Looking for opinions and advice! What is the best vehicle tranport company?

[Rustbuster78]

If any of you have had a vehicle shipped across the country, I'd like to here what company you used, and if there is a company you've used more than once with great success. Also let me know if there are any companies to steer clear from if you've had bad luck with them. I'm also looking at the cost factor as well, I obviously want to pay as least as possible while still getting good service. If it matters, I live in Wisconsin and the car I'm looking at purchasing is in New Mexico, it's an undrivable parts car. Thanks!

[Ooph!]

I just had two shipped, the broker was U-ship, you fill out an online form and receive bids from drivers but it seems other companies also bid, after you accept the bid the system allows you to send/receive messages and the driver I selected gave me his number.

 2 pickups 500 miles the cost was $1200 total on an open trailer.

This is someone I see advertise on facebook I believe he's in NM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/californiaracecartrader/permalink/2303580979973044/?sale_post_id=2303580979973044

Edited October 3, 2024 by Ooph!

[Rustbuster78]

Okay! Great info! Thank you!

[Rustbuster78]

22 hours ago, Ooph! said:

I just had two shipped, the broker was U-ship, you fill out an online form and receive bids from drivers but it seems other companies also bid, after you accept the bid the system allows you to send/receive messages and the driver I selected gave me his number.

 2 pickups 500 miles the cost was $1200 total on an open trailer.

This is someone I see advertise on facebook I believe he's in NM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/californiaracecartrader/permalink/2303580979973044/?sale_post_id=2303580979973044

What is the best way to pay the seller, I don't know that it would be smart to pay with paypal because I don't know that there would be much in the way of recourse if the  the seller tries to pull anything shady.

[Ooph!]

If you use U-ship you pre pay the agreed amount and they don't accept pay pal.

They hold the money until the item is delivered and you give the driver the code to release the payment.

Never pre pay to the contractor

[Rustbuster78]

22 hours ago, Ooph! said:

If you use U-ship you pre pay the agreed amount and they don't accept pay pal.

They hold the money until the item is delivered and you give the driver the code to release the payment.

Never pre pay to the contractor

The issue I'm having now is finding a company that will ship a non running car that is probably locked solid. They all want a forklift or rollback on site to get it loaded onto there truck which brings the cost up to being not worth it.

 

[wayno]

In 2014 I had a 1962 Datsun U320 shipped from Shelby NC to Vancouver WA in an enclosed trailer, it took a while as the driver was hit 3 winter storms(snow/blizzards), it arrived safely.

 

This vehicle was not running, the engine/transmission was installed because I did not want it rolling around in the bed, it had no brakes of any kind, not even an e-brake, we had to use a winch type device to roll it out of the truck, but it did roll(all wheels were free to turn), it was on the upper level of the trailer.

 

This was in 2014, keep that in mind, I paid the truck driver $1800.00 with a $100.00 tip($1900.00 total), the company was called Plymouth Transportation as I recall, I have the quote on my other computer if I can remember to find it to make sure of the name of the company, they were easy to deal with and gave me a quote for transporting a U521 that never happened, they did have to find a closed type trailer which took some time(it was a soft side trailer).

[Rustbuster78]

Thanks! I'm hoping that's still something they'd be willing to do. They all seem to be worried about their trailers getting scratched from dragging a car on. I wish I had the time to go get it myself. The car I'm looking at now is in California and not New Mexico as the New Mexico deal didn't work out. This one he only wants $200 for so if I only need to pay $1800 or so I still feel that will be worth it, otherwise with all this forklift business I was getting quotes around $3500-$5000 which is out of the question.

[Rustbuster78]

1 hour ago, Rustbuster78 said:

Thanks! I'm hoping that's still something they'd be willing to do. They all seem to be worried about their trailers getting scratched from dragging a car on. I wish I had the time to go get it myself. The car I'm looking at now is in California and not New Mexico as the New Mexico deal didn't work out. This one he only wants $200 for so if I only need to pay $1800 or so I still feel that will be worth it, otherwise with all this forklift business I was getting quotes around $3500-$5000 which is out of the question.

I think the biggest issue is that this car doesn't roll, It's owned by an elderly woman and her 15 year old grandson was helping her sell so there really isn't anyone that's going to be capable to get it rolling. I may have to give up on this idea and wait for something to hopefully pop up a little closer and that at least rolls.