Car Shipping for a Household Move: Timing and Options
Moving trucks are not built to carry a car, and driving it yourself adds days and mileage you may not want on it. If your old and new homes are in the same state, and that state is Georgia, California, Florida or Michigan, we arrange door-to-door pickup at your old address and delivery to your new one, on an open carrier, with one confirmed price before you pay.
Can we book your move?
In one of those four states, yes. We do not hold federal broker authority, so we cannot book a car's trip across a state line. Send that request anyway and we reply, free, with licensed carriers or brokers that run your lane; you book and pay them directly. See where we ship for the in-state lanes.
How this fits around a move
Tell us your move date and how flexible your pickup and delivery windows are. A wider window, a few days on either side rather than one exact date, usually gives the carrier more room to fit your vehicle into an existing route. If you are moving out before your new address is ready, we can also discuss a delivery window that starts once you confirm you are ready to receive the car.
What we need from you
- Old address (pickup) and new address (delivery).
- Vehicle year, make and model, and whether it currently runs.
- Your move date and how much flexibility you have on either end.
- Whether anyone will be present at both addresses, or whether a neighbor, agent, or new occupant will handle access.
- Contact details, so we can confirm the price and the carrier.
More than one vehicle
Each vehicle is its own shipment and its own confirmed price. Tell us if you are shipping more than one car from the same move, and we will treat them as separate requests that we try to coordinate on timing.
What we do not arrange
We do not move household goods, and we do not coordinate with a moving company's schedule beyond the dates you give us. If your vehicle does not run, that is a separate request; we do not price inoperable shipments online today.
Questions
- Can pickup and delivery happen on different days than my movers? Yes, they are separate shipments; give us the dates and windows that work for the car specifically.
- What if I do not have a new address yet on pickup day? Tell us; a wider or to-be-confirmed delivery window can sometimes be arranged, though this depends on the carrier.
- Does shipping the car cost less than driving it myself? It depends on distance. At the IRS rate of 76 cents a mile, driving 250 miles costs about $190 in fuel, wear and depreciation, which is below any quote we received for a trip that short; on a long move, a night's lodging and the days on the road change the sum. Shipping vs. driving works the numbers, and each lane page runs them for its own distance.
Sources
- Driving-cost figure: IRS standard mileage rate, 76 cents a mile for July to December 2026 (https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/standard-mileage-rates, read 2026-09-21). Quote comparison: our own requests, summarised on car shipping cost.