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June 22, 2015
Auto Transport Tips: Know Your Shipping Company
One of the most important things that you can do is to know the car shipping company that you plan on booking your shipment with. It's the same in everything that you do - if you are trusting something as important and expensive as your vehicle to a company you found on the internet, you want to mak...
June 21, 2015
Household Moving Tips: Use the Right Boxes
Shipping your household items across the country can be a pretty daunting experience, especially if this is the first time you're actually doing it. With all the different household moving companies out there, it can be a challenge to find the right one that you can trust with all your stuff. But on...
June 20, 2015
Auto Shipping to Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Home to a population of over 242,800 residents, Norfolk is the second-largest city in Virginia, behind Virginia Beach, which sits only 20 miles or so east of Norfolk. It also sits close to Newport News, Chesapeake and Portsmouth...
June 19, 2015
Auto Shipping Glossary: The Agent
When you ship a vehicle, the person that you will have the most contact with is known as your auto transport agent. Simply put, your agent is the one that is supposed to be there for you during your entire shipment; you book your order with them and then they get your vehicle moved. There are a few ...
June 17, 2015
Auto Transport to Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is a city in as well as the county seat of Chittenden County, in the U.S. state of Vermont. Currently home to a population of over 42,400 residents, Burlington is the largest city in the state of Vermont, though it is not the capital of the state (which belongs to Montpelier). Though Burl...
June 16, 2015
Auto Shipping FAQ: Is Specialty Shipping Available?
Generally, when you ship a vehicle you end up pretty much with what you get in terms of the carrier that arrives. A lot of people have little knowledge of how the industry works, so most just assume that a carrier is a carrier and they're all the same, when the opposite is actually the truth. Car sh...
June 15, 2015
Auto Transport Tips: Exercise Patience
Shipping a vehicle is a fairly time-consuming process unless you're shipping only a short distance. While the process that is used today is the most efficient, it still has its flaws, with perhaps the most commonly-discussed among them being the amount of time it actually takes to get a vehicle ship...
June 14, 2015
Household Moving Tips: Secure Things Properly
Household goods moving and transportation is a long and expensive process, one where you entrust all your worldly possessions (or most all of them, anyway) to a company that you likely found on the internet. This in and of itself is not a bad thing - it's the way the industry works, after all - but ...
June 12, 2015
Auto Shipping Glossary: Local Move
The auto transport industry today is a global industry. From Cairo to Rome to Kuala Lumpur, New York to London to Berlin, you can find someone out there to ship your vehicle. Of course, we here at American Auto Shipping don't provide international car shipping services (hence the name "American" Aut...
June 10, 2015
Car Shipping Services to Houston, Texas
Houston is a city in and the county seat of Harris County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Currently home to a population of about 2.24 million residents, Houston is the largest city in Texas as well as the fourth-largest in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, respectively. F...
June 8, 2015
Auto Transport Tips: Watch the Weather
If you've ever driven through a heavy rainstorm or the first onset of a blizzard, you can understand some of the dangers that Mother Nature can pose to interstate travelers. Dangerous weather can strike almost anywhere in the country - in the world, really, but for the purposes of this blog post we'...
June 6, 2015
Auto Shipping to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is a city in and the county seat of Davidson County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee, though Nashville's borders are co-terminous with Davidson County and they are actually a consolidated city-county. It is also the capital of the entire state and the second-largest city by population in th...