shipping companies
July 4th, 2013, 11:54 AM
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There are literally hundreds, and maybe thousands, of auto shipping companies. Many are just brokers who line up a truck once you've given them your business. Others operate their own trucks. I've used both and had good luck with both.
The way I've always approached this was to solicit quotes from a variety of sources, and there are sites on the web where you can put in your information once and gets quotes from many shippers, and then check out any company that comes back with a good quote with the Better Business Bureau. No company will be perfect, but I wanted one with a high rating and a strong record of resolving customer complaints.
The best experience I ever had was with a broker, not with a company that owns its own trucks and employs its own drivers. I had my '67 Delta 88 convertible shipped from Ohio to New Mexico, and the guy who delivered it could not have been better. I never met him until he dropped it off at the destination as I dropped it off at the shipper's site where it was picked up a few days later. But he was great. He took a real interest in the car, asked me lots of questions about it, and told me that he had kept an extra eye on it as he hauled it across the country. It was an open trailer, and he deliberately put it on the trailer in the location where it would get the least road grime, etc. thrown up on it if he drove through any rain, which he did.
The way I've always approached this was to solicit quotes from a variety of sources, and there are sites on the web where you can put in your information once and gets quotes from many shippers, and then check out any company that comes back with a good quote with the Better Business Bureau. No company will be perfect, but I wanted one with a high rating and a strong record of resolving customer complaints.
The best experience I ever had was with a broker, not with a company that owns its own trucks and employs its own drivers. I had my '67 Delta 88 convertible shipped from Ohio to New Mexico, and the guy who delivered it could not have been better. I never met him until he dropped it off at the destination as I dropped it off at the shipper's site where it was picked up a few days later. But he was great. He took a real interest in the car, asked me lots of questions about it, and told me that he had kept an extra eye on it as he hauled it across the country. It was an open trailer, and he deliberately put it on the trailer in the location where it would get the least road grime, etc. thrown up on it if he drove through any rain, which he did.
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