Chicago runs $1,250 to $1,450. New York $1,850 to $2,000. Jacksonville $1,825 to $1,975. Orlando and Kissimmee $1,875 to $2,025. Fort Lauderdale $2,025 to $2,175. Coming the other way, New York into Olympia is $1,800 to $2,000. All open trailer, operable mid-size vehicle.

Loads that moved on this corridor, reviewed through September 2026. Olympia to Fort Lauderdale is on our rate card in its own right, and the rest come from Puget Sound routes we have worked through load by load. Where a figure needed adjusting for Olympia's distance we did that rather than borrow the Seattle number whole.

Our nearest staffed office is in Lakewood, about 25 miles up Interstate 5. The people coordinating your collection are half an hour from your door rather than three states away. It is an operations base rather than a depot, so your car is still picked up from your own address.

Because of where US 101 ends. That highway makes a 366-mile loop around the Olympic Peninsula and its eastern end comes back to Interstate 5 at Tumwater, right beside you. Car carriers do not ride the Washington State Ferries, so every vehicle bound for the peninsula comes around the bottom of the Sound and past Olympia.

It helps availability more than price, and availability is what people actually feel. A road with steady carrier traffic means more trucks that could take your car, which usually shows up as a trailer arriving sooner rather than as a smaller number on the invoice.

Yes, and this is the route those deliveries take. Shelton, Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Forks and Aberdeen are all reachable by road around the Sound rather than across it. Tell us the destination at booking and we will plan the run properly.

Handled with one practical step. A car carrier does not board a ferry, so island deliveries finish on the mainland and you take the boat from there. Say which island at booking and we will choose a terminal that suits your crossing.

Five days to Chicago. Seven to ten days to New York. Eight days to Jacksonville, eight to nine to Orlando, nine to ten to Fort Lauderdale. Those are road days once the car is loaded, and your collection window comes before them.

The spread of days we work within to get a trailer to you, six days as standard and three if you choose expedited. It sits ahead of the road days rather than inside them. Mixing the two up is the usual reason a shipment looks late when it is running to plan.

Downtown Olympia, West Olympia, the Capitol campus area, Lacey, Tumwater, Yelm, Shelton, Centralia and Chehalis, plus north up Interstate 5 through DuPont and Lakewood. Thurston County is straightforward ground for a full-size rig almost everywhere.

Nearly always. Wide roads, driveways and room at the curb are normal here, which makes these among the easier collections in the state. Where a street is tight the driver will suggest a wider spot a short walk away, agreed at booking and carrying no charge.

Yes, and JBLM sits between Olympia and our Lakewood office, so it is ground we know well. Send the date on your orders with the booking and we will build the schedule around it. The handover happens at an accessible spot off base, arranged when you book at no extra charge.

Name someone else on the order and it is covered. Any responsible adult can release the vehicle and sign the condition report, so a spouse, a friend, a neighbor or a shipmate all work. Give us the name and a cell number when you book.

Distance and traffic, in that order. Chicago is about 2,125 miles from here against 3,250 to Fort Lauderdale, and the Interstate 90 corridor between Puget Sound and the Midwest carries freight both ways all year. The Florida run is longer and thinner, and the price reflects both.

It can add a day between November and March, and the carriers plan for it rather than around it. Interstate 90 crosses the Cascades at about 3,000 feet and in heavy weather the pass closes until conditions clear. For a winter date, carry a day of slack rather than changing your plans.

Summer is heaviest, with relocations and university moves in the same months. The Florida routes pick up from October as the southbound season starts and turn around in spring. Midwinter is the quietest and often the easiest stretch to book.

Yes, and nearly every car we move travels that way. Yours shares an uncovered two-level rig with eight or nine others, the same kind of trailer that delivers new stock to dealerships. Those rigs carry the most vehicles, so more of them run this corridor and you wait less.

Collector vehicles, valuable paintwork, low bodywork, anything you would rather not expose to a winter interstate. Enclosed runs about 80 percent above open. On a 3,000-mile run to Florida that is a fair question rather than an easy no. Ask for both figures side by side.

It tightens the collection window from six days to three, which is the part you can influence. The drive is unchanged, because a driver's hours are capped by federal rule. On a five-day run to Chicago that window is a real share of your total, so expedited is worth more here than on the Florida lanes.

Book a week or two out and keep the collection date loose. A driver with one space left takes whichever car is convenient rather than detouring for a better-paid one, and every extra day in your window is another chance to be that convenient car.

Carrier Cargo Insurance, and the 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 Olympia until it comes off at the other end. We hold the certificate as soon as a carrier accepts and it is yours to see whenever you ask.

You can, and it takes a minute. The FMCSA runs a free public database called SAFER. Feed it a USDOT number and it reports whether that company is authorized to operate and what insurance it has on file. Ours is USDOT 2887232, MC 969368.

No. Whoever loads it here is whoever unloads it at the far end. Nobody hands it to a second company partway and it never waits out a night in a storage lot. Transfers between companies are where this industry's damage claims concentrate.

Usually yes, kept sensible. A hundred pounds or so, stowed in the trunk, out of the driver's sightlines. Insurance attaches to the car rather than its contents, so anything you would hate to lose travels with you.

Run it through a wash, since dirt hides the marks a condition report should record. Empty it out. Leave about a quarter of a tank. Turn the alarm off. Then photograph each corner while the light is good. Small effort now, easy handover later.

We can still move it, on a trailer with winch gear and a driver trained to use it. Budget $200 upward on top of the figures on this page. We will ask three things when quoting, so have the answers ready: will it roll, will it steer, will it brake.

Somewhat, yes. Length and weight are what a trailer is limited by, so anything bigger than a mid-size sedan sits above these figures. Send year, make, model and any lift kit or oversized tires and we will price what you actually own.

Yes, and households leaving the Sound do it often. Both on one trailer to the same address saves the driver a stop, and that saving shows up on the second vehicle. Quote them as a pair and you will see the difference.

Yes, and the Northwest sends plenty. Leave it at about half charge, give us the exact model so the weight is right, and switch off anything that wakes the car while it sits. Heavier EVs sit a little above a comparable gas car, because weight is the limiting factor on a trailer.

No, it is simply how we work, and it is already inside the figures above. Where a street will not take a 75-foot rig safely, the driver sets a spot close by at no charge.

Not from our end. 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 it the Smart Price Promise, and standing behind it is why we would rather measure a route than guess at one.