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Auto Shipping or Cross-Country Drive? Auto Shipping Hub Breaks It Down
Auto Shipping or Cross-Country Drive? Auto Shipping Hub Breaks It Down
Need to get your car across country, but are not sure if it is better to drive or to have it shipped?
Ocala,
FL,
United States of America
(prbd.net)
23/02/2012
We do, at the risk of understatement, have a certain attachment to the automobile in our country. The mystique of gunning hot wheels across a thousand miles of nowhere in particular has soaked throughout our culture down the decades. Sometimes, they drive to get away from it, and sometimes they drive towards it: movies like Vanishing Point, with a silent Barry Newman tearing across the Southwest in a Dodge Challenger.
Tom Waits left his mark when he ripped into a hard-charging nightmare blues ballad about driving on his 1992 album, Bone Machine. “Goin' Out West” roars like the engine of the protagonist's Oldsmobile '88, and has become a cover favorite for musicians with a taste for old-fashioned American risk.
All right, but what if you're not embarking on an existential trip of self-actualization through Detroit juice, or running from the cops across the desert? What if you merely need to get a car from point A to point B? Does it make sense to drive it yourself, or would it be a better idea to pay auto shipping companies to handle it while you kick back on an airplane?
In this article, Auto Shipping Hub presents a basic rundown on the two options. If you're relocating within a single state, then a several-hour drive won't be a terribly taxing way to spend a weekend afternoon. But what if you're moving across four digit distances? Some people may be tempted to embark on the trip themselves by a sense of heady optimism or a thin wallet. However, hopes of saving a substantial amount of money by driving yourself are very likely to go up in smoke on a particularly long drive.
Given the recent increases in gas prices, even a reasonably economical sedan that gets around 30 miles per gallon will burn through 300-400 dollars' worth of gasoline alone on a drive from New York to Los Angeles.
Factor in some of the things that you, as a human, will need to get yourself across the finish line as well, and the equation starts to tilt. Unless you somehow manage to brown-bag enough food for the better part of a week that it will take you to get across the country, you will need your three squares by the roadside. Even considering that food may be cheaper inland, you're not likely to get in under 15-20 dollars a day. You should budget at least $100 for food, and that is only if you're traveling alone.
Finally, unless you have the heedless constitution of a 20-year-old that won't keep reminding you all day long of an unfortunate sleeping position, it's probably a very good idea to spend the nights on an actual bed. While motel prices vary with your tolerance towards cockroaches and suspicious stains, you should expect to spend at least 300-400 dollars over several days of driving.
All of this doesn't factor intangibles such as wear and tear on your car, and unforeseen expenses. It's hard to compare the 700-900 dollars spent on a cross-country drive in our hypothetical example to the cost of shipping a car, since auto shipping quotes can vary. However, the general ballpark figure for a transport job from one end of the country to the other varies from a low of $650 to a high of $1000. If you want to save yourself endless headache, bleary eyes and a bad back, paying an auto shipping company for a cross-country transport job is the best choice you can make.
Contact information:
The Auto Shipping Hub
1824 Northwest 44th Street
Ocala, FL 34475
tony@autoshippinghub.com
http://www.autoshippinghub.com/
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Auto Shipping Hub is a nationwide auto transport company that has used these principles to offer unmatched customer service and individualized price quotes, and to maintain clear lines of communication with all its customers.
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