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Old 04-12-2019, 07:54 PM
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We shipped two cars here from Tennessee last December. The transport arrived here at midnight and offloaded the vehicles. Being midnight it was quite dark and hard to check out the cars for damage. I parked them in our garage and looked them over as well as I could and the driver took off to deliver his last vehicle. About two weeks later while washing one of my cars I noticed body damage in front of the right rear wheel on the bottom of the rocker panel. You had to almost lay on the floor and look up at the underside of the car to see the damage. Repair will run about $2,300.00 and because I didn't catch it the night of delivery, it all comes out of my pocket. Double check the vehicle when its delivered as closely as you can and hopefully it isn't midnight. Most shipping companies are just an office, they don't own a car hauler, they contract the work out to independent owner/operators so you won't know who the delivery person is until the vehicle(s) are at your door.