All the cool cars are in San Fran, how to ship for $250

[rmay635703]

So I have encountered a variety of people who for whatever reason find a way to get a full size car shipped from san fransisco all the way to across the country for some very cheap price.

In my case I want to ship a little 4'x10' sub 1 ton $500 deralect electric vehicle from there to somewhere near 54476.

The shipper quotes are always over a grand (for a car the size of a golf cart)
Does it really cost a grand to ship 2 4'x4' pallets across the country? I think not.
and the current systems of requesting quotes results in my phone getting hundreds of costly pay as you go text messages and scams.

I LOATH ANYTHING that requires my phone for that reason yet they all do now.
F you uship

Why can't they just bloody post
Date
Location
Cost and F off on sending me a useless text I have to pay for (you know the 5 digit type) while also not providing any usefull info.

Then I could compare their costs without having to talk to the *******s.

Ah well, I hope someone here has a better way. I would love to tug the thing home but my tow vehicle would cost $600 round trip in just gas

Anyone want to load me a hitch for my insight? I could see if a full ton on a trailer brake equipt car hauling device would prevent the insight from going up a mountain. :-)
(I only know of one crazy guy that does that with his insight going to the salt flats with his evs, I don't think I would trust it)

Thanx
Ryan

[Frank Lee]

Just had my own "Oh ****!" moment.

Found an object of my car lust in Seattle at a screamin' good, once-in-a-lifetime price... but it would be THOUSANDS of miles to go fetch it.

[oil pan 4]

Around $1 per mile to ship something vehicle sized over road is pretty typical.
The only thing that can drastically drop the price compared to on road shipping is to go by rail, because the main cost as you see if fuel.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

...the main cost as you see if fuel.

Really? I'm surprised, because I would have thought most of the cost would be getting it loaded & unloaded. Say you could fit 10 crates that size on a typical semi. Figure 6 mpg, diesel at $2.40/gal (just to make the math easy), that's what, 4 cents per crate/mile for fuel?

[Frank Lee]

The main cost for me to go get it myself would definitely be fuel.

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Around $1 per mile to ship something vehicle sized over road is pretty typical.
The only thing that can drastically drop the price compared to on road shipping is to go by rail, because the main cost as you see if fuel.

My neighbor shipped a golf cart from florida for $175 (shipper was coming back with an incomplete load otherwise),
I'm not really sure this car is any bigger than that.

[oil pan 4]

Car hauling trucks ship between 3 and 8 cars at a time. The smaller ones do most the driveway to driveway service.

Originally Posted by rmay635703

My neighbor shipped a golf cart from florida for $175 (shipper was coming back with an incomplete load otherwise),
I'm not really sure this car is any bigger than that.

To get it shipped by tractor trailer it would have to go from region hub to regional hub.
San Francisco has to be a major shipping hub for at least a few companies look them up and give them a call. You may find you can get it shipped at least to your state for a few hundred of one company has a regional hub in MN and also San Francisco .

[freebeard]

Tip it up on the rear end and put it on a pallet.

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Tip it up on the rear end and put it on a pallet.

Lol, the sad part is this car would be perfectly stable that way but I doubt anyone could get it lifted into that orientation and then during offload not sure how to safely get it back down.

[planejob]

shipcarsnow.com

Put it on rail... Union Pacific owns those guys.