Shipping cars through Chicago can be a real hassle if you don’t know what you’re doing, so here’s a few things you can do to make it super simple to get your vehicle through the Windy City. For starters, don’t ship to or from there in the winter months, unless it’s early – snow and other winter conditions can wreak havoc on auto transporters, and more often than not shippers just won’t move through snowy areas. This includes Chicago, so if you’re shipping during the winter try and keep it early and avoid the storms. However, even in the winter Chicago is a popular auto transport destination, so try and plan accordingly.
Archive for November, 2012
When you’re looking for Auto Shipping & Transport services during the winter time, it can be difficult to find a company to haul your vehicle to where you need it to go. During the winter months the auto transport industry experiences a lull, where there are few customers and more trucks around, so it can be difficult to find the right truck going in your area, especially if you’re shipping from the northern half of the country. The northern U.S. is known for its hairy winters, especially near the Canadian border, so if you’re shipping down south for the winter you’ll want to get going on that early – late fall early. Winter can be a hard time to ship a car, so make sure you prepare yourself accordingly.
Direct Connect Auto Transport is a company that has ridden some of the most difficult waves in the auto transport industry. Though it’s still relatively un-regulated, the auto shipping industry has been around since the 1950’s and has seen its fair share of scam artists. Luckily, with a history and name like Direct Connect, you can ship with confidence. They’re from the “old school” way of running things, before the industry tanked, and they make sure that they do things right, fair, and for the best price they can give you. If you’ve been around the block looking for a good shipper, or even if it’s your first time shipping a car, you can’t go wrong with a company like Direct Connect Auto Transport.
While international car transportation is definitely available to you, finding it and finding it at a good price are two different matters entirely. Only a fraction of the companies that handle domestic auto transport will actually ship to other countries, mainly due to the vast amount of tariffs, paperwork and money that goes into each shipment. But it’s certainly doable. Most of the time auto transporters will simply transport your vehicle to a major U.S. port and then put your vehicle on a boat to ship across the country, though you should probably talk to your auto transporter about how exactly they ship. And don’t forget, most U.S. companies will only ship TO other countries, not FROM other countries.