Under 500 driving miles, which covers Pensacola, New Orleans, Montgomery, Birmingham, Atlanta and Memphis, reckon on $450 to $900. From 500 to 1,500 it becomes $900 to $1,600, and from there to 2,500 it is $1,250 to $2,100. Those are our national bands applied to Mobile, not Mobile-specific figures.

Alabama is a state where we have not run enough loads to call a local number measured, and lifting Atlanta's figure and putting a Mobile heading on it would be a guess in fancy dress. An Alabama rate check is on the list, and this page gets real numbers once we have one.

That is a job we do regularly, and it is the road leg rather than anything on the water. Mobile has a finished-vehicle terminal, so cars genuinely arrive and depart by sea here. Once the vehicle is released and ready, we move it from the port to wherever it is going.

The release paperwork, the name the vehicle is held under, and a date that reflects reality. A driver cannot roll up to a terminal gate the way he would to your house. The important thing is to say it is a port pickup when you book rather than mentioning it on the day.

Neither, and it is worth being clear about that. The sea crossing and the import side are separate jobs with separate paperwork, and you will have somebody dealing with them already. We take over once the car is on the ground and cleared to leave.

A few days. Release timing at a port is the piece nobody controls to the hour, so booking the road leg for the exact day the ship docks tends to create a scramble. Give it a little room and the collection becomes ordinary.

Because Mobile is the one Gulf city where the main east-west interstate meets a major north-south one. I-10 runs through and I-65 starts here, going to Montgomery, Birmingham, Nashville, Louisville and Indianapolis before Chicago. So a Midwest trip from Mobile is one highway rather than a patchwork of them.

Really only the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and Portland are the two that reach the top distance band, so treat those as three or four weeks of notice rather than two. East, west and north you are on good road from the first mile.

It moves dates rather than stopping work. Drivers watch Gulf weather closely, and a storm heading in means your car waits somewhere safe inland instead of driving into it. Expect that to cost a day or two and expect a phone call about it.

Yes, and it is the useful bit. I-65 north is an evacuation route, so in the days before a serious storm it fills with traffic heading inland and northbound capacity gets tight at exactly the wrong moment. Booking ahead of a forecast rather than into one is the whole trick.

December through April. No storm season, steadier scheduling, and usually the friendlier end of a band on price. If your dates are flexible and you would rather not think about weather at all, aim there.

Two stages. Collection first, six days on standard service or three on expedited, counted from the date you name. Then the road: one to three days inside 500 miles, two to five up to 1,500, four to eight beyond that.

Because eight or nine other cars share the trailer and the route dictates the order they come off in. Being an early drop or a late one moves your day more than a promise made a week out could cover. What you do get is a call the night before with a real time.

In storm season especially. It narrows your collection window from six days to three and leaves the driving untouched, since a driver's hours are federally fixed. Between August and October a tight window beats hoping the forecast holds.

It is a fairer question here than inland. Beyond the usual reasons, classics and low cars and fresh paint, salt air and summer squalls are harder on a finish than a dry run across Texas would be. Enclosed runs about 80 percent more than open, so weigh it against what the car means to you.

Across most of the area, yes. West Mobile, Theodore, Tillmans Corner, Saraland and Semmes have room, and so do Daphne, Spanish Fort and Fairhope across the bay. The narrow ones are downtown, Church Street East, De Tonti Square and the older Midtown streets under the oaks, where low branches matter as much as width.

Ordinary work, with one seasonal caveat. The beach roads are slow on a summer weekend, so a driver will aim for a weekday or an early hour if he can. Say which it is when you book and the timing gets planned rather than improvised.

No office here and no yard. Mobile is a market we cover: carriers do the driving and our staff handle your order over the phone. The car travels from one address to another, so a counter would serve no purpose. Registered business address: 4208 Six Forks Rd Ste 1000, Raleigh, NC 27609.

On a trip that short, probably. New Orleans is a couple of hours and Pensacola about one. Shipping starts making sense when you would have to buy a flight or a one-way rental to get home, when the car is a second vehicle nobody is riding in, when there are two cars and one of you, or when you bought it remotely.

It travels on a winch-equipped truck. No fixed surcharge, so budget from $200 up depending on how difficult the car proves. Three yes-or-no answers decide the equipment: rolls, steers, brakes. Be straight even where the answer is no, since a driver who cannot load has lost the day.

Take the fuel down to about a quarter and give the car a wash, so the pickup report can record something meaningful. Photograph existing damage for your own records. Then mirrors in, antenna down, toll tag off, alarm disabled.

Lightly, and the trunk only. Stay under roughly 100 pounds and leave anything irreplaceable at home. We know other companies refuse outright; we would sooner give you a workable rule. Household items are not what the carrier policy protects, and a hundred pounds a car is an extra half ton across a full deck.

The hauling carrier's, under Carrier Cargo Insurance. Holding one is a condition of getting work from us, and we check it is current before the car is loaded rather than after. A copy is yours on request, and it is worth checking your own policy too, since many reach a car in transit.

Never on our jobs. One trailer and one driver from Mobile through to the destination. The car is not parked in an interchange yard for somebody else to collect. Handover points are where damage claims tend to start, so we have designed them out.

Yes. Add their name and a cell number to the booking. They need to be eighteen or over, willing to walk the car with the driver, and willing to sign the delivery report, since that signature is the document everything later gets measured against.

Not from us. Outbound sales calling is simply not part of the business. Hold onto the number, shop it around, leave it a month. Pricing is free and so is booking, and our line is there whenever you would rather speak to somebody.