The cost to ship a car from Kissimmee to Dallas is typically $975 to $1,125 on an open trailer, and takes between 3 to 4 days in transit time over 1,097 miles. The northern DFW suburbs, Frisco, McKinney and Fort Worth, run $1,000 to $1,150. A larger vehicle, or a pickup date you cannot move, will land you at the upper end. Enclosed, non-running and oversized vehicles price on their own terms.

Both sit exactly 1,097 miles from Kissimmee, and Dallas runs about $150 higher. The difference is what a driver can load once he has dropped your car. Florida to the Northeast is one of the busiest roads in the country and runs full in both directions, so a carrier finishing in Brooklyn has a board full of loads for the way back. Florida to Texas is quieter coming east, so some of those empty miles have to sit in the outbound price.

Our own completed loads out of Kissimmee, not a national average scaled to your zip code. Kissimmee is one of the best-evidenced origins on our rate card, which is unusual and is the main reason this page can publish real figures where a lot of route pages publish none. The calculator gives you the live number for your exact pair and vehicle.

A little, yes. Houston is 975 miles against 1,097 and runs $925 to $1,075, so roughly $50 less. It is the same effect as the Brooklyn comparison working in your favor: shorter run, and a slightly busier corridor at the Gulf end. If either Texas city would suit you, it is worth having both priced.

Three to four days on the road once the car is loaded. Before that comes your collection window, six days on standard and three on expedited, counted from the date you name. The route runs west along I-10 through the Panhandle and across the Gulf states, then north into the Metroplex. Federal hours-of-service rules cap how far a driver can legally travel in a day.

Ten days to two weeks is normally plenty. Give three to four weeks between October and December, when Central Florida is busy in every direction at once, and again through March and April when the northbound season runs. Summer is the easiest stretch of the year to name your own dates out of Kissimmee.

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 Texas run already taking shape.

Yes, a staffed one at 2095 E Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee, FL 34744, on 407-377-6073. That is why this page can be as specific as it is: the people arranging your carrier are in the same county as your car and on the same clock as your driver. It is an office rather than a yard, so cars are collected from your address rather than dropped there. Dallas and McKinney at the far end are service areas, on the national line 888-709-9078.

It is a service area, not a hub, and the distinction matters. McKinney sits about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas and has no counter to visit. What it does mean is that the drivers covering North Texas know those northern suburbs, so a delivery to McKinney, Frisco or Plano is ordinary work rather than a special trip.

Right across Central Florida. St. Cloud, Celebration, Davenport, Clermont, Winter Garden, Ocoee, Maitland and the whole Orlando side come off the same runs. Most addresses load at the curb on wide suburban roads. The resort corridor is the one to mention at booking, because gated vacation communities and the hotel loops have height bars, and a height bar stops a 75-foot carrier outright.

Usually, yes. North Texas is wide, flat and built for freight, so Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Frisco, Garland, Richardson, Carrollton and Fort Worth are all routine. Downtown high-rise addresses, gated communities north of the tollway and a few older streets in Oak Cliff and East Dallas are tight for a 75-foot trailer standing 13 and a half feet. There we agree a nearby lot before the day rather than on it.

Yes, the entire 1,097. Carrier Cargo Insurance belongs to the carrier hauling your vehicle, not to us, and it rides with the truck. Its certificate lands in our file as soon as a truck takes the order and you can have a copy on request. Anyone can also verify a carrier for free on FMCSA SAFER, which returns operating authority and insurance on file for a USDOT number. Ours is 2887232, MC 969368.

No. One loading in Kissimmee, one unloading in Texas, same driver both times. Nothing is parked in a yard along the Gulf and no second company handles it. Fewer people touch the vehicle and the cover never breaks between driveways.

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 three days of Gulf Coast weather.

It depends where your time sits. The drive is three to four days and federal driving hours mean nothing shortens that. What expedited does is halve your collection window, six days to three. If your start date in Texas is fixed, those three days are the only ones actually available to you.

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.

A deposit goes down at booking and the balance is paid to the driver in Texas, by cashier's check, money order or cash. Settling the whole amount on a card up front works too. While your order is still waiting for a carrier, changing it costs you nothing. Once a truck has taken it, call us early and we will work out where that leaves you.

Yes, as long as they will take it seriously. A condition report is signed at both ends, and that sheet is your protection, so whoever stands there has to walk round the car before signing. A relative, a friend, a colleague or a neighbor all work. Give us the name and number at booking and your driver goes to them.