Who is cheapest co. for vehicle transport in Australia

road trip !!

I recently used SMB Car Transport to carry my 130 dual cab from Brisbane to near Geelong Vic. Door to door service was $880. I thought about flying up and driving home, but when I added the cost of the flight and fuel for the drive home, along with time and convenience, I thought it was well worth it, and that was delivered to my driveway in a country town.
It is cheaper if you elect to have the vehicle delivered to a transport depot in a major city at either end of the trip for ease of pick up by the transport company.

Murray

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Originally Posted by jamieluck

where do you find out about these back load containers? cheapest flights I can find to get to coffs in the next fortnight is $535. Not worth it

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We shipped out D2a from Alice to Melbourne via Northline and this is how they did it. Sutton Motors were also helpful in recommending freight options at the time.

I had a problem: as the car wasn't drivable the car carriers wouldn't move it or if they would they wanted even more money. From memory it was about $800 and the cheapest car carrier was about $1500 (if the car had been drivable). SO I would check with the freight companies, not just the car carriers and see what they can do. Maybe talk to their Coff's office/agent rather than a local one to you.

How did you go finding a carrier?

I'm currently trying to find a carrier to get a County from Gosford to Tassie. So far there are a couple that are within about a $100 range either side of $1000 for the whole job, pickup in Gosford to depot in Tassie. They are Auto-Logistics, Autotrans (which is owned by TOLL). Both of these two have been very helpful so far.

Also, there's another group carcarrying.com.au that would bring it right to my door for a little under $1500. (I can get it the last 80km for a whole lot less than $400 though.). I've not had any interaction with them other than their automated quoting system though, but that was fast and easy.

Cheers,...Jon.