XKR shipping
#1
05-07-2013, 09:09 AM
#2
05-07-2013, 09:36 AM
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My wife's 2006 XK8 was shipped to us from Jacksonville, Florida in February 2012 by Stewart Transport Solutions LLC, phone (910) 892-0060. Delivered right to our driveway. They took great care, and the car arrived a day ahead of schedule. Not sure how broad their shipping coverage is, but you may want to talk with them....
#3
05-07-2013, 10:08 AM
Most likely you'll have to go through a broker. You can go through a direct shipper, but its hard to find one going where you want, unless you're paying top dollar for it (enclosed transport is a good example). The brokers (or dealers, but consumers can't become members) post it on a website (central dispatch is the most popular) where they list where its going and what they'll pay. Then someone with a partial load headed that way will grab these extra units to fill up the load (or build a complete load from it).
That said the brokers will tell you everything you want to hear, yet will likely not deliver on their promises (shipping time). Say you get told $800 shipping, they post the load at $600 to keep $200 for themselves (yet they'll tell you they've got it all on the load to get it going.) For this reason its not always a good idea to take the cheapest broker since they will likely have too low of price to get the load picked. Many of these brokers I believe are basement no office companies that are best avoided. Ready Auto Transport (RAT) is one that's fairly large and affiliated with the dealer auctions. We used to use them and had some success, being in Iowa, sometimes loads were hard to get moved coming from east coast. We've since switched to going direct to Central Dispatch (which is where RAT posted the loads) so we can cut out the middle man.
Where are you shipping to and from?
That said the brokers will tell you everything you want to hear, yet will likely not deliver on their promises (shipping time). Say you get told $800 shipping, they post the load at $600 to keep $200 for themselves (yet they'll tell you they've got it all on the load to get it going.) For this reason its not always a good idea to take the cheapest broker since they will likely have too low of price to get the load picked. Many of these brokers I believe are basement no office companies that are best avoided. Ready Auto Transport (RAT) is one that's fairly large and affiliated with the dealer auctions. We used to use them and had some success, being in Iowa, sometimes loads were hard to get moved coming from east coast. We've since switched to going direct to Central Dispatch (which is where RAT posted the loads) so we can cut out the middle man.
Where are you shipping to and from?
#4
05-07-2013, 10:15 AM
Most likely you'll have to go through a broker. You can go through a direct shipper, but its hard to find one going where you want, unless you're paying top dollar for it (enclosed transport is a good example). The brokers (or dealers, but consumers can't become members) post it on a website (central dispatch is the most popular) where they list where its going and what they'll pay. Then someone with a partial load headed that way will grab these extra units to fill up the load (or build a complete load from it).
That said the brokers will tell you everything you want to hear, yet will likely not deliver on their promises (shipping time). Say you get told $800 shipping, they post the load at $600 to keep $200 for themselves (yet they'll tell you they've got it all on the load to get it going.) For this reason its not always a good idea to take the cheapest broker since they will likely have too low of price to get the load picked. Many of these brokers I believe are basement no office companies that are best avoided. Ready Auto Transport (RAT) is one that's fairly large and affiliated with the dealer auctions. We used to use them and had some success, being in Iowa, sometimes loads were hard to get moved coming from east coast. We've since switched to going direct to Central Dispatch (which is where RAT posted the loads) so we can cut out the middle man.
Where are you shipping to and from?
That said the brokers will tell you everything you want to hear, yet will likely not deliver on their promises (shipping time). Say you get told $800 shipping, they post the load at $600 to keep $200 for themselves (yet they'll tell you they've got it all on the load to get it going.) For this reason its not always a good idea to take the cheapest broker since they will likely have too low of price to get the load picked. Many of these brokers I believe are basement no office companies that are best avoided. Ready Auto Transport (RAT) is one that's fairly large and affiliated with the dealer auctions. We used to use them and had some success, being in Iowa, sometimes loads were hard to get moved coming from east coast. We've since switched to going direct to Central Dispatch (which is where RAT posted the loads) so we can cut out the middle man.
Where are you shipping to and from?
#5
05-07-2013, 10:23 AM
Just looked at other loads posted from those area's and it looks like some are at $.43/per mile and are old so too cheap to move, and most of the fresh ones are around $.56 per mile (and these shipments are 750-800 miles). This assumes the car runs and has no issues, Inoperative cars are higher to ship.
Again, expect to pay the broker a little on top of this, but this should give you enough knowledge to get honest answers up front from them.
Again, expect to pay the broker a little on top of this, but this should give you enough knowledge to get honest answers up front from them.
#6
05-07-2013, 11:58 PM
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#7
05-18-2013, 08:34 PM
I used Reliable http://www.reliablecarriers.com/ to get my XKR from California to Chicago. Definately more expensive, but enclosed shipping on only one truck. No brokers moving the car from one load to another. For me it was worth the extra cost.
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#10
02-22-2014, 04:28 PM
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My wife's 2006 XK8 was shipped to us from Jacksonville, Florida in February 2012 by Stewart Transport Solutions LLC, phone (910) 892-0060. Delivered right to our driveway. They took great care, and the car arrived a day ahead of schedule. Not sure how broad their shipping coverage is, but you may want to talk with them....
I'd be glad to help the OP. I have direct access to 1 Dispatch. Plus he's close to my shop.
Unless ur in the business, it's a minefield.
Take care,
George
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02-22-2014, 06:26 PM
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