It depends on the destination, and Charleston has one genuine advantage worth knowing about: it sits on the Southeast corridor, and the Southeast is one of the cheapest stretches of road in the country to move a car along. Our published Southeast routes consistently come in below the national band for their distance. Put both zip codes and the vehicle into the calculator and you will have a live figure in about a minute, or call and we will price it with you.

We reach the peninsula on almost every order, and downtown just takes one extra step. The historic district was laid out for horses, so the streets south of Calhoun are narrow, some are cobblestone and many have cars parked both sides all day. A 75-foot hauler does not belong there and a good driver will not try. Instead we agree a wide, easy meeting point a few minutes away, load there, and it costs you nothing extra. Tell us the address at booking and we sort it before the truck is ever assigned.

Most of the metro, and that covers where most people live. Mount Pleasant, West Ashley, James Island, Daniel Island, North Charleston, Goose Creek, Hanahan, Summerville and Moncks Corner all take a full-size carrier comfortably, with room to turn and load right at the address. Anything off Highway 17, Highway 61 or the I-26 corridor is straightforward. It is really just the peninsula below Calhoun Street that needs the meeting point.

One to three days to Charlotte, Jacksonville, Raleigh or Atlanta, two to four to Orlando or Washington, three to five to Miami, New York, Boston or Chicago, four to six to Dallas, and seven to ten to the West Coast. Count those days from the moment the car is loaded. Your pickup window sits in front of them, which is why the booking date usually matters more than the travel time does.

It does, and knowing which way the traffic is running is worth real money here. Charleston sits beside the busiest snowbird corridor in the country. From October to April the southbound flow toward Florida is packed and northbound is quieter, then it flips in spring. Ship with the flow and capacity is easy to find. Ship against it and two to three weeks of notice puts you back on level terms. June to September is the calmest stretch in both directions.

Yes, and it is a regular part of what we do here. The thing worth planning around is that PCS season runs roughly May through August across the whole country, so every base market including Charleston gets busy at once. Three to four weeks of notice inside that window changes both the price and the choice of truck. Give us a pickup window rather than one fixed date, since orders and report dates move, and a window absorbs that without a rebooking.

Yes, and it is one of the more common jobs we handle in this city. Late August and early May are the two tightest weeks of the Charleston year because move-in and move-out land at once. Shipping a week or ten days either side of the rush rides a truck that is not competing for space, and usually costs less. Whoever books does not have to be the person meeting the driver, so give us a name and number at each end.

Yes, across the Lowcountry and statewide. Mount Pleasant, Summerville, North Charleston, Goose Creek, Hanahan, Moncks Corner, Ladson, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, Folly Beach, Kiawah, Seabrook, Johns Island and Awendaw are all routine. So are Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Myrtle Beach, Florence, Beaufort and Hilton Head. Anywhere on the I-26, I-95, I-20, I-77 or I-85 line is straightforward.

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. Widening it is the cheapest thing you can do to improve your price, because it lets us match you to a truck already running your route rather than asking one to build a week around a single morning.

Open, for a daily driver, and it is what most Charleston shipments use. 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. It earns that on a classic, an exotic, fresh paint, or a car too low to clear a ramp, and Charleston has more of those than a city this size usually does.

Yes. The carrier hauling your vehicle holds Carrier Cargo Insurance and it applies for every mile of the trip. As soon as a truck is assigned to your order, that carrier's certificate of insurance is on file with us, and a copy comes straight over if you ask. Your car also goes from your Charleston address onto the trailer and off again at the other end, with no holding lot in between where cover could fall through.

Yes. The price we quote is the price you pay, as long as the vehicle, the route, the condition and the shipping details stay the same. That is why we ask careful questions at booking about the vehicle and both addresses, including whether the Charleston end is on the peninsula. If something genuinely changes before the truck moves, we tell you what it does to the number first.