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April 15, 2016
Car Transport to Greater Louisville, Kentucky
Greater Louisville, officially known as the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area, is one of the largest metro areas in the state of Kentucky and the 44th-largest metropolitan area in the United States by total population. Anchored by Louisville, Kentucky, the largest city in the state....
April 8, 2016
Auto Shipping to Metro Hartford
[caption id="attachment_5162" align="alignleft" width="208"] Hartford, Connecticut[/caption] The Hartford, Connecticut Metropolitan Statistical Area is the largest metro area in the state of Connecticut, anchored by Hartford, the capital of the state. It is one of the largest metro areas in New Engl...
April 7, 2016
About Auto Shipping Discounts
The car shipping industry is an expensive one for all parties involved. It takes a lot of time and effort and coordination to successfully ship a vehicle from one side of the country to another, particularly for carriers but especially for carriers. Between fuel, maintenance, food and lodging, and a...
April 5, 2016
Are There Any Car Transport Alternatives?
Most vehicles that are shipped today are transported on one of three main auto shipping carriers - either open, the standard; enclosed, for more expensive vehicles; and flatbed, for those that can't fit on the first two due to size. But these are considered the "main" methods of transporting a vehic...
April 1, 2016
Auto Transport to Greater Jacksonville, Florida
The Jacksonville Metropolitan Statistical Area, commonly referred to as Metro Jacksonville or Greater Jacksonville, is a metropolitan area located in the U.S. state of Florida. It is anchored, naturally, by Jacksonville, the largest city by population and by area in the state. Greater Jacksonville i...
March 31, 2016
Terminal Auto Shipping and You
Terminal to terminal auto shipping, commonly referred to today as "terminal auto shipping," is when you drop your vehicle off at a designated terminal where it will sit and wait for your carrier to arrive to pick it up. On the surface it seems like a good thing - you don't have to sit around and wai...
March 26, 2016
Auto Shipping to Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in as well as the county seat of Guilford County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Formerly spelled "Greensborough," it was renamed in 1895. The city itself was first established in 1808 around the Guilford County Courthouse, and was established as the county seat due to its...
March 25, 2016
Car Shipping to the Providence Metro Area
The Providence metropolitan area is a metro area centered around Providence, Rhode Island. By population it is 37th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and is currently home to over 1.6 million residents spread across eight counties and two states. The metro area's population is actually ...
March 24, 2016
Who Can Benefit from Standby Car Shipping
We've talked about standby car shipping a bit in this series before, but those posts focused more on what standby car shipping is and how it works. If you haven't, we recommend reading this post about how it works and this post about what to expect in order to get a good picture of the services prov...
March 22, 2016
Why is it So Hard to Ship a Vehicle to Alaska?
To ship a vehicle to Alaska, there are a lot of steps that both you and the broker that you book with have to walk. It's not that it's hard - it's mostly that it's time consuming and expensive. The main difference between shipping a vehicle from a city in the contiguous 48 to another city in the con...
March 18, 2016
Car Transport to Metro Greensboro, NC
Metro Greensboro, known as the Greensboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metro area in north-central North Carolina. The Greensboro metro area is a part of the larger Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area, which forms a rough geographic triangle that ...
March 15, 2016
Can I Ship a Vehicle That Doesn't Steer?
When you ship a car, one of the first things that you will be asked - even before you book, mind you - is whether that vehicle rolls, brakes and steers. These are important components that can affect your price, as carriers like to drive the vehicles they are shipping up onto the truck to secure it ...