Ship A Car Blog: Expert Car Shipping Tips & Industry News - Page 63

How aerospace equipment ships: custom cradles, air-ride and enclosed trailers, documentation, and the carrier experience that protects high-value parts.

A 20 percent raise into a market where housing costs 60 percent more is a pay cut. Do that arithmetic before anything else.

Bare crossbars usually stay. A roof box or tent adds a foot, and past about 7 feet the vehicle moves off the upper deck.

Reliability rankings move every year but the reasons behind them do not. Here is what actually separates the cars that keep appearing at the top.

Every lithium ion battery loses capacity. The question is how fast, and the real world data has been more reassuring than early predictions. Here is what causes degradation, what warranties actually cover, and how to read a used EV’s battery.

Shipping a riding lawn mower is equipment transport done right: drained fuel, disabled spark plug, frame tie-downs, and a vetted carrier. The prep checklist and how to book, for one mower or a fleet.

Brand affection and brand reliability are different things measured by different questions. A brand can inspire real loyalty while ranking poorly on dependability. Here is what the sentiment data actually captures.

The Accord is one of the cheapest cars in America to ship and one of the most commonly quoted wrong. Giving the right year gets the right price first time.

Many vintage tractors have mechanical brakes that work one wheel at a time. Do not assume the parking brake will hold it on a ramp.

Indian, Buell, ARCH, Lightning, Zero, and the newer builders: the American motorcycle brands beyond Harley, and how to ship one home from anywhere.

The 48 by 40 inch pallet is one of the quiet standards that makes American freight work. Everything else in pallet dimensions is a footnote to that fact, and the footnotes are what catch shippers out.

A great deal has been announced about reducing freight emissions and much less deployed. The pattern is consistent: technologies that required nothing new from an operator scaled, and those requiring different equipment did not.

The gas-versus-electric question stopped being about technology and became about your driveway, your commute and your state. The short list of personal facts that actually decides it.

A personal watercraft is one of the easiest tows in the country and one of the easiest things to damage in transit, because it was built to sit in water, not to bounce down an interstate. Here is how they move and what to prepare.