When you think about shipping your car across the country, you will probably think it is simply not worth the cost when you can just drive the car across the country yourself.

This is a common belief, but sadly it is a very wrong belief. The truth is that you can actually save a lot of money when you use auto transport services, because of the things you don’t take into consideration.

Let’s look at this scenario. You are shipping your car across the country and you have been quoted $1,700 to do it. This may be high in some areas and low in others, but it is a good figure to use.

So, you see that an immediately think you can drive the car yourself and drop it off, then come back. However, let’s look at this a bit further.