car shipping...

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.