Connecticut to Florida Car Shipping

On our own book since 2023, the middle half of Connecticut to Florida open-carrier car orders ran $900 to $1,050: a Honda Pilot, an Audi Q5, a Ford Taurus, a Genesis GV70 and a Mercedes S450 all sit inside that range. Across 1,250 to 1,400 road miles it comes to roughly 65 to 85 cents a mile. An enclosed trailer is quoted at about a third more than the open figure; the enclosed orders we hold on this lane are too few to give a range of their own.

On the evidence of our dispatched car moves on this lane since 2023, the median wait from booking to a named carrier was 7 days, and a quarter showed 15 days or more. That clock starts at the booking, though, not at the day the car could leave. Counted from the ready date, every one of the nine had its carrier on that day or sooner except a Camaro from Thomaston, which waited one day; the long numbers belong to a BMW 540 from Avon and a 911 Targa from Greenwich, both booked about seven weeks early. Once loaded, 1,250 to 1,400 miles typically takes three to five days on the road, an estimate for the distance rather than a figure from our file, which records the carrier assignment and not the arrival.

Rarely through the middle of it. A car hauler may not use the Merritt, the Hutchinson or any other parkway, so a Fairfield County load usually crosses the Hudson on Interstate 287 and the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, or takes Interstate 95 over the George Washington Bridge at an hour when it moves, and picks up the New Jersey Turnpike beyond. Drivers loading in greater Hartford or the Litchfield Hills often go west on Interstate 84 to the Newburgh crossing and stay inland through Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah Valley before turning toward the coast. South of the Carolinas it is Interstate 95 for Stuart, Palm Beach and Miami, while Naples loads cut over to Interstate 75 for the Gulf side.

Some do. About one in five of the car moves we have dispatched from Connecticut to Florida since 2023 went enclosed, such as a 2024 Porsche 911 Targa from Greenwich to Palm Beach and a 1966 Corvette from Newington to Stuart. The rest, a 2013 911 among them, rode the open deck to Naples, Miami and the Palm Beach coast without trouble. A trailer runs about a third more than open and is worth it for a low car, a collector car or new paint; for a daily driver the coordinator will quote open first. See classic car transport for older cars.

Across the whole state: Greenwich, New Canaan and Fairfield in Fairfield County; Old Saybrook and Lyme on the shoreline; Avon, East Granby and Newington around Hartford; and Thomaston in the Litchfield Hills, each once in our file. In Florida the Gulf side leads, with Naples taking a third of the cars, and the rest spread down the Atlantic side to Stuart, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach and Miami, plus an inland run to Belle Glade. Tell us the town at both ends and the coordinator will say at once whether the truck reaches the door.

October has been our busiest booking month on this lane since 2023, with November next: nearly half the car moves in our file were booked in October, and the rest were spread across November, February, July and August. That is the classic snowbird rhythm, a car sent ahead once the leaves turn so it is waiting in Naples or Palm Beach for the winter. Book in September for an October or November pickup and give the coordinator a few days of flexibility.

Yes. One of the moves we have dispatched on this lane since 2023 was a four-passenger golf cart from Clinton to Stuart, carried in an enclosed trailer so the canopy and seats arrived dry. A cart can go on its own or alongside a car on one order; give its make, length and whether it has lithium or lead-acid batteries when you ask for the quote. The details are on our golf cart shipping page.