$1,800 to $2,000 for an operable mid-size vehicle on an open trailer, to anywhere on the Interstate 5 corridor. That covers Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma, Lakewood, Olympia and Vancouver. The figure comes from loads that actually moved, reviewed September 2026.

No, and this is a change worth knowing about. An earlier version of this page showed upstate paying a few hundred more. Fresh loads from the Capital Region and the Hudson Valley came in level with New York City, so the premium is gone from our table. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany all price with the city now.

Because we went and measured it properly. The old figure rested on a single load out of upstate. A wider set showed that on a run this long the delivery end does the work, and a short detour onto I-90 to collect from upstate is a rounding error against 2,800 miles. We would rather correct a number than defend it.

Seven to ten days on the road once the car is loaded. Add a day or so for anywhere east of the Cascades or out past a ferry dock. Your collection window comes before all of that and is separate: six days as standard, three with expedited.

Between about 2,470 and 2,950 depending on both ends. Buffalo to Seattle is around 2,610 miles. Albany to Seattle is around 2,765. New York City to Seattle is around 2,850, and Bellingham at the Canadian border is the longest at about 2,950.

Because Spokane, Yakima, the Tri-Cities and Wenatchee sit off the corridor that carries most of the traffic into the state, and the loads we have seen into them vary far more than the Interstate 5 figures do. Rather than average that into something tidy, we price your actual address. It takes one conversation and the number is real.

Yes, with one practical step. A car carrier does not ride the Washington State Ferries, so the handover is completed on the mainland and you take the boat from there. Seattle, Tacoma, Mukilteo and Anacortes all work depending on your island. Tell us at booking and we will pick the terminal that suits your crossing.

Both are fine. Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Bremerton and Silverdale are all reachable by road around the south end of the Sound, and that is the route a carrier takes rather than the ferry. It adds time rather than difficulty, which is why we quote the peninsulas live.

All of them. Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Bellevue, Kent, Everett, Renton, Federal Way, Yakima, Kirkland, Bellingham, Auburn, Kennewick, Pasco, Olympia, Lakewood and everywhere between. The table groups them by what we have measured rather than listing every town.

Yes. We keep a staffed office at 5607 Boston Ave SW in Lakewood, just south of Tacoma, on 253-200-5645. The people coordinating the Puget Sound end of your delivery are there. It is an operations base rather than a place to drop a car off, so your vehicle still goes to your address.

Every week. Where a block is too narrow, we set the handover a short walk away or at a lot nearby, fixed at booking, no surcharge. What the driver needs is somewhere a 75-foot rig can pull in and load safely. A broad avenue or a supermarket parking lot does the job.

Have it out at street level before the driver arrives. No car carrier can go inside a parking structure, the headroom stops it at the entrance, and attendants often cannot release a vehicle to a third party. Five minutes of planning here is the biggest single thing you can do to keep a city pickup on time.

The Northern State, Southern State and Meadowbrook parkways are closed to commercial vehicles and their bridges sit too low for a loaded hauler. Carriers reach the Island on the Long Island Expressway or Sunrise Highway instead. It works well, it just needs an extra half day in the plan.

Almost entirely Interstate 90. Carriers pick it up at Albany and run it continuously through Buffalo, Ohio, Chicago, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana into Seattle. Eleven states on one road. Upstate pickups join that route directly, which is part of why they no longer price above the city.

It is the gap in the Cascades that I-90 uses to reach Puget Sound, about 3,000 feet up and roughly sixty miles short of Seattle. From November to March it can call for chains and in heavy weather it closes until conditions clear. For a winter delivery, carry a day of slack in your plans rather than changing them. From April to October it barely comes up.

From late spring to early fall. University moves pile into late August and mid-September, so give us three weeks of notice for those. Midwinter is the calmest stretch and usually the simplest to book.

Yes, and JBLM sits right beside our Lakewood office. Fort Drum, West Point, Fort Hamilton and the Watervliet Arsenal all ship to JBLM at $1,800 to $2,000 on an open trailer in seven to ten days. Send us the report date and we will build the schedule around it.

One thing worth planning for. Watertown sits in the Tug Hill snowbelt, which is among the snowiest inhabited country in the United States. A December to March collection there can want an extra day. Give us the widest window your orders allow and we will use it.

For nearly every car on this route, yes. Your vehicle sits on an uncovered two-level rig with eight or nine others. It is how every dealership in the country receives new stock. Open rigs carry the most vehicles, so there are more of them running and less waiting.

Worth a proper think on this route. Enclosed runs about 80 percent more than open. A winter crossing means a week and a half on salted highway, which matters for a classic, a show car or new paint. Ask for both figures and pick with them side by side. Everyday cars go open.

A tighter collection window, three days instead of six. That is the piece you can move. The crossing stays the same length, since a driver may only be at the wheel for so many hours a day. Over 2,800 miles that leaves expedited worth less here than on a short hop, and you should know that first.

Give us a wider collection window and book a couple of weeks ahead. A flexible date lets your car fill the last space on a trailer already heading west, which is where the best prices come from. An Interstate 5 delivery address also prices better than one out east, if you have the choice.

Carrier Cargo Insurance covers it, and that policy belongs to the trucking company assigned to your vehicle rather than to us. It is live from the moment the car is loaded in New York until it comes off in Washington. We hold the certificate as soon as a carrier accepts and it is yours to see whenever you ask.

Yes, in a minute, on a government site. SAFER is the FMCSA's free public lookup. Type in a USDOT number and you get that company's authority to operate and the insurance on file for it. Ours is USDOT 2887232, MC 969368.

No. Whoever loads it in New York is whoever unloads it in Washington. There is no second company midway and no overnight in a storage yard. Most damage in this business happens at exactly that swap, so leaving it out is worth a lot on a run this long.

Usually yes, within reason. Roughly a hundred pounds, stowed in the trunk, nothing stacked up where the driver needs to see. The insurance is on the car itself and not on what is inside it, so bring anything precious with you instead.

Still no problem. It has to go on a rig with a winch and a driver set up to use one. Budget $200 upward on top of the figures on this page. When you ask for the quote, say whether it rolls, steers and brakes. Those answers pick the equipment.

We move plenty of all three out here. Bigger means more of the deck and more weight, so it sits above a mid-size sedan. Send the year, make and model. We price what you own, not a size bracket.

A person has to hand the car over and sign the condition report. It need not be you. A spouse, a relative, a neighbor, a coworker, a building super, any responsible adult. Name them and give a cell number at booking. Plenty of people on this route nominate whoever flew out first.

It is simply how we do it, and it is already in the figures above. Should your street be too tight for a 75-foot rig, the driver sets a spot close by at no charge.

It will. 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. We call that the Smart Price Promise, and honoring it is why the upstate premium came off this page instead of staying up unsupported.