Archive for the ‘Car Sales’ Category
By Thomas Kearns
“How much will it cost to ship my car”? That is a question that is asked thousands of times each day by dealers, wholesalers, collectors and people moving all around the United States. Cost is always a major consideration when moving something as important as your car, truck, or van. It may not, however, be the MOST important question that you should be asking.
Many times people deal with car transportation brokers. These “brokers” are generally companies or groups of individuals that operate no trucks of their own. These ‘vehicle transporters’ take an order to move a vehicle, hold on to a percentage of what they have charged, and then broker the vehicle out on load boards that are posted online and visible to car haulers that do, in fact, have trucks operating and moving around the country. If the price has been quoted or negotiated too low, it becomes unattractive to auto transporters and the vehicle may sit awaiting transport for a long, uncomfortable amount of time. So, rather than asking ‘what is the cheapest price I can get to move this car’, you may want to ask, ‘what is a reasonable price to move this vehicle.’ Cheapest may not always be best. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Ricky Lim
There are many car shipping companies nowadays providing a variety of car shipping services. By far, the cheapest and most economical way of shipping a car is by using open multi car carriers.
These carriers are huge trucks that can carry up to 10 cars at one time. You may have seen some of these on the roads before. They usually have 2 levels and can carry 4 to 5 cars on each level. Because they are so long and high, they are limited to travel along major highways and roads with no obstruction of low hanging trees and bridges.
When shopping around for cheap car shipping services, there are a couple of pointers you need to bear in mind
1) Federal Car Shipping License
All car shipping companies need to be registered with a federal license before they are allowed to ship cars. Make sure you ask the car shipping company for proof that they carry the federal license. Read the rest of this entry »
By Susan Chen
Parting with something valuable or dear is not the easiest thing for anyone, and if that thing happens to be your newly purchased dream car, that anxiety can be all the more intolerable.
To make matters worse, if you happen to be relocating, or you bought your car in some other state other than yours, you would actually have to entrust some stranger or some service to transport your car back to you.
To reunite with your beloved car, you must make sure to use the services of a fully licensed and insured car transport company that specializes in transporting cars. Doing thorough research on the various car transporter companies and car transport service before deciding on one will minimize the risk of any damage or mishap to your car:
* Just like any other industry, the auto transport industry is marked by myriad prices and multiple car transport options. Your first task involves choosing the right kind of auto transport. Depending on the value of your car, and how badly you want to lessen the risk of damage, you have the option of an enclosed, open or fabric covered auto transporter to ship your car. The covered trailer type carriers are definitely the safest and costliest options. If you have a tight budget, you can consider transporting your car on the multi-layer carriers used by car dealers. As your car will be just one of many cars of their total cargo, they will charge you less, but your car will still remain protected during shipping nonetheless. Read the rest of this entry »
By Maricon Williams
Two of the most widely used vehicles are cars and motorcycles. The problem now is that they are entertaining qualms about shipping. How different can is each from the other?
More and more people are fascinated by bikes – sports bike, touring bikes, big bikes, dirt bikes and a lot more. Name it and you’ll find a community for that! Car fanatics also share the same plight. Nonetheless, let us discuss the difference between the shipping.
Car has handbrake and four wheels for extra stability. It is different for motorcycles in the sense that it only 2 motorcycle parts to make it stable- the two wheels and the stand. Perhaps you are thinking that motorcycle shipping is cheaper because it is far too small compared to cars but this is not true in the real case. Read the rest of this entry »
So you are planning to ship a car, well first you need to understand the process of car shipping. This industry does not work like Fex-Ex, or other Postal services. Here the pick-ups and delivery dates offered are just estimates and not guaranteed. Unexpected troubles from weather conditions, break downs, traffic all may contributes to delay. The greatest agony here is that the delays for vehicle shipping is usually caused by the customers. Normally, they do not appear on time; attempt to change pick-up dates and locations at last minute. Patience and skill is required the most, car shipping companies generally aim to have your work done as you want it. Ensure you have sensible hopes about when your car would be picked up and delivered.
Know the types of Shipping
You will come across two types of car shipping – open trailers and enclosed trailer. In the open trailers shipping is partly or completely exposed to the elements. In fact, there are several different kinds of open trailers, varying from small three car carriers to the huge 11 car carriers, which you normally see at Interstate. Secondly, enclosed trailers are fully protected from the elements, and your motor vehicle/car is just shipped in a mobile garage. Using the enclosed trailer method for shipping is typically a 25-40% premium over having on open trailer method. You can go with any kind; it all depends on how much you want to spend on shipping process. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Susan Hart
There’s nothing as tasty as getting some good quotes for a car you need to move from one place to another, and don’t want to spend the time or cost in hiring a driver and paying all of those expenses. You can get some fast and easy quotes from an auto shipping company, and right into your email inbox, too. Then you can compare them and see which one you like the best.
Speaking of candy — if you car is painted a gorgeous candy apple red or some other outstanding color — you surely don’t want the paint to get damaged in any way when it’s shipped. How can you find a fantastic auto shipping company to get the car to your location, quickly and in perfect condition? Of course, you could spend hours on your computer, cruising the web and picking out a few American auto shipping companies here and there and printing out the info and then perhaps sending off a few queries. You could be waiting for days to get enough info, if you used this method. You might be at it deep into the night, nodding off, and your head hits the computer and then you wipe out all of the web pages you had saved to look at later.
A better way might be to contact an auto shipping company that can get you a whole lot of quotes right into your email inbox, and all at the same time. This would definitely make comparative shopping so much easier. Why waste time on picking through hordes of different web pages, most of which may have absolutely no relevance to your situation, when there is this superior method that will work for you, instead of the other way around. Yes, let someone else do most of the work this time. You have searched and saved to find and then buy that gorgeous car. Relax and enjoy it as soon as you can. Read the rest of this entry »