Top 5 mistakes to avoid when hiring an Auto Transport Company to Ship Your Car

To all watching this video in August of 2022 or beyond : Around the 8:00 mark where we discuss deposits - Please understand we are describing the practices of a large % of the online slimy transport firms you will encounter out there. We are obviously not describing how we operate at airryd.com/ - And the strategy described of "waiting to pay a deposit until a truck is assigned to the order " - simply no longer works because these large firms have adjusted, and they will often simply claim that a trucking company has been assigned, (even if they have not ) just to give justification to charge your card a nice $200-300 deposit fee. Then once your card has been charged, they'll update you a day or two later, to let you know the "supposed" trucking company has unfortunately cancelled. But they now have you locked in all the same, and you have no way of ever knowing what's what. Some companies also even have shell trucking companies with real DOT #s on standby, with an actual person on the other end of the phone, just so they can claim they have dispatched out your order - so they can then charge your card. It is a tough world out there for the unknowing consumer. At our firm, over at airRyd - we always have the same exact process on every single order. We charge a flat $89 (open transport order / per car ) or a flat $125 (enclosed transport order / per car ) on EVERY single order. It never changes. No games are ever played. Nothing beyond that is ever due until the delivery at the destination when your car is dropped off to you. And if your asking, why charge an upfront fee ? We have a couple very clear answers to that question. 1.) If we charged nothing when a customer booked an order, we would have no possible way of knowing what orders are real, what orders are fake or spam, and we would have absolutely no way of knowing if this customer will be MIA or unresponsive once we do locate an option to get the car moved. This takes real human capital to deliver a good service, we can't possibly devote hundreds of hours to orders that simply are never happening. It is just a way to weed out those who are serious from those who are simply shopping. 2.) If we actually posted hundreds of "non-confirmed " orders on major load boards, including our own at airryd.com/ - trucks will eventually realize when they inquire in on these loads, that at least 50% are not even legitimate. This will lead to a drop in activity from trucking companies, and thus make our real orders much harder to move. Trucks don't have time to waste, they want to deal with companies that have LEGITIMATE loads, not "maybe" loads. So this would lead to a damaged reputation for us on all major load boards. 3.) There is simply no incentive from our perspective to deliver a good service to a customer with a big question mark over their order, and there is also basically no trust from the customer perspective if they are not willing to pay a small fee to hire us. So the order is not on the right footing when no monies have been paid. For these reasons and others, this is why we operate as we do. And if anyone is truly unhappy at anytime with our services, we will happily refund them on the booking fee , no questions asked. To book an order with us today, please visit us online at airryd.com/ - or shoot us a text to our quote hotline at 913-215-3113 THANKS TO ALL !!! : ) Wes - with ATD

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Thank You! Your helping a lot of people understand how this works. Your amazing human being! My son just brought a 2021 car and couldn't decide how to transport his vehicle safely. Because of this informative video he now knows how to look for good transport company.

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I'm happy I found this video cuz I'm planning on doing this very soon within the next month or so need to send my jeep to Florida for some audio work done n then shipped back to me

Great tips for auto transport! Thanks for sharing and breaking down the industry

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Wow, thank you so much this has really help me to know how to transport my vehicle. Never knew any of this. Again, thank you!

after like 30 minutes of trying to figure out how to ship a car I put 2 and 2 together that the industry works like this. Great to have it confirmed.

If you need to have a vehicle transported? Use this guys service. I stumbled upon this video after getting very frustrated trying to get quotes from other auto transport brokers. I wanted to understand how not to get ripped off. If your like me? And company reviews hold a lot of sway over your opinion? You’re probably experience and what I did. A lot of companies online have paid fake reviews at 5 stars, but then you find where the business is located and their actual reviews and it’s more like two stars. Anyways, after watching this video. I used the link in the description which got me over to his company website and Wes took great care of me and my vehicle moving from California to Idaho. The cost did come out a little higher than the original quote, but! The car was in inoperable and had no functional brakes, so very reasonable for the added complexity of the move. With that said, great professional service and peace of mind! Thanks Wes! Your truly an honest businessman. Which is hard to fine in your industry.

Thank you for the insight. So many decisions and variables involved in this process. This helps.

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I just placed an order with your company. I can appreciate someone who took the time to share industry knowledge with us so candidly. Thanks @Wes!

If having your car hauled by a professional driver and truck is important to you, plus peace of mind, this is THE company to use. They hauled my 2003 Corvette from Florida to Texas, their on time with great communication. The driver had two more cars to pick up after mine and still arrived on time Sunday morning and he left Friday afternoon from Daytona. Impressive! A big thank you!

Bro, your review helped me out tremendously. Muchas gracias!

Had my car shipped from Vermont to New Jersey. I provided my information to Wes and he made all the arrangements and everything went extremely well!

Quick response, thank you for helping me with my move.. much appreciated

update.. everything went according to plan, they picked up my truck delivered it from San Diego to Virginia Beach in 4 days. Thanks again 🤙🏽🤙🏽