Memphis Car Shipping
Door to door car shipping in and out of Memphis. Open or enclosed, $99 deposit locks the rate, balance on delivery.
About Car Shipping in Memphis
Memphis, TN is one of our busiest pickup and drop-off cities in the Southeast. We move cars in and out of Memphis every week, with door to door service on open carriers and enclosed trailers.
Whether you are moving across the country, buying a car online, sending a vehicle to a college student, or shipping a classic to a show, Whipshipper handles the Memphis route end to end. You get the same broker who answers the phone the whole way through.
We pick up at your address in Memphis and drop off wherever your car is going. No terminal runs, no surprise fees, no auction-house mystery pricing. $99 locks your rate, the balance is paid to the carrier on delivery.
Car Shipping Rates
Real numbers, no surprises. Final quote depends on lane, season, and vehicle size.
| Distance | Open Transport | Enclosed Transport | Transit Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 500 mi | $450 to $700 | $700 to $1,100 | 2 to 4 days |
| 500 to 1,000 mi | $700 to $1,000 | $1,100 to $1,500 | 3 to 5 days |
| 1,000 to 2,000 mi | $900 to $1,400 | $1,500 to $2,200 | 5 to 7 days |
| 2,000+ mi | $1,100 to $1,800 | $2,000 to $2,900 | 7 to 10 days |
Estimates only, your exact rate comes from the live carrier load board. Get an instant quote at the top of the page for real numbers.
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Shipping a car to or from Memphis
Memphis sits on 269 priced lanes in our network, reaching 46 states directly. That number is the useful one when you are comparing quotes, because carrier depth on your corridor determines how long you wait between booking and a truck actually being assigned, and waiting is where most of the frustration in this industry lives.
The best value run out of Memphis right now is Memphis to Boston, MA, 1,135 miles in 2-4 from $933, which works out near 82 cents a mile. Rates that low only exist where trucks already run the route.
Access and equipment around Memphis
Freight through Tennessee moves on I-40 east to west, I-65, I-75, and I-24 north to south, and how close your address sits to those corridors affects your price more than the mileage does.
Memphis and Nashville are both major logistics centres, and the state's position within a day's drive of much of the eastern population keeps capacity deep and rates keen.
Roads are generally wide, modern, and carrier friendly, which is a genuine advantage. The complications are gated retirement communities and coastal developments with height restricted entrances and HOA rules that prohibit commercial trucks. Those are worth checking before pickup day rather than at it.
Timing a Memphis shipment
Hurricane season, June through November, is the thing that actually disrupts southeastern transport, and it does it suddenly. When a storm is named and tracking toward the coast, carriers stop accepting loads into the projected path days before landfall, and the backlog afterwards takes a week or more to clear. Booking during a quiet stretch of that season is fine. Booking with a storm already on the map is not.
Best window: Late spring is the cheapest inbound window. Autumn is the cheapest outbound one. Both are the opposite of when most people book.
How much does it cost to ship a car from Memphis?
Worked against Memphis’s own lane mix rather than a national average, using the shortest, middle, and longest well supplied routes we currently run out of the city. Vehicle multipliers are the ones our quote engine applies.
| Vehicle | To Pittsburgh, PA (659 mi) | To Colorado Springs, CO (853 mi) | To Boston, MA (1,135 mi) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sedan | $750 | $925 | $925 |
 SUV | $875 | $1,050 | $1,075 |
 Pickup | $900 | $1,100 | $1,125 |
 Luxury | $1,575 | $1,925 | $1,950 |
 Motorcycle | $425 | $500 | $525 |
Open carrier starting rates. Enclosed adds about sixty percent, non running adds one to two hundred for the winch. An instant quote on your exact addresses will beat any table for accuracy.
Shipping a car into Memphis
Inbound is not the outbound rate reversed. Corridors run heavier one way than the other and carriers price the light direction lower, so quote the exact direction you need. These are the origins with the most movement toward Memphis.
| From | Distance | Transit | Open, from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston, MA | 1,135 mi | 2-4 | $933 |
| El Paso, TX | 975 mi | 2-4 | $1,024 |
| New York, NY | 953 mi | 2-4 | $1,005 |
| Albuquerque, NM | 937 mi | 2-4 | $991 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 879 mi | 2-4 | $942 |
| Denver, CO | 877 mi | 2-4 | $940 |
| Miami, FL | 874 mi | 2-4 | $938 |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 853 mi | 2-4 | $920 |
| Virginia Beach, VA | 795 mi | 2-4 | $871 |
| Baltimore, MD | 792 mi | 2-4 | $868 |
| Washington, DC | 763 mi | 2-4 | $844 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 700 mi | 1-3 | $790 |
Comparing the wider picture? Tennessee car shipping carries the statewide lane table and the seasonal detail for this region.
Popular Memphis car shipping routes, with real distances and rates
Memphis sits on 269 priced lanes in our network, reaching 46 states directly. These are the routes with the most carrier movement out of Memphis, which in practice means the shortest wait between booking and a truck actually showing up.
Every route below is a live page with its own pricing and pickup window. The rate shown is the open transport starting point for a standard sedan.
| Route | Distance | Transit | Open, from | Enclosed, from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston, MA | 1,135 mi | 2-4 | $933 | $1,495 |
| El Paso, TX | 975 mi | 2-4 | $1,024 | $1,640 |
| New York, NY | 953 mi | 2-4 | $1,005 | $1,610 |
| Albuquerque, NM | 937 mi | 2-4 | $991 | $1,585 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 879 mi | 2-4 | $942 | $1,505 |
| Denver, CO | 877 mi | 2-4 | $940 | $1,505 |
| Miami, FL | 874 mi | 2-4 | $938 | $1,500 |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 853 mi | 2-4 | $920 | $1,470 |
| Virginia Beach, VA | 795 mi | 2-4 | $871 | $1,395 |
| Baltimore, MD | 792 mi | 2-4 | $868 | $1,390 |
| Washington, DC | 763 mi | 2-4 | $844 | $1,350 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 700 mi | 1-3 | $790 | $1,265 |
| Orlando, FL | 683 mi | 1-3 | $776 | $1,240 |
| Tampa, FL | 668 mi | 1-3 | $763 | $1,220 |
| Corpus Christi, TX | 667 mi | 1-3 | $762 | $1,220 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 659 mi | 1-3 | $755 | $1,210 |
Read those numbers as a starting point rather than a promise. Distance sets the floor on a rate, but it is not what moves the price week to week. Carrier supply on the specific corridor does, and you can see it in the table above: Boston, MA prices at about 82 cents a mile while Pittsburgh, PA runs closer to 115 cents. Those sit close together, which tells you carrier coverage around Memphis is fairly even rather than concentrated on one or two corridors.
The 16 routes above average 826 miles at an average open rate of $883. Enclosed on the same lanes runs roughly sixty percent higher. Quotes built only on mileage are the ones that get renegotiated at pickup, because mileage is the one input that never changes and everything else does.
Shipping into Memphis rather than out of it? The rate is rarely identical in both directions. Corridors run heavier one way than the other depending on the season and the local economy, and the light direction is usually the cheaper one. Quote the exact direction you need rather than assuming a round trip average.
Memphis sits inside a bigger network
Most people shipping a car out of Memphis are not committed to Memphis specifically. They are moving to or from a region, and the pickup point is negotiable by an hour or two. That matters, because a neighbouring metro on a heavier corridor can be cheaper and faster than the closest one, and a driver already routed through the area costs less than one sent for you.
Start with Tennessee car shipping for the statewide picture, then compare the cities below.
Other Tennessee cities
Nearby metros across the Southeast
Auto transport services available to and from Memphis, TN
Every line below runs to and from Memphis, TN on the same network. Pick the one that matches what you are actually moving so the quote comes back against the right equipment.
By transport type
- Open Car Transport
- Enclosed Auto Transport
- Door to Door Transport
- Expedited Car Shipping
- Budget Car Shipping
- State to State Shipping
- Cross Country Shipping
- International Shipping
- Online Purchase Delivery
- Auto Train Alternative
- Inoperable Vehicle Transport
- Oversized Transport
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Auto transport coast to coast, state to state
We move vehicles in all fifty states, and the network is deepest where the freight already runs. Each state page below carries its own lane table, transit windows, and the local conditions that actually change a rate.
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