It runs from about $575 on a short in-region hop to about $1,850 coast to coast, and most routes land between $725 and $1,175. Lexington is $575 to $700, Raleigh and Kissimmee both $725 to $875, Chicago $750 to $900, Newark $875 to $1,025, the Bronx $950 to $1,100, Houston $1,025 to $1,175, Los Angeles $1,475 to $1,650 and Seattle $1,650 to $1,850. A larger vehicle, or a date you cannot move, puts you nearer the top of a band.

Because a carrier is not really selling miles. Raleigh is 372 miles and Kissimmee is 663, and both come out at $725 to $875. The short run still costs a driver most of a day at each end for the collection, the condition report, the loading and the handover, so it has to be worth his day. Meanwhile Central Florida is one of the busiest destinations in the country and runs full in both directions, so he has a load waiting for the trip back and can price the longer run down.

From loads that moved on those exact routes, checked against recent dispatch history rather than a national average scaled to a zip code. Some routes have a deeper history than others: Chicago, Newark, Raleigh and Houston each have five matching loads behind them, while Los Angeles and the Bronx rest on thinner evidence and are the two we would most want to re-check for you live. The calculator gives you the current number for your exact pair and vehicle.

Honestly, often yes. It is 175 miles straight up I-75, about three hours and one tank of gas, and you arrive with the car. Shipping earns its place when you would need a flight or a one-way rental to get back, when it is a second car nobody is traveling in, when you have two vehicles and one driver, or when you bought it remotely and were never going to collect it yourself. Any of those and it makes sense. Otherwise we will say so.

One to two days to Lexington, one to three to Raleigh, two to three to Chicago, two to four to Florida, New Jersey, New York or Houston, and five to eight to the West Coast. That is time on the road once the car is loaded. Before it comes your collection window, six days on standard or three on expedited. Federal hours-of-service rules cap the daily distance and set the floor on all of it.

About $95 more across 25 extra miles, which surprises people. It is not the distance, it is what the last stretch asks of a driver. Getting a 75-foot trailer into New York City means bridges, tolls, permits and streets that were not built for it, where a New Jersey delivery can be done from the Turnpike without any of that. If either side of the river would work for you, it is worth having both priced.

Yes, and it is the most useful thing on this page. At $725 to $875 for 663 miles, Central Florida costs the same as a run less than half as long, because the return traffic is there for the driver. If you are weighing a Florida move against somewhere closer to home, price both rather than assuming the nearer one wins, because on this pair it does not.

Two weeks is comfortable on most routes. Make it three around the two university weeks in August and May, when a lot of Knoxville moves at once, and again from October to December while the southbound season runs. January, February and midsummer are the easy stretches when you can more or less name your own dates.

Dates, not an hour. Six days standard, three expedited, running from the day you pick. The reason is that nine or ten cars share the trailer and a single route has to serve all of them. A call comes the evening before with a real time. A wider spread is precisely what lets a driver drop your car into a run already taking shape.

Knoxville is one of our service areas rather than a staffed office, so there is no counter to visit and there does not need to be. Your car is collected from your address either way, and it is the drivers working I-40 and I-75 who know these suburbs. The national line is 888-709-9078 and it is staffed for anything that comes up in East Tennessee.

Across the whole region. Farragut, Hardin Valley, Powell, Halls, Karns and Seymour come off the same runs, as do Maryville and Alcoa down in Blount County and Oak Ridge about 25 miles west. Most of those addresses load at the curb without any trouble at all, because the roads out there were built with room.

Those are the two parts of the city to flag. Fort Sanders has narrow one-ways with cars parked both sides and student housing packed close, and the Old City and older downtown blocks are much the same. It is nothing unusual and it costs you nothing: we agree a nearby lot with room to load, settled before the day rather than on it.

All three are routine. The roads narrow and climb the closer you get to the park, so allow a little more of a window than you would in the city. A cabin address up in the hills usually means meeting at a wide spot lower down, which we will work out with you in advance rather than leaving the driver to discover it.

Often, and it is worth booking early. August and May are the two weeks when Knoxville is moving in and out at once, so the trucks fill. If a parent is arranging it from out of state, give us the student's name and mobile number at booking and the driver deals with them directly at the Knoxville end.

The carrier hauling it. The cover is Carrier Cargo Insurance, held by the carrier rather than by us, and it travels with the truck the entire way. We hold its certificate from the moment the order is accepted and will send it over on request. You can also look any carrier up yourself at no cost on FMCSA SAFER, which reports operating authority and the insurance filed against a USDOT number. Ours is 2887232, MC 969368.

It does not. Your car is loaded once in Knoxville and comes off once at the far end, and the driver who did the first did the second. There is no depot in the middle of this and nobody else takes the keys, which is worth knowing because a handover is where paperwork and responsibility usually get muddled.

Open for almost every vehicle, and it underpins every figure here. It is the trailer dealerships take new stock on. Enclosed runs about 80 percent more, because a hard-sided trailer carries two to six cars instead of ten. Where it earns that is a classic, an exotic, fresh paint, or a car you would sooner keep out of the weather.

It depends which route. Expedited halves your collection window from six days to three and changes nothing about the drive, since driving hours are federal. On Lexington or Raleigh, where the drive is a single day, the window is nearly the whole timeline and expedited moves almost all of it. On Seattle it barely dents a week on the road. Tell us your dates and we will say whether it is worth the money on your route.

Usually yes, within reason. Most drivers will take a few things as a courtesy. Keep it under about 100 pounds, pack it neatly, and keep it out of sight from outside the car. Think a few boxes in the trunk rather than a carload. The one thing to know is that you are paying to move the vehicle, so the carrier's insurance covers the car itself. Keep anything you would hate to lose with you.

Yes, provided the wheels turn, the steering works and the brakes hold, and provided the trailer has a winch on it. No set surcharge, but budget $200 upward of the running price. Flag it when you ask for the quote so we send a winch truck rather than find out on the driveway.

Wash it, so the driver can see what he is writing down. Run the tank down to about a quarter. Fold the mirrors, take the roof bars off, empty the cabin. He needs one key and nothing else. Take your own photos before he pulls up, which is two minutes well spent. Say at booking if the car sits low or has been modified.

You put a deposit down when you book and settle the rest with the driver at delivery, by cashier's check, money order or cash. Some people prefer to clear the whole amount on a card at the start, and that is fine. An order still waiting on a carrier can be changed for free. Once one has accepted it, the sooner you tell us the more options you have, so pick up the phone rather than waiting.

Anyone you trust to take it seriously. The one thing that matters is the condition report: it is signed at both ends and it is the document that backs you up afterward, so whoever meets the driver has to actually look the car over first rather than sign and wave him off. Put their name and number on the booking and the driver will contact them directly.