The thing I've found about these auto shippers is that even the close destinations can take awhile depending upon the path a driver is taking to the various destinations. When I used Interstate, the truck it was loaded on each way was the same truck that made the drop off. Because of that I had to meet the driver at a nearby Kmart parking lot as it was somewhere big enough he could get his very large truck into/out of for loading/unloading. This was "technically" a door to door, but not really.
When I used DAS they picked up with a smaller flat bed and took it to a depot for its connection. When it came back it was delivered to a deopt again and then brought on a flat bed to my front door. In this case it was in reality door-to-door. Like Andy mentions a lot of on and off with this approach that DAS used in my cases. I'm also aware that these depots are often not in the best parts of town. When we were moving from Minneapolis to Michigan and my old 1969 Mach I was being shipped I had heard the DAS depot in Minneapolis was in a BAD part of town. Probably best that I did not actually see where it was as I would have been worried sick.
Everything worked out and no issues with them whatsoever. That being said I would go with the way Interstate moved my 93 Mustang in the future. I'd rather see the truck it is going to make entire trip on and to just know it isn't going to be passed between trucks along the way.
I agree the road trip method is alot of fun too. My dad and I did that with my old FHP Mustang. Good memories!
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Mike
1992 Michigan State Police SSP Mustang #5114
1993 Wisconsin State Patrol SSP Mustang
1993 Missouri State Highway Patrol SSP Mustang P641
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