The cost to ship a car from Georgia to New York is typically $850 to $1,000 from Savannah and up to $1,125 from Columbus, on an open trailer, and takes between 2 to 4 days in transit time. Atlanta to New York is 885 miles and runs $925 to $1,075. Buffalo and the rest of upstate sit a notch higher than the metro on the same mileage. Bigger vehicles, a single fixed pickup day and a Manhattan delivery each push toward the top of a range. Enclosed, non-running and oversized vehicles price on their own terms.

Because the road decides it, not the map. Savannah sits on I-95 already, so a car leaving there is on the New York corridor from the driveway. Atlanta traffic runs I-85 up through the Carolinas first and joins I-95 in Virginia. Savannah is also 105 miles shorter. Both of those work in your favor, which is why it is the best-value row on the table.

It comes down to what the driver can load after dropping your car, not to distance. Buffalo is 881 miles from Atlanta and New York City is 885. The metro has cars moving in and out all year, so a driver delivering into Brooklyn or Long Island has plenty to pick up for the run back out. Upstate has less coming back. Some of those next miles end up in the price. The gap is one notch rather than a different league, and it narrows the longer the trip gets.

No, and we have stopped saying so. We used to quote a wider upstate premium than this page now shows, and a bigger set of our own completed shipments brought it down. On some runs Albany, Buffalo and the Hudson Valley come in level with the metro, and a few come in under it. Get the actual destination priced rather than working from a rule of thumb, because the calculator sees what is really moving that week.

About three days on the road once the car is collected. Savannah is quickest at two to three days and Columbus is longest at three to four. Your collection window comes first and runs six days on standard or three on expedited, so plan a few extra days from booking to delivery. Federal hours-of-service rules cap the miles a driver can cover in a day.

From Atlanta, Athens and north Georgia it is I-85 through Greenville, Charlotte and Durham, then I-95 from Virginia up through Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia into the New York metro. From Savannah the car is on I-95 almost from the start. It is a short run by long-haul standards, and the stretch through Washington to Philadelphia is what sets most of the variation in timing.

Usually it can. Where it cannot, there is a specific reason worth knowing: car carriers are not allowed on New York's parkways. The Belt, the Southern State, the Hutchinson and the rest were built for cars. Their stone overpasses sit too low for a loaded transporter, so commercial traffic uses the expressways. Add narrow streets and alternate-side parking in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and a nearby lot is the sensible answer. Long Island, Westchester and northern New Jersey are straightforward. A meeting point costs nothing extra.

Right across the state. Two places have a quirk worth mentioning at booking. Atlanta is a city in a forest, with tree canopy over roughly half of it. A loaded carrier stands about 13 and a half feet, so on older shaded streets the branches matter more than the road width, and we load at the end of the block. Savannah's historic district has 22 squares with one-way traffic circling each one. A full carrier cannot work through that, so we hand over just outside it.

It is a band of dates, not an appointment. Standard gives you six days and expedited three, both counted forward from whichever day you pick. The reason is simple. Your car shares a trailer with nine or ten others, and one route has to suit all of them. You get a call the night before with a real time. On a corridor as busy as this one, a wider band usually gets you collected sooner, not later.

Ten days to two weeks is normally plenty, which makes this one of the easier lanes in the country to arrange at short notice. Give three to four weeks in the run-up to the winter holidays and through the first half of January, when traffic both north and south is at its heaviest.

No. It goes from your Georgia address onto the trailer and comes off at the New York address, on the same truck. There is no holding yard in between and no point where one company hands it to another, which is where cover can otherwise get complicated. Fewer people touch your car and there is no gap in coverage.

Yes, the whole way. Carrier Cargo Insurance travels with the truck your car is on, and it is the carrier who holds it. As soon as a truck takes your order we get that certificate, and it is yours for the asking. You can also go and look for yourself. FMCSA SAFER is a free federal database. Type in a USDOT number and it tells you whether the operating authority is live and what insurance is on file. Ours is 2887232, MC 969368.

Open for almost everything, and it is what every price on this page is based on. It is the same kind of trailer that delivers new cars to dealerships. Enclosed runs about 80 percent more, because a hard-sided trailer carries two to six cars instead of ten. It earns its money on a classic, an exotic, fresh paint, or a winter run into northeast road salt.

More than on a long one, and that surprises people. Expedited halves the collection window from six days to three. On a coast-to-coast move that barely dents a two-week total, but here the drive is only three days, so the window is most of your timeline. If your start date is fixed, ask about 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, 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.

There is a deposit at booking, and the balance goes to the driver at the New York end. He can take a cashier's check, a money order or cash. If you would rather have it done in one go, the whole amount goes on a card when you book. Plans move all the time and we keep it easy to cancel. While your order is still waiting for a truck, it costs you nothing. Once one is on it, ring us as soon as you know and we will work it out together.

Yes, as long as they will take the job seriously. A condition report is signed at both ends, and that sheet is what protects you if anything is ever in question. So whoever stands there needs to walk round the car and read it. A friend, a relative, a colleague or a neighbor all work. Give us the name and number when you book and the driver deals with them directly.

We cover both as service areas rather than walk-in offices, with the New York metro worked out of Huntington Station and the Bronx. There is no counter to visit, and there does not need to be, because your car never stops anywhere between the two driveways. What you get is someone in your own time zone who knows the route, including which expressways a loaded carrier can actually use. Our staffed offices are in Los Angeles, Lakewood WA, Chicago and Kissimmee FL, and the national line is 888-709-9078.