Car Shipping Hot Spots

In the auto transport industry, there are always going to be “hot spots” (and, conversely, “cold spots.”) – places that trucks are moving into, or where a lot of people are going to, making it easier and cheaper to ship your vehicle. Some hot spots to look out for are (during the summer months) Florida, Alabama, South Carolina—pretty much anything in the deep south. Cold spots are places that trucks don’t really want to travel to, thus making your shipping a bit more expensive – in summer, this typically means California and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. Trucks going here seem to be scarce because of all the traffic backups going through California during the summer—just be careful.

In winter, it really changes. Florida and the deep south are places that become more expensive as the months turn, because everyone is coming out of there to get back home. Conversely, car shipping to the Northwest actually goes down—why this is, no one really knows.