Auto shipping rates/ Brokers?

Dino soar · Jun 23, 2024

brian991219 said: ↑

An F-350 would take 1 to 1.5 slots on a car carrier so it will probably pay the trucking company about .30 to .50 per mile with today's conditions. A few years ago it would have paid about $1 per mile to the truck.

As for hidden fees, there are likely not to be any unless the vehicle does not run and you didn't disclose that up front or it is being picked up or delivered to someplace that a large car carrier can't get into. Then there may be a fee for a local wrecker to move it to/from a big parking lot or winch it on/off the car carrier.

Auto transport rates are a dumpster fire right now. We used to make $6-7 a mile for full loads that were one pick one drop and up to $10 a mile for 8 or 9 car loads that were mutliple stops. Now we are lucky to get $3-4 miles for a full truckload with multiple stops.

Brokers are really bad in the car haul industry now as are the hotshot haulers with no clue how to do the job, poor insurance and questionable drivers.
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So even that small $600 or $800 quote, the broker is still getting his part of that. That's amazing.

Can a car carrier load a disabled vehicle? If not how does that get moved?

And how about larger trucks like let's say F600 trucks or F800 trucks. What kind of a trailer would haul in something of that size? Any idea with the rate would be for something like that? What if a truck like that is disabled?

brian991219 · Jun 23, 2024

Dino soar said: ↑

So even that small $600 or $800 quote, the broker is still getting his part of that. That's amazing.

Can a car carrier load a disabled vehicle? If not how does that get moved?

And how about larger trucks like let's say F600 trucks or F800 trucks. What kind of a trailer would haul in something of that size? Any idea with the rate would be for something like that? What if a truck like that is disabled?
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Some can, they have a winch option sonif it has keys and rolls, easy. Occasionally they will pay a local flatbed tow truck to winch it onto, or if coming from a salvage yard they set them on with a forklift.

As for the larger trucks, they go on more specialized trailers and the rate is better, or they shio as flatbed freight on a step deck.

snowwy · Jun 23, 2024

I don't think vehicles are allowed to be over 102" wide so they'll fit on any standard 102 trailer.

Just have to tuck in the mirrors and whatever else so it's not an oversized load.

I used to know a guy that raced them wide boats. I think they were something like 9 feet wide. Maybe wider. They were hauled on special trailers that carried the boats at an angle just to keep em legal width.

me myself and I · Jun 26, 2024

Big F series trucks are not over 102.

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