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Old 07-28-12, 01:19 PM
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shipping a car

Does anyone have any experience in shipping a car? I want to consider that option when I purchase my project.
Old 07-30-12, 11:04 AM
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Hi Noch.

From where to where?
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I've shipped a couple different cars, one from europe to the states and 3 from the states to europe, what do you need to know?
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Concrete prices are hard to get. Usually you get quoted and the final price is based on what the driver/company wants do it for.
I shipped a car from maryland to california for 800. Overall good experience.
Cheapest method I found is a depot to depot type. They drop it off at a yard and you pick it up at another one.
Then there's a home to depot or depot to home.
Home to home, which is what I did.
Luxury treatment is an enclosed trailer.

Anything under 100 miles, get a AAA membership and get it towed.
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Hey,

It would ship to GA from somewhere in the US. The more I look in the forum I think I will be able to find a TII within range of just getting ones of those Uhaul tow dollies for $50. I have a Tacoma and could just tow is straight home.

I was just trying to think worse case if I can't find one close and had to ship it. I got the fever.

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I've personally used uship.com to ship my FD to my house, and I've sent a car using a company from transportreviews.com. Both were good, just make sure to read their feedback before picking a shipper.
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Edit: ^ beat me to it.

When i shipped my RX7 from S.C. to Ne. it was a bad experience. It took the 3 months to put a load together to make the trip. Then it took another 2 1/2 weeks to get here, so it wasn't a speedy delivery by any means. On the other hand i purchased a motor from California. We got onto uship.com and I've never shipped something so quick. It left on Saturday morning and showed up Monday afternoon. So it was a much more positive experience. If i was going to ship another car i'd be putting it up on uship and see what bids come up.
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Cool, uship.com looks like a winner. Thanks for the help!
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I got a motorcycle shipped via uShip, they are reasonable and professional




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