Ohio to Florida Car Shipping

Our own book since 2023 holds 15 Ohio to Florida open-carrier car orders, and the middle half of them ran $1,050 to $1,150, a range of a hundred dollars that a Ford Escape, a GLC 300, a Pathfinder, an S550 and three Wranglers all landed inside. Over 1,050 to 1,350 road miles that is about a dollar a mile. A Fusion from the northwest corner booked below the band and a Wrangler Sahara just above it. Enclosed transport is quoted at about a third more than the open figure; our five enclosed orders on this lane, four of them Corvettes, are too few to band on their own.

Usually a few days to find the truck and three or four on the road, with an honest caveat. Across the 13 car moves we have dispatched on this lane since 2023, the median wait from booking to a named carrier was 5 days, and a quarter of the orders waited 18 days or more; those long waits sat mostly in August, September and October, with one January order from rural Wilmington among them. After loading, the 1,100 miles from Columbus or Cincinnati to Naples, with other cars coming off in Atlanta or Ocala, usually take three to five days. The road figure is an estimate for the distance; our file records the assignment, not the arrival. Book a fall move three weeks out with a window and the tail does not apply to you.

Interstate 75, which is already under the car for half of Ohio. From Toledo, Maumee, Dayton and Cincinnati the truck stays on it through Lexington, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Valdosta into Florida, and at Ocala continues to Sarasota and Naples or takes the Turnpike for Winter Garden, Stuart, Belle Glade and Miami. Columbus, Springfield and Wilmington reach it by Interstate 71 or Interstate 71 and 75 at Cincinnati. The Cleveland side, Westlake, Canton and Wickliffe, either runs Interstate 71 down to join it or, for an east-coast drop like Palm Coast or Stuart, takes Interstate 77 through Charleston and Charlotte to Interstate 95. Destin and the Panhandle leave Interstate 75 at Montgomery for Interstate 65 and Interstate 10.

More often than on almost any other: of the 13 car moves we have dispatched from Ohio to Florida since 2023, 4 went enclosed, all four of them low or collectible cars headed for Stuart. A 1966 Corvette, a 1969 Corvette, a 1996 Corvette paired with a Thunderbird, and a lowered Camaro cannot climb open-carrier ramps without scraping, so the liftgate trailer is the practical choice as much as the careful one, at about a third more than open. The Wranglers, the Pathfinder and the S550 in the file all rode the open deck and arrived. The trailer choice for the older cars is on our classic car shipping page.

Columbus is our most frequent pickup, then Springfield, with Cincinnati, Dayton, Westlake, Canton, Maumee, Curtice, Wilmington and Continental each appearing once, which is most of the state from the lake to the river. In Florida, Stuart is the most common delivery, then Naples, then Miami, with Winter Garden, Belle Glade, Palm Coast and Destin behind them. A Columbus or Cincinnati suburb takes the truck at the door; German Village and the older intown streets mean a lot near an Interstate 70 or 71 ramp; a Naples or Stuart gate means the plaza outside it, agreed by phone the evening before.

October has been our busiest booking month on this lane since 2023, with March, August and December behind it. October is the Ohio winter resident leaving before the first lake-effect snow; August is the relocation and the student car; December is the household that waits for the holidays. October is also where the longest wait in the file lives, because everyone in Columbus and Cincinnati wants the same Interstate 75 truck in the same fortnight. A booking placed in September with a three to five day window rides the month comfortably.

Yes. A 1996 Corvette and a 2004 Thunderbird went from Springfield to Stuart in one enclosed trailer on one order, and a golf cart and a Cadillac XT6 went from Wheelersburg to Fort Myers together, the cart strapped in a lower slot at an incremental rate. This page counts that cart separately from the cars. Give the year, make and model of each unit, or a cart’s dimensions, and whether each one runs, and the order is quoted as one with one delivery window.