Rada Koifman

Rada Koifman founded Ship A Car, Inc. in 2012 and is its owner and president. She has more than 25 years in freight transportation and business management, and she writes the shipping guides on this site herself.

• 2012Founded Ship A Car
• 25+Years in Freight
• 1,154Articles Written
• A+BBB Rating

Who Writes the Guides on This Site

Almost every article on this site carries one byline, and it belongs to the person who owns the company. Rada writes the guides rather than assigning them, and that is the reason they read the way they do.

When a guide quotes a price band for a lane, the number comes from what Ship A Car has actually booked on that route, not from a competitor’s page. When a city guide says a carrier will meet you at the pavement rather than come down a gravel road, that is because a driver has explained why. When a seasonal guide warns that a particular week in October is difficult, it is because the phones say so every year. Someone who has spent 25 years in freight knows which details change a customer’s day and which are filler, and that judgment is difficult to hire.

This page exists so you can see who that person is. A byline with nobody behind it is worth very little, whether you are a customer deciding who to trust with a car or a search engine deciding whether a page knows what it is talking about.

A Women-Owned Business in Freight

Ship A Car, Inc. is owned and led by the woman who founded it, which makes it a women-owned business. Freight brokerage is not a field where that is common, and it is worth stating plainly rather than leaving it to be inferred.

The company has operated from Coral Springs, Florida since 2012 and remains family owned and operated. It is a broker rather than a carrier, which means the work is matching each vehicle to the right equipment and the right driver from a vetted network, then staying accountable for the move from the booking through to the delivery inspection. A broker who never touches the truck still owns the outcome, and that is the standard the company sets for itself.

What She Writes About

The subject range follows the work. Most of it falls into a handful of areas:

• What shipping actually costs. Route by route pricing, what moves a quote up or down, and why the cheapest number you are given is often not the one you end up paying. The car shipping cost guide is the anchor piece.
• State and city transport guides. Local corridors, pickup access, seasonal timing and realistic transit windows for specific places, rather than the same advice with a place name swapped in.
• Military moves. Permanent change of station timing, base access, and who can sign for a vehicle when the service member arrives on a different day than the car. See military car shipping.
• Classic, collector and exotic vehicles. When enclosed transport is worth the premium and when it is not, and what low ground clearance means for loading. See classic car shipping.
• Snowbird and seasonal relocation. The northbound and southbound peaks, and how moving your dates by a week or two changes the price. See snowbird car shipping.
• Heavy haul and equipment. Permits, escorts, trailer selection and load securement for machinery that does not fit on a standard carrier. See equipment shipping.

What the Guides Deliberately Do Not Do

Knowing what a source will not claim is often more useful than knowing what it will. The pricing on this site is published as bands and typical ranges, never as a quote, because a real quote depends on your exact vehicle, your two addresses and the week you want to move. A page that promises an exact figure before knowing any of that is guessing, and the guess is usually low.

The guides also do not publish shipment volumes, customer counts by lane, or any other figure that would dress the company up as larger than it is. The numbers that do appear are ranges and midpoints drawn from booked orders. That is a deliberate limit, and it is why the bands tend to hold when you run the same route through the calculator.

Nor do the guides pretend every move is simple. Some vehicles need a winch. Some addresses cannot take a 75 foot truck. Some weeks are bad weeks to ship. Saying so costs a booking occasionally and saves a great many bad days.

Licensing and Credentials

Ship A Car, Inc. operates as a licensed and insured nationwide auto transport broker under U.S. DOT No. 2303542 and MC No. 784930, from 11471 W Sample Rd STE 30, Coral Springs, Florida 33065. The company holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Every carrier in the network has its licensing, insurance and safety record checked before it is dispatched to a customer’s vehicle. No deposit is taken until a carrier has been assigned to your order, so you are never paying for a promise that has not yet been made good. That policy is deliberate, and it is the shortest way to explain how the company prefers to do business.

Where to Find Her

Rada is on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can read more about the company she built on the about us page.

Common Questions About the Author

Does Rada write every article on this site? Almost all of them. She is the author on 1,154 published articles, which is the great majority of the library. A small number of older industry news pieces were written by others, and those carry their own byline.

Is the pricing in the guides a quote? No. Published figures are planning bands for a standard vehicle on an open carrier, drawn from booked orders. Your firm number comes from the calculator or from a coordinator, and it accounts for your exact vehicle, both addresses and your dates.

Can I reach Rada directly? Orders are handled by transport coordinators, and that is genuinely the faster route for anything to do with a shipment. For business inquiries, LinkedIn is the reliable channel.

Is Ship A Car a carrier or a broker? A broker. The company does not own the trucks. It is licensed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to arrange transport, and it selects, vets and dispatches the carrier that moves your vehicle.

What does women-owned mean here? That the founder, owner and president are the same person, and she is a woman. It is a statement of fact about who holds the company, not a marketing program.

Get a Quote

For a car, a motorcycle or a household vehicle, the instant quote calculator prices your exact lane in seconds, or call (866) 821-4555 to speak to a transport coordinator. For freight, trailers and heavy equipment the line is (866) 452-3657. If you would rather write than call, the contact page reaches a coordinator directly. No deposit is taken until your carrier is assigned.