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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.

 

anyone?

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

http://passporttransport.com/

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

 

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)?

 

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.

 

Are you willing to ship on an open trailer?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

yeah i just did the quote thing for reliable auto. ill see what they say. shipping from Milwaukee to San Diego.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I used reliable a few yrs ago to ship my truck...about 850 to go 1200 miles in an open trailer....no complaints here

 

There is a company in San Diego who can help you with that. They are an international car shipping company, but they have another department downstairs for local "USA" car shipping.

 

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.

 

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 ***** to leave the car in front of the guys house with no note or anything.