RE: IML: U-Haul vs private carrier

["bill parker" <hemirr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That distance if you go on line for a hauler (by searching on "automobile 
transporting" and the like) will be near $1000, many of the companies will 
give you a free estimate.  There is a dealer/hauler exchange service which 
dealers and haulers subscribe to for around $400 per year which allows 
dealers to post a hauling need and the price the dealer is willing to pay, 
then haulers who are going to be deadheading from the area of the pickup 
toward the destination can contact the dealer and take on the job.  A dealer 
friend of mine used to subscribed to this service and got my '56 Windsor 
hauled from Washington State to Indiana for $700, but he doesn't subscribe 
any more.  Anyway, if you have bids around $1000, then put the cost of the 
one-way U-haul dolly or trailer against that, plus gasoline, to get a good 
comparison.  If your RAM is a 1/2 ton, it will be a chore and hard on 
everything including yourself.  If a 3/4 ton it works better.  I use my '88 
1/2 ton 4X4 for local hauling of smaller cars when needed but always use the 
'76 3/4 ton 4X4 for long distance, and both types of hauls are made with an 
18' flatbed with electric brakes on both axles.  (which my '65 Imperials 
hang over the end)  If you use a dolly, you'll have no auxilary brakes.  
However, the U-haul car-hauling trailers have surge brakes I believe.

> From: Imperial48@xxxxxxx
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> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: IML: U-Haul vs private carrier
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:31:16 EDT
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to decide which is the best way to get my '48 Crown Imperial 
> from
> MN to AZ.   Although I have many talents I can't drive two vehicles at the
> same time.   I have reserved a U-Haul transport for 2 weeks from now which 
> was my
> original plan, to pull behind my Dodge Ram.   However tonight I was 
> thinking
> of all the wear and tear, etc. as well as a the WEIGHT issue and started to
> think of a possible alternative via a professional carrier.
>
> Do any of you know any contacts for a reputable carrier?    I think I'm 
> much
> better off checking out all of the possibilites.    The limo is about 20
> minutes NE of downtown St. Paul and would be delivered to the Eastern side 
> of Mesa,
> AZ.
>
> I know that some carriers use flatbeds and other use walled trailers.   
> Info
> on either will be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ned ~ '48 Crown Imperial




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