Dealership Auto Transport

The core difference from consumer shipping is that per-unit cost drops as you ship more. A carrier assigned several of your cars on one lane spreads its fixed costs across all of them, so each car prices below what a lone unit would, and a dealer with steady volume gets a better standing rate than someone shipping once. That is why the sensible setup for a store is an account rather than a string of one-off bookings: you get consistent per-unit pricing, batched scheduling, and a partner who already knows your lots, your contacts, and how you like units handled, instead of re-explaining it every time a car has to move.

An account also changes the mechanics around the price. Bookings can be batched instead of entered one car at a time, billing arrives as a consolidated invoice rather than a per-car charge, and your shipments carry account priority when capacity is tight. None of that changes the underlying open rate or the carriers, it changes the overhead of dealing with transport at all. For a dealership moving cars every week, that overhead is the real cost, and cutting it is worth as much as the per-unit saving. We will scope an account to your actual volume and lanes rather than quote a generic fleet rate.

Dealers do not want a driver paid in cash per car, and a standing account fixes that. Set one up and shipments bill as a consolidated invoice rather than a per-car charge collected at delivery, which fits how a dealership's accounting actually runs. The specific terms, billing cycle, and any net terms are set when the account is established, since those depend on your volume and relationship, so they are agreed directly rather than posted here. What is consistent is the structure: $0 due at booking, transport billed to the account, and a single point of contact for the paperwork instead of a new transaction every time a car moves.

Making that work smoothly is mostly about clean inputs. Name the people who can authorize a release and receive units at each of your locations, so the driver always has an approved contact. Give VINs and lot or auction details with each unit, so pickups and your inventory records match and nothing is ambiguous at the gate. And let your coordinator know your recurring lanes, so scheduling and invoicing settle into a routine. Broadway sets the account up around your operation, verifies each carrier's insurance before dispatch, and keeps the billing consolidated, so transport becomes a line you manage rather than a series of fires you fight.