Who has had luck recently shipping an fsj?

[ThisGuyUKnow]

I have long been off the fsj train. But recently I found the right deal om an 80 cherk with decent body and rolling but no engine (I want to do my own engine anyway) and decided to make a deal. Only issue is its 1k miles away.

I want to get it myself but that's a lot of time I don't have right now.

In the past I have shipped jeeps using uship. I got really good deals because it wasn't just big companies on there and I held out until a small time shipper made an offer.

Currently however it seems the big shippers ate dominating the service and the prices are a little high, I mayas well drive myself.

Any one recently ship a vehicle any suggestions besides u ship? Any help or thoughts are appreciated.

[wiley-moeracing]

check for boston bob here, he can trailer for you.

[ThisGuyUKnow]

Ok ill hit him up.

[JeepJeepster]

I can tell you exactly what NOT to do! DO NOT get online and fill out one of those 'estimates' just to see what it will cost to ship something! There was a 'pristine' J20 (well, it appeared so) in Arizona and I was just curious. I knew better than to put my phone # in there and guess what... I bet I got 200 phone calls over the next two weeks!

[rang-a-stang]

I can tell you exactly what NOT to do! DO NOT get online and fill out one of those 'estimates' just to see what it will cost to ship something! There was a 'pristine' J20 (well, it appeared so) in Arizona and I was just curious. I knew better than to put my phone # in there and guess what... I bet I got 200 phone calls over the next two weeks!

^^^ THAT is good advice!!!^^^

I had a '64 Falcon Wagon shipped from Walla Walla Washington to Southern California about 10 years ago and spent a couple hours on the interwebs filling out "estimate" forms from different shipping companies. I ended up having to abandon the email address I used because I got 100s of emails a day from folks for about a month before I ended up just walking away from the email.

My city only has one car dealership in it and it's a Mini dealer. I walked down there and talked to them. They said they used a specific company (these guys http://www.waggonerstrucking.com/) so I called that company and they hooked me up. They said they ship a lot of cars from SoCal to Washington so they had a lot of mostly empty trucks coming from Washington to SoCal. I got a great deal because the seller drove my car to a car dealer in Walla Walla and the truck company delivered it to my local Mini dealer. It was pretty funny seeing my old crusty Falcon wagon parked in a row of brand spankin' new Mini's.

Bottom line, if I were to ship a car again, I would go talk to a local car dealer and see who they use.