| ransporters, those long double-decker trucks with | | | | On the large nine car transporters the loads are now |
| nine or ten cars tilted at odd angles that deliver new | | | | planned by special computer software to get more |
| vehicles to dealers. | | | | cars onto each load. The software knows the |
| If you are moving thousands of miles, across the | | | | dimensions of each model and can calculate what |
| country perhaps, you can pay a car transporting | | | | angle each can be raised to, creating just enough |
| company to move your three or four family vehicles. | | | | space for another car. That is why you see cars |
| They move them in a similar way to the way a | | | | tilted down over the front of the cab, or up at |
| courier company moves parcels, changing car | | | | angles on the lower deck. Older car transporters, |
| transporters, as it moves across the country. | | | | without all these facilities are still around, but are used |
| This option is especially useful if your family has two | | | | mainly on short delivery routes, perhaps to transfer |
| or more vehicles to transport. Try to imagine the | | | | cars between dealers or to an auction. |
| alternatives. The other ways of moving your vehicles | | | | The more cars on each load the more competitive |
| include a convoy of cars, vans, recreational vehicles | | | | the company can be in quoting for delivery to distant |
| and bikes, or one person travelling backwards and | | | | cities and they may combine your vehicles with those |
| forwards for two weeks and staying in hotels, using | | | | of other people moving to the same area. You will |
| gas and putting a lot of miles on each vehicle. | | | | get a better deal if you are prepared to do let them |
| The companies in this market may use smaller trucks | | | | take longer, allowing more time to get a full load |
| than the dealer delivery ones, but the principle is the | | | | together. |
| same. | | | | |