I am a used car dealer and have shipped many vehicles, do not look up auto shipping on the internet and call a few to get quotes. They are all brokers signed up on the same transporting network, it’s like a wed site dedicated to transport driver only. When they need to add a car or two, they look on this website (that they are a member of) and see if anything is going there way. Now pricing….they will tell you whatever it takes to get you to post with them, example: they tell you $900 and you say OK…..they will post it on the network for $700 and if a driver takes it you pay $900 and they pay the driver $700. But if no one takes the $700 posting they will just let it sit (and it may take a while for a driver to take it if it is too cheap) or they will bump you and raise their estimate. 95% of the drivers also do not have enclosed transportation.
I have shipped many classic cars with Reliable Carriers, they may be a couple bucks more then some, but they know what they are doing…they are the orange trucks you see advertising with Barrett Jackson or Mecum
Also getting a driver to drive to NJ this time of year will be a little harder.
My guess is it will be about $1200-$1500, you may be able to find someone for less…and I have gone the cheap way before and almost everytime I wish I had just paid the $300 more
If you don’t care about enclosed, call Ready Auto Transport. They are the largest of those transport brokers and have weeded out all the bad transport companies.
Good Luck.
Thanks, Clint
1997 GTS
