Florida to Pennsylvania Car Shipping

Our own book since 2023 holds 13 Florida to Pennsylvania open-carrier car orders, and the middle half of them ran $1,000 to $1,400. That is wider and higher than the southbound band from the same towns, which is normal for a northbound lane in spring: the cars leave Florida when everyone else’s do. Across 1,050 to 1,200 road miles it comes to about a dollar a mile. A RAV4, a Sportage or an Avalon sits at the bottom of the band; an Escalade ESV or an old F-250 at the top or beyond. Enclosed is quoted at about a third more than the open figure, because our seven enclosed orders here are too few to band.

Two days to find the truck and two to four on the road, as a rule. Across the 8 car moves we have dispatched on this lane since 2023, the median wait from booking to a named carrier was 2 days, and a quarter of the orders waited 4 days or more. After loading, the run from the Treasure Coast to Chester County is about 1,050 miles and usually takes two to four days with other cars coming off along the Carolinas; a Naples or Clearwater pickup adds the crossing to Interstate 95 and often a day. Those road figures are estimates for the distance; our file logs the assignment, not the arrival.

Interstate 95 the whole way from the Treasure Coast: Jacksonville, Savannah, Florence, Fayetteville, Richmond, the Capital Beltway, Baltimore, and over the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Gulf-side cars from Naples, Marco Island, Estero, Bradenton or Clearwater cross first, on Alligator Alley or Interstate 4, to join it. Past the bridge the truck either follows Interstate 95 into Philadelphia or takes the Blue Route, Interstate 476, to the Main Line and Chester County; Easton is reached from Interstate 78, and Dallas and the Poconos from the Northeast Extension. Mexico Beach and the Panhandle come up Interstate 10 to Interstate 75 and are a longer trip.

Some do, and they are the ones you would expect: of the 8 car moves we have dispatched from Florida to Pennsylvania since 2023, 3 went enclosed, a 1965 Corvette from Stuart to West Chester, a Vanderhall three-wheeler from Mexico Beach to Chester Springs, and a BMW 428i convertible from Boynton Beach to Downingtown. The trailer costs about a third more than the open deck and is the right answer for a classic, a convertible or a car a few inches off the ground; for a CX-90 or a Sportage the open carrier is what the coordinator will quote.

The pickups are spread along both coasts, a car at a time: Stuart, Vero Beach and Boynton Beach on the Atlantic side, Naples, Marco Island, Estero, Bradenton and Clearwater on the Gulf, and Mexico Beach in the Panhandle. The deliveries cluster in Chester County: Downingtown twice, then Glenmoore, West Chester and Chester Springs, with Philadelphia, Easton in the Lehigh Valley and Dallas near Wilkes-Barre behind them. A Chester County driveway takes the truck; a Center City street or a Poconos hill road means a meeting point the driver agrees by phone the evening before.

The file is too small to call a season with confidence, so here is what it shows: January, April and June each carried the most bookings since 2023, with February and May behind them. April and June are the winter residents going home to Chester County and the Lehigh Valley; January is the classics, a Corvette and a Vanderhall going north to a Pennsylvania garage in the same month. What the file does not show is a queue: the two-day median wait held in every one of those months, because the northbound trucks out of Florida want the load.

Yes, and on this lane it is a regular request: the same six-seater Club Car has gone from Boca Raton to Tyler Hill in the Poconos three springs running, on its own order each time. A cart rides strapped in a lower slot of the same trailer, or on its own smaller truck when there is no car, and pays an incremental rate when it shares the dispatch with a car. Give the make, the seat count and the dimensions, and whether it runs; the details are on our golf cart shipping page.