Copart / junk car traffic

Copart is huge. I watched an auction one day and there were bidders from Dubai, Nigeria, etc. They eat up any luxury car or 4wd.

 

Friend of mine does mostly salvage. The stuff inbound to the recyclers pays almost spot buy money.

 

We used to do non runners on our 10 car trucks. Have installed winches above the tandems on the tractor. Because they pay awesome. Now we also have 4 car rollbacks.

 

I can only remember hauling just a couple Copart loads. What I do remember is the rates were pretty good, but getting loaded was a PIA and very time consuming.

 

I was on dedicated account 2015-2018 from chicagoland to nj weekly , usually 2-3 pick ups and 1 drop off , if you know what you doing - its very good and easy , no inspection needed , just 4 pics , knew all forklift operators personally . Unloading was at the shipping yard , even easier than loading ...
But if you going for pu and drops different places and customers - not worth it , too much wasted time and people don't know how to unload those non runners

 

This, I run them as hotshot on a flat deck lowboy so easy to load/unload but 9 out of 10 times the end customer never had the right equipment to unload. I've driven multiple cars off the trailer missing wheels because they had no equipment to unload but luckily it still ran and drove. So I'd just drive them down the ramps luckily no issues so far......

The conclusion I've come to with copart, is if it says "operable" it simply means the car will start but doesn't mean it has all the wheels.. I tend to shy away from them for that reason unless I can't find anything else. No experience with them at the ports though, I think you have to drain the fuel from them if I'm not mistaken and I don't want to deal with that hassle.