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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
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+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.