When it comes to shipping a car, a common oversight by customers is the failure to consider service and needs responsiveness. Think about it for a minute, you are entrusting your second most valuable asset (after home ownership) to a total stranger. Many customers are so obsessed with getting the cheapest quote that they fail [...]
Remember always. You are statistic. To a car insurer, you’re not Ricky Jones, 27 years old from Bethesda Maryland, you’re statistical risk profile, a policy number coded A067YY56. Put simply, a car insurer bases its premium (or its decision to insure you at all) on your “risk factors,” including some things that may seem unrelated [...]
As you may or may not be aware of, shipping your car comes in two flavors, open-air and enclosed. Open-air auto transport is typically comprised of your car and up to 8 others sharing space on an open-air auto shipping trailer (you’ve probably seen them on the highway loaded with new or used cars destined [...]
As an auto shipping broker we get access to online independent trucking boards that specifically cater to the automobile shipping industry. Typically, when a customer contracts an auto shipper to have his/her car shipped, the broker will post a purchase order to an online shipping board for all independent truckers to review, and if interested, [...]
I read an article last weekend (in one of my trade industry magazines) about how the inflationary cost effect of rising diesel fuel prices has been trickling into the customer costs of shipping an automobile. It was interesting to read, as lately I have been hearing a particular horror story over and over again from [...]
What is a bill of lading and why is it so important? The Bill of Lading or Freight Bill is an important document that functions as both the receipt for your vehicle and the physical contract of carriage between you (the shipper) and the “Carrier” (Trucker). The Bill of Lading will usually be provided to [...]
Everybody knows you don’t buy and drive a car without proper insurance. Almost all of us (at one time or another) make the phone call to the claims adjuster because of some unforeseen fender-bender, wreck, scratch, etc. But did you know that the same should be considered before shipping your car? Think about it, when [...]
You may wonder that after viewing a Better Business Bureau logo on a Web site if it really makes any difference as to the integrity of its consumer business practices. For many of you, there is a high probability that you have been burned in the past by unscrupulous Web site operators. If you haven’t, [...]
Over the last two years I have been keeping a mental list of what questions customers ask on a more frequent basis. Since it is crucial that people know what to ask for before they get zapped with any hidden charges, I put together a general list that can assist you in asking the right [...]
Whether you drive or ship your car great distances it will serve you well to measure the costs and trade-offs before you buckle-up or ship your vehicle. In almost all cases, driving your car across country will save you relatively little money . Whereas shipping your car may end up cost you more money, but [...]
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