMCSA requires carriers to maintain a bill of lading for each shipment, but enforcement is complaint-driven. The consumer must know to request the document, know which company to file against, and navigate the federal complaint system. Meanwhile, their belongings are in a warehouse in Fairfield, NJ.

Across the four primary warehouse addresses identified in Trunk's database:

- 30 Sherwood Lane, Fairfield: 4 registered companies, 150 combined complaints. - 141 Lanza Avenue, Garfield: 2 registered companies, 220 combined complaints. - 85 Wagaraw Road, Hawthorne: 4 registered DOT numbers, 33 combined complaints. - 98 Wonham Street, Clifton: 1 registered company, 15 combined complaints.

Total across the corridor: 11 registered DOT numbers, 418 combined NCCDB complaints.

When nearby addresses are included (16 Passaic Ave in Fairfield, 193 Union Ave in Clifton, 111 Mount Prospect Ave in Clifton, 251 Crooks Ave in Paterson), the corridor accounts for 27 registered NJ-based HHG carriers with over 470 combined complaints.

All of this is concentrated in a stretch of Passaic County and southern Bergen County less than 15 miles long.

A separate cluster is emerging in Garfield, New Jersey, distinct from Sherwood Lane but potentially connected.

Howards Vanlines (DOT 4391903, 166 complaints) is registered at 141 Lanza Ave, Garfield NJ. FMCSA investigators found this to be a virtual office, not a bona fide business location.

Prime Moving LLC (DOT 4295038) is registered at 69 Albert St, Garfield NJ. Google Street View shows a residential house. The company is NOT AUTHORIZED for interstate operations, reports zero annual miles, has 1 truck, 2 drivers, and zero inspections. Its principal is Mahamed Al-Mallah.

Two moving companies in the same small city, both with irregular registration patterns. Whether Prime Moving is operationally connected to Howards or the broader Sherwood Lane network is under investigation.

In June 2026, NJ.com reported that Howards Vanlines customers tracked their belongings to the Sherwood Lane warehouse in Fairfield using Find My iPhone, confirming the warehouse connection between Garfield-registered Howards and the Fairfield warehouse corridor.

Consumer advocates have developed a methodology for checking moving company addresses:

1. Google Street View: Is it a commercial building, a residential house, or a virtual office suite? A carrier registered to an apartment is a red flag. 2. LoopNet: Search the address on LoopNet (commercial real estate listings). If the address recently appeared as a vacant office for rent, the company may have pulled it to appear legitimate without maintaining a physical presence. 3. State business filings: Check the registered agent and principal address. If the registered agent is a commercial service (like King Enterprises Palm Beach County), the actual operators may be elsewhere. 4. Cross-reference with other DOTs: How many other moving companies are registered at the same address? Our shared-address analysis found multiple fraud hubs with 5+ companies at a single location.

Northern New Jersey is positioned along the I-95 corridor between the major population centers of the Northeast. It offers relatively inexpensive warehouse space compared to New York City. It is within a day's drive of Florida (the origin point for most brokered moves) and within delivery range of the entire Northeast, the most densely populated region of the country.

New Jersey also has a concentration of immigrant communities with ties to the moving industry, and the state's business registration requirements are straightforward. The combination of geographic convenience, affordable warehouse space, and easy business formation creates conditions where multiple moving operations can cluster at the same physical addresses.

The corridor is not new. Consumer complaints about New Jersey warehouses appear in FMCSA records going back years. What is new is the ability to map the connections between addresses, companies, and principals using cross-referenced public records.