The Advantages of Using a Nationwide Car Shipping Company
Comparing national and local auto transport companies: where network depth helps, what a low quote really means, and how to verify either.
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Comparing national and local auto transport companies: where network depth helps, what a low quote really means, and how to verify either.

The rent-versus-buy question has a numerical answer and almost nobody calculates it, because the deciding costs are not in the purchase price.

Ten engines that earned their reliability reputations the hard way, from the BMW M50 and Chevy small block 350 to the Honda K20A, Toyota 3RZ-FE, and the 3-million-mile Volvo B20.

Discover how car shipping can benefit dealership growth and expansion. Reach a wider customer base, increase sales, and improve customer satisfaction.

The industry has called itself short of drivers for decades and the figure gets quoted as a simple headcount gap. It is not. Trucking has a retention problem more than a recruitment problem, and the two call for different remedies.

It sounds like a price question and it is really a handling question: how many times does your car get parked, moved and stored between you and the destination? Here is what each involves and how to choose.

Five reasons enclosed transport earns its 20 to 30 percent premium on luxury cars, and what to confirm before you book one.

Ten questions to ask before booking vehicle transport, covering pricing, insurance, contacts, deposits, and cancellation terms.

A deposit belongs at dispatch, when a real truck has accepted the load. Money taken before that is committed to a vehicle nobody has agreed to move.

Shipping a car to or from the University of Washington: Seattle carrier access, semester timing, and arranging a workable handoff point.

Quoted one price and then another a week later? Your car moves on the spot market, which reprices daily. What that means and when to book.

Southbound fills up October to December, northbound March to May. The quiet direction on the same lane is the cheap one.

The score depends on being inspected, which is why small carriers get unstable numbers. How the calculation works and what to read instead.

An X5 is large, heavy and expensive. Large and heavy set the price; expensive sets the question of which trailer.

An injection molding machine can arrive undamaged and still not run. The platens and tie bars are finely aligned, and bad rigging moves that without a mark.