Looking for a Car Shipper

I might be interested if your other party doesn't come through, but I'm just a guy with a truck and open car trailer looking for some extra cash while work is slow. I'd probably have to un bolt your dolly wheels and drag the car on and off my trailer and then reattach the dolly wheels though. PM if still interseted.

check out graveyard cars facebook page,,video they took 2 days ago of my 68 dart on dollies, titled "new arrival" ,,and it was LOADED to roof inside plus trunk and engine bay with heavy parts, and it hauled no problem from nj to oregon. it was sketchy no doubt unloading it,,,but the trip was fine across country

If you were trying to get a running driving car to Georgia you could easily get a shipper to help. But they don't like cars that aren't running and driving. To them "it's a hassle" to have to push a car and manhandle the steering and to get help doing it. A lady across the street from me wanted to haul a car to Utah from S. Texas, the car hadn't run since 1970. I put new tires on it (for her) so it would roll and she still had a hell of a time getting someone to haul it because shippers don't like getting to a location and having to push a car from someone's garage out to the street then pull it up onto the trailer. You can get someone to do it but, like I said before, you'll always be "last" on the list unless you're willing to pay big bucks for someone to deal with the hassle. They would all rather take the easy route and ship cars that they can simply drive onto (and off of) their trailer. Yes, they will load a non running car but you'll probably pay extra. If the car is on dollies you have 2 strikes against you.
Have you considered shipping the car from a dock?? If you can get it to a dock they can roll it into a closed truck. But then, someone will have to pick up the car from the dock when it gets to its' destination?? It would be cheaper and faster!!!

Treblig

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Your car is pretty much an 850# paper weight on small wheels, it's going to have to be manually loaded and unloaded to get it to it's destination.

I loaded mine myself with ease and it had the fenders hood and all. These shells are very light with no drive train and interior! One man job!

I trailer a car shell like yours from panhandle in Fl. to Plant City Fl. on dollies similar to what you have. I had one collapse on the rear and kinda messed up the quarter panel. But the second issue is unloading it.

SGBARRACUDA said:

I trailer a car shell like yours from panhandle in Fl. to Plant City Fl. on dollies similar to what you have. I had one collapse on the rear and kinda messed up the quarter panel. But the second issue is unloading it.

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Roy,

What did you haul it on? Florida roads are pretty good and flat! Those US car tool dollies are pretty darn stout! My car had a rough ride up I-85 and back from north Georgia to Spartanburg. That road through Greenville was pretty bad. The car never moved either up or back and more importantly back! I used grade 8 bolts to fasten them to the body.

The car was transported sever times that way and twice on roll back while in Spartanburg. No issues at all.

I bought a brand new 24' V-nose enclosed trailer just to haul it back home. Problem is when you use tie to secure the car it actually puts more strain on the dollies than the car does by itself. If I were to do it again I would use cribbing to block the car and then tie it down.

I tied mine from the dollies directly! The front was easy and criss crossed them from the holes in the dollies and wrapped the rears down from the dollies to the d-rings in back. I mounted the front dollies to the bumper brackets Mount holes though and not the k-frame mount holes.






That was a rented trailer at the time but my personal trailer has E-Track that gives more options such as the bonnet straps I use when hauling the car now.

Another plus to mounting the front dollies to the bumper bracket holes is a lifting bracket is easily fabricated to raise the car for motor/trans suspension install later.

I did the same thing in the front. I used front bumper bracket mounting holes.

1969383S said:

I tied mine from the dollies directly! The front was easy and criss crossed them from the holes in the dollies and wrapped the rears down from the dollies to the d-rings in back. I mounted the front dollies to the bumper brackets Mount holes though and not the k-frame mount holes.

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That was a rented trailer at the time but my personal trailer has E-Track that gives more options such as the bonnet straps I use when hauling the car now.

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the picture of the back of your car in the trailer is EXACTLY how my car arrived from upstate New York. the guy had a $100k porsche IN FRONT of my car in the trailer and he didn't seem to be concerned that my car was strapped down like your car was.

i do like the suggestions, however, on building some cribbing to place the car on in the middle of the floor pan with the dollies a little off the floor and then strapping it down. if i can find someone to ship it i think thats the way i'll do it.

daliant said:

I might be interested if your other party doesn't come through, but I'm just a guy with a truck and open car trailer looking for some extra cash while work is slow. I'd probably have to un bolt your dolly wheels and drag the car on and off my trailer and then reattach the dolly wheels though. PM if still interseted.

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hi daliant...

the FABO guy thinking about my offer is going to get in touch tomorrow i think.

in the mean time, here's the details"

pickup: 72 Wynnecliffe Drive, Carnegie, PA 15106 jim coster 412-498-4317

going to: American Metal Direct, 7314 Highway #115 East, Cleveland, GA 30528 craig collins 706-348-6653 car needs to be delivered during business hours M-F 9-5. i would like to get it down to AMD next week.

i think this trip is about 600 miles. an open trailer will be fine.

send me a message with your thoughts on cost.

thanks..
jim coster

I used Angel to bring some stuff back from California to Ontario. Really nice guy, but super busy. He may be able to help you. 1(919)717-2459. Good luck. Andrew

well... MY CAR IS ON ITS WAY TO GEORGIA!!

i have to give a big shout out to "John R" at All Day Auto Transport - john@alldayautotransport.com 754-229-2434

i've dealt with several REALLY annoying and unprofessional brokers during this mission of getting a parts car from New York to Pittsburgh then Pittsburgh to Cleveland Georgia. one was a REAL scam - Aspera Auto Shipping out of Atlanta. they did the classic "bait and switch" deal with giving me a low ball quote from Pittsburgh to Georgia, then took my credit card number to "keep on file" until they securred a trucker, then NEVER contacted me again!! i'm actually thinking about suing them just for jerking me around.

but let me tell you how "John" acted from All Day Auto Transport. he securred transport of my car which was PACKED with extra parts along with several separate boxes of parts from NY to Pittsburgh in TWO DAYS! he got a guy with an ENCLOSED trailer to drag the car and all the extra parts to my house for $750.00. the car was dropped off and i unloaded all the parts and took all remaining removable parts off of the body shell then listed the car again on UShip for the trip from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, Georgia.

this second route turned out to be a real hassell. i got ridiculous bids ($2200.00) and numerous calls from "nutty" brokers who didn't seem to know much at all about cars. i put up with this madness for a couple of days. then i decided to cal John back and asked him if he could help out again. that was this past tuesday (21st). he said he would start working on it right away. thursday he sent me an email saying he was running into problems with drivers not wanting to mess with the casters on my car, but said he would stay on the project for me. after i talked to him, i sent a couple of messages to people here on FABO trying to see if something might work out with one of them.

AS A COMPLETE SURPRISE... my phone rang this morning (sat the 25th) at around 10:00 a.m. and it was John from All Day Auto. he said: "i've got a truck that can pick your car up in about an hour." i could NOT have been more surprised. but the call gets better. John goes on to say that the driver just dropped a car in wheeling, w.va. (about 40 miles south of my house and right on I-70 and I-79) and that he's got an ENCLOSED car trailer and that we can do this deal to Atlanta for $850 - $200 broker fee and $650 for the driver. it took me about 3 seconds to tell john - "yea, i'll do that deal."

sure enough, my cell phone rings about 20 minutes after i accepted the deal with John and it was the driver. he arrived at my house about 30 minutes after that, we loaded the body shell and he took off for Atlanta.

i've shipped 8 vehicles now from all over the U.S. i get mildly upset every time i have to arranged another shipment because it's the same annoying process EVERY time!! but with the way "John R" handled the two "turn around" shipments i just did, i'll definatelly will be using him again. i called him after the car left and told him i'll be in touch when my M-Code Barracuda is ready to leave AMD.

i don't have "a dog in this fight" regarding All Day Auto Transport. i don't know "John" nor am i getting any "kick back" from this positive comment. my only purpose here is to pass along what appears to be a very good and reasonably priced auto shipping contact for anyone out there who may need this service.

as far as i was concerned, having a car brought from upstate NY to Pittsburgh in an enclosed trailer with extra parts for $750 and then the same car dragged to Cleveland, Georgia in an ENCLOSED trailer for $850 is about as cheap as you can move cars these days. the same broker - John - put together both these deals.

Good deal Jim!

I assume Craig is just doing all the metal repair and giving you a solid body. Are you going to get it hauled back for final body finish and paint by a local shop?

How did you get the M-code car there to start with?

1969383S said:

Good deal Jim!

I assume Craig is just doing all the metal repair and giving you a solid body. Are you going to get it hauled back for final body finish and paint by a local shop?

How did you get the M-code car there to start with?

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i was pretty happy with today's developments. i called craig to tell him the car would be there monday so he could start working on it. i told him that i understood he wanted to sell AMD parts and i was OK with that and for him to use whatever parts from the body shell he needed. he said he'd been thinking about how he was going to do the car and that he was pretty sure he was just going to cut the entire floor pan out of the body shell and put it in the other car. i told him that would be great as that would make the M-Code completely "factory" again with all original chrysler metal - not reproduction stuff. so i'm hoping that's the way he does the repairs.

craig is just returning all the sheet metal to original design and structure and then reinstalling the tires and small 7 1/4 rear diff and spring assembly just to make it a roller. then i'll have the car shipped back to me in pittsburgh where i'm going to finish all the bodywork myself. i'll probably also paint the car. then i'll be ready to install the driveline.

as to how the M-Code car got to AMD - when i bought the car in bartlesville, oklahoma, i had it shipped directly to AMD. I'VE NEVER SEEN THE CAR YET!!

Oh you lawyer types, the first thing you want to so is sue somebody. I love it. Jim, you and I should get a drink together sometime. I think we'd have some great stories to share from different sides of the fence.

What's the old joke? What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean????

I'm very glad things are working out for you, please keep us updated on progress.

Blind Squirrel said:

Oh you lawyer types, the first thing you want to so is sue somebody. I love it. Jim, you and I should get a drink together sometime. I think we'd have some great stories to share from different sides of the fence.

What's the old joke? What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean????

I'm very glad things are working out for you, please keep us updated on progress.

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well, the comment: "i'm a lawyer and i'm going to sue you." has been a phrase i have used on numerous occasions. i am a very mellow guy and try to let most of life's issues and idiots pass me by without concern. but when i do start to get hasselled by someone, i tend to have a "short fuse." let me offer one more bit of information about the nutty shipper Aspera Auto Shipping and why i may still sue them. first they sent me a "low ball" bid for shipping the car. i accepted that bid and asked them to send me a contract. they did - but they sent me the contract THEY use between them and the actual truck drivers. as soon as i looked at this document i knew it was wrong because it had all kind of language and provisions in it that would never apply to someone trying to arrange shipping of a car. so i called them back and tried to get the dispatcher listed on the document to tell him that he had sent the wrong document. naturally, they have multiple "agents" so i got a different person from who i had been dealing with - this time a woman. she stumbled around asking dumb questions about my deal but finally found my quote. so i tell her again about being sent the wrong contract. she says she understands and will send the correct document. i hang up, wait 20 minutes and check my email. her email is there. i open up the attachment and IT'S THE SAME DAMN WRONG CONTRACT!! so now i'm mad. i call up this goofy company again and get yet another "dispatcher" and tell her i want to talk to a supervisor. i'm on hold for about 2 minutes and some guy gets on. i tell him the problem with the driver's contract his company keeps sending me and then explain to him what a "shipping invoice" is suppose to look like. he understands and says he will correct the problem. 15 minutes after i hang up, i get an email with a correct "shipping invoice" attached. but of course, this invoice reflected the low ball "bait and switch" bid they originally gave me. i never heard another thing from this questionable and unprofessional company.

so yea, i still might sue Aspera Auto Shipping. as far as i can determine, they are TOO STUPID to even be in business.

here's some lawyer jokes:

"What do you do when you have an attorney up to his neck in concrete? Get more concret."

"Why did medical researchers quit using rats in their experiments and started using lawyers? The research workers were becomming too attached to the rats."

You can't be to careful now days. Have you seen the latest Attorney commercial? " Have you taken the drug Abilify, and now your addicted to Gambling? You may be entitled to monetary compensation"

jimharvard said:

well, the comment: "i'm a lawyer and i'm going to sue you." has been a phrase i have used on numerous occasions. i am a very mellow guy and try to let most of life's issues and idiots pass me by without concern. but when i do start to get hasselled by someone, i tend to have a "short fuse." let me offer one more bit of information about the nutty shipper Aspera Auto Shipping and why i may still sue them. first they sent me a "low ball" bid for shipping the car. i accepted that bid and asked them to send me a contract. they did - but they sent me the contract THEY use between them and the actual truck drivers. as soon as i looked at this document i knew it was wrong because it had all kind of language and provisions in it that would never apply to someone trying to arrange shipping of a car. so i called them back and tried to get the dispatcher listed on the document to tell him that he had sent the wrong document. naturally, they have multiple "agents" so i got a different person from who i had been dealing with - this time a woman. she stumbled around asking dumb questions about my deal but finally found my quote. so i tell her again about being sent the wrong contract. she says she understands and will send the correct document. i hang up, wait 20 minutes and check my email. her email is there. i open up the attachment and IT'S THE SAME DAMN WRONG CONTRACT!! so now i'm mad. i call up this goofy company again and get yet another "dispatcher" and tell her i want to talk to a supervisor. i'm on hold for about 2 minutes and some guy gets on. i tell him the problem with the driver's contract his company keeps sending me and then explain to him what a "shipping invoice" is suppose to look like. he understands and says he will correct the problem. 15 minutes after i hang up, i get an email with a correct "shipping invoice" attached. but of course, this invoice reflected the low ball "bait and switch" bid they originally gave me. i never heard another thing from this questionable and unprofessional company.

so yea, i still might sue Aspera Auto Shipping. as far as i can determine, they are TOO STUPID to even be in business.

here's some lawyer jokes:

"What do you do when you have an attorney up to his neck in concrete? Get more concret."

"Why did medical researchers quit using rats in their experiments and started using lawyers? The research workers were becomming too attached to the rats."

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I took me a little while to figure out their Modus Operandi. After waiting and talking to numerous shippers and getting numerous e-mails I figured it out. If you tell them you want to spend about $800 to move a car 800 miles, they say no problem!! They have NO IDEA if a shipper will agree to that figure, and they don't care either. They are contractors that work out of their houses and know nothing about shipping a car or whether you live in a major city (near a major route) or at the end of the world (deep S. Texas). They don't tell you that not one truck driver will even consider your offer because the car doesn't run or because you're situated at the end of the world. They just let you believe that they can get your car moved. They want your e-mail address and they want a signed contract (sometimes a deposit....don't fall for it).
After numerous weeks of waiting and waiting you finally say, "I'm will to pay $1200 to get my car moved!!" They all say no problem, even though $1200 could still be not enough. In the end after you've waited weeks and weeks, and you can afford it, you'll be willing to pay any amount to get your car moved AND THEY KNOW IT!!
Truckers are out to make money (like everyone else) and will take the best deals (cars that are easiest to move, cars along the major routes and cars that have owners who will pay through the nose). Everyone else goes to the back of the bus!!!
It's not the trucker's fault, it's the systems fault. The contractors are the ones that piss everyone off by leading you to believe that they can get someone to move your car for the amount you're willing to pay. The truckers only look at the data base (populated by the contractors) that lists all the things that need to be moved and pick the highest priced move that's on their route. If you're off the normal routes, have a car that won't run/drive or have a lower bid....you're out of luck. i had a good running/driving car but was down in S. Texas (one strike against me). The fact that the car was running and driving made no difference.
Like I wrote earlier, a friend offered to drive up to Georgia to get the car using a U-Haul trailer. But I learned an important lesson, the contractors (on the whole) don't really care about moving your car. They are only concerned about getting the contract and "sucking you" into the contract (and deposit if possible).

My rant is complete!!!

treblig

Then there is the other kind of scam. Where they take your stuff at the price quoted and then hold it hostage for more money before they will unload it.

And yes, the lawyers at the bottom of the sea........ It's called a good start.

Blind Squirrel said:

Then there is the other kind of scam. Where they take your stuff at the price quoted and then hold it hostage for more money before they will unload it.

And yes, the lawyers at the bottom of the sea........ It's called a good start.

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I've also seen that happen to a friend of mine...they got you by the Ying Yang when it sitting in front of your house on the trailer!!

treblig

Blind Squirrel said:

Then there is the other kind of scam. Where they take your stuff at the price quoted and then hold it hostage for more money before they will unload it.

And yes, the lawyers at the bottom of the sea........ It's called a good start.

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if i ever ran into a situation like that i would simply call the police.

i'm finishing a "flip house" right now and i had a problem with a roofing sub-contractor. i paid him some money, he came over and started on the job, then started drinking and then i threw him off the job site telling him "i won't accept the legal liability of some nut drinking while he's working on my property - especially while on the roof!!" the guy left leaving all his tools. knowing the local cops, i went down to their station and told them what had happened and that the guy was not allowed on the property. naturally, he showed up again, and naturally, i called the cops. i knew the cops who showed up, i told them i didn't want the guy on the property then he said "that guy won't give me my tools back!" i knew what was coming ... so i looked at the cops and smiled and they said: "you know you have to give this guy his property back ..." i smiled and said "yea, i know." so we gathered up the guys tools in the presence of the cops and he left. i knew "legally" i could not keep the guys tools - what i really wanted was the cops to be present when we returned the tools so the guy would not come back later and say he didn't get everything.

while various states have different laws about "mechanic's liens" and "contractor liens" - meaning that in some states, garages can keep a car until the repair bill is paid, i've never heard of a "mover's lien." as i said, if someone had my property on their trailer or truck and was trying to get me to pay more money to get it back, i'd call the cops... that kind of behavior is also called EXTORTION - which i KNOW is a felony in ALL states.