I dispatch loads for my buyers all the time. I'd say somewhere between 50-70% of the time the truck that shows up has a different MC/DOT/Company Name on it than what I booked. I ALWAYS ask to be cert holder, call their insurance, verify the truck is on they policy by VIN, and ask for photos of the truck/trailer before it arrives. I've probably turned away 30% of the trucks that arrive because of this. They wanna lie and waste my time? I'll waste theirs. Too many "brokers" have no idea who they are dispatching. Super important to do this due diligence. Also, if you put an Airtag in the car the driver will likely be notified that their is an Airtag following their location by their phone, so they will know you are tracking them.
Spot on, dispatching and getting cars moved has been a real headache last 3-4 years. Almost always double brokered, different company names, dot/mc number. Guys fresh over the border drivong these hot shots. One guy recently came, he had 3 different names on the truck!!! I was really blown away. They say they use sacrificial company name and shut down llc's fast to not pay fines issued during inspection. What a joke!
Cop here. Spent a bunch of time chasing stolen vehicles. Great advice, Ed. However, Your first step should be to immediately report the car stolen in your local jurisdiction so they can enter the vehicle stolen in the NCIC database. No agency in this country will help you unless your vehicle is "officially" listed as stolen in that database. That will save a TON of time, which is critical in recovering a stolen car in a situation like this.
Excellent. Based on your experience, do you recommend a good tracking option like LoJack or something similar to help locate a vehicle? Something useful to law enforcement that allows search warrants with little delay.
@ Nobody uses LoJack anymore. Some factory options like GM OnStar can easily be disabled by someone who knows what they are doing. If I owned a very expensive vehicle, I would definitely invest in some kind of aftermarket tracking system that was concealed inside of the vehicle. There’s a plethora of options out there.
A lot of jurisdictions wont chase stolen cars....this in some areas is such a big issue you are much more likely to retrieve your stolen property by arriving with a weapon or staking out the property and stealing it back as soon as you can. It SHOULDNT have to be that way but you are a LOT more likely to get your car back this way. Im not saying ALL districts are like this but a lot are espcially in blue states. There a lot of horror stories you can find with a simple search where the local PD knows EXACTLY where your car is and yet they dont act and the car gets shipped out of country/ parted or completely remodeled before they even make an attempt at recovery. At that put your are screwed. Thieves know this and thats why most work very quickly to dispose of the car
Great video! I’m the Security Manager at a High End dealership in South Florida, and we just had an attempted theft of a customers Bentley by a fraudulent transport Broker company. Best advice is Identify your transport driver. Have transport company, not the broker send a copy of driver that is picking up your car. Do your due diligence to vet the company and driver. Also if you get a Bill of Lading that says Volo Freight Brokers LLC do not release your car!!!
this happened to another youtuber, Iron City Garage, car got double brokered, car was not stolen, but when it arrived the broker tried to extort more money for the delivery. showed up with a shody open trailer and was not legal, towed by a uninsured truck towing it. Police called, truck and trailer impounded, driver arrested.
I’ve been that driver that was sent to go pick a stolen car 3 times and each time I knew what was going on and saved cars for customers…….so I believe a good car hauler can spot this from a distant
@josebrown5961 I was scared to tow a trailer until I bought my vandalized Suburban from Copart in Minneapolis and I was forced to get a trailer and tow my Lexus IS250 to NYC to fix all the broken windows on the Suburban. That was an adventure and towing the trailer was easier than I thought.
@@josebrown5961if you are scared of a trailer and think you can rent some “safer” flat bed to move a car - you probably shouldn’t be transporting cars in the first place.
@@ThatDudeMrRoyaltyI am just ham fisted. I can handle a trailer if I am going forward and not taking too many corners! My big brother is an over the road truck driver and he is a total whiz at handling any trailer, he always has been even before he started driving trucks. I am an embarrassment to him. But he can’t run Excel or any of the Microsoft Office programs.
@@josebrown5961, there aren't very many flatbed trucks made that have a long enough flatbed to haul a car. Ramp trucks used to be a lot more common than they are today. Towing is easy. If you're inexperienced at towing, you can still do it. Just be mindful to not put yourself in situations where you have to back up.
Last year I saw a couple of multimillion dollar cars heading out from Chicago going to Pebble Beach. The rate on the cars were so bad I wouldn’t touch them, so I can’t imagine who showed up to pick those up, and whether or not they had proper insurance and numbers. They paid less to have these cars transported than most dealers pay to transport a brand new Camry.
I had 2 car haulers. I had great equipment, drivers, insurance, reputation, and no accidents. Dealerships played hardball and would undercut me to save $100 and give loads to foreigners who were obviously bad actors. They would then complain when bad things happened. I was barely making it and left the business. I love this for them.
@@Artyomatic it's the dealerships fault. They sell the customer a $100k car. Charge the customer $1500 to ship it, but post the load for $250 on central dispatch. Eff em
I used a generic shipping broker for a used jaguar xk from florida to nj in 2015. While the car arrived, it was a nightmare... shipper could not co-ordinate with dealer and they showed up when the dealership was closed, and apparently the security guard let them in to take the car. The dealer was confused thinking the car was stolen and pissed at me because my teller check had not cleared. The truck showed up and called me from a busy road saying they were unloading the car, and I had to negotiate traffic while they unloaded on the side of the road. Then the battery was dead, and it took 20 minutes for them to get their battery jumper to work. Next time, i will drive it myself.
As a broker, we’re seeing this on all freight. Anything with any value is subject to theft. The most common is Chicago carriers shipping to CA. We seem to get a new policy weekly to combat this nonsense.
*I keep so many AirTags hidden in my vehicle that if a thief stole it, somehow found one of the AirTags, there's no way he'd assume there's a second....third...fourth...fifth...etc.* I will most definitely find them/my car well before they find all of the AirTags hidden throughout it in specialty compartments with specialty hidden AirTag holders. I can't imagine shipping a car without at least 6 AirTags hidden in the car.
@ By the time the AirTag pings me, there’s no way they have the car anywhere near a port unless they put it on a plane straight from where they stole it which is impossible. Can literally track it to the port. Can track it after the port. And if anyone is near that shipping container they’ll still ping. So no. Definitely not going to be a problem.
@ Someone will be near the box then driving the truck :) AirTags can reach through a shipping container at that distance in many cases. And you’ll also have the starting point and destination if all else fails :) no issue
Just shipped my first gallardo last month and the shipping turned into a nightmare for about 8 hours. Made the mistake thinking I could save $ finding my owner shipping company. The company I used supposedly had their own fleet then took my shipment, found another company who then took it. Once it left the dealer it disappeared until I could finally get the driver on the phone a few hours later. Luckily it showed up but not until 12 at night! Don’t expect any communication from these people.
I was working at a Ford dealership in 2012 and had to deal with a bad shipper... My manager and I had to recover the car without police help with a Mustang GT/CS.. If I could remember enough detail the story would make a GREAT Vinwiki video... We had to recover it in a very sketchy situation.. The actual truck driver took the car and put 1000 miles on it in 2 days.. Not an exotic car.. But lets just say directions to recover the car included the phrase "turn off the paved road".. I was on a dirt road A LOT longer than I was comfortable with in the particular situation..
As a transporter, maybe not go with the cheapest option 90% of the time if you spent $300,000 on the car, maybe not go with the $900 option if it’s going 2000 miles you might not get your car
I am a Logistics Coordinator at a company who helps customers to purchase their next vehicle. I spend all day every day shipping cars. It’s tons of fun, and a headache all at the same time 😂
Here in Australia, there's been a massive rise in thefts of one particular make and model of car due to it not being made anymore, and technology to steal the cars is cheap enough to buy on eBay. People are stealing them for parts, joyride it, and setting them on fire or using them in other thefts
Car wholesaler here! This is very much a real problem even for normal dealer inventory (i.e Jeep Grand Cherokee). I’ve even had auctions hand out my car to a random person who just had a transport license, essentially to the tune of what Ed is saying. The only way to get around this problem is to form relationships with individual transport companies separate from central dispatch and coordinate with them directly.
Motortrade since 1980 - Recovery and transport business since 1989 here in the UK 🇬🇧 We are contracted to motoring organisations, garages, authorities and insurance companies. We only move individual cars and miss out on a lot of trade for moving exotics, mainly down to price……. we don’t do multiples, so every job is a one off, with one driver. More costly, but more secure for the owner………. We get enough, 35 years in with no advertising. 🙂🇬🇧
You mention LA being a hot spot for drop off locations. Any other areas off hand? I had 2 lambos, a g wagon, and a ferrari get stolen from me in LA in June. All were being shipped together. A few weeks later, 3 of the cars were recovered in the same area, one stripped, but the 4th never popped up. In September the feds found my fourth car in use, and tailed it all the way to an NYC port before making an arrest/recovery in December. I was shocked the car was still in the country AND with some VINs not scratched out.
I had a broker nightmare trying to ship a truck from CA to NY. A couple months and lots of lies later, I booked a different company and it was here in just a few days. Kinda soured me on shipping, and I like road trips anyway
As a convicted, retired car theif, tracking devices are only good until they are found. A car in a transporter with a tracking device is much better then a car with a criminal behind the wheel. I would always carry a bug Detector and if a Lo-Jack went off in a car i was driving i could typically dismantle it with in a minute or two on the side of the road. It helps when you know were they put them as i would so if you do have a device like this make sure it is in spot that can't be easily accessed. I hope this helps someone.
Tiles are a better option than AirTags since they won’t notify nearby phones, and they’re a few bucks cheaper, not that the minimal cost is really a concern in this case.
This... This is a market that either Fedex or Kalitta Air should exploit: High dollar car transport. When I flew 747's for Kalitta Air, we flew expensive cars in the bellies all the time. There was one guy in Hawaii who had a collection of Ferraris, and he liked one particular detail shop in Los Angeles; Every 6 months or so he put his cars on our airplanes and we flew them there to be DETAILED. And when they were done, we flew them back to Honolulu. It must be nice to have that much money! [Note: I work for Fedex, and this is a personal post, not any sort of "commercial"] But I think the company has "custom critical" shipping in which the item shipped is handled by security guards the entire way. Typically this is artwork, jewels, or high value monetary shipments. Or things that simply need extra careful handling.
See in Canada, this isn’t really an issue with shipping cars. Cause the criminals simply kick in your door and steal your keys. My local police literally said “leave your keys at the front door, let them take your car, that’s all they want, they have guns don’t fight them” FYI in Canada if someone breaks into your house to steal your car, and you defend yourself, your the one going to jail
Here's a novel idea. How about paying someone to drive the car to the destination, then a one-way ticket home from the nearest airport or a different car to drive back? I would sign up in a heartbeat. I have no interest whatsoever in stealing or thrashing the cars. I'd just like to drive them and see different parts of the country. Just pay me $30 an hour and cover the fuel and maybe cheap food and a place to stay, and you'll have my complete and total loyalty.
While working for a car carrier and brokerage, we’ve been burned by scammers on central! Luckily I’ve been fortunate enough to not have had a car thief get ahold of one of my loads!!! I know a few dealers who have been burned!
I'm an owner operator by trade and I gotta say Ed, you know more about the trucking world than the brokers I've dealt with.. or my last carrier. You are right about the double brokering and it's a big problem that needs to be dealt with. I've had occasions where the shipper wanted to take pics of everything.. my truck & trailer tags, the dot & mc #'s on the side of my truck.. in addition to nearly every piece of paper work I carry.. CDL, registration & insurance cab card. Not all shippers insisted on that level of checks but some do, probably due to stolen or damaged loads.
I used Reliable to transport my Scud from the east coast all the way to the west central-coast where I live. Yea, they were a little more than the budget guys, but I had update calls from the driver as he drove across the US, and when he was about an hour away from delivery. Car showed up exactly on time with the car covered and in perfect condition in just three days from leaving the east coast. My car rode along with a new Ford GT, and a few new Lambo's in the truck. lol
The one thing that should be brought up is, don’t always blame these companies for taking short shortcuts because the owners of these cars are always looking for the absolute, cheapest cheapest cheapest person to haul the load. And you know what they say you get what you pay for.
I would never think to spend anywhere near $100,000+ on a vehicle and NOT go inspect it, pick it up, and transport it myself!! Whether that involves driving it myself or towing it myself, I will be the one handling it.
@@NewGrow-kb1bg It isn't the 90's anymore, everyone has a smartphone and everything and anything can be done on it including signing contracts. If you want to risk your car, be my guest, I won't.
@@alecb8509 If you have time to find a car across the country then you have time to secure your own vehicle. Everyone has a smartphone now and all interstates have cell phone coverage.
This just happened to my friends 2024 Lambo! Directly from Lamborghini Henderson. Lamborghini was on its way to PHX and boom. Gone missing. A month and 509 miles later. The car was found in Oregon and had a bill of sale from a LA dealership. For a whopping $65,000 lie. Seeing as though the car is $400k. Lamborghini Henderson, you should take some tips from this video.
Have shipped cars across Europe twice - once using one of the largest companies, which was also one of the first in google search. And second time - a family member who owns a 3-car transporter van. Never knew stealing vehicle during transport was a thing.
Very common, dealer in FL and we had a G63 stolen this way and brought to Mexico, was eventually recovered. Ed is right, bigger companies are always the safest.
I can see someone purposely setting up their car to be transported with one of these theft ring companies on that website.. Just to get out from under the car with insurance theft claim!! If it’s that easy to spot one of these companies I bet it happens more often than you would think.
Buddy of mines 812 just had this happen to it last week! Insane , car was sent to a different state and was getting ready to be off to another country when he found it.
If you're going to get a duplicate key made, the car probably needs to be programmed with it prior to it being picked up unless it's a pre-immobilizer car. But, it could be transferred separately from the vehicle carrier.
Seems like a great reason to cultivate a good working relationship with a quality local trucking company. Pay them well, and send them some regular *perks* (Pizza, doughnuts, flowers, etc.) and consider it cheap insurance when you are dealing with cars of that value. Maybe buy the driver a nice dinner & a cash bonus after every successful delivery...
These types of people wouldn't sit down at a table with a truck driver theyre too good. Ed lives in a multi million dollar estate. Hoovie has always seemed like a silver spoon baby tavarish however I think I could hang out with
He said to buy him dinner, not take him out to dinner. Driver probably doesn't have time to sit down to eat anyways. Not getting paid if he's not driving.@@stephenmoore8293
Ed is talking about covered transport drivers. The open car haulers will park in the middle of a road and drive into oncoming traffic to get your car out then immediately start screaming if you don’t sign off on the car. Ask me how I know.
Shipped a car once. Just for good measure, bought a Tracfone for maybe $35 with 30 days of data. Put that phone inside a factory seat cover & I was able to check the car/phone's location for the 3/4 day transit time. The peace of mind was well worth the $35, but that's not exactly practical for commercial use. I think the phone still had around 30% battery when it arrived & that was with me checking it 2/3 times daily.
for vehicles that pricey i would just start my own transport company. i’ve had nothing but issues moving cars around the country i’ve done it 3 times and all three times they’ve either scratched tf out the car loading it or once the car showed up with almost 1000 miles over what i bought it at, and on a uhaul trailer
If people would stop using brokers and spend a bit of time to use all owner operator small companies with all us citizens. This wouldn't happen nowhere near as much!
Respectfully and I do mean respectfully. If owner operators would open up their own call centers, pay for marketing, pay for advertising pay for leads, hire people to call them to drive in their own business. There would be no need for brokers. Except very few of you are doing that. 😊
@Wallst522 we tried most of that. No need to hire people when shippers think load boards are better than building a relationship with a trusted carrier because they can save a few bucks. Just yesterday I watched a new company chain down a load improperly and dangerously. Asked the guy what he was doing and unfortunately he didn't understand what I was saying. So I guess it's just good luck to our families that are on the road with them.
@Wallst522 honestly I believe the barrier to entry should be a lot higher to become a broker. 10+ years owner operator, US citizen, all employees must have been owner operator aswell, capping on how much they can take, full transparency. Then maybe there wouldn't be such issues with safety at least. Instead of worrying about the quantity over quality
@Lyon38 i don't disagree with most of what you said. But in all honesty, central dispatch needs to be better regulated. If both brokers in carriers need to be federally regulated, than so do they. They are slow to react. They should require. Better verification with legitimate IDs. Every person must have a landline or an actual phone number from a big name carrier. These scammers are using burner phones. Fake addresses. You should not be able to open app an account with them. Unless you supply a driver's license with an actual home address. So if something goes wrong, the owner of that account is immediately liable. There's a lot of things that they are not doing right there. I have personally reported many fraudulent companies to central dispatch.And they do nothing until it's too late.
@@Lyon38 Car shipping is a high volume face paced industry. All parties involved need to slow down. Including myself ...Ive been on both sides of the industry both carrier and broker for 15 years and recently got scammed by expert thieves same as described in this video. If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone. I am going to start driving again full time. As i always say i am ok if i fail on my own watch. But relying on someone else and they fail or having a car stolen is not something i will go through again.
@@ILoveTinfoilHats It doesn't really work like that. I tracked a BMW that was loaded into a container at Long Beach, which was then loaded on a ship, until it went out of cell range off the coast of California. We picked it back up as it passed through the northern Mariana Islands and again as it neared it's destination in Davao, Phillipines. We also track things in semi trailers all of the time.
Halfway through this video, and I'm convinced to never use a transport service. The hassle of taking time off and traveling to acquire and return with the car seems like nothing compared to the hassle of dealing with transport, even if most aspects go correctly. No thanks.
I have been towing for over 5 years and I’m still convinced this happens more often than you know. To easy to get insurance and dot numbers for companies and drive their truck. They hire anyone now. Don’t even have to speak English it’s more and more uncommon
I've bought several cars/ motorcycles sight unseen, online, and fortunately always had really good luck with the purchases, but I have always gone in person to make payment directly to the seller and drive/rode/transported the vehicles myself. Get a friend to drive you and make it a road trip, take a truck and trailer, hell, last car i bought I took an Amtrak and an Uber and drove it back, cost me $50 to get there vs $150 in gas for the drive home, plus I've always wanted to take a train somewhere to see what it was like- 120mph on the high speed sections- it was actually pretty cool. Anyway, all this to say it seems like the problems with purchasing a vehicle sight unseen through any source arise when it comes to making payment and/or shipping/taking delivery of said vehicle, and those problems can be completely avoided simply by making the payment and taking delivery off your new ride in person directly with the seller. Also, regardless of how you get the vehicle to its destination, doing it yourself will ALMOST always be cheaper than paying a shipping company to haul it for you.
I book alot of cars on central dispatch just basic cheap cars for my lot coming from georgia to alabama. Every single listing I get an immediate call from a foreign person in new york and they ask to pick it up for about fifty dollars more that the listing and I always say no. Then, the driver who shows up is 90 percent of the time from central europe and speak zero english nor even hello or park over there. However, they deliver fast, and I have not had any stolen.
I’m bit surprised that dealers shipping the vehicle, don’t have hidden locator in the car. Canadians have big problems getting vehicle stolen and it ends up somewhere overseas. Car used to end up in Asia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries. Cops there don’t care if the vehicles are stolen or not as long as they’re registered. I worked at one Corvette restore business. Every long weekend something got stolen. Wheels, parts, and Corvettes. If anyone sees these days a white, or any color generation 1, ZR-1 Corvette convertible. It was stollen with 7 other corvettes and muscle cars. Chevrolet never made a convertible ZR-1s. This was one of totaled ZR-1 made to a ragtop. Back then it had less then 600 miles.
Rather surprised this is considered a new problem. I worked for a logistics company in 2010-2020 and used Central Dispatch as both shipper and transporter (and even acting as a broker for our customers). Despite supposed insurance and other requirements on Central we never found it even remotely helpful in recovering our missing cargo when we had problems. We had vehicles seized by Border Patrol and police, damaged in transportation, burned, disappeared halfway, held for ransom, mishandled, parts stolen.... Issues at pickup, issues at drop off. We had called the police and had the police called against us and our drivers. At that time Central Dispatch was essentially the biggest load board for affordable vehicle transport. I suspect setting up something withe a working security/insurance/bond arrangements was too costly and probably not feasible (or would have to cost the customers too much to survive.) I am extremely happy not to be part of that industry any more.
We in the trucking industry call these guys loads pimps. This has been going on in the trucking industry for many decades of every type of freight. DO NOT USE LOAD BROKERS. Even “legit” load brokers take 20-30 percent off the top for answering the phone and calling someone else to do the work.
The solution for you carriers that dont like brokers is open up your own call center, pay for advertising, leads ,call center employees. Price your jobs at whatever you see fit and then go get them yourself. Everybody thinks they have the solution when really they're really clueless.
IF this is happening this often, it seems like starting a stolen car bounty company. If the police aren't likely to be of much help, a private company could become specialist at recovery. I'm surprised the insurance companies haven't done this already.
I'm a dealer and transporter. Unfortunately I had the pain of this exact scenario. Luckily vehicle was recovered in a Walmart parking lot in Laredo tx (mine was stolen by the Mexican cartel)
I had a Z06 i flew to Virginia to pick up. I drove the car 150 miles into WV and the clutch goes out. I'm now stuck on the side of the road in a state I've never once been in before. I eventually get a tow truck to pick up the car and drop it at a hotel i was able to book. Over the next two days i call every company i can to try to get the car picked up and dropped to Chicago. I company actually picks up the phone first ring. Everything seems good. He tells me how he can come get it. What vehicle he will be using and when he will be there. I need to give him a deposit. Once he drops the car off i pay the rest of the bill. Well long story short, he never showed, never answers the phone again and the acct where the money went is closed. I eventually find another company who gets the job done for me for $1700. Painful lesson learned. 🤦
I'm going to be having a car imported from Japan next year to a specialty dealership in Virginia. I am flying in and driving it home or the wife and i will road trip down and drive it back. I come from a family of truckers and under no circumstances would i ever had a car transported unless i absolutely had to. I'm the idiot that would buy a Miuira from Curated and drive it back to Michigan. 😂
Never, ever, try to get the car yourself. You will most likely get shot. Call the police do not take matters in your own hands you are risking your life for material. Thank you Vin very informative video but that last part was horrible advice
3rd party logistics are a mess in any industry. Sometimes 2,3 even 4 companies will touch the money before the last guy gets the smallest cut and has to move the car.
Wow! Crazy convoluted scheme that unfortunately seems to be working. Looks like it is essential to have trackers placed on your vehicle. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
@@EdBolian make sure aperture is as wide open as possible, and use the iso to bring the light up. also film at 24fps, forget what anyone says about 60fps or tiny aperture size
Its a sad state of affairs when you cannot rely on local authorities when you know the location of a stolen car. Having that extra key is imperative. A portable grinder, bolt cutters, and some friends with a pension of throwing down are also good to bring along. One occasion in Phila, a well-timed call to those same local deputies was clutch. Funny how they don't care about a stolen car, but a 'robbery in progress' changes things.
I dispatch loads for my buyers all the time. I'd say somewhere between 50-70% of the time the truck that shows up has a different MC/DOT/Company Name on it than what I booked. I ALWAYS ask to be cert holder, call their insurance, verify the truck is on they policy by VIN, and ask for photos of the truck/trailer before it arrives. I've probably turned away 30% of the trucks that arrive because of this. They wanna lie and waste my time? I'll waste theirs. Too many "brokers" have no idea who they are dispatching. Super important to do this due diligence. Also, if you put an Airtag in the car the driver will likely be notified that their is an Airtag following their location by their phone, so they will know you are tracking them.
This is why you put 2 air tags in the car
Spot on, dispatching and getting cars moved has been a real headache last 3-4 years. Almost always double brokered, different company names, dot/mc number. Guys fresh over the border drivong these hot shots. One guy recently came, he had 3 different names on the truck!!! I was really blown away. They say they use sacrificial company name and shut down llc's fast to not pay fines issued during inspection. What a joke!
@@rareexoticvehicles Great advice. Not near Atlanta are you? Be great to see you do a vid on shipping! Am sure you got tales to tell.
@@russelljacob7955 I'm only 3 hours away! 😎
@@russelljacob7955 only a few hours away 😎 got car and racing stories for days
Cop here. Spent a bunch of time chasing stolen vehicles. Great advice, Ed.
However,
Your first step should be to immediately report the car stolen in your local jurisdiction so they can enter the vehicle stolen in the NCIC database. No agency in this country will help you unless your vehicle is "officially" listed as stolen in that database.
That will save a TON of time, which is critical in recovering a stolen car in a situation like this.
Excellent. Based on your experience, do you recommend a good tracking option like LoJack or something similar to help locate a vehicle? Something useful to law enforcement that allows search warrants with little delay.
@ Nobody uses LoJack anymore. Some factory options like GM OnStar can easily be disabled by someone who knows what they are doing. If I owned a very expensive vehicle, I would definitely invest in some kind of aftermarket tracking system that was concealed inside of the vehicle. There’s a plethora of options out there.
@@tfrogginhfroggin I have LoJack on my car, and the police found it a few hours after I reported it stolen.
@@GlycerinZso lojack is a GPS just for police you willingly put in the car?
A lot of jurisdictions wont chase stolen cars....this in some areas is such a big issue you are much more likely to retrieve your stolen property by arriving with a weapon or staking out the property and stealing it back as soon as you can. It SHOULDNT have to be that way but you are a LOT more likely to get your car back this way. Im not saying ALL districts are like this but a lot are espcially in blue states. There a lot of horror stories you can find with a simple search where the local PD knows EXACTLY where your car is and yet they dont act and the car gets shipped out of country/ parted or completely remodeled before they even make an attempt at recovery. At that put your are screwed. Thieves know this and thats why most work very quickly to dispose of the car
This issue has gotten insanely out of hand. Make sure you know who has your cars!
I am not a customer but I do watch the big automotive auction shows and Barrett Jackson has a carrier that people can use and that seems safe to use.
It's like you said, fly to the car, and drive it home. Then it can't happen.
This just happened to my company check vid
This very nearly happened with the car I recently bought at auction and it likely would have if I hadn't seen your video.
Great video! I’m the Security Manager at a High End dealership in South Florida, and we just had an attempted theft of a customers Bentley by a fraudulent transport Broker company. Best advice is Identify your transport driver. Have transport company, not the broker send a copy of driver that is picking up your car. Do your due diligence to vet the company and driver.
Also if you get a Bill of Lading that says Volo Freight Brokers LLC do not release your car!!!
@@cmcwilliams120 You mean like clone the driver or something?
Take lots of photos of the people who are picking up and delivering to and like someone else said above put an airtag in it.
this happened to another youtuber, Iron City Garage, car got double brokered, car was not stolen, but when it arrived the broker tried to extort more money for the delivery. showed up with a shody open trailer and was not legal, towed by a uninsured truck towing it. Police called, truck and trailer impounded, driver arrested.
IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO WHILE LIVE STREAMING
I’ve been that driver that was sent to go pick a stolen car 3 times and each time I knew what was going on and saved cars for customers…….so I believe a good car hauler can spot this from a distant
I did a 1200+ miles road trip to avoid all this. Totally worth it.
Exactly, you can't beat the peace of mind that comes with securing and transporting your own property.
@@ConsensusX That and if you are buying a car for investment purposes then you are doing investing wrong especially with a depreciating asset.
I'd either drive my own car home, invest in an suv and trailer or rent a truck and trailer and tow it home myself.
I bet you can rent a flatbed truck 🤷🏽♀️ That seems like the best way.
I may be showing my fear of towing a trailer.
@josebrown5961 I was scared to tow a trailer until I bought my vandalized Suburban from Copart in Minneapolis and I was forced to get a trailer and tow my Lexus IS250 to NYC to fix all the broken windows on the Suburban. That was an adventure and towing the trailer was easier than I thought.
@@josebrown5961if you are scared of a trailer and think you can rent some “safer” flat bed to move a car - you probably shouldn’t be transporting cars in the first place.
@@ThatDudeMrRoyaltyI am just ham fisted. I can handle a trailer if I am going forward and not taking too many corners!
My big brother is an over the road truck driver and he is a total whiz at handling any trailer, he always has been even before he started driving trucks.
I am an embarrassment to him. But he can’t run Excel or any of the Microsoft Office programs.
@@josebrown5961, there aren't very many flatbed trucks made that have a long enough flatbed to haul a car. Ramp trucks used to be a lot more common than they are today. Towing is easy. If you're inexperienced at towing, you can still do it. Just be mindful to not put yourself in situations where you have to back up.
I can’t imagine shipping a vehicle of high expense without dedicated proprietary tracking equipment with redundancy.
And password
Can you imagine working so hard for something and trusting a guy to ship it for you that’s just completely lying to your face? Unbelievable
Last year I saw a couple of multimillion dollar cars heading out from Chicago going to Pebble Beach. The rate on the cars were so bad I wouldn’t touch them, so I can’t imagine who showed up to pick those up, and whether or not they had proper insurance and numbers.
They paid less to have these cars transported than most dealers pay to transport a brand new Camry.
Yubikey 2FA
I’ve managed to avoid this every time I’ve shipped my 1996 Honda Civic.
.....simply put, you are one of the lucky ones in life.
Keep vigilant,....don't let your guard down when having a Merry Christmas.
I had 2 car haulers. I had great equipment, drivers, insurance, reputation, and no accidents. Dealerships played hardball and would undercut me to save $100 and give loads to foreigners who were obviously bad actors. They would then complain when bad things happened. I was barely making it and left the business. I love this for them.
IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO WHILE LIVE STREAMING
Btw...if someone wants to buy my old MC #....i will happily sell that shit
@ on god man I’m selling out of this bullshit industry.
@@Artyomatic it's the dealerships fault. They sell the customer a $100k car. Charge the customer $1500 to ship it, but post the load for $250 on central dispatch. Eff em
I used a generic shipping broker for a used jaguar xk from florida to nj in 2015. While the car arrived, it was a nightmare... shipper could not co-ordinate with dealer and they showed up when the dealership was closed, and apparently the security guard let them in to take the car. The dealer was confused thinking the car was stolen and pissed at me because my teller check had not cleared. The truck showed up and called me from a busy road saying they were unloading the car, and I had to negotiate traffic while they unloaded on the side of the road. Then the battery was dead, and it took 20 minutes for them to get their battery jumper to work. Next time, i will drive it myself.
Double brokering is a big problem in our industry
Truck drivers have been complaining about double brokering for decades now
@@leeboo2521 it's worse then that now got offered the same load from 5 different brokers for different prices, everybody taking their little cut
IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO WHILE LIVE STREAMING, THEY HACKED FMCSA AND CHANGED MY PHONE NUMBER
As a broker, we’re seeing this on all freight. Anything with any value is subject to theft. The most common is Chicago carriers shipping to CA. We seem to get a new policy weekly to combat this nonsense.
*I keep so many AirTags hidden in my vehicle that if a thief stole it, somehow found one of the AirTags, there's no way he'd assume there's a second....third...fourth...fifth...etc.*
I will most definitely find them/my car well before they find all of the AirTags hidden throughout it in specialty compartments with specialty hidden AirTag holders.
I can't imagine shipping a car without at least 6 AirTags hidden in the car.
Unfortunately they usually end up in metal containers, which serve as pretty good faraday cages
@ By the time the AirTag pings me, there’s no way they have the car anywhere near a port unless they put it on a plane straight from where they stole it which is impossible.
Can literally track it to the port. Can track it after the port. And if anyone is near that shipping container they’ll still ping. So no. Definitely not going to be a problem.
@@Slimothy you don't have to be at a port to put a car in a box :)
@ Someone will be near the box then driving the truck :) AirTags can reach through a shipping container at that distance in many cases. And you’ll also have the starting point and destination if all else fails :) no issue
use multiple brands adds complexity to there hunt
Just shipped my first gallardo last month and the shipping turned into a nightmare for about 8 hours. Made the mistake thinking I could save $ finding my owner shipping company. The company I used supposedly had their own fleet then took my shipment, found another company who then took it. Once it left the dealer it disappeared until I could finally get the driver on the phone a few hours later. Luckily it showed up but not until 12 at night! Don’t expect any communication from these people.
reach out to us next time you need shipping.
I was working at a Ford dealership in 2012 and had to deal with a bad shipper... My manager and I had to recover the car without police help with a Mustang GT/CS.. If I could remember enough detail the story would make a GREAT Vinwiki video... We had to recover it in a very sketchy situation.. The actual truck driver took the car and put 1000 miles on it in 2 days..
Not an exotic car.. But lets just say directions to recover the car included the phrase "turn off the paved road".. I was on a dirt road A LOT longer than I was comfortable with in the particular situation..
As a transporter, maybe not go with the cheapest option 90% of the time if you spent $300,000 on the car, maybe not go with the $900 option if it’s going 2000 miles you might not get your car
7:46 that’s a REAL whacky AI image if I’ve ever seen one
Why did they resort to AI slop when I'm sure there's plenty of free images of cars on trailers?
Yeah! Say NO to AI slop!
@@Twingo_ That's a seriously good question. That's just pure laziness. It probably would have taken less time to search for one than to do this..
@@Twingo_ No IP rights to pay for (or steal)
@@Twingo_ The race to the bottom...
I am a Logistics Coordinator at a company who helps customers to purchase their next vehicle. I spend all day every day shipping cars. It’s tons of fun, and a headache all at the same time 😂
Please list off the best carriers from your experience, and the ones to avoid.
Best transport is the snow man and bandit. Hands down. 😂
I agree.
Here in Australia, there's been a massive rise in thefts of one particular make and model of car due to it not being made anymore, and technology to steal the cars is cheap enough to buy on eBay.
People are stealing them for parts, joyride it, and setting them on fire or using them in other thefts
Central dispatch is not doing enough to prevent these companies from even getting onboarded. ThIS is the worst I've seen it in fifteen years.
As someone who deals with them regularly, the quality of their workforce is quite low
@snpn10 ive been dealing with them for 18 years! They suck
I work for an exotic car rental company and this has been tried with us multiple times
Sad this has to be this way but it is what it is. Road trip is almost a must anymore .
Car wholesaler here! This is very much a real problem even for normal dealer inventory (i.e Jeep Grand Cherokee). I’ve even had auctions hand out my car to a random person who just had a transport license, essentially to the tune of what Ed is saying. The only way to get around this problem is to form relationships with individual transport companies separate from central dispatch and coordinate with them directly.
Motortrade since 1980 - Recovery and transport business since 1989 here in the UK 🇬🇧
We are contracted to motoring organisations, garages, authorities and insurance companies.
We only move individual cars and miss out on a lot of trade for moving exotics, mainly down to price……. we don’t do multiples, so every job is a one off, with one driver. More costly, but more secure for the owner………. We get enough, 35 years in with no advertising. 🙂🇬🇧
You mention LA being a hot spot for drop off locations. Any other areas off hand? I had 2 lambos, a g wagon, and a ferrari get stolen from me in LA in June. All were being shipped together. A few weeks later, 3 of the cars were recovered in the same area, one stripped, but the 4th never popped up. In September the feds found my fourth car in use, and tailed it all the way to an NYC port before making an arrest/recovery in December. I was shocked the car was still in the country AND with some VINs not scratched out.
I had a broker nightmare trying to ship a truck from CA to NY. A couple months and lots of lies later, I booked a different company and it was here in just a few days. Kinda soured me on shipping, and I like road trips anyway
Im in the transportation industry and this guy is spot on with this issue and his understanding of terms and processes is very impressive
As a convicted, retired car theif, tracking devices are only good until they are found. A car in a transporter with a tracking device is much better then a car with a criminal behind the wheel. I would always carry a bug Detector and if a Lo-Jack went off in a car i was driving i could typically dismantle it with in a minute or two on the side of the road. It helps when you know were they put them as i would so if you do have a device like this make sure it is in spot that can't be easily accessed. I hope this helps someone.
The 2 apple airtags in the car are worth more than that the $50 that you paid
Tiles are a better option than AirTags since they won’t notify nearby phones, and they’re a few bucks cheaper, not that the minimal cost is really a concern in this case.
This...
This is a market that either Fedex or Kalitta Air should exploit: High dollar car transport. When I flew 747's for Kalitta Air, we flew expensive cars in the bellies all the time. There was one guy in Hawaii who had a collection of Ferraris, and he liked one particular detail shop in Los Angeles; Every 6 months or so he put his cars on our airplanes and we flew them there to be DETAILED. And when they were done, we flew them back to Honolulu.
It must be nice to have that much money!
[Note: I work for Fedex, and this is a personal post, not any sort of "commercial"]
But I think the company has "custom critical" shipping in which the item shipped is handled by security guards the entire way. Typically this is artwork, jewels, or high value monetary shipments. Or things that simply need extra careful handling.
And if you’re a seller, leave insurance on the car until the buyer confirms receipt.
Used a broker to move from FL to MD… worst experience ever.
Yep, this happened to someone I know with a Urus Perf last year shipping it back home from FL.
See in Canada, this isn’t really an issue with shipping cars. Cause the criminals simply kick in your door and steal your keys. My local police literally said “leave your keys at the front door, let them take your car, that’s all they want, they have guns don’t fight them”
FYI in Canada if someone breaks into your house to steal your car, and you defend yourself, your the one going to jail
Time to move
That's what happens when you allow Castro to be your Prime Minister
Big Bad Canada Ehh
Same in the UK, defend your home and you have more chance of the police putting you in cuffs than the scummy chav trying to nick your tv!!
Pretty much the same in the UK too. It’s insured, let them take it
Here's a novel idea. How about paying someone to drive the car to the destination, then a one-way ticket home from the nearest airport or a different car to drive back? I would sign up in a heartbeat. I have no interest whatsoever in stealing or thrashing the cars. I'd just like to drive them and see different parts of the country. Just pay me $30 an hour and cover the fuel and maybe cheap food and a place to stay, and you'll have my complete and total loyalty.
Seems like an easy way to sign your car up to become a drug mule
While working for a car carrier and brokerage, we’ve been burned by scammers on central! Luckily I’ve been fortunate enough to not have had a car thief get ahold of one of my loads!!! I know a few dealers who have been burned!
I'm an owner operator by trade and I gotta say Ed, you know more about the trucking world than the brokers I've dealt with.. or my last carrier. You are right about the double brokering and it's a big problem that needs to be dealt with. I've had occasions where the shipper wanted to take pics of everything.. my truck & trailer tags, the dot & mc #'s on the side of my truck.. in addition to nearly every piece of paper work I carry.. CDL, registration & insurance cab card. Not all shippers insisted on that level of checks but some do, probably due to stolen or damaged loads.
I used Reliable to transport my Scud from the east coast all the way to the west central-coast where I live. Yea, they were a little more than the budget guys, but I had update calls from the driver as he drove across the US, and when he was about an hour away from delivery. Car showed up exactly on time with the car covered and in perfect condition in just three days from leaving the east coast. My car rode along with a new Ford GT, and a few new Lambo's in the truck. lol
The one thing that should be brought up is, don’t always blame these companies for taking short shortcuts because the owners of these cars are always looking for the absolute, cheapest cheapest cheapest person to haul the load. And you know what they say you get what you pay for.
I work for one of the larger wholesale auction companies around.. it was a terrible summer for vehicle thefts like this.
Hide an AirTag in it at a minimum
I would never think to spend anywhere near $100,000+ on a vehicle and NOT go inspect it, pick it up, and transport it myself!! Whether that involves driving it myself or towing it myself, I will be the one handling it.
Some people have more money than time. It could take up 2 or 3 days to fly out and then drive it back
You thinking like a 1-10 million dollar man and not a 100 million dollar man
@@NewGrow-kb1bg It isn't the 90's anymore, everyone has a smartphone and everything and anything can be done on it including signing contracts. If you want to risk your car, be my guest, I won't.
@@alecb8509 If you have time to find a car across the country then you have time to secure your own vehicle. Everyone has a smartphone now and all interstates have cell phone coverage.
Don't these million dollar cars have GEO tags? And what about spending a few hundred to bury 5 or 6 of them in the car for shipping
y’all spend house money on a car and don’t spend $100 on a gps tracker when you ship them?
even a airtag hidden, something!
That my friend is what we call a “bandaid” on a cut that never should have happened in the first place. No cut = no bandaid needed
A GPS tracker hidden in the car and a battery for it, as well as a spare key that you have before the car even leaves the seller.
The GPS thing seems like something that I would do automatically.🤷🏽♀️
But I don’t own an expensive car…
They can easily be found and removed. I’m sure the the thief’s thought about that. Definitely would still do it myself just incase they don’t find it
I guess my last car wasn’t special enough to get stolen, I called one company and they had the car to me in 4 days from Arizona to North Carolina
you called a company see the diffrence not went to a open dispatch with hundreds of brokers
I’ve owned my trucking company for 20 years and yes this is a HUGE problem in trucking right now.
Been seeing a high uptick in thefts like this locally, three lambos were stolen in the last week here!
This just happened to my friends 2024 Lambo! Directly from Lamborghini Henderson. Lamborghini was on its way to PHX and boom. Gone missing. A month and 509 miles later. The car was found in Oregon and had a bill of sale from a LA dealership. For a whopping $65,000 lie. Seeing as though the car is $400k. Lamborghini Henderson, you should take some tips from this video.
Have shipped cars across Europe twice - once using one of the largest companies, which was also one of the first in google search. And second time - a family member who owns a 3-car transporter van.
Never knew stealing vehicle during transport was a thing.
Happened in my Urus I just sold. Luckily buyer recovered it.
Glad they found it.
I had a non exotic car shipped once, NEVER again, ever!
I avoided the issue by just driving my car back home. Road trip with my buddy! 😎
I'll never understand buying used cars online, usually sight-unseen...!?!?! But, I've never bought anything online...!!!
That's funny. I'm a contractor and don't recommend other contractor because they mess shit up all the time 😂
I've always preferred the "road trip" option; it has the 2nd benefit of allowing me to proof the car mechanically.
Very common, dealer in FL and we had a G63 stolen this way and brought to Mexico, was eventually recovered. Ed is right, bigger companies are always the safest.
I can see someone purposely setting up their car to be transported with one of these theft ring companies on that website.. Just to get out from under the car with insurance theft claim!! If it’s that easy to spot one of these companies I bet it happens more often than you would think.
Buddy of mines 812 just had this happen to it last week! Insane , car was sent to a different state and was getting ready to be off to another country when he found it.
If you're going to get a duplicate key made, the car probably needs to be programmed with it prior to it being picked up unless it's a pre-immobilizer car. But, it could be transferred separately from the vehicle carrier.
Odd this comes on the heels of Hoovies experience with the Evo X he bought recently.....and shipped.
At least it made it
Seems like a great reason to cultivate a good working relationship with a quality local trucking company. Pay them well, and send them some regular *perks* (Pizza, doughnuts, flowers, etc.) and consider it cheap insurance when you are dealing with cars of that value. Maybe buy the driver a nice dinner & a cash bonus after every successful delivery...
Right 😂..... these people think truck drivers are beneath them and only an unnecessary evil of doing business
These types of people wouldn't sit down at a table with a truck driver theyre too good. Ed lives in a multi million dollar estate. Hoovie has always seemed like a silver spoon baby tavarish however I think I could hang out with
He said to buy him dinner, not take him out to dinner. Driver probably doesn't have time to sit down to eat anyways. Not getting paid if he's not driving.@@stephenmoore8293
Ed is talking about covered transport drivers. The open car haulers will park in the middle of a road and drive into oncoming traffic to get your car out then immediately start screaming if you don’t sign off on the car. Ask me how I know.
Lol 😂 so true
My experience as well... it was very stressful. IDK why they couldn't find a home depot parking lot or something.
@@GetOffMyyLawn I gave them the address of an abandoned k mart parking lot and he chose to do it that way
What about a non-busy highway ramp with shoulder?
Air tag the cars before they get shipped. I feel that would help a lot. And make sure the air tags are well hidden
I bet Doug Demuro would know at least one decent company
My wife and I road tripped both of our cars. She drove her baby home while I trailered mine. Safest way. If anything happens. It’s on me.
Shipped a car once. Just for good measure, bought a Tracfone for maybe $35 with 30 days of data. Put that phone inside a factory seat cover & I was able to check the car/phone's location for the 3/4 day transit time. The peace of mind was well worth the $35, but that's not exactly practical for commercial use. I think the phone still had around 30% battery when it arrived & that was with me checking it 2/3 times daily.
for vehicles that pricey i would just start my own transport company. i’ve had nothing but issues moving cars around the country i’ve done it 3 times and all three times they’ve either scratched tf out the car loading it or once the car showed up with almost 1000 miles over what i bought it at, and on a uhaul trailer
Here’s how you avoid it. Be like me have no where near the money to buy one of these cars or ship it 😂
If you can afford an exotic, you can afford to fly where it is and drive it home. Also that’s the most fun way!?!
If people would stop using brokers and spend a bit of time to use all owner operator small companies with all us citizens. This wouldn't happen nowhere near as much!
Respectfully and I do mean respectfully. If owner operators would open up their own call centers, pay for marketing, pay for advertising pay for leads, hire people to call them to drive in their own business. There would be no need for brokers. Except very few of you are doing that. 😊
@Wallst522 we tried most of that. No need to hire people when shippers think load boards are better than building a relationship with a trusted carrier because they can save a few bucks. Just yesterday I watched a new company chain down a load improperly and dangerously. Asked the guy what he was doing and unfortunately he didn't understand what I was saying. So I guess it's just good luck to our families that are on the road with them.
@Wallst522 honestly I believe the barrier to entry should be a lot higher to become a broker. 10+ years owner operator, US citizen, all employees must have been owner operator aswell, capping on how much they can take, full transparency. Then maybe there wouldn't be such issues with safety at least. Instead of worrying about the quantity over quality
@Lyon38 i don't disagree with most of what you said. But in all honesty, central dispatch needs to be better regulated. If both brokers in carriers need to be federally regulated, than so do they. They are slow to react. They should require.
Better verification with legitimate IDs. Every person must have a landline or an actual phone number from a big name carrier. These scammers are using burner phones. Fake addresses. You should not be able to open app an account with them. Unless you supply a driver's license with an actual home address. So if something goes wrong, the owner of that account is immediately liable. There's a lot of things that they are not doing right there. I have personally reported many fraudulent companies to central dispatch.And they do nothing until it's too late.
@@Lyon38 Car shipping is a high volume face paced industry. All parties involved need to slow down. Including myself ...Ive been on both sides of the industry both carrier and broker for 15 years and recently got scammed by expert thieves same as described in this video. If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone. I am going to start driving again full time. As i always say i am ok if i fail on my own watch. But relying on someone else and they fail or having a car stolen is not something i will go through again.
We had three stolen out of the dealership a couple months ago. Two new g wagons and a n sls roadster.
This is crazy! I just used one of these resellers and it worked. Thanks for the heads up
Isn't hiding a few air-tag/tracking devices the SOP on these cars??
Metal box = faraday cage
@@ILoveTinfoilHatscellular/gps signals still works in a trailer. Also the initial driver isn't the thief, it's the receivers.
@@ILoveTinfoilHats It doesn't really work like that. I tracked a BMW that was loaded into a container at Long Beach, which was then loaded on a ship, until it went out of cell range off the coast of California. We picked it back up as it passed through the northern Mariana Islands and again as it neared it's destination in Davao, Phillipines. We also track things in semi trailers all of the time.
Thanks for the tip, Ed. I don't ship cars super often, but I do ship them, and this is great to know.
Halfway through this video, and I'm convinced to never use a transport service. The hassle of taking time off and traveling to acquire and return with the car seems like nothing compared to the hassle of dealing with transport, even if most aspects go correctly. No thanks.
I have been towing for over 5 years and I’m still convinced this happens more often than you know. To easy to get insurance and dot numbers for companies and drive their truck. They hire anyone now. Don’t even have to speak English it’s more and more uncommon
I've bought several cars/ motorcycles sight unseen, online, and fortunately always had really good luck with the purchases, but I have always gone in person to make payment directly to the seller and drive/rode/transported the vehicles myself. Get a friend to drive you and make it a road trip, take a truck and trailer, hell, last car i bought I took an Amtrak and an Uber and drove it back, cost me $50 to get there vs $150 in gas for the drive home, plus I've always wanted to take a train somewhere to see what it was like- 120mph on the high speed sections- it was actually pretty cool.
Anyway, all this to say it seems like the problems with purchasing a vehicle sight unseen through any source arise when it comes to making payment and/or shipping/taking delivery of said vehicle, and those problems can be completely avoided simply by making the payment and taking delivery off your new ride in person directly with the seller. Also, regardless of how you get the vehicle to its destination, doing it yourself will ALMOST always be cheaper than paying a shipping company to haul it for you.
I book alot of cars on central dispatch just basic cheap cars for my lot coming from georgia to alabama. Every single listing I get an immediate call from a foreign person in new york and they ask to pick it up for about fifty dollars more that the listing and I always say no. Then, the driver who shows up is 90 percent of the time from central europe and speak zero english nor even hello or park over there. However, they deliver fast, and I have not had any stolen.
There are so many innuendos in this video. Why am I like this?
I’m bit surprised that dealers shipping the vehicle, don’t have hidden locator in the car.
Canadians have big problems getting vehicle stolen and it ends up somewhere overseas. Car used to end up in Asia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries. Cops there don’t care if the vehicles are stolen or not as long as they’re registered.
I worked at one Corvette restore business. Every long weekend something got stolen. Wheels, parts, and Corvettes.
If anyone sees these days a white, or any color generation 1, ZR-1 Corvette convertible. It was stollen with 7 other corvettes and muscle cars. Chevrolet never made a convertible ZR-1s. This was one of totaled ZR-1 made to a ragtop. Back then it had less then 600 miles.
Rather surprised this is considered a new problem.
I worked for a logistics company in 2010-2020 and used Central Dispatch as both shipper and transporter (and even acting as a broker for our customers). Despite supposed insurance and other requirements on Central we never found it even remotely helpful in recovering our missing cargo when we had problems. We had vehicles seized by Border Patrol and police, damaged in transportation, burned, disappeared halfway, held for ransom, mishandled, parts stolen.... Issues at pickup, issues at drop off. We had called the police and had the police called against us and our drivers.
At that time Central Dispatch was essentially the biggest load board for affordable vehicle transport. I suspect setting up something withe a working security/insurance/bond arrangements was too costly and probably not feasible (or would have to cost the customers too much to survive.)
I am extremely happy not to be part of that industry any more.
We in the trucking industry call these guys loads pimps. This has been going on in the trucking industry for many decades of every type of freight. DO NOT USE LOAD BROKERS. Even “legit” load brokers take 20-30 percent off the top for answering the phone and calling someone else to do the work.
The solution for you carriers that dont like brokers is open up your own call center, pay for advertising, leads ,call center employees. Price your jobs at whatever you see fit and then go get them yourself. Everybody thinks they have the solution when really they're really clueless.
Montway probably spends $500k a month or more on advertising. I'm sure you keep up with that.😊
You should always check the dot number when the car is picked up. And always have an insurance certificate with your company name as the beneficiary.
IF this is happening this often, it seems like starting a stolen car bounty company. If the police aren't likely to be of much help, a private company could become specialist at recovery. I'm surprised the insurance companies haven't done this already.
As a freight broker we are basically told to never use auto carriers. Quote it on a flatbed hotshot and be done with it.
I'm a dealer and transporter. Unfortunately I had the pain of this exact scenario.
Luckily vehicle was recovered in a Walmart parking lot in Laredo tx (mine was stolen by the Mexican cartel)
There is now a tracking device that you can put in the oil pan safely
I had a Z06 i flew to Virginia to pick up. I drove the car 150 miles into WV and the clutch goes out. I'm now stuck on the side of the road in a state I've never once been in before. I eventually get a tow truck to pick up the car and drop it at a hotel i was able to book. Over the next two days i call every company i can to try to get the car picked up and dropped to Chicago. I company actually picks up the phone first ring. Everything seems good. He tells me how he can come get it. What vehicle he will be using and when he will be there. I need to give him a deposit. Once he drops the car off i pay the rest of the bill. Well long story short, he never showed, never answers the phone again and the acct where the money went is closed. I eventually find another company who gets the job done for me for $1700. Painful lesson learned. 🤦
I'm going to be having a car imported from Japan next year to a specialty dealership in Virginia. I am flying in and driving it home or the wife and i will road trip down and drive it back. I come from a family of truckers and under no circumstances would i ever had a car transported unless i absolutely had to. I'm the idiot that would buy a Miuira from Curated and drive it back to Michigan. 😂
Never, ever, try to get the car yourself. You will most likely get shot. Call the police do not take matters in your own hands you are risking your life for material. Thank you Vin very informative video but that last part was horrible advice
3rd party logistics are a mess in any industry. Sometimes 2,3 even 4 companies will touch the money before the last guy gets the smallest cut and has to move the car.
Wow! Crazy convoluted scheme that unfortunately seems to be working. Looks like it is essential to have trackers placed on your vehicle. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
"When in doubt...just road trip your car home." Gold, Jerry, Gold!
I don’t know that road tripping your car across country is the safest but I get your point
I guess I'm lucky, I have a independent transport guy that has his own rig, an autoloader trailer, and he rolls non stop from point A to B.
The contrast on this video looks weird. Or Ed is somehow really orange today lol
Plot twist. Ed just came back from a tanning session🤣
Ed is just trying to Make Car Shipping Great Again
Making VinWiki great again ! 💪
New camera. Dialing in settings.
@@EdBolian make sure aperture is as wide open as possible, and use the iso to bring the light up. also film at 24fps, forget what anyone says about 60fps or tiny aperture size
Its a sad state of affairs when you cannot rely on local authorities when you know the location of a stolen car. Having that extra key is imperative. A portable grinder, bolt cutters, and some friends with a pension of throwing down are also good to bring along.
One occasion in Phila, a well-timed call to those same local deputies was clutch. Funny how they don't care about a stolen car, but a 'robbery in progress' changes things.