Auto shipping help!

[bradf]

I have to ship a car from Orange County, CA. to Staten island, NY. After a dozen calls and numerous web searches I am getting a bit nervous with all the complaints. All of the companies I find seem to be just the broker or a scam. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks, Brad F

[911Freak]

Have you done a search on this forum? This has been covered many times with I depth feedback on numerous companies...

Give it a try and report back

[Sterling911]

Hey Brad, call Andy at Capitol Auto Transport. He does my shipping and screens the drivers like crazy if you tell him to! I have some strict standards and he does not disappoint! CAPITOL AUTO TRANSPORT 305-467-2534 capitolautotransport@hotmail.com

[McLovin]

I've been involved, directly and indirectly, with shipping quite a few cars.

I'd recommend highly Intercity. They are super reliable, family owned, not a broker, and very competitive on pricing.

[javadog]

Intercity and Passport/Fedex.

Be aware that most of the carriers are very, very busy right now, shipping cars to and from the Monterey/Carmel area.

JR

[jpl500]

+1 on Intercity

[Kraftwerk]

I'll drive it for you.. if its a Porsche.

[EddieSantor]

I'd recommend highly Intercity.

[tchanson]

Originally Posted by McLovin

I'd recommend highly Intercity. They are super reliable, family owned, not a broker, and very competitive on pricing.

This. For every reason listed.

I've used Intercity numerous times, and they've been nothing less than great.

I wouldn't touch a broker for any car I gave a squat about.



Tim

[POORSH]

Charlene at Thomas C. Sunday, Inc.

[Gary De]

Intercity.....first class job. Would use them again without a second thought.

[ejp]

Originally Posted by tchanson

This. For every reason listed.

I've used Intercity numerous times, and they've been nothing less than great.

I wouldn't touch a broker for any car I gave a squat about.



Tim

+1 on avoiding the broker services. My experience with brokers has been horrible, and the ones who I dealt with were pretty unprofessional. Further, when using a broker, if there are problems, it can result in finger-pointing between the shipper and broker - no clear accountability. I will never use a broker again.

I recently used DAS Auto Shippers to ship my p-car across country and had a pretty good experience. They were cheap, and they delivered on-time (and I got what I paid for, a slow delivery). Their "Real time 24 hour online satellite tracking" did few of the things that are enclosed in the quotes. I guess that it was online, and it did some sort of tracking. 24 hour was dubious, as the system seemed to go up and down pretty regularly. It only listed the last city that the driver checked in at for the night (or the depot they dropped my car at, waiting for the next truck to pick it up). Far from real time, and may have somehow been remotely satellite-based - perhaps the drivers may have used GPS to tell what city they were in. I may have wore their tracking system out with regular F5-ing like an impatient person hitting the elevator call button; I'm pretty sure that it did nothing to make my car arrive any faster, but I would do it again until I read a peer-reviewed double blind study that suggests otherwise. All-in-all, DAS was relatively inexpensive (compared to the high-end operations like Passport), and they delivered my car on time in the same condition that it was when they picked it up.

Of course, YMMV.

[McLovin]

A person I sold a car who used DAS.

It was an incredibly horrible experience. In a nutshell, the car was delivered something like 6 WEEKS late (may have been even longer) and there were long periods of no communications or returned calls from DAS.

Imagine being in those shoes, your car is supposed to be delivered in a week and it takes almost 2 months, with your calls and emails not being returned.

Obviously, that isn't going to happen every time. But once is enough for me. The failure to return calls or communicate - even on one job, is unforgiveable to me.

[JQ911]

Do you have ballpark on Intercity? I will be relocating to NJ on September and would know more or less how much are the rates from IL to NJ. I was planning to rent a U-haul truck and tow the 911 with their transporter. Truck plus the transporter is around 1k. Since its fall time by then I am also contemplating of driving the 911 from IL to NJ and instead haul my things and tow the CX7.

[tchanson]

Just fill out their online quote request form.



Tim

[cobra935o]

I have used DAS as well, took about three weeks to get a car that they said would be there in three days, car showed up at location with 2500.00 in damage, not very happy with the experience. Nothing like buying a car, waiting to get it, to only find it wrecked. They paid for repairs, but who wants a new car to sit in a body shop for a few weeks right after purchase? I would stay away from DAS even if they shipped the car for free.

[tobluforu]

There is a site dedicated to auto shipping with reviews, etc. Check them out. There is an online aution site where many drivers that have trailers that look like race car trailers that hold one car, will pick your car up and drive it cross country. Many options, but make sure you stay away from the sites that will have a truck pick your car up, they then ship it to a holding lot, it then gets on another and another, etc.. You want a truck where your car stays in the same truck from start to finish. I shipped two cars in a closed trailer and they did not move and where on-time.

[Sterling911]

Hey Tobluforu what is the name of that company???

[IDGAF27]

Originally Posted by bradf

I have to ship a car from Orange County, CA. to Staten island, NY. After a dozen calls and numerous web searches I am getting a bit nervous with all the complaints. All of the companies I find seem to be just the broker or a scam. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks, Brad F

900 to 1200 ( depending on size and conditions) , open trailer, LA to Newark every other week.
Interested email me. My two drivers in LA right now.

[JQ911]

Originally Posted by IDGAF27

900 to 1200 ( depending on size and conditions) , open trailer, LA to Newark every other week.
Interested email me. My two drivers in LA right now.

Just curious if your drivers happen to pass by Illinois, wish to know more or less cost to ship it to Springfield, NJ. I'm relocating to NJ soon and weighing pros and cons on shipping it versus U-haul truck with transporter and me driving the truck.