Who do you guys use for shipping a car?

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MileHighDart

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We have a move coming up in a couple months. Colorado to southern Oregon. Have too many cars to drive everything in one trip.
Was thinking of towing my Dart up with my truck and getting it setup in its new home, and then driving back. Everything else can go on the final move, my truck towing our camper, and wife driving her car, the moving company taking everything else.
But from previous trips up there with truck towing camper it's cost us about $1500 for gas, food, motel, etc. and a week off work to do it.
I figure for $1500 I could just have the Dart shipped up now, save taking a week off work, and wont have to actually make the extra trip up ourselves. My bro-in-law is up there and he could receive the car and get it parked in the new garage.

So, who to you ship cars with, what company do you trust to deliver your ride without any damage or problems?
 
I think this guy has done it before!
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Several years ago when I relocated, I contacted several National carriers to transport a 30’ Ford 5 window coupe I had. It was better than driver quality but less than show quality, if that makes sense.

So I thought I’d have it transported in an enclosed trailer due to it was winter and it was an open wheel car. I received my quotes which were around $1,500 for a 600 mile move. The trouble I ran into was that these carriers couldn’t provide services for 60-90 days and my move was well before that. Their answer to the long turnaround was the drop off point was too far off of their grid, that it pretty much amounted to a special trip. They would have to wait till they had another car that could be dropped off in the same area to make it a worthwhile trip. I contacted several shippers that had open transport trailers and they gave me the same excuse and timeline, even though they were a bit cheaper. I ended up renting a u-haul auto transport trailer and did it myself for the fraction of the cost which included all of my expenses.

I don’t know the condition of your car, but if I had been given a better turnaround time, I would’ve shipped in an enclosed trailer. The clean-up on my car was a real ***** with all the road dirt and a rain/snow mix it took several days to clean it up.

If you’ve ever been to the beach and got sand in your *** crack, that’s what it was like to clean up, you never seem to get it all.

If you happen to transport yourself and the trailer isn’t a full deck and has an opening between the wheels like a u-haul has, try to use a tarp to cover that open area to keep all of that road crud from your undercarriage.

IIRC, one of the enclosed carriers I contacted was Reliable Auto Transport, the other carries escapes me.
 
Reliable Auto Transport
That's who I've used many times,and when I didn't, boy did I regret it. They are called Reliable Carriers Inc. now.
EDIT I just googled the carriers above and they look like they might be different companies. So I used Reliable Carriers Inc.The big orange vans.I believe they are still a division of Allied Van Lines. I used Allied when moving from Pa to Nevada. They were able to take our car along with all the home stuff in one trailer.
 
There are many independent transporters, guys with a dually and triple car carrier, looking to make $.
I helped set up a few transporters from east to west coasts and used a different one each time.
The price varies, especially if they're already heading that way.
 
Some states allow tandom trailers.
I have seen them here in CO. I bet WY, Idaho and montana allow too!
Oregon.... You'd probably be tossed in the re-education camp for even thinking about it.
 
Is your Dart drive able? If it is, just drive it up and fly back on a weekend.

You can call it the Vanishing Point part III.
 
Is your Dart drive able? If it is, just drive it up and fly back on a weekend.

You can call it the Vanishing Point part III.
It's very much drivable, and this is an option we considered. But this needs to be done in the next few weeks. Don't know if I want to set off on a 1000 mile road trip in my Dart in January or February. Who knows what kind of weather I'd run into.
 
It's very much drivable, and this is an option we considered. But this needs to be done in the next few weeks. Don't know if I want to set off on a 1000 mile road trip in my Dart in January or February. Who knows what kind of weather I'd run into.
Going through the Rockies would be scary, no major snow here in Utah yet. I bet you can probably get it shipped for less than $1000.
 
I know some tow companies here in Oregon have big diesel trucks and nice 3 car trailers running cars around. What part of Oregon you moving to?
 
Some states allow tandom trailers.
I have seen them here in CO. I bet WY, Idaho and montana allow too!
Oregon.... You'd probably be tossed in the re-education camp for even thinking about it.
I 80 in WY to salt lake city is not bad, a couple of sketchy placed between Laramie and Chyanne if it is snowing
But nothing like I 70.

I agree, I-80 is much better than I-70, I would never try the I-70 route in the winter in my Dart. Going over the passes on 80 it's a much more gradual rise in elevation, not like the steep passes on 70
 
Call these guys . I used them 100X in the car biz . Based in Boise and they make weekly runs to Denver , SLC and Portland Auctions. My guess is $750 from Denver to Portland.

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I be damned if I would call ANY company. Most of them are not shippers, but brokers that find shippers for you and a lot of them are unethical pieces of CRAP. I'd try to find an individual that was trusted. Or do it myself.
 
I be damned if I would call ANY company. Most of them are not shippers, but brokers that find shippers for you and a lot of them are unethical pieces of CRAP. I'd try to find an individual that was trusted. Or do it myself.

I'm starting to find that out. I've gotten several quotes and they range from $700 to $1850. Lot of their websites or email responses say "don't trust the other guys because...". They are all starting to sound a little shady. The $1850 quote was from Reliable Carriers mentioned above, and that's an enclosed trailer, but for that kinda money I'd just do it myself.
 
Where in OR are you moving ?

Well we've always been saying that it's Lakeview, but we bought a place thats several miles south out of town, and the address is actually, New Pine Creek which is like 30-40 houses, a church, and a post office. Oregon/California border runs right through the middle of New Pine creek, and we are about a mile north of that.
 
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