Ship A Car Blog: Expert Car Shipping Tips & Industry News - Page 44

Those tiny hairs on new tires are vent spews: harmless leftovers from the tire mold. What they are, whether to remove them, and the one time they are useful.

Moving finished vehicles is a distinct discipline within logistics. The cargo drives itself, cannot be stacked, and is damaged by things that would not touch a pallet. Here is how it works and why the constraints are what they are.

Shipping a car for a vacation is a round trip, and that changes everything about how it should be arranged. You are booking two legs with a gap in the middle, and the return leg is the one that goes wrong.

Have the title, insurance claim number and damage photographs ready, and say if the car was flooded, since it may be treated as inoperable.

What dispatched really means, the five steps between booking and a truck at your door, and why some shipments dispatch in hours while others wait days.

Washington is two shipping environments split by the Cascades. The passes between them close in winter, and a heavy load on the wrong side waits.

How to read the auto transport bill of lading: what each section means, why the pickup and delivery inspections matter, and how it governs damage claims.

This article will cover how drivers are falsifying their driver logs, and how to detect log falsification.

It is estimated that shipping a vehicle across the country could take up to seven days based on distance and the shipping method you select. However, there are things you should expect during shipping, as discussed further in this article.

Intermodal means one shipment moving in the same container across more than one mode, usually rail for the long middle and trucks at each end. Here is how it works, what it is good at, and where it does not apply at all.

A mobile crane is not one shipment. The carrier, the boom sections and the counterweights each travel separately, and the breakdown is the job.

The saving comes from the carrier’s side: one dispatch, one route, two slots filled. It holds only while the cars travel together.

Heavy equipment shipping into and out of Michigan: frost laws, MDOT permits, seasonal planning, and choosing the right trailer.

Cargo insurance covers the vehicle and nothing inside it, and hauling household goods requires separate federal authority. Those two facts explain every policy you will encounter. Here is what the rules actually are.