any advise on shipping a car??

[Easygoing]

Hi, I need to ship a car from California to Ohio for my daughter. Does anyone have any advise or experience in doing this? Thanks

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Easygoing
Hi, I need to ship a car from California to Ohio for my daughter. Does anyone have any advise or experience in doing this? Thanks

Probably cheaper to pay someone you trust to drive it out there and fly back. Phil Simms asked (indirectly) my grandfather to drive a car from NJ to TX for his son Chris down at UT.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

a popular place is DAS (Dependable Auto Shippers)...not very dependable-don't use

 

[notfred]

You can hire a company to put in a truck for you and drive it over there for somewhere between $700 and $1000. If it's not a collector car, it may be cheaper to have her fly out and pick it up.

 

[Easygoing]

I don't want her to have to drive all the way back by herself otherwise that would work. i got one estimate for around $700 to ship it on an open car hauler. I don't know if these guys are realiable or not.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Easygoing
I don't want her to have to drive all the way back by herself otherwise that would work.

Try what minendo suggested - have someone you know and trust do that (fly one way, drive the other)

- M4H

 

[EyeMWing]

Atlas Van Lines ships cars - they have two parking spaces on their semis. Just, uh, don't put a lowrider on the top like my neighbor did. they have to use ramps to get it down onto the back of a flatbed tow truck and then lower it off the tow, and that's two places where the thing'll be doing some heavy duty scraping.

Also, FedEx has a subsidiary that does cars. There's a link somewhere on FedEx.com