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teveo 09-01-2007 12:00 PM

West to East transportation advice needed
 
I have a Ferrari 308 in LA that I need trucked to an east coast harbour ( GA to MD ) .. Any advice on good honest truckers?

Porsche-O-Phile 09-01-2007 12:05 PM

I'll volunteer to drive it out for ya'. :)

ErVikingo 09-04-2007 06:49 AM

I've hired transportation through Transport Masters (Idaho to FL and DC to FL) no problems whasoever.

http://www.transportmasters.com/

stomachmonkey 09-04-2007 07:10 AM

I am contemplating using these guys to move one of my cars.

http://www.horselesscarriage.com

For normal cars I'm not picky. Classics are a different story.

You want to deal direct, no broker.

You want door to door, make sure their definition of door to door is the car goes on at the pick up and stays on till the final destination.

A lot of the brokers/cheaper outfits operate similar to FedEx. They pick up, drive to a centrally located distribution hub, unload and reload the vehicle onto another truck bound for your destination.

One problem with this approach is cars can sit in a lot until there is a load going to the destination.

I've heard of peoples cars getting stuck in distribution lots for days even weeks.

id10t 09-04-2007 07:26 AM

Intercity has a *great* reputation in the 356 world...

pwd72s 09-04-2007 07:38 AM

I used Horseless carriage. Oregon to New Jersey. The vessel with the car arrived in Istanbul yesterday. The ground transport took about 10 days if I recall correctly.

MattKellett 09-04-2007 08:30 AM

I used Intercity from Kentucky to CA. They ceratinly do take care of the vehicle and the set up on their trailers is first class. I had to wait a couple of weeks for pick up due to the route and available trucks, but once on board the car arrived as scheduled.

Matt

Overpaid Slacker 09-04-2007 08:33 AM

+1 for Intercity -- from NoCal to Syracuse, no problems. And real-time tracking avail, IIRC.

JP

cashflyer 09-04-2007 09:24 AM

I have not used them, but many people do not know that FedEx has an auto transport division.
http://passport.fedex.com/default.shtml

From what I read, it is a fully enclosed door-to-door service. No offloading at terminals or shuffling. Car on at A, off at B. Residential or commercial p/u & delivery. Liftgate, not ramps. Real time sat tracking.


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