The question, \u201ccan I put stuff in my car while it is being transported?\u201d is probably the one we hear most from our customers (aside from how much it\u2019ll cost , of course). And every time, we give them the same answer. Ever time.
Depends? On what? Well, to be fair, on quite a few different things.
Shipping personal items in your car is sort of frowned upon in the car shipping industry, mainly because auto transporters aren\u2019t licensed to carry household goods. This means that they aren\u2019t licensed to carry things like furniture, electronics, or, you know,
There\u2019s a reason they call it \u201cauto transport,\u201d not \u201cship whatever the hell you want.\u201d
Car transport carriers drive around in giant trucks designed to haul smaller vehicles. And that\u2019s really all they do \u2013 they haul cars. And trucks, and SUV\u2019s, but they can\u2019t be too big or else they need a flatbed carrier, and they can\u2019t be too nice because then you\u2019ll want them shipped enclosed.
Car transporters sort of do one job, and they can actually
by trying to do someone else\u2019s job (that job, in your case, being the moving company\u2019s). Seriously, even if they say it\u2019s completely fine, auto shippers have been known to have the cars on their transport truck shipped because they were over the government-mandated maximum weight for their trucks.
Weight plays an incredibly important role in the car transportation process, one that most people are not aware of. And it\u2019s not just car transport \u2013 it\u2019s just more prevalent in this logistics industry than many others because the freight is all controlled by individual customers and not giant warehouses.
We aren\u2019t shipping boxes with pre-determined weight; we\u2019re shipping cars, and all cars have different net weights, and that can cause problems for auto transporters. Add to the equation a bunch of stuff in everyone\u2019s car, and the weight piles up quick.
Think of it this way: if each car on a ten-car carrier has a hundred pounds of extra stuff, that\u2019s a thousand pounds more weight than what the carrier was anticipating. That's a whole car's worth of weight! All that extra weight will need to be accounted for at the next weigh station.
You know what happens when a truck is overweight at a weigh station? The officials at said weigh station rummage through literally all their freight and find what isn\u2019t supposed to be there. And once they do, they\u2019ll throw it on the side of the road, because it\u2019s not allowed on the trucks. If you absolutely have to put stuff in your car it\u2019s fine \u2013 just keep it below a hundred pounds and keep it in the trunk.