Door-to-door New Orleans car shipping off I-10, planned around the old streets, with Elysian Fields or Lakeview hand-offs, Carnival routes avoided, and storm resets.
Ship A Car, Inc. arranges door-to-door vehicle transport for New Orleans, the city in the crescent of the Mississippi where I-10 runs along the north side from the airport to the Twin Span, I-610 cuts across the middle, the port works the river from Uptown to the Industrial Canal, Tulane and Loyola face Audubon Park, the medical district fills Mid-City, and the streets get older, narrower, and more crowded the closer they run to the river. No carrier is assigned your car until we have confirmed its license and insurance and vetted the company ourselves.
New Orleans is easy to reach on I-10 and hard to drive a car hauler through, so the pickup is planned around your street. A 75-foot rig loads easily at the lots along Elysian Fields Avenue and Chef Menteur Highway near the interstate, and driveways in Lakeview, Gentilly and New Orleans East usually take the truck to the door. The French Quarter, the Marigny, the Irish Channel and Uptown below St. Charles are too tight for it, and the medical district and the campus blocks cannot take it on a weekday, so those cars meet the driver on Elysian Fields or at a Lakeview or Gentilly lot chosen when you book. Carnival shuts the parade routes for two weeks in late winter, and a hurricane can move a date to the next clear day.
Speak with a coordinator now at (866) 821-4555 for pickup at any address in New Orleans, Metairie, Chalmette, or Algiers, or request an estimate by email through the quote calculator.
Upriver to Baton Rouge and beyond, our Louisiana car shipping guide covers the rest of the state, with corridors, seasons and price ranges.
We tell you on the first call whether the truck reaches your block, and fix an Elysian Fields or lakefront meeting point when you book if it does not.
I-10 runs from the airport through the city to the Twin Span, so a car here loads near the interstate, and we tell you the pickup window on the first call.
Enter the route, the car and your dates in the quote calculator and you get an emailed estimate and a specialist’s call to confirm the price, whether the car meets the truck on Elysian Fields or in your driveway. From that first number to the delivery inspection, one coordinator keeps the order.
The truck reaches the city on I-10, and the old streets near the river decide where it can load. Five things move your number:
The New Orleans table runs west to Houston, east to Tampa, and out to Cleveland, Denver and San Francisco. Each row is a distance band: it shows what customers paid for open-carrier moves of similar length in our bookings between September 2025 and August 2026, so Houston and Tampa, the nearer two, share the lowest range.
These bands are for a sedan on an open trailer. A large SUV, a pickup or a car that does not start costs more, and enclosed transport adds about a third. Whether the car leaves a Gentilly driveway or a lakefront lot, the quote calculator or a call to (866) 821-4555 gives your New Orleans price. No deposit is taken until a carrier is assigned to your move.
The river bends around the city, so directions run uptown, downtown, lakeside, and riverside.
Wharves line the river from Uptown to the Industrial Canal.
Parades close St. Charles and Canal for two weeks before Mardi Gras.
Most of the city sits below the river and the lake behind levees and pumps.
Please note: The five New Orleans rows, Houston, Tampa, Cleveland, Denver and San Francisco, are distance bands based on what our customers paid for trips of similar length from September 2025 to August 2026. Fuel, season and the car itself move the real price, Carnival or a storm can move the date, and the price we book is confirmed by a specialist after your emailed estimate.
