Need my car moved, whats fair? Ft Worth to Phoenix

Just be sure your insurance has the 1 million dollar liability limit instead of 750,000 liability if you transport it yourself. Automobiles are classified HAZ MAT but no placcards or haz mat endorsement id needed. The reason is the gas, oil, and batteries.

 

Once its inside your dry van. Dont even try to open door and climb out. Open window climb on roof, slide down to floor. Plenty of room, do it all the time. (Take off your belt/ buckle)

 

I couldn’t imagine loading a car by climbing out the window on to the roof and either down over the hood or the trunk lid.
I cringe when I think of loading that way the $140,000.00 Porsche I had on my trailer last week.
Every little tiny scratch or dent is documented and accounted for with complete pictures of anything that loads on my trailer and I could be responsible for anything I missed during inspection let alone adding damage by climbing on the roof or hood.
Car haul carries a lot of responsibility and being careless can get expensive quickly.
What I was getting at is it’s a royal pain to deal with it.
To start with your going to have to figure out how to get it up in to the back of a dry van at the auction.
Choices are ask a car hauler to put it up on his rack to off load it in the dry van or hire a flatbed to come do it.
Most car haulers I have seen have the attitude of “no thanks you don’t haul cars in your dry van and I won’t haul dry van freight on my car carrier”
That leaves you with the possibility of hiring a flatbed on both ends costing more money.
If it cost 100.00 on each end your now approaching where you could hire a licensed professional car hauler to do it with way less aggravation.

 

As a mover I haul quite a few cars inside the van. My company also has an enclosed car haul division.
Once auto is inside the van there isnt enough room to open the door and get out. Im almost 60 so twenty years and fifty pounds ago I could squeeze. Today unless it's a hatchback, you really dont have a choice. You have to go out the window.
Of course with a customers car, I would not climb over the roof, or whatever foolish thing you said.
Simply just drape a pad over window and down over door. Then go out the window feet first.
I dont drive them up the ramps or ask someone to help me out.
I order a flatbed tow truck, who will pick it up. Then back up to my trailer back door.
I also dont strap them down anymore either.
I put a cargo bar behind the front axle, and another in front of the rear axle. This prevents movement forward or backward.
Then place a bundle of two rolled pads next to wheels. Then a second bundle of two rolled pads, is squeezed between the first bundle and the trailer wall. (That's called bumping the wheels) Do this for all four tires to prevent sideways movement.
I have hauled everything from rolls Royce, limos, bmw, Mercedes to Toyota and hyundais using this method for close to 2 decades.
There is a HUGE difference in telling another driver how to handle thier POV from an auction, and handling a customers baby.
I dont even want to talk about inventory and pictures, or hidden damage. Will just say back in 1998 I learned never to inventory in direct sunshine, or rain.

 

Why even be inside it?
Just use ropes to steer it

 

I do not understand.
Why would you buy a 12 year old car a 1,000 miles away?

 

cuz there wasn't one closer than 2 blocks away..????

 

Here is a valid load on a load board as I post this.
This is what you will be competing with to get an owner operator to take your load for your price.