The trucker ABANDONED my $2 million car!
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The prevalence of shipping nightmares is the top reason I do not miss selling cars.
Good afternoon dear Sir, i have been watching your YT videos for several years now, and it appeared that a good friend of mine is now the owner of a Porsche 911 Targa from 1972 out of nowere, and i was curious if i could find something about the history of that car.
Unfortunatly i could find out a way to check into the VinWiky data app from my PC over here in Germany.
Maybe you or one of your Mods can help me out to find a solution, or an alternative, trustable app.
Big thanks in advance!
P.S.: Of course i do know the vin number.
I'm sensing a business opportunity Ed-you, Tyler, and Tavarish could start a transportation company for the next season of Car Trek. I imagine the truck and insurance, and driver would cost about the same as a mid-mileage Gallardo. Even less if you did the driving yourselves, and you would meet collectors, see some exceptional cars, and show the industry how it ought to be done.
as a trucker i can think of a solution to all your transportation nightmare stories. be the change you want to see.
start a niche VinWiki shipping company with an F-350 and enclosed trailer catering specifically to your base. Low enough overhead and just a couple perfect runs a year done personally could explode the brand and start an entire market
Is there money to be made in car transport? Seems like if it was profitable, more people would do better business.
Seems to me the obvious thing to do if you're early on an urgent rush delivery is... To call and see if they'll take delivery early. Make yourself out to be a hero, so you'll be the first call on the next one.
for real its all about perspective. "Sir, we have managed to arrive an entire day early on your rush delivery, are you prepared to accept the car now or would you like us to wait?"
"oh boy, come on over right now!"
that's someone who has common sense, most of these people don't 😂
I know, I can't imagine not taking the several THOUSANDS of dollars and upping the reputation on the company so you can do it more often. Utter idiocy.
And delivering that fast something so expensive there's a good chance they'd get a healthy tip
I drive a semi truck and I can tell you that many of the drivers have little to no sense and many are foreign and they are not good at communication. If I'm early I ALWAYS try to see if they will take delivery early (unless it's a strict appointment).
My transporter for my Viper had his truck and trailer stolen in Denver and didn’t tell me for 2 days. My Viper was found abandoned in an apartment parking lot a day later with an additional 80 miles on the clock. It was a nightmare getting the transporter’s insurance to cover damages but luckily it all worked out in the end. Transport is a certified nightmare.
Your lucky they just took it for a joyride and didn’t strip it or sell it
@@pokemaster123ism I was expecting to never see it again so hearing it was all in tact was a huge relief.
As someone in the trucker Industry I'll tell you how the system works... you call ur broker say u wanna get something somewhere in a certain timeframe... broker says okay I know a guy but he doesnt... he puts a load on something called a job board where basically the lowest bidder wins the job. Pretty sure brokers skim about 30% of the total job so your really getting bottom of the barrel... your best bet for consistent transport is find a great guy to work specifically for you and your circle of people who need high dollar cars moved and as long as you got work for him or pay him enough to stay on call you'll never have an issue
Go direct to the transport company. Avoid the brokers, it really costs less when you know who has the car. Stress is far too expensive.
@@billgiltzow4464 Go direct, and avoid Russian-owned transport companies.
I’ve been in the transport industry 35 years and you are 100% correct. If it was my million dollar car dealership I’d be paying the money and going with the big boys Reliable I think it’s is big orange trucks. Or similar. As soon as you hear the word “broker” it’s a lottery
@@billgiltzow4464Yeah that's what he just said, are you a fkn parrot??
NEVER use a broker! Go directly to the top transporters. Reliable, Pilot, Plycar, etc. Cost only a little more, but worth it.
I was a sales manager at a Ford dealership in 2004 when the GT came out. We were a large auto group with 6 Ford dealers. I was tasked with selling out 7 allocations. I did it on eBay with a bid of MSRP plus the bid and you got to spec the car. I was in Maryland and the second person to win an auction was in California. He ordered the car in ingot silver with zero options. I got a bit scared of this order and talked him into paying for the car in full before I placed the order. His bid was $110,000 over MSRP and he paid for it 6 months before the car arrived. When the car shows up we do the pre delivery inspection and he tells me he has a transport company coming to pick it up. On the day for pick up a flat bed tow truck shows up. I'm thinking this truck was going to take it to a yard to put it in an enclosed truck to go to California. Nope, he had hired this guy to drive his flatbed across the country because it was $400 less than he'd been quoted for enclosed transport. I called him to ask if he was crazy. I told him this car isn't going to make it without damage if it makes it at all! Anyway I talked him out of that plan and it arrived in California safe and sound. I saw it advertised on DuPont Registry in 2008 for $105,000. I often wonder what happened to that car.
So the guy was willing to pay $110k over MSRP, but not an extra $400 for enclosed transport?! That’s wild!!!
Did you work for Criswell?
@@AFTER_MIDNITEmore money than brains
@@rohitgarg5617 I was the sales manager at Criswell Acura/Audi in Annapolis before going to Sheehy Ford in Gaithersburg.
@@AFTER_MIDNITE Yes. He eventually did but I was like hell no I'm not releasing this car. It shows up damaged and I wanted zero part of that.
If you are selling high end cars, why not just buy/rent a truck and/or an enclosed trailer and hire a full-time person to transport cars for you? Just charge 5k more on 300k car to cover the cost
I've delivered exotic cars, and it's scary to be the delivery person too. There is a reason it's extra expensive ... the people who are REALLY consistent and reliable are busy so they can charge more.
You can tell how good they are by seeing how they pick up and load and strap a car down. No metal should ever come close to your car, and the car should be strapped down at all 4 corners.
I'm shocked that you shipped 918 without a covered trailer. I didn't even do that with a new 911.
you don’t have a 911
Why do you assume it wasn't covered?
@@nickdipietro3967 -- 911, Volkswagen -- what's the diff? Stop being picky.
Why would they detail a car and then tow it across country on an open trailer? That’s just stupid. They had to redetail the car because it sat outside when the trucker dumped it. Were you not listening?
As an ordinary consumer I’ve shipped a half dozen cars for myself and family members over the years. It is such a strange system with hundreds of brokers (many seem sketchy) and thousands of independent truckers (highly variable quality) - a system in only the loosest application of the term. Every time I ship the car, I felt I was rolling the dice. I was lucky never to have a serious problem but there were some weird glitches. One time I shipped the car to my daughter and when she went to pick it up in the parking lot of an abandoned K-Mart she found truck but the trucker was nowhere to be seen. After a half hour of panicked phone calls to me, the trucker showed up driving her brand new car. He said he needed it to get breakfast.
Wtf why would someone think that is acceptable behavior?!
@@MattH-wg7ou As I said, there hundreds of brokers and thousands of drivers so there’s no particular accountability. I was amazed to find out that the dealers ship cars the same way. I was assumed they had their own shipping companies.
my friend is a freelance dealer and has lost two cars to truckers. no insurance either bc he gave them the keys
Talk to the big companies not brokers.
Good way to get dumped as a transport company.
In the trucking industry, reputation is key. 💯
Absolutely. By the way, wtf is that profile pic?! 😂
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When my ship comes in I’ll be driving my dream car home from wherever I find it as a first adventure.
Probably after a local service because it’s clapped out and that’s why I could afford it!
Why I'd be dropping an Apple Air Tag in the vehicle before shipping it.
Exactly what I was going to post.
This probably happened before they had Apple Air Tag's. To be fair though, they have had different types of electronic tracking devices that they could have put in the car regardless but I don't know if they would have been able to be active on cellular service or not. At the very least, they could have put a phone in the car that was cheap and put a SIM card in the phone with active service and just tracked it that way. That would have been an easy thing to do even back 10 or 15 years ago and it would have cost them maybe a couple hundred dollars or even less at most and would have been more than worth it.
@@eldridge201 Put an active burner phone in the car for tracking it.
2 air tags and a full-on GPS tracker powered by a 7 AH AGM battery (good for many weeks) go into every car I move.
Next time give me a call and I’ll personally drive it and deliver it to the customer. Shoot id do it for free 😂
And depreciate it down to the ground? I’ll pay you not to drive it 😂
@@luumpia93 at least I wouldn’t leave it on the side of the road for a couple days lol
Especially if it’s a white supercharged challenger you needed across the country yesterday 🙃
@@luumpia93You'll never own a 918
@@borismcfinnigan3430 this is such a stupid reply. If you either cant afford a 918 shut the F up
I went through a shipping ordeal with Route 49 Transport LLC. They confirmed that they would pick up my vehicle on a Saturday @ 5pm. They then asked if they could pick it up later that night around 11pm. 11pm came around and they asked if they could pick up the car Sunday morning. Sunday came around, crickets till 2pm. That’s when I messaged them to cancel the transport. No response was given.
Edison Motors had a similar incident with their inverters for their new electric semi. They had it shipped hotshotted (no other deliveries or stops) across Canada. The company hired sold the job off to another company who didn’t know it was a hotshot and so had other loads he was delivering and his truck broke down. Eventually Edison did get the shipment 2 weeks late and it almost cost the company millions because if the trade show it was supposed to be at. Edison paid the person who shipped the parts but refused to pay the original shipping company that sold the job the extra they were contracted for. They have a whole UA-cam video on it.
Edison motors is awesome!
A few years ago I was looking into opening a concierge. You're the only customer. No side jobs, car transport company I talked to some very high-end dealership owners and basically sold myself to them and every single one of them told me I charge too much and they would never use me. Dealers are always looking for the cheapest way and then crap like this happens.
I was thinking how could no one offer this but you just answered that. Such a shame.
Stories like this are what keep me in business. I have transported so many high end collector cars etc. brokers will almost always mess it up. Only people you can trust with this is Reliable or Intercity.
Un freakin beleivable. I own an auto shop (nothing like your operation). Sometimes I have situations like this and the customer may have been excited to pick up their car but there was some issue. I have had customers that could see my anguish, and are comforting me! Man, it can be tough.
Feel free to hit me up when you need something brought from the midwest ! No middle people, like brokers or dispatchers here. Mom and Pops small operation on the side. Its just me, myself and I. I always give the personal cell and dont care how many times you call or text. Always game to work and love driving. I dont got new fancy equipment and my rates sometimes may not be better than the bigger guys but when you have me do something, your the only one im doing a job for. No stops for other loads or huge windows for pickup and drop off. I go directly to your vehicle, pick it up, treat it like its the most important thing in my life, then drop it off to you. I know the youtube comment section is not exactly a normal place to shoot your shot but sometimes you gotta say your prayers and attempt to take the road less traveled. 😂
GoodLuck brother. I like how you shot your shot
Oh man I’d have been boiling if I were in your shoes! That transport driver would’ve learned to fly. Not as if it were just dropping a Honda off is it 🤦
Something I know now about actually rich people. They tend to be the nicest and calmest. My gfs uncle is a multi millionaire and when I say I let 20k worth of a jetski just float away on the lake the cabins on, he just hopped on the other jetski, said get on bud, and went and found it... brand new 22thousand dollar jetski just floated away and he said nothing about it amd even cracked a smile when I apologized. He woulda just bought another one but to me, having a 22k dollar watercraft float away for more then 3 hours I woulda lost my mind.. but not him.
maybe because they actually have enough F U money that they don't fuss about stuff that can be resolved with money anymore.
Only had to have a car transported once... bought it from pictures only via a car forum, had it picked up in Tampa and delivered to Mobile. Not that far. The company didn't use the tow hooks that are easily visible on the front/rear of the car and instead opted to use the control arms... and torqued the chains down like crazy. They bent every single control arm and all had to be swapped out.
I was PLANNING to change the arms anyways... so that just expedited it.
So, who the F was the transporting company?
Sent a recently purchased heavily modified daily driver across country by a reputable shipper to new city of residence a week before my flight so it would be there the day after I arrived. Also packed my winter clothing in the car. Showed up a week late, filthy, with a torn up rare OE UK-only imported front bumper, a chassis length aluminum vacuum line torn off the bottom and mostly missing, and knocked off intercooler grilles handed to me by the driver. Turns out they used another contract trucker midcountry and blamed a snowstorm. Lots of finger pointing and 3 months chasing a resolution resulted in no help, took care of repairs myself and filed as many bureau complaints as possible against all parties.
I've delivered a 918 to a dealer in Chicago - no issues. Everyday work for most enclosed transporters. BUT, I've also seen a fly-by-night independent driver load and damage 2 high end cars - on a Bently GT Continental and the other a SL Mercedes - at an auction loading lot. He said he was getting $500.00 for the Bently. From Riverside, CA to Chicago. In an open rack truck exposed to the elements in November...with the driver's side window on the Bently partially down as his hydraulics weren't working. And he crawled out the window without taking his shoes off - tracking the dirty parking lot onto the beautiful saddle tan leather. He asked me if i had touch up paint for the pearl cream Bently after he tagged it with the SL 550. $10,000 repair to save $1,000 in transport.
Good to see Matthew to start the day! Thanks for the great story!
When I used to own a Large Towing Company in the NYC Metro area, I had Nightmares with a Fleet of Rollbacks, I could give you some stories, like the NEW JAG with 50 miles on it and the driver forgot to chain down a manual trans and it rolled off my Rollback into an intersection.
Oh that is some self justice level stuff…..
Shipping high end vehicles is a nightmare!
Not car shipping related, but I feel like the show Shipping Wars gave some insight into the world of independent operators. Giving zero effs about the cargo, only caring about the math and what their profit was going to be.
That show was nothing but bllsht. We as independents are way more careful about what we’re doing. We pay for our mistakes out of pocket. That bs show pulled all that for drama. In real life those ‘’drivers’’ would be bankrupt in a month.
If you’re ever in a situation where you need a vehicle shipped in a hurry,reach out to me. That’s what I do for a living. I’m licensed and insured. 20 years experience. I’ve been approved for as much as $3,000,000 in cargo value. Most brokers push for the cheapest carrier. So you end up paying a premium for the worst carrier.
I’m in the transport industry, I can only see the reason is going for the cheap option.
It’s literally a case of “you get what you pay for”
If you delt directly with the company or driver instead of a broker then you have a reason to be upset but using a broker is just taking money from the one who does the work and going cheap you get what you pay for
I bought my car out of state. I flew there and drove it home myself. The plane ticket, hotel room, and a night on the town was about the same cost as it would’ve been to have it shipped to me.
It’s not a collectible so I wasn’t concerned about the miles, and I enjoy driving cross country so that wasn’t a problem either.
Try owner/operators instead of brokers. One or two car enclosed hauler is better than the bigger car haulers. Then you don't have to worry about the dust, fluids or oil leaks from other vehicles getting on your vehicle.
I had a situation a few months ago with my first time ever having a vehicle shipped and it was not a pleasant experience. I bought 2 1980's F-150s from a great guy in PA and had them shipped to NY. They did arrive in a couple of days but not without damage. The shipping company subcontracts with transporters and this particular transporter had no clue at all. First problem was the guy didn't know how to get one of the trucks out of park and was yanking on the 4WD shifter so hard that he ripped the knob off the shifter and bent the linkage making the truck undrivable. The transfer case wouldn't engage and would just grind. Next the other truck was hit on the passenger side breaking the mirror and denting the door. The transporter basically said look at the trucks, they're junk anyway. Granted the trucks were not in great shape but they were far from junk and that doesn't give them the right to damage them anymore than they were. In the end they took $50 off the cost of shipping and now I am extremely reluctant to ever have a vehicle shipped. Now if I want to buy a vehicle and can't personally get it then I won't buy it.
This is so real. The key here is when the buyer put a Rush on getting car this is when it went sideways. Im sure if he did not pull that " I want it now" typical of that kind of buyer and that put the big shipper like Reliable Intercity out as they often take a few weeks. Someone else made a good point at this level of car deals I would have several high ends Dually trucks and double car trailer and just charge the client an super high White Glove Fee. Yes Sir I will have the 918 to you by Friday $25g fee. If not it will be whenever one of the Big guys can make it. No brokers
Car transporter name should be mud to all car dealerships and never again get a booking.
There are well-known car transport companies out there that he could have called, directly. But they'd probably have cost more that the initial quote from the broker, but then they wouldn't have ended up with a car missing for two days and then having to spend $1500 out of pocket to have it detailed again
I'd love to do single car transport but those ppl make it so hard to get started without singing your life away to a broker
I Transported a car from Dallas to Orlando it was pretty easy. The dealer dealt with a broker. This was like 4 years ago Sundown logistics or auto logistics. Last Year I Called them to move an Audi R8 enclosed and they told me my best bet was Reliable. The Orange trucks. It was more expensive, but the broker explained to me theres allot of fraud in the enclosed transport. So use a company like Reliable. I ended up using Reliable car came in one piece
This team-up is pure gold!
Bots like this make us all look bad..
@@ImARealHumanPerson They are everywhere. Disgusting
A: Oh, why did you stop working with this company?
B: Well, they delivered a day earlier than they said!
I always assumed the really high end dealers had an in house staff of 4 drivers to deliver these cars among doing other task. Any issue would be instantly updated and you would know within a few minutes when the car would arrive. Once they go across the country that team could possibly grab a car on the way back. Once again you have these 4 people doing other things when not transporting so your getting your monies worth there.
Have you ever had a bad car transport experience?
A few. I sold my CL65 and buyer sent an open trailer. i warned him but he said it was good. Car showed up with a broken windshield that he wanted me to pay for. No. I also bought an Audi S8 that never arrived. Shipper kept me updated and when they said they pulled into my town they then went dark. Turns out the dealer was a scam and whole sale was a scam. 19 Russians were arrested over that one and all did 2-5 years in prison before being sent back to Russia. The last person gets paroled this year. Still hurts losing that $50,000
Im too poor to have one. 😂
Soo many! I could do an episode on similar and more bizarre experiences! 🤦
Yes, but I caught it before I loaded the car. I was promised enclosed and an open trailer showed up. The driver then tried to get the job by saying to me " What do you care, you will never see the car again". Sorry pall, leave the property now before I call the police was my instant reply. I then reamed the broker. If I could remember the name I would publish, but this was 20 years ago.
Yes. Co. got my car, Father founder went on vacation, son overspent on new trucks, missed payroll, drivers returned trucks to hillbilly country HQ with loads of 9 cars each, and the company was going under hard. Called broker and was told that it was very bad situation, sorry can't help you. Hired another company to rush out and snag my car and take their time to get it to me. Visited the broker in Las Vegas when my employer sent me there to a convention. Emptied a super-soaker full of concentrated deer urine into their lobby and its ceiling tiles and fled into a waiting taxi that was promised $400 if they got me out of there. Had to explain what I was doing so that they became convinced that I wasn't doing a stick-up. When the taxi driver sniffed what was in the jug on the squirt gun, he relaxed and agreed to help. I hate brokers. No, I'm not into telling the story on your fabulous channel. Some of those broker's office people are still alive most likely, even though it was 1994. That's something that you just don't forget if it happens to you.
I tried to get my car shipped years ago. I called a couple brokers and the scumbaggery was unbelievable! One broker wouldn't stop calling me saying I owed him money "for his time" for giving me a quote.
FYI a 2 person team would still need to stop and have down time with reset legally, 3 person teams exist for this reason.
I was taking my 10 hour at a Pilot in Maryland once and they called a wrecker to get a Peterbilt carrying like 8 M cars and I laughed and thought no M cars for them.
Could they have used air cargo to move the 918? I know that would've cost a lot more than trucks though
I know a Corvette dealer who uses only the most reliable, enclosed transport. That's for a simple Vette. You were using an open carrier, fly-by-night firm for a $2 million car? Haha!
What makes you think he was using an open carrier?
If this is so important why did you outsource it?
Would it make sense for dealers that sell these cars to have their own drivers for delivery? They could do other work at the showroom while they are not on the road.
It would, but dealers, including this guy, are too cheap.
Where exactly was it left? He only said outside in Arizona. At a Walmart? On the side of the road?
The trucker abandoned my 2 Million dollar car.
This is me not giving a single F about your "tragedy"
This is also me tell UA-cam not to recommend this channel to me.
A recent report on the German transport sector reported that a load is rebrokered 3 times... That has to end!
As a CDL driver i wish I could get in to these types of transports because i am a car guy and have more integrity then more of these guys out there.
Client sounds like a cool dude 👍🏻
Lesson learned, I hope. Cheers 🇨🇦
That is one articulate bear
Why don’t these high end exotic car dealers just have their own fleet of trucks/trailers to do the shipping? Its more overhead, but to not get anxiety every time some shady transporter shows up is worth every penny in my book…especially when dealing with multi million dollar cars…
Maybe I am misunderstanding but did you make the client pay 1500$ for extra detailing and transport?
I'm sure he ate that cost, or tried to get some of it back through insurance.
Folks. STOP CALLING BROKERS. There are several auto transport companies that are extremely experienced and you can talk to the people that are actually having hands on your vehicle. We don’t bs around about it. If everything’s good we’ll tell you. If not we’ll call you first and tell you. A broker never even sees your car and gives it to the lowest cost truck they can find. Just a few excellent enclosed carriers,,Pilot Transport. Reliable Carriers. Mccollisters. If you can’t talk directly to the person that is going to pick up your vehicle BEFORE it’s picked up don’t use them. Yes we cost more. You get the service you pay for. One way to cover yourself is to ask the company for their insurance credentials. If they’re legit they’ll send no problem. Most of these small carriers that brokers use don’t have enough insurance to cover your vehicle if there is an issue. We carry 10 million coverage.
You need to look at the driver, the truck and trailer, believe your instincts and stereotypes.
Over half the car transport industry should be in jail. No shortage of horror stories and shady business.
Have your own delivery service at net zero! Ensure that stuff actually happens, if the customer wants their own guy then it’s theirs the minute the transporter shows up
I would have though a dealer providing high end cars would have their own truck and trailer or am I missing something??? That would seem to me the best way to protect and manage such deliveries.
If I sold super or hyper cars I would have 3 or 4 transport vehicles and deliver them myself. These deals are way too big to have a disinterested 3rd party involved. I drove a truck for 20 years and feel your pain. The things I saw at work were very discouraging.
The nightmare Starts with „Broker“ how do you put your own Brand Name on Risk by using basically a unknown Person ? Thats weird
This happy fellow seems like he’s got more than just a little sugar in his tank. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Seems like if someone started a company with the sole goal to ship cars in a orderly manor, there'd be a lot of money to be made.
I would definitely go after the first transport company for the second one and the detail as they did not do the job properly.
For one that is so unprofessional of that truck driver I myself a truck driver wouldn’t have done it that way if I would’ve got there earlier, I would’ve called him. Let him know that I’m here early. Do you want me to wait if you want me to wait it’s gonna cost extra, if not then have someone come and pick up the car never let the car out of your sight
Not a bad story but really struggled to hit the 10 minute length.
You would think these guys would just go pick up and deliver the cars personally especially with the amount of horror stores behind transport companies
That is absolutely insane. Shippers really don’t care at all
Their favorite phrase is, "that's what insurance is for." I've heard it too many times to count.
I feel like the shipping is so bad for high end cars. I could start my own business hualing them.
Was just thinking that
Have whips by wade on…..he’s from Atlanta and is a car photographer that takes photos of everything from muscle cars to donks to supercars to trucks I bet he’s got some great stories
Wait, he spends the latter half of the video warning against discount shippers but didn’t the whole problem with the 918 arise from using a reputable shipper?
Thinking the same thing….
I could be wrong but I think the point he was trying to make was make sure you know who you are dealing with because even with an expensive proper reputable company you’ll still get stupid stuff like them leaving a 1M+ hypercar just sitting in a parking lot rather than delivering the car early to the client, what do you think the cheaper guy who doesn’t have the same reputation is gonna do. He’s not wrong tho, I see it so often where a client buys a super nice car just to allow some rando transport it because it was a few hundred cheaper than the reputable guy.
Why wouldn't you put a tracker right on the car?
You have to go with a respectable company like plycar, or hire your own personal transport people.
Holy crap I would have been so Mad
Transport isn't the issue it's people either being too cheap to get us quality guys or greedy brokers taking a huge cut and using shady transporters to make more money.
indeed, the broblem is the broker system.
You know you have too much money when you have problems like this😊
When you shell out $400 for double details you got too much money
This guy transported a 918 across country in an open trailer? Lol.
Passport Transport - Driver Dennis W. You'll never be sorry.
Shipping a $2M car thru a hotshot trucker is wild
I'm not sure hotshot means what you think it does.
If the trucker truly got there earlier why didn’t they just notify of that and the customer would’ve just got the car that much earlier. Customer would’ve been happy, truckers could’ve gone about their day
i had a car transported ONCE, never again. what a horror show.
They charged you $5800-7,000 extra for transport, I guarantee you that $$$$ didn't get passed down to the Truck driver, probably why they tried to make another delivery.
Some people are just scum bags. At least his customer was under standing. He isn't talking about Camry.
I don't understand why these luxury/hyper/super car salespeople don't have their own transport.
What's a 100k in truck and trailer when you're making that kind of money on those kinds of sales? Surely they aren't so busy they can't deliver their own cars or hire an in-house guy to drive the truck?
Note to self: drive my dream car home from anywhere.
Am i understanding that this 918 was transported on an OPEN trailer??
No, it was left in an outdoor parking lot for two days
Smells like a juicy lawsuit.
You failed to state the answer to the big question of "Where did they leave the car?". I.e. - did they at least leave it in a safe place? At a WalMart parking lot? McDonald's? Etc. You also didn't state if the transport was apologetic, if you'd use them again, etc... tell us the whole story!
Tbh if ur dealing extremely high-end cars, u should invest in ur own way to transport them if possible. The vehicle transportation industry is a rolling dumpster fire.
The easiest way to avoid this drama is stop using brokers. Call a company like Reliable Carriers. Tell them the situation and they'll give you a yes or no if they can do it (usually they can). They have many husband and wife teams and only use enclosed transporters. You'll never have another problem.
The phrase investment car is complete stupidity. Cars aren’t investments ever. They are toys that depreciate quickly.
Say the name of the company. Why is does it seem so dam impossible to get a good reliable car transporter even when shipping multi million dollar cars? I would think that there is a pretty big hole on the market for an honest reliable transporter
Just include "Free" delivery in the price.