car shipping...

Exotic Car Transport out of Orlando, Fl. They do it the right way!!! Get hold of Jan and she will help you out or guide you to someone who can. Good people and they haul a lot of Snowbird cars!!! Also a lot of personality's expensive cars.

2oldman wrote:

monkey44 wrote:
We tried for a month to get a vehicle transported from MA to FL ... couldn't get anyone to pick up

Could be you chose a low price..? and were last in line.

Prices are all over the map from $500 to $2500 for me. I chose somewhere around $1800. which seemed like a good company (TNT). I eventually sold the vehicle and didn't use the service. Glad of it too.

We were in the mid-range - had "quotes' from about six or seven places, took the second highest. But could not get anyone to make a date or time, it's like a crapshoot to find a driver willing to come to Cape Cod, so we even said we'd drive it to Boston or Providence.

Still no takers - we even asked for "Bids" if we didn't offer high enough - still no one. We couldn't figure it out - the why no one would do it. Still haven't figured it out - And we had about ten ompanies call afterwards and say "We have a truck in the area, will you sign with us?" And we said "sure, give me a date to load" and no one would do it ... all wanted a contract to "broker" it, so we might have been asking or going about it the wrong way - we tired to drive it to a depot and let it go from there, and couldn't find one, everyone said "Broker' - but no broker could give even close to a frm date. All sounded like 'car dealers' or "real estate agents", sign the contract, with no assurances or -- I know, RE Agents a little different, but still actual performance, just sign open-end contract.
No chance of that, ever. So, S-I-L flew up and drove it down.

Was a very weird experience, and probably our ignorance that made it fail - ? - Or maybe not.

monkey44 wrote:
We tried for a month to get a vehicle transported from MA to FL ... couldn't get anyone to pick up

Could be you chose a low price..? and were last in line.

Prices are all over the map from $500 to $2500 for me. I chose somewhere around $1800. which seemed like a good company (TNT). I eventually sold the vehicle and didn't use the service. Glad of it too.

We tried for a month to get a vehicle transported from MA to FL ... couldn't get anyone to pick up, or we even would deliver to a truck. Very strange the way it works, altho we signed up on a website (thru a broker) and never did get a trucker.

After a month, we finally had our S-I-L fly up and drive it down ...

rkentzel wrote:
Be careful who you call. You will get never ending phone calls from shippers for a year. Brokers give out your number for ever.

Boy I'll say.

I was making inquiries for transporting my F450 from WA to CO, and -my goodness -I'm receiving emails, texts and phone calls daily now for a week.

Must be big business. I'll check out the carriers listed here.

Many fellow classic collectors use Reliable Carriers.

Decide if you need open or closed transport - big difference in price.

A year ago I used a company called Autoline Transport. turned on to be a good experience. they picked up and delivered my car from Tx to CA in 3 days. I found them on a site called transportreviews.com. Anyway, hope this helps.

Be careful who you call. You will get never ending phone calls from shippers for a year. Brokers give out your number for ever.

Two weeks ago we bought a 60 Thunderbird while on our trip to Florida. We had it shipped home to the Detroit Michigan area using a company called "We will transport it".

If you are interested contact Don Meyer. His E-mail address is
don@wewilltransportit.com.

They gave me excellent, fast service, and the communication was excellent.

It cost me $1000 to have my car shipped in a closed truck from St. Petersburg to my home in Michigan. My car left Florida on a Thursday and arrived at my home on Sunday.

I would definitely use them again.

Roland