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July 24, 2014
America's Crumbling Transportation System and How it Affects Auto Transporters
You may not be aware of this, but the U.S. transportation system is falling apart, to the point that eleven different former Department of Transportation secretaries penned an open letter to Congress telling them something must be done. Congress will be voting on a new transportation funding bill so...
July 21, 2014
Auto Transport Tips: Shipping a Non-Running Vehicle
A non-running vehicle can be a real pain to transport for some people, mainly because - you know - it's not running. Inoperative vehicles account for a good chunk of all the vehicles shipped every single day, though of course not as many non-ops are shipped as vehicles that are fully running and ope...
July 20, 2014
Household Goods Moving Tips to Chicago
The city of Chicago is the third-largest in the entire United States, home to over 2.7 million residents in the city proper and 9.5 million residents in the Greater Chicago Area, known as Chicagoland , it is one of the most popular household moving locations in the entire country. As stressful as mo...
July 17, 2014
Auto Transport Tips: Know Your Carriers
Auto transportation is an imperfect industry - more of an art than a science, really. This is mainly due to the fact that there are so many car shipping companies out there, each one competing for some slice of the pie that you bring when you start looking for a transportation company. Basically, th...
July 15, 2014
Auto Shipping Services to Mesa
Mesa is the largest suburb of Phoenix and the third-largest city in the state of Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson (the two of which make up either end of the Sun Corridor, where much of Arizona's population lives and works). Mesa is the 38th-largest city in the United States, at least by population...
July 14, 2014
How Auto Shippers Protect Your Vehicle from Damage During Transport
Damage to vehicles while they are being shipped is fairly rare, but on the whole it's something that can happen to anyone at any time. Take this British car transport truck - you wouldn't want that to happen to your vehicle, right? All on fire and everything, that's not good for anyone. Luckily, it'...
July 11, 2014
Auto Transport Tips: What to Expect When Shipping Your SUV
The sport utility vehicle has been around for ages, it seems - certainly longer than this writer has been alive, that's for sure - but really didn't gain prominence as a consumer vehicle until the late 1980's and the early 1990's. Now, though, they're everywhere, and sales of sport utility vehicles ...
July 10, 2014
How Long Will My Car Transport Take?
How long your car transport services take are heavily dependent on where you are shipping from and to, what you are shipping, the route that your auto transport carrier will be traveling on and how many scheduled stops they have to make after your vehicle is picked up. Auto transportation services t...
July 8, 2014
The Easiest Ways to Pay for Auto Transport Services
When you ship a car, it's important to understand how to pay for auto transport services . It's not just because it's more involved than for other services, but because it's usually pretty different from what most people are used to. Shipping a vehicle is a multi-step process and you may need to pay...
July 2, 2014
The Perils of Shipping with a "Direct Carrier"
Auto transport companies come out like new Hollywood movies - way too many, way too fast. It's not surprising; estimates put the auto transportation industry at over $5 billion a year , and more and more people are wanting a slice of that (rather large) pie. But the problem is that there are only so...
July 1, 2014
How Technology is Affecting Auto Transport Pricing
The auto transport industry is a fairly traditional industry; it really hasn't changed much in the past fifty years or so, and it really doesn't need to. If it's not broke, why try to fix it? Then again, there are some things that need updating, or slight changes to accommodate new advances in techn...
June 26, 2014
What Discounts Are Available for Shipping my Car?
When it comes to transporting an automobile there are quite a few discounts that auto transport companies will give you if you meet certain requirements. Auto transportation is expensive, and while discounts really don't help a whole lot in mitigating the cost, they do help when it comes to paying y...