The cost to ship a car from Atlanta to Orlando is typically $600 to $725 on an open trailer, over about 440 miles, and takes between one to three days in transit time. The table above prices seven more Georgia and Central Florida pairs, from $575 to Clermont up to $750 to Celebration. Mid-size vehicle, reviewed September 2026.

Drive it, if you can. This is about seven hours behind the wheel and one tank of gas, and at that distance the arithmetic favors driving for most people. Ship it 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 are moving two vehicles and have one driver, or when the car is a purchase you have not collected. Those are real reasons. Wanting to skip a seven hour drive on its own usually is not worth the money.

Because a short load still takes up most of a driver's day at both ends. Loading, strapping down, the condition report, the paperwork and two handovers cost him the same on a 440 mile run as on a 900 mile one, and only the driving itself scales with the distance. A short trip has to be worth his whole day or he takes a longer load instead.

One to three days on the road, and often the shorter end of that. Count it from the moment the car is loaded. On a run this brief your pickup window is nearly always the larger part of the wait, which is why the booking date matters more here than the travel date.

How far into Central Florida you are going, first. Clermont sits northwest of Orlando and Celebration sits south of Kissimmee, which is most of the spread on the table. Then the vehicle, then the pickup window, then the season. Florida is busiest from October to April.

It moves the balance. From October through April the southbound run into Florida is the busy direction, and it flips again in spring. Two or three weeks of notice through the winter gives you the best choice of trucks. June through September is the quietest stretch on this corridor and the easiest to schedule.

It is the spread of days inside which your car will be collected, counted forward from the date you name. Six days on standard, three on expedited. Because the drive itself is only a day or two here, expedited is better value on this lane than on a long haul, where it barely dents the total.

Usually, yes. The metro is built around its interstates and most of the suburbs take a full-size carrier at the door. The places that need a plan are older intown streets in neighborhoods like Inman Park and Virginia Highland, apartment complexes that keep commercial vehicles off site, and gated developments. Name the address at booking and we agree a spot in advance.

Straightforward almost everywhere, with plenty of room in the newer developments. The two things worth naming at booking are gated communities, which are common all through Kissimmee, Celebration and Windermere, and the tourist corridor around I-Drive and Lake Buena Vista, where traffic rather than access is the constraint. Our Kissimmee office knows which is which.

Yes, in Kissimmee. It is one of four staffed Smart Auto Move offices and it covers this whole end of the route, so a delivery question goes to people who work central Florida every week rather than to someone a thousand miles away. It is an operations office rather than somewhere to drop a car off, and your vehicle goes door to door regardless.

Open, for a daily driver, and every figure on this page is an open trailer. Plan on about 80 percent more than open for enclosed. A $1,000 open move is roughly $1,800 enclosed. A hard-sided trailer holds two to six cars where an open one holds ten, so each car carries more of the cost. Worth it for a classic, an exotic, fresh paint, or a car too low to clear a ramp.

Yes, through the hauling carrier's Carrier Cargo Insurance, for the whole run. Your car goes from your address straight onto the trailer and off again at the other end, so there is no terminal and no gap. As soon as a truck is assigned we hold that carrier's certificate of insurance, and a copy is yours whenever you want it.

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, to any address a 75-foot rig can reach safely and legally. Where it cannot, the handover moves a few minutes down the road to somewhere with room. A supermarket lot or a large retail parking area does the job, and we pick the spot with the driver while your order is being scheduled.

Give it a wash, so the driver can actually see what he is writing down. Burn the tank down to a quarter or so. Tuck the mirrors, strip the roof bars, clear the cabin. He needs one key and nothing else. Your own photos, taken before he pulls up, are worth the two minutes. Say at booking if it sits low or has been modified. Take the Peach Pass off the windshield too, and pick up a SunPass once you are settled in Florida.

A week to ten days is usually enough on this corridor, and two to three weeks through the winter season. A deposit is due when you book and the balance is paid to the driver at delivery, usually by cashier's check, money order or cash. You can also put the whole amount on a credit card at booking.

Cancel any time before we assign a carrier and your deposit comes back to you. Once we assign one and send you the driver's details, that money is spoken for. It is not gone, though. You can push the move back and use it on a later shipment.

Two checks and you are most of the way there. First the credentials: look up USDOT 2887232 and MC 969368 on FMCSA SAFER, free, takes a minute, and see the A+ accreditation on our BBB listing. Second the pricing: get several quotes and watch for the one sitting way under the rest. That is the one to interrogate, not the one to grab. And do not be put off by a deposit. Firms that ask for nothing tend to be the ones least sure they can deliver the number.

You get GPS tracking when the carrier and truck support it, the driver's phone number for a call or text along the way, and email updates from us. We say it that plainly because no one booking your shipment controls whether a given truck carries a tracking system. On a one to three day run a quick call tells you more than a map would.

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 instead of discovering the problem on the driveway.

A person has to be at each end for the paperwork and the key, but it need not be you. A partner, a parent, a neighbor, a colleague, a dealership representative, anyone sensible over 18. Name the Georgia person and the Florida person when you book, with a phone number for each, and the driver calls whoever is actually standing there.

Yes, and statewide in Georgia. Marietta, Alpharetta, Decatur, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Johns Creek, Douglasville, Woodstock, Stone Mountain and the towns around them. Suburbs north of the city add a few miles to a Florida run, which is why the Marietta and Alpharetta rows sit above the Atlanta one.

Anywhere. Florida vehicle shipping from Georgia covers Orlando, Kissimmee, Celebration, Clermont, Davenport, Winter Garden, Winter Park, Windermere, Lake Nona, Ocoee, St. Cloud, Altamonte Springs and the rest of the region, and the whole state beyond it. Our Kissimmee office handles this end of the route.