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Re: Shipping a car cross country Posted by JustinHiFi [Email] (#829) [Profile/Gallery] (more from JustinHiFi) on Fri, 3 Jan 2014 07:16:17 In Reply to: Shipping a car cross country, JonInAtl, Fri, 3 Jan 2014 06:33:04 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Depends on who you use and how close your broker is in communication with the actual trucking company. Sometimes the person/company you contact is a broker who contacts another broker who might be in direct contact with the truck company. Its extremely rare to talk directly to the truck company. The more and more layers, the more expensive it becomes as everyone takes their cut.
Brokers mainly use http://www.centraldispatch.com/ as a dispatch platform for trucks so the truck you had scheduled surely wont be the same that will end up coming. If your lucky some truck companies also run their own dispatch service (recently I used Bee Transport who had their own dispatch) so it was very direct. From when I called first to vehicle pickup was less than 48 hours. They gave a two hour window when they would arrive and were dead on time. It ran only $400 to ship a '64 96 from DOOR to DOOR in Central Florida to Central PA. It was super cheap because it was sent during the snowbird season when the transports are getting $1200 a car down and sometimes going back north partially empty.
JustinHiFi
_______________________________________ JustinHiFi Strictly Saab Inc. Melbourne, FL Current: -1991 900 S-PG MT -2001 9-5 Wagon AT -2006 9-3 SS AT Past: -1964 96 2-Smoke MT -1967 96 v4 MT -1983 900 Turbo MT -1985 900 SPG MT -1988 9000 Turbo Black MT -1988 9000 Turbo White AT -1990 900 SPG Red MT -1990 900 SPG Black MT -1991 9000 Turbo MT -1991 900 SPG Red MT -1992 9000 Griffin AT -2000 9-5 Aero Sedan MT -2001 9-5 Aero Wagon MT -2008 9-3 2.0T Sedan AT
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