Compare Your Car Stuff

The idea of paying someone to move your car may seem somewhat moronic at first glance. After all, why would you pay someone to ship something that has wheels and you can drive yourself? Well, there are reasons.

Let’s say you are in the job market like most Americans these days. Miracle of miracles, you actually get an offer to work for a good company in San Francisco. You accept and have two weeks to move up there from San Diego where you now live. What do you do? Well, you either rent a U-Haul and move your stuff up or hire a moving company if you have a lot of junk…err, priceless assets.  As to your car, you just have a friend or family member drive it on up.

Now let’s take the same scenario with a few changes. That new job is in Boston. Oh, and you have to start on Monday. Now what do you do? Well, you can either store those priceless items you have or have a moving company ship them. As for your car, well, things are problematic. You can’t drive it to Boston and make it in time unless you are willing to forgo sleep and drink waaaay too much coffee. You, my friend, have a time problem and this is where shipping a car comes in.

There are many reasons a person might want to ship a car, but two constantly come to the forefront. The first is water…big water. If you are moving overseas, you really don’t have any choice but to have your car shipped if you are going to take one at all. The second reason is time. Driving a car long distances takes time and few of us can afford to take off three to five days to do so. For better or worse, life is just to hectic these days. In such a scenario, shipping your car will cost you more in dollars, but save you money in time. This is why more and more people decide to simply ship their cars than drive them long distances when moving.