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Wow, I agree with Rusty! What is your car worth?

The one thing that might be influencing this price quote is transporters are bringing snow-bird vehicles down to that area in FL, and I doubt there is much freight going out at this time of year so anything coming out would be better than coming out empty HOWEVER, transportation companies like to sub-broker out vehicles where multiple carriers will move it. Let's just suppose this scenario played out on your vehicle...

John Doe company picks up your vehicle in VB and takes it to Atlanta where he drops it off at a terminal down there (It may be nothing more than an auction company storage lot). For his efforts he takes $400 of the $1,000, and puts the word out on the "load boards" that from Atl to Salem pays $600. After a couple of weeks, Jim Bob's Transport says he has an empty slot going to Los Angeles and that he will take it that far for $400 however on the way he gets a better load in Phoenix so the car is dropped off at a terminal in Phoenix where the driver says he's just taking $300 for moving it that far and leaves it setting in a terminal lot for another few weeks until someone dropping off snowbird's cars out there says they will take it to San Francisco for $250. Now its in SF sitting in the backlot of a terminal waiting on someone to take it from SF to Salem for $50. Now the big problem is no one is interested when there are other cars that are paying better. Well, you have already paid the money, and everyone has moved it and taken their "share of the pie", ...and since you are on stand-by the freight company tells you they are just waiting on a truck going into your area that has an empty slot. At that point, you either wait for them to make good on the original quote, --or you become frustrated and offer to pay additional money to get it expedited more rapidly to Salem.

This has happened to a couple of customers of mine (one waited impatiently 6 weeks to get his car delivered) and it caused me enough grief that we started freighting our customer's cars or putting them on a Hauler's dedicated load where their point of destination is direct and within a certain time frame. Sure it costs more, but what is your car & your time worth to you?

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