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October 9, 2015
Car Transport to Metro Minneapolis and St. Paul
[caption id="attachment_9871" align="alignright" width="146"] Minneapolis, Minnesota[/caption] The Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area is the largest in the state of Minnesota and is known colloquially as the "Twin Cities". The two cities sit close to each other geographically and the...
October 6, 2015
Can I Ship a Vehicle without Brakes?
Shipping a vehicle isn't something that magically happens; it takes a lot of hard work, time and effort to get it moved, and with so many different vehicles in all sorts of conditions on the road today, carriers have to prepare to haul just about anything. But when it comes to shipping a vehicle wit...
October 1, 2015
Only a 1/4 tank of Fuel When Shipping a Vehicle
How much gas to leave in a car you are shipping: about a quarter tank. Why it matters, what to do if the tank is full, and the EV rule.
September 29, 2015
Is Flatbed Auto Shipping a Viable Alternative to Open Carriers?
When you ship a vehicle, one of the first things you're going to have to figure out is how you want it shipped. Most customers just go with the standard: open auto transportation. Open transport services are cost-effective, fairly quick in terms of pickup dates and transit times, and are usually a l...
September 24, 2015
What Driveaway Auto Transport Services Really Are
We've written about driveaway auto transport services before in our Auto Shipping Glossary section, and in that post we detailed what driveaway transportation is and what you can expect if you were to use driveaway auto transportation services. In case you don't like following random links on random...
September 17, 2015
Understanding the Auto Transport Deposit
When you ship a vehicle there are a few things going on that you will need to keep track of. You book your shipment, your shipping company sets up your order, finds a carrier to ship your vehicle, then you have to wait for pickup, meet the driver, wait for transit, meet the driver for delivery and pay him, an...
September 12, 2015
Car Transport Services to Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids is a city in as well as the county seat of Kent County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. By population, it is the second-largest in the state, behind Detroit, and is currently home to over 188,000 residents. Grand Rapids, like most all of Michigan's major cities, was historically a manufa...
September 5, 2015
Auto Transport Services to Germantown, MD
Germantown is a census-designated place - not an incorporated city - located in Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Maryland. Despite not being an incorporated city, the Germantown CDP is home to over 90,600 residents, making it the third-most populated area in the state, after the city of Balti...
September 3, 2015
How Auto Transporters Load and Unload Vehicles
For most people, shipping a vehicle is a costly, time-consuming and, perhaps most importantly, new experience. It's something that a lot of people don't really know much about or understand because no one uses auto transportation services unless they need it. This leads to a proliferation of misinfo...
August 28, 2015
Auto Shipping to Metro Miami
The Miami metropolitan area is one of the largest metropolitan areas by both population and total area in the United States. Currently home to over 5.9 million residents, the Miami metro area is the eighth-largest by population in the country and one of the most popular auto shipping locations in th...
August 1, 2015
Auto Transport Services to St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg is a city located in Pinellas County, in the U.S. state of Florida. Currently home to a population of over 249,600 residents, St. Petersburg is the fourth-largest city in the state of Florida by population and is the largest city in the state that is also not a county seat, as Clearwa...
July 31, 2015
Auto Transport Services to the San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is technically a combined statistical area centered around the San Francisco Bay area of northern California. It is currently home to a population of over 8.6 million residents spread across twelve counties and six official metro areas that, combined, make up the entire Sa...