Auto Shipping: Save Yourself Money and the Trouble

By Tom Kearns

It's amazing how simple it used to be to relocate. As a college student, you probably put all your stuff in the trunk of the family car, drove to your destination and unpacked in a jiffy. A family member then drove the car back to its home and all was right with the world. You graduated, found a job, a cheap apartment, put all your stuff into a duffle bag, and did it all over again.

But once you are a well established family with children and a big screen TV, and the move is to another city or state, the change of place is a daunting and sometimes impossible challenge, especially so if now you have a car of your own. Not only that most of your belongings won't fit into the trunk and the back seat anymore, you have to move the car itself a considerable distance. Not only that this requires time and effort, it costs miles of expensive fuel, with the car overloaded and liable to break down on an interstate. Most cars' performance is unpredictable on long distances even when not heavily loaded. If the family owns more than one vehicle the cost of driving them yourselves across the country may add up to more than the cost of transporting your household stuff. It is likely you will fail to find either the time or the money to move to that better apartment closer to that other, career-defining working place.

Many people are unaware that they can hire a shipper to move their cars without going through the hassle of the self-transport themselves. There are actually quite a few companies that offer vehicle shipping vehicle services, not a glamorous business, perhaps, but a very convenient one. The auto shipper may also cost less to move your car than if you drove, fueled, and maintained it yourself. No matter how attached you are to that sleek, racy car of yours, it is far less stressful to let the pros worry about moving it.

While the auto shipping carrier is getting your car to its new home, you and your family could be leisurely taking advantage of public transportation to get you to your new neighborhood. Once at your destination, you have the time and energy to do your unpacking and start settling into your brand new home. This will have saved you time by hiring the auto shipping out and also saved you money in at least one way - you can start your new job earlier and be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed from your very first day.

While the benefits to your emotional and physical health alone may be worth every penny of the price that any reasonable, reliable auto shipping company may require, the likelihood that shipping may even cost less, perhaps significantly less, is high, especially for the larger families moving across long distances, and should make that option imminently desirable. - 30242

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