Transport Carriers in Fort Lauderdale, Door to Door on One Truck
A transport carrier is the truck and trailer your vehicle actually rides on, and it's the part of the move most people never think about until pickup day. Most cars leaving Fort Lauderdale travel on a full-size multi-car rig: a tractor pulling a steel trailer with an upper and a lower deck, ramps for loading and tie-down points at the wheels so nothing shifts once the truck is rolling. You generally need transport carriers when a car has to cross state lines, when a second vehicle won't follow the moving truck, when a seasonal resident is heading north for the summer, or when a car has been sold out of state and has to reach its new owner in the same condition it left in.
Fort Lauderdale was laid out for boats, not for long trailers, and that shapes how carriers work here. On the finger isles off Las Olas Boulevard, through Rio Vista and around Victoria Park, the streets are narrow, the swales are soft and the bridges and dead ends leave a long rig nowhere to turn, so loading usually happens at the nearest wide cross street instead of in the driveway itself. The condo towers along A1A and the Galt Ocean Mile are the same story from the other direction: garage clearances are low, and the building generally wants the loading zone used and a time slot cleared with the HOA. Head west into Plantation, Sunrise, Davie and Weston and the roads open up, so a carrier can often pull straight to a gated entrance. From any of those pickups the run out of town goes by I-95, I-595 or Florida's Turnpike, while cars bound overseas make a short hop to Port Everglades instead. Salt air off the beach and the heavy afternoon storms of the summer season are two more reasons owners here ask which kind of trailer their car will be riding in before they book.
With A&C Car Transport your vehicle is loaded once and stays on the same truck from pickup through delivery, and we run both open and enclosed carriers as well as motorcycle transport and international car export. There's no flat figure for a load like this, because the price follows the vehicle and the route, so call (754) 214-8855 or send us the FREE QUOTE form with your pickup and delivery addresses and we'll come back with a quote for your car and your dates. We're on the phone Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and we serve Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach, Davie, Sunrise, Plantation, Miramar and Weston.
Questions We Hear About Transport Carriers in Fort Lauderdale
What kind of transport carriers do you load Fort Lauderdale vehicles on?
We run both open and enclosed carriers, and which one suits your car depends on the vehicle and the route. Either way the move is door to door, and your vehicle stays on the same truck from pickup to delivery.
Can a full-size carrier actually reach my street?
Not every street takes a long trailer - the isles off Las Olas and most condo garages don’t. When that’s the case we agree on the closest practical loading spot with you while we’re scheduling, usually a wide cross street or the building’s loading zone.
Which areas do your carriers pick up from?
Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach, Davie, Sunrise, Plantation, Miramar and Weston.
What does a transport carrier cost from Fort Lauderdale?
Quotes are free and priced on the vehicle and the route, so there’s no single number we can post. Call (754) 214-8855 between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday, or fill out the free quote form.
Will a carrier take a motorcycle or a car that’s going abroad?
Yes. Alongside car shipping we handle motorcycle transport and international car export out of Fort Lauderdale, so bikes and export vehicles are booked the same way.
If you’re still weighing up how your vehicle should ride, these pages cover the rest of what we move and how: Enclosed transport, Open transport, International export.
