Have you ever shipped a vehicle across the country?

[Diggin It]

I ended up paying about $1500. They left up there about 9PM Friday night and delivered it to me at 7AM Monday morning. That's a WHOLE lotta driving in 2 1/2 days. Couple of Russian guys that could barely speak English. Big Ford pickup with a three car trailer. Had two on plus mine, but no telling how many they might have picked up or dropped in between.

I tried to figure it out ahead of time and there's no way I could have made that trip for much less.

 

[oosik]

I agree Diggin It. They, obviously, traded off on the driving. 2 1/2 days - they drove straight through. I tried that once. And it was 38 years ago when I was a whole lot younger. At 725 straight miles - I gave up. The problem - I was so hyped up on No Doze - I couldn't get to sleep.

Going from Papillion, NE to Anchorage, AK. 3250 miles.

 

[Diggin It]

I did 1,250 in 23 hours a couple of times. Stops only for go juice and to .. well, go.

But that was a LONG time ago. These days an hour is about it and stuff starts aching so bad I have to get out and walk around for a bit.

 

[oosik]

Long trips on my motorcycle ended up being multiple stops near the end. And it was a Harley Low Rider - with the softest seat I could find. Tylenol washed down with JD. Kept the mood UP and the butt pain tolerable.

 

[TractorTYMe]

Ugh.....I just did a 624 mile work trip from Bend, OR back to NW Montana in 10 hours.

 

[BadDecisions]

Long trips on my motorcycle ended up being multiple stops near the end. And it was a Harley Low Rider - with the softest seat I could find. Tylenol washed down with JD. Kept the mood UP and the butt pain tolerable.

After having done a 2,000+ mile cross country trip on a Honda XR250, I figure anything done in a car is a piece of cake A few years later I did the same trip in a Volvo 850, and I was able to easily pull off a 1,000 mile 24 hour pull....felt like I could have stretched it out to 1,500 miles, but figured I should stop in a better safe than sorry kind of way.

 

[Jstpssng]

A neighbor bought an F150 online from one of the southern states and flew down, intending to drive it back. Someplace in Massachusetts smoke started billowing out of the hood... he said he just had time to grab his phone and "Tom Tom" device before it was engulfed. I believe that he rode a grey dog the rest of the way home.

His insurance company was not impressed when he made the claim.

 

[azbinder]

1968 when I was young, dumb, and stupid, I drove straight through from northern Indiana to Phoenix in a little over 32 hours. Can't do it now.

 

[kwijybo]

I shipped my 1991 Ford Ranger to my Dad back in 2018. I don't remember who I used, but it was one of the lower priced middlemen. They set a ship date, and ghosted me (wouldn't answer or return my calls). Finally contacted me a couple of days before the ship date, and said they had to raise the price by $200, as they couldn't get a hauler to take it. I agreed, as time was short. A trucker contacted me, picked it up, and got it near my parents in a few days. The trucker then asked for the original amount of the contract, which my mother gave him (I sent her a check to get the cash to pay him).

Now the fun part: the middleman called me and told me that I shorted the amount paid to the trucker! I told him my mother gave the trucker exactly what he asked for (she did), and he didn't like it at all, but realized that his scam was in the light. He never called me back.