Shipping a SUV for cheap?

For the cost of shipping it would better to buy a beater to drive out there.

 

$700/unit for truck load of 10 from Bowling Green, KY to LA. Im guessing $1500 for a single unit and paying someone to drive wouldn't save much.

02 Explorers wholesale for around $5000 so it would not be worth it.

Here is a company that gives quotes.

http://www.mcnutttransport.com/pricequote/default_ove.aspx

 

My sister recently got a cross country quote of around $500. I'll get more info when she gets back later.

 

I will drive it wherever he wants for $1,000. Who cares if it gains mileage, its a SUV not a exotic.

 

Careful, you could lose money on that deal.

Flight from TX to NYC maybe $250-300

Gas (about 4,000mi), at a generous 20mpg in an SUV that's 200 gallons. At $3.50/gal that's $700

If you do it in 5 days thats 5 nights in a hotel at $60 night = $300

Flight from CA to TX may be $250-300

You would probably be looking at $1400-1600 to do it, not including any $$ for your time.

To the OP, when I moved from Boston to LA some years ago, I paid around $2,500 for enclosed transport of my car which back then was CHEAP. And gas was about 1/3rd of what it is today. I doubt you can get it done for less than $2.5-3k even on an open transport. The cost of open vs closed is sort of a non issue because from the expenses point of view a truck is a truck. The cheapest would be have it loaded on a rail car and he could get it at a local rail station. I bet even that'd be over a grand, although it may be right around a grand.

Laymans guess is $2k if he shops around and gets it done on the super cheap, probably more like $3k-3.5k if he calls a transport company to do it.

 

I fly FREE! Sometimes first class sometimes not. And, I am in Arizona not Texas, forgot to update ze Profile.