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If you are a first-time auto transport customer looking to ship a car you’ll want to get it right the first time. Your car is a valuable asset and shipping your car can be expensive. While the internet makes it easy to research auto transport companies, the sheer volume of information can be a bit overwhelming. The following is a step-by-step description of the process you can follow to transport your vehicle.

You like you some muscle cars? Big, bad, road-gobbling American cars? Well, you have to check out “Graveyard Carz” on Velocity! Season 6 premieres on November 2! Check out the trailer below! “Graveyard Carz is an automotive show focusing on restoring Chrysler muscle cars. Not only are the cars wrecked, they are beyond repair. To fix a Graveyard Car, it can’t just be restored, it has to be resurrected!” The cars Mark and his crew work on are found far and wide throughout the US and can’t be driven to their shop in Oregon. How do they get the cars delivered to their shop? Well, friends and neighbors, many of their cars were transported and delivered by J&S Transportation! Mark Worman is the driving passion behind Graveyard Carz. He and his team of auto restoration experts (daughter Allysa Rose, his best-friend Royal Yoakum, painter Will Scott, and assembly technician and long-time fan of the show David Rea) specialize in MOPAR cars that have seen better days. They scour the country for classics in desperate need of resurrection! This year, we delivered a 1970 Dodge Charger, 1970 Chrysler 300, 1970 and 1974 Barracudas, and 1971 Roadrunner and Duster! Make sure to tune in to Velocity (check local listings) to see these and other beautiful machines brought back to life by the Graveyard Carz crew! So get your popcorn popped, your drinks ready and settle in for a whole new season of muscle car mania and shop hijinx on Graveyard Carz. Season… Read more »

How we load and unload an auto transport trailer When you book an auto transport order, the main concerns people have is how much does it cost to ship their car, how soon can it be picked up and how soon can it be delivered, all of which are valid questions. But they rarely know the effort that goes into getting their vehicles delivered to their door. Not a lot of wiggle room! Getting your car delivered safely, quickly, and damage-free is J&S Transportation’s primary concern. How do we do this? The first step is loading your vehicle onto our car hauler. Getting the vehicles on and off the trailer takes a lot of skill! Our drivers have only a few inches of leeway on either side of the vehicle, and the bigger the vehicle, the less wiggle room they have. Slow and steady not only wins the race, it’s how we load and unload our auto transport trailers. J&S auto transport trucks use double decker trailers and haul up to 12 vehicles, depending on their size. The trailers are hydraulic and allow the driver to lower the upper and lower decks to load vehicles on to the trailer. They are also able to raise the upper deck once loaded to create space on the lower deck to fully load the truck. Once on board the trailer, we secure the vehicles to the trailer. This is an industry safety standard. All of J&S Transportation’s trucks are soft strap vs. chains…. Read more »

Classic car enthusiasts, collectors and celebrities descended upon Sun Valley, ID, for the annual Silver Auctions Sun Valley Auction on September 2 & 3. Vintage car sellers and buyers were there, and who did they trust to get their classic vehicles delivered to the auction safely and damage free? If you said J&S Transportation, you would be correct! J&S has been delivering classic vehicles and cars to and picking vehicles up from this and many other auctions throughout the western United States for years, and we’re a trusted auto transporter annually to the Sun Valley Auto Auction. Silver Auctions describes the auction as: “Sun Valley is where celebrity icons and celebrity cars are common enough that there is little distracting fanfare. Cars include vintage classics, classics, sports (US & Euro), exotics, luxury and muscle. An upscale, but casual collector car auction with celebrity flair in a setting only Sun Valley Resort can offer.” Next up on the docket for Silver Auctions are Reno with Street Vibrations in late September, and the Portland/Vancouver Fall Auction in early October, and you can bet J&S will be delivering vehicles to these auctions and transporting new purchases to their owners. It’s what we do! J&S Transportation is a car transporter with our own fleet of trucks. Our auto transport trucks are open transport. We’ve been transporting cars across the country since 2000 and we have the expertise and knowledge to get your vintage car delivered safely, quickly, and damage-free, all without the extra added… Read more »

We recently published our article “The Weirdest Driving Laws In All 50 States” highlighting some of the wackiest laws still on the books in the US. Apparently, we’re not the only ones who found these laws to be strange, to say the least. WSPA (Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson, SC) used our article and the strange laws in North and South Carolina as the basis for a news segment recently. Correspondent Diane Lee (dlee@wspa.com) hit the streets to see what people thought. Asked about the South Carolina law about not storing trash in your car, Shanda Mayes replied “The better put me in jail now!” (Full disclosure: I would probably get the death penalty for this if I was pulled over in South Carolina). When told about the Pennsylvania law stating you have to take apart your car and hide it if horses are scared of it, Curt Strickland said he didn’t agree with that and if the horses were scared “they’d just have to put them in the barn!” The list was shown to South Carolina state lawmaker and lawyer Derham Cole (R-District 32); he laughed about it, but stated that while the laws were silly, state legislatures need to do a better job about striking these antiquated laws off the books. “The laws can jump and surprise people, citizens, lawyers, legislators, and we should be vigilant and try to make the law as efficient and streamlined as it can be.” Diane closed the segment saying “Something happened in order… Read more »

Moving to a new home can be stressful, but it doesn’t have to be with our “Ultimate Moving Checklist!” With careful advanced planning, you can make the whole process a lot easier. Remember important things to do when moving like purchasing enough boxes and supplies, creating a consistent labeling system and reserving all your moving transportation needs.