Military Vehicles, December 1996,: Transporting/shipping Vehicles

Transporting/shipping Vehicles

Chuck Chriss (Chuck_Chriss@qx.com)
4 Dec 96 10:11:18

I wouldn't use a student driver for this. Unless the vehicle has been
extensively rebuilt, there are a host of things which can, and probably will,
go wrong on a trip of hundreds of miles. An inexperienced driver will be stuck
on the side of the road for a long time and/or you will end up paying for a
very expensive HD tow.

Ask any MVer who has driven his vehicle to MVPA or other ralley. You have to
travel with tools and spares, better in convoy so you have lots of help.
There are fully reliable MVs which could be driven anywhere, but that's after
you upgrade everything not when you first pick it up.

Good luck,
chuck

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Another method of getting a vehicle transported is to check local colleges.
Students are hard up for cash and roadtrips, so pay the gas and food for
them to drive it to you. Provide a way for them to get home and pay a small
profit and they would probably figure out a way to cross the Atlantic.

I know, I am a student right now and would be happy to drive a m38 across
the country. If you find one in west Texas and need it driven to you,
contact me.

Aaron W. Teague
aad744@ramail.angelo.edu

Being in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I'm not too close to too many
vehicles for sale, the closest I've found was an 8 hour drive away, so...
I'm curious if its feasable to have a truck shipped of trucked to me, I'm
looking to purchase an M-37 and I don't want to drive it back on an extended
trip. MY options seem to be: Drive it back, trailer it back, or have somebody
else trailer (or truck) it back. Since I'de have to borrow a truck and trailer
to trailer it back I don't really like that solution.
If anybody has any good ideas of how to best get a truck to me, or know about
what it would cost to "ship" it to me ( dollars per pound per mile ?) I'd
appreciate it, thanks.

Soren Barr