The Original Auto Transport Quote Calculator

The Expedited car shipping cost is the proverbial tie breaker if there is a logjam of similar vehicles priced at or near the Standard pricing. You know, just a little bit more can go a long way. All of a sudden, your vehicle is more appealing to car transport companies than others waiting. It is often times worth it for many customers to pay just a wee bit more and eliminate stress. Pay the car delivery service (not us) more and save on rental fees on the other end. Smart.

The Expedited car shipping quote might also be used to lure a car transport service to a remote location. It might not seem “expedited” if it still takes the better part of a week to be assigned, but it might have taken even longer had you not opted for it. Take our good advice and just do it. The Expedited auto shipping quote is very popular with our customers.

You may have noticed that Direct Express is perhaps the only major auto shipping broker who does not ask for any personal information before providing the visitor with a vehicle shipping quote. Your name, phone number and email address are not required, which makes us unique, maybe even cool. But now we do need to know more about you and your vehicle because that information is appropriate car transportation. It will take only five minutes to fill out the online order form. Please provide your pickup and destination contacts. Choose the first date your vehicle is available for pickup, while understanding it might be later that a car transport service emerges. Your vehicle is insured up to $150,000. Upon checkout, please enter your credit or debit card so that your order is officially booked. Your card will be charged later upon assignment. At the time of booking your car shipping order, $0 is due. 

Direct Express Auto Transport notifies the car delivery service about your pickup and destination information, including contacts. The car transport service should not show up unannounced. He should call the pickup contact first to coordinate time and place to meet, and also verify information. Most times it is necessary to meet the auto transport service close by at a place the driver can safely maneuver a big truck. That is still in the spirit of door-to-door service. Military bases require pick up outside the front gates. You can check, but almost no military facility that we know will allow auto transport trailer equipment on base. Remember, no money changes hands at pick up. Simply fill out a vehicle condition report authorizing the car shipment and hand over the keys to the driver. No other paperwork is necessary. Upon delivery, simply pay the vehicle mover with a money order check or cash. Auto shipping can be very easy with the right coordination.

The Eastern Seaboard states are generally considered to be New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Nearly one third of the country lives in the states bordering the Atlantic, which obviously means a lot of car shipping traffic.

New York is like a tale of two cities. The Big Apple is America’s largest city and its positive effect on car shipping extends into northern New Jersey, southern Connecticut and eastern Pennsylvania. Upstate New York has far more in common with New England, a mixed bag when it comes to vehicle shipping quotes.

Almost all of New Jersey is accessible except south of Atlantic City. In Delaware, it is Wilmington or bust, as southeast of there is exceedingly difficult for car shipping services. How much to ship a car there depends on exactly where? Most transportation services cringe at the prospect of southern Delaware. In Maryland, the DC corridor that runs from Baltimore to Washington is great for car shipping. However, the far western and eastern regions of Maryland (next to Delaware) are very problematic.

Southeastern Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia area, is fantastic for car shipping services. Venture inland, however, to every other region of Pennsylvania and it gets dicey transporting cars. Pennsylvania is both an Atlantic Eastern Seaboard state (think Philly) and a Midwest state (think Pittsburgh).

Following I-95 straight down and we run into Virginia, which is wonderful for car transport services in the Arlington and Alexandria areas, and okay into Richmond and Norfolk. It gets slow in the western part of Virginia near Lynchburg, and southwestern part as well. North Carolina is actually easier for vehicle transport companies from Charlotte to Greensboro to Raleigh-Durham. However, those cute towns hugging the coastline from Elizabeth City to Wilmington are tough for auto transport carriers. The same holds true in South Carolina from Myrtle Beach to Hilton Head, with the possible exception of Charleston. By far Columbia is the best place for shipping a car in South Carolina. We will discuss Georgia as part of the South, which is the only way they would have it.

Delaware (DE) | Washington D.C. | Maryland (MD) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Carolina (SC) | Virginia (VA) |

We already discussed Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida as part of the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard. We omit them here and speak instead of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. This is basically Dixie. If you can’t follow a clever metaphor, you shouldn’t bother shipping a car here. There isn’t a thing you say or do that isn’t like something else.

Vehicle shipping traffic is usually good in Atlanta. The shipping car cost is usually most competitive there. The rest of Georgia, however, is difficult to ship fast. That largely holds true for the rest of the southern states. The big cities work very well, but the rural areas and small towns tend to be much slower. In Alabama, it is Birmingham that hums and everywhere else … not so much. Almost all of Mississippi is slow, save Jackson, which is only moderately better. In Louisiana, New Orleans is the place to ship a car, but because the Big Easy is at the end of the distribution line it is also sometimes difficult.

Arkansas has Little Rock and little else to speed things along. Tennessee is much easier because of Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville. Kentucky has the triangle of Louisville, Lexington and Covington (Cincinnati), which is by far the best place for car shipping companies. But get up into the hills in the Blue Grass state and forget about it – you are probably waiting. There is no such thing as cheap car transport in the hills. West Virginia is the most frustrating state east of the Mississippi River because of the Appalachian Mountains and sparse population. In the south, dear friends, look for a big city to meet a driver to ship your car quick, or simply be patient. Our car transport quote calculator should help with that.

Alabama (AL) | Arkansas (AR) | Georgia (GA) | Kentucky (KY) | Louisiana (LA) | Mississippi (MS) | Tennessee (TN) | West Virginia (WV) |

For us the Great Plain states are Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. Amazingly, in that entire huge swath of land covering so much of the central United States, only Oklahoma City is somewhat reliable to ship a car. Isn’t that something? Both Montana and Wyoming are also considered Rocky Mountain states. You may wonder then how much is it to ship my car? Well, in the Great Plains states, we advise that you get your car to a major interstate and then pray. Forget about cheap car shipping. We shoot straight at Direct Express Auto Transport. It serves no good purpose to sugar coat anything.

Kansas (KS) | Montana (MT) | Nebraska (NE) | North Dakota (ND) | Oklahoma (OK) | South Dakota (SD) | Wyoming (WY)

We consider the southwestern states to be Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Texas is really two very different states. The eastern part that includes Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Houston is where most of the population resides and therefore most car transport shipments. Dallas is one of the four easiest places to ship your car, the others being Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. The western part of Texas and along the Mexican border is so spread out that it becomes very difficult for car transport companies to get things done quickly. The shipping a car cost goes way up at the border. It is the end of the distribution line, folks.

New Mexico has only one reliable place for car shipping and that’s Albuquerque. No other place can be counted on, including Santa Fe.

In Arizona, Phoenix is wonderful for auto transport services. Tucson is alright. Flagstaff much less so. Use our original vehicle transport quote calculator to see the difference.

Arizona (AZ) | New Mexico (NM) | Texas (TX) |

The Pacific Northwest includes Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It is a huge chunk of territory with only two reliable cities for auto transport services, Seattle and Portland. Boise works fairly well if shipping a car in the western region, but otherwise is not big enough to attract fast service from the eastern half of the country. The average cost to ship a car fluctuates with the region and its seasons. In most of Idaho, however, cheap car shipping simply isn’t possible.

Car shipping from either Seattle or Portland usually goes lightning fast almost year-round. However, shipping to Seattle or Portland is much slower from anywhere except the Pacific seaboard. The rest of Washington and Oregon is very much like Idaho when it comes to car shipping … it is extremely tough. The Direct Express Auto Transport quote calculator will provide a reliable quote to ship your vehicle in any of those places.

Idaho (ID) | Oregon (OR) | Washington (WA)

Alaska & Hawaii

Everything we do is money order or cash upon delivery. That becomes an issue when shipping to either Alaska or Hawaii, because there is always a vehicle transfer between the continental USA auto transport carrier, and the port servicing Alaska or Hawaii. There is nobody at the port who will pay the stateside car mover their shipping fee. The ocean freight vehicle transport companies, such as Matson to Hawaii, also want compensated via credit card upfront. Another impediment. Which means the broker, such as Direct Express Auto Transport, would have to directly compensate the car delivery service and the ocean shipper. That becomes a logistical problem. We choose not to do it.