On an open trailer, $450 to $900 for anywhere inside 500 miles, which from here reaches Houston, Atlanta, Memphis and the whole Gulf Coast. Out to 1,500 miles is $900 to $1,600, the West is $1,250 to $2,100, and the Pacific Northwest sits at $1,600 to $2,500. Those are our national bands and they suit this city well.

We have not completed enough New Orleans loads to call a local number measured, and we will not print one we cannot stand behind. The bands are the honest answer for now and they are tight enough to plan around. A Louisiana rate check is work we want to do, and this page will carry real figures once it is done.

Because for several weeks each winter a strip of this city is doing something other than being a road. Carnival runs from January 6 through to the day before Ash Wednesday, and the big parades roll along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street. A street with a parade on it is not a street a car carrier can work.

Yes, easily, and we do it every year. It just wants a few minutes of planning rather than none. We check the parade schedule against your date, and if the two collide we either move the pickup to a different day or set the meeting point outside the parade corridor. Either way it is sorted before the driver leaves.

Mainly the Uptown and Mid-City routes along St. Charles and Canal, plus the streets feeding them. Metairie, Kenner, the West Bank and the North Shore carry on more or less normally, so if your address is out that way Carnival barely registers for your booking.

Then the simple answer is a different day or a nearby spot, and we will tell you which as soon as we see the address. People living along St. Charles know this rhythm better than anyone, and drivers who work this city do too. It is a known thing rather than a surprise.

Not in our experience. The parades affect where and when a truck can reach you rather than what the trip costs. Your price still comes from the two addresses and the distance between them. Plan the day and the rest behaves normally.

It runs June through November and it is planned around rather than worried about. Drivers who work the Gulf Coast watch the forecasts closely and will move a collection by a day or two if weather is coming. If a storm is genuinely on the way, earlier is always better than later, and we will say so.

Late spring and early fall tend to be the smoothest stretches, sitting clear of both Carnival and the peak of hurricane season. Summer is busy nationally, so allow a little longer. Winter outside the parade weeks is usually good value.

For Baton Rouge, almost certainly, at about eighty miles. Houston at roughly 350 is a closer call. Shipping earns its place when getting back is the problem, when nobody is traveling in the car, when you have two vehicles and one driver, or when you bought it remotely and were never collecting it in person.

The I-10 corridor in both directions, west to Houston and on into Texas, east to Mobile and across to Florida. North up I-55 toward Jackson and Memphis is also well served. Those three are the working corridors and they carry traffic all year.

That is a serious distance. Los Angeles is around 1,900 miles, which puts it in the $1,250 to $2,100 band, and Seattle or Portland clear 2,500 and sit in the top one. Give yourself a couple of weeks of notice for either and the trip arranges itself comfortably.

Two stages added together. Your collection window is six days from the date you name, or three on expedited. Then the road adds one to three days inside 500 miles, two to five out to 1,500, four to eight beyond that and seven to ten to the Pacific Northwest.

The driver is carrying eight or nine other vehicles and federal rules cap his hours behind the wheel each day. A precise date named before the car is loaded would be a guess. You get a dependable range, then a call as he approaches so the two of you can pin down the details.

Sometimes, and its effect is narrow and specific: the collection spread drops from six days to three. On the shorter Gulf Coast runs that window is most of your whole timeline, so it earns its place. It also helps if you are trying to get in front of a parade weekend or a weather system.

Not usually to the door, and there is a straightforward answer. The Quarter, the Marigny and the Bywater have narrow streets laid out long before anything this size existed. We agree a wider spot nearby when you book, at no extra charge, and the driver has it planned before he sets off.

Beautiful streets and mature oaks, which is exactly what makes them tight for a seventy-five foot rig. Low branches are the usual constraint rather than width. A nearby boulevard or a large lot handles it, and again it is agreed in advance rather than worked out on the day.

All of them, and those runs are often simpler than a city-center one. Jefferson Parish and the North Shore have driveways, turning room and quick access to I-10 or I-12, which is what a loaded carrier wants. Gretna, Marrero, Harvey, Chalmette, Mandeville and Covington are all ordinary ground for us.

No, and on a job like this it costs you nothing. Your car goes from one address to another with no yard stop along the way. The national line on 888-709-9078 is answered by people who can see your order. Registered business address: 4208 Six Forks Rd Ste 1000, Raleigh, NC 27609.

Here the individual street tells us more than the district does, and if your dates land inside Carnival we need it to check against the parade schedule. It also settles whether a rig can physically get to your door. Those two extra lines are what turn a rough figure into a firm one.

Put them on one order and each typically comes in under what a standalone booking would cost. A second car from the same New Orleans driveway is barely any extra work for the driver, and we pass that along rather than pocket it. Tell us about both at the outset so it is priced as one job.

Plenty, we handle these all the time. Two requirements: the wheels have to turn, the steering has to work and the brakes have to hold, so a winch can draw it up the ramp, and the assigned truck has to be a winch-equipped one. No flat surcharge applies. Set aside from roughly $200 above the standard price and mention it at booking.

Almost always, and they travel this coast every day. Extra height, extra width or a lift kit changes how many other vehicles can share the deck, so the price moves with it. Give us the year, make, model and anything non-standard and we will quote it right first time.

Not over a few days on the road, no. A car on an open trailer here is in much the same conditions as a car parked outside here. If the vehicle is a classic or has paintwork you are protective of, enclosed transport is the answer, and that is true anywhere rather than specifically on the Gulf.

It runs about 80 percent more than open, so it depends on the car. For a classic, something low to the ground or fresh paintwork it is money well spent. For an everyday car that already lives outdoors in this climate, open transport is what nearly everyone chooses and it is what our figures assume.

Wash it so the condition report reads clearly, leave about a quarter tank of fuel, take out the toll tag and anything loose, fold the mirrors and photograph any marks already there. Have a spare key ready. You and the driver walk round it together at both ends.

A small amount, stowed low in the trunk. Roughly a hundred pounds is the practical ceiling. Bear two things in mind: your possessions sit outside the carrier's cargo policy, which insures the car, and any added weight counts toward the trailer's legal load. So keep it to things you could replace.

Carrier Cargo Insurance, and it sits with the trucking company we assign to the job rather than with us. Cover starts as the car goes up the ramp and ends when it comes back down at the delivery address. The certificate reaches us the moment a carrier accepts, and it is available to you on request.

It is not. A single truck and a single driver take it from New Orleans to the delivery address, with no yard stop and no second operator involved. Because handover points are where the bulk of damage claims in this trade begin, the trip simply has none.

They can, and it is common. Put their name and cell number on the booking and they can hand over or receive the car exactly as you would, including signing the condition report. Choose someone who will look it over properly, because their signature is the record.

It does not. We place no outbound sales calls and your information is never passed on. Anything you hear from us concerns your booking alone: driver scheduling, the collection, the delivery. Prefer it all in writing? Tell us and we will stick to email.