[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by KathieI

I've shipped 3 cars from Los Angeles to The Villages, one was a classic 1960's car that I deemed should go into a covered trailer. The others went into an open trailer and there were no problems at all with any damage done to them in transporting.

I used SunCoast Transport but you don't need to use them, but I'm quoting below a paragraph from their documents as to how transporting cars works in a system. I hope you find this helpful.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT AND READ THIS MESSAGE ABOUT THE VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY

When you book your vehicle with a company, your car is posted on the National Board (vehicle transportation network for U.S) which is where the carriers go to to put their loads together. It isn’t possible to contact a direct hauler as they only deal with what is on the Board. In other words it doesn’t matter which company you set up with as they will do the exact same thing that any other company will do. The step up you need is having a company that can educate you on how vehicle transportation is done in the U.S., instead of telling you what you want to hear to generate more business. We at Suncoast believe that an educated customer is best then just another client that needs transport. "

I ran into the exact same information when I was looking to ship the Mustang. Since we were looking at furniture movers, we told them if they wanted out business, they had to take the car also. United Van Lines was the one that worked with us..