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Transport for a 74 Blazer

Chief Brody

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Can anyone recommend a transport company? I am currently waiting on Momentum Transport to find a driver to take the job but it was been a week and nobody wants to haul it.

Anybody know somebody that they have had a good experience?

Oh...I need it picked up in Southern California (near San Diego) and brought to Alabama....once you are on I-10 it is Interstate the whole way...
 
found one eh? good for you... Cali rig, should be clean....

sorry, no help on the transport....
 
Yep...DocJake's blue and white 74
 
Sucks waiting for transport companies to get some dude with a rig to transport your new rig. I`ve sold a few and always had headaches with transport.
 
What's the longest you ever had to wait?
 
$1200 for open carrier

I have run the numbers myself and if I owned a truck and had a U-Haul trailer it would still cost $750.00 in fuel alone.
 
your talking one way right? because its 1,974 miles from San Diego CA to Madison AL. Thats 3,948 round trip. say you get 10 miles to the gallon towing. Thats 394 gallons at a united states average of 3.10 that would be $1221.00 in fuel alone. for 1200 bucks you would be losing $ and driving 4k miles. or am i missing somthing?
 
The reason i ask is my wifes family owns a big construction company that i happen to work for. we have trucks from chevy 2500s to 5500s and everything from 30ft enclosed to 3 axle dually open trailers. I may be able to take a friday off and drive it over the weekend for ya. Im not offering at this point, just talking
 
I never was good at math....10mpg...wow

Did I figure right that it would take about 3 days to drive one way? That's a looooooooooong drive...
 
Chief Brody said:
I never was good at math....10mpg...wow

Did I figure right that it would take about 3 days to drive one way?
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I take it the k5 is not drivable? it would make for a fun road trip.

It would take 3 days at least to drive 2000 miles, unless you have a copilot and take turns an only stop for gas and food.
 
It runs but is apparently not roadworthy for a long trip like that, if it were I would probably do it.
 
yea with two people you could drive it in 3 full days. but you would be looking at more like 1800 i would think, i dont know. Have you already bought the k5 or just thinking about it?
 
Without going into great details, yes, I have bought it

also I asked a truck owner who ships antique cars in a closed carry and he wants $1900
 
With all the out of work folks around, I'd expect lots of offers if the price was right. Maybe $1200 isn't enough to cover fuel and hotel costs for that long of a haul? It does sound a little cheap for that distance.
 
but he can't pick it up for 3 weeks....and I can't do $1900

$1200 is open carry and dor to door service on one truck....but I don't have a clue when somebody will take the job.

$1200 when you are hauling 6 to 10 cars is how they do it for that price
 
yea if it took you 4 days at atound $80 a hotel thats $320 and say $50 in food for two people thats $400. so $1200+400+320= $1920 just to get there and back. no cash made. anyway you cut it your spending around 2k. Thats if you can find someone in San Diego. Someone coming from San Francisco or Sacramento add another $200
 
four months ago when I was looking at another one in California the price from the same company was $850.00 from Los Angelis

I also had offers off of U-Ship for $850 but they don't have a website or anything and the BBB is warning about auto transport companies right now...people paying for the service and the car never shows up....
 
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