Open carrier car shipping

Vehicles transported on Open auto transport carriers will be exposed to the elements such as rain, sun, hail and anything you may encounter during daily driving. Being uncovered is one of the drawbacks of open car shipping. If you have opted to use this type of car carrier transport, please be aware that your vehicle will be exposed to the elements.

But don’t worry, car shipping companies take great measures to care for and deliver vehicles to their destination in their original condition, by using highly-trained auto transport truckers.

All vehicles are always neatly positioned and strapped in a manner on the transport carrier, that reduces any mobility and vibrations while the vehicles are in transit. One advantage, to using an Open car transport carriers over enclosed shipping, in most cases, is that it’s typically faster in terms of pick up and delivery, this is because there are more open car carriers on the road and can carry more vehicles than their enclosed counter-parts at any given time.

Making up roughly 70% of all vehicle shipping carriers in the U.S, open car shipping is by far the more popular and widely used of the two options. The biggest reason this type of vehicle transport is more popular with customers needing to ship their vehicles is the price. Open car shipping rates can be between 35%-50% less than the enclosed shipping method.

So, Open auto transport is more affordable and still a very secure mode of transporting a vehicle from and to any point in the United States.