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Badazz 97 TA
04-08-2011, 01:45 PM
searched but couldnt find anything.


Im looking for an auto shipping company to ship my T/A from wisconsin to the Navy base in San diego. I searched a few companies but dont really trust them. Is there a trucking company any of you guys used to ship a car across country that did a good job or had a good experience with? let me know ASAP.


Badazz 97 TA
04-09-2011, 01:06 PM
anyone?

cali_bear2003
04-09-2011, 01:10 PM
Its not easy to find someone whom you trust. They will all tell you just what you are looking to hear inorder to get your business. In my experience, most are simply brokers and not actual drivers or trucks. Hopefully someone here can help.


UsmcAlston
04-09-2011, 02:41 PM
i shipped my car from SD to MD and it only cost 995 using national transport the driver was really cool i had a trunk full of car parts and he take it anyways i would rate 9 outta 10 got my car there safety no issues

clint195
04-09-2011, 03:21 PM
I have used passport transport 3 times and would use them again. You could also look into reliable auto carriers they have the big orange trucks and are first class.

clint195
04-09-2011, 03:28 PM
http://passporttransport.com/

http://www.reliable-carriers.com/default.cfm

http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww124/clint195/scan0001.jpg

Badazz 97 TA
04-09-2011, 07:09 PM
a little pricey with passport being an enclosed trailor. $1800 bucks. Clint, How much did you pay to ship your vette and how long did it take(from where to where)?

clint195
04-09-2011, 07:16 PM
a little pricey with passport being an enclosed trailor. $1800 bucks. Clint, How much did you pay to ship your vette?

Yeah they are pricey at times. I paid 900 acouple months ago to ship it 800 miles. Back when i had my car shipped to lingenfleter it was $820. You could get a quote from the other place that i gave you they were alittle cheaper than passport.

One think i liked about passport was i had my car at lingenfelter for like 4 months getting some stuff done. I got Passport to transport it back and i got a team trucker. Well they drove from 9am to 130am straight through to get me my car and i was very happy being i never seen it for 4 months.

There are acouple other companies that i have read about on corvette forum but i never had any experience with them.

Maybe some of that $1800 is do to the fuel prices rising.

clint195
04-09-2011, 07:17 PM
Are you willing to ship on an open trailer?

indyboom
04-09-2011, 07:34 PM
Dependable auto is good. Im looking at using nationa auto for my 71 SWB from WA to Indiana when I get back from the war

Badazz 97 TA
04-09-2011, 07:44 PM
Are you willing to ship on an open trailer?

definitaly. Im trying to stay under $1100 to ship. i would love to do enclosed if the price is right its just it seems like all companies are in that range for enclosed. guess i will be making some calls monday. appreciate the help

$1800 is like 1/3 of my cars blue book value. lol plus im an E-2 budget :usa:

clint195
04-09-2011, 07:54 PM
definitaly. Im trying to stay under $1100 to ship. i would love to do enclosed if the price is right its just it seems like all companies are in that range for enclosed. guess i will be making some calls monday. appreciate the help

$1800 is like 1/3 of my cars blue book value. lol plus im an E-2 budget :usa:

I see. Yeah passport is all enclosed. Reliable auto carriers has some open car trailers. You can get a quote on there website and they will email you back on monday. Where are you shipping the car from? Just look out for some carriers some of them only take it to there terminals and you have to go pick them up. Reliable it door to door so that is nice.

Badazz 97 TA
04-09-2011, 07:59 PM
yeah i just did the quote thing for reliable auto. ill see what they say. shipping from Milwaukee to San Diego.

thehkp7m13
04-09-2011, 08:39 PM
G.L. with all that. I find shipping prices killed few car I would have bought over the years. And beware like above poster said a lot of thse guys shooting out quotes are brokers.

Tobias05
04-09-2011, 08:46 PM
I used fedex to ship an ebay car i won while i was in iraq. cost about a grand.

i picked fedex because i didn't recognize the other companies.

wyome
04-09-2011, 09:20 PM
I used reliable a few yrs ago to ship my truck...about 850 to go 1200 miles in an open trailer....no complaints here

smallfries
04-11-2011, 06:19 PM
searched but couldnt find anything.


Im looking for an auto shipping company to ship my T/A from wisconsin to the Navy base in San diego. I searched a few companies but dont really trust them. Is there a trucking company any of you guys used to ship a car across country that did a good job or had a good experience with? let me know ASAP.

There is a company in San Diego who can help you with that. They are an international car shipping (http://www.shipoverseas.com) company, but they have another department downstairs for local "USA" car shipping.

f3racer
04-12-2011, 09:43 AM
are you moving duty stations? if so they will pay you to drive it your self. thats what i have every move.

Badazz 97 TA
04-12-2011, 07:57 PM
are you moving duty stations? if so they will pay you to drive it your self. thats what i have every move.


i already moved about a month ago. They wouldnt let E3 and below drive there cars to california from Illinois where we were for A school. Our only option was to either drive with petty officers or fly. kinda forced to fly.

called a few companies and it seems like there backed up a few weeks so its not looking good unfortunitaly.

TurboStangJON
04-12-2011, 11:16 PM
Whatever you do don't use Allied! I used them to ship a car I sold on ebay and those idiots left the upper deck unlocked and made my notchback Mustang into a chop top. They even had the balls to leave the car in front of the guys house with no note or anything.

indyboom
04-17-2011, 06:36 PM
Whatever you do don't use Allied! I used them to ship a car I sold on ebay and those idiots left the upper deck unlocked and made my notchback Mustang into a chop top. They even had the balls to leave the car in front of the guys house with no note or anything.

WHOA.. Whew.. Dont know how I would react to that..

Badazz 97 TA
04-19-2011, 10:38 PM
found a company. miltitaryautotransport.com. Set the order for on the 14th. It was picked up Yesterday and there delivering my car the end of this week. So its pretty quick turn around time. Reliable and a few others that were mentioned were backed up a few weeks before they could even pick it up.

jsteele90
04-19-2011, 11:50 PM
^^ how much $$$

Badazz 97 TA
04-20-2011, 09:34 AM
$1200.... most others wanted a few hundred more for just an open carrier. so its not too bad of a price.


2,000 miles total of travel

smallfries
05-13-2011, 05:55 PM
i already moved about a month ago. They wouldnt let E3 and below drive there cars to california from Illinois where we were for A school. Our only option was to either drive with petty officers or fly. kinda forced to fly.

WHAT? You have to be an E4 or above to be 'approved' to drive to Cali? When I was in the military, none of that garbage existed. I guess they are have cut back on a lot of things.