About Tailwind Auto Transport

Tailwind Auto Transport is a US-based logistics partner for people who need a car moved: across a state, across the country, or, for a smaller number of customers, across the northern border. We arrange door-to-door transport on open and enclosed carriers through a network of independent, FMCSA-authorized car haulers, and we manage each shipment from the first quote to the signature at delivery.

The name is the promise. A tailwind is what makes a trip faster and easier than it would otherwise be, and that's the job: take a process that most people find opaque and stressful and make it clear, predictable and calm.

We don't own trucks. Almost no one who sells car shipping does; the vehicles on the road belong to thousands of independent carriers, most of them small. What we do is choose among them well, price your shipment honestly, and stay accountable for how it goes. Here's how that division of labor works, and why it's the normal shape of the industry.

• One all-in price. Transport, the carrier's cargo insurance while the car is in its care, and any border handling, in one number. If something about your shipment would change it, you hear about it before you book.
• Carriers we check. Operating authority confirmed with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and an insurance certificate on file before any carrier is dispatched on your shipment.
• Realistic windows, not promises. A pickup window we can meet beats a date we can't. When the date really matters, expedited shipping exists for that reason.
• People who answer. Questions go to someone who can see your shipment, from quote to delivery.

• Quote a number no carrier will accept just to win the booking, then raise it when the truck doesn't come. The pricing page explains why that happens elsewhere.
• Show you reviews we haven't earned. We're new, and the reviews page says so plainly, along with how to check any auto transport company for yourself.
• Pretend we own the trucks. Our carrier partners perform the transport. Our job is choosing them and running the shipment.
• Ship things we aren't set up for. We focus on cars, SUVs, pickups and vans. No motorcycles, boats, RVs or heavy equipment.

Most of our work is between US states: the Northeast and Midwest to Florida and Arizona each fall and back each spring, California and Texas in both directions, coast-to-coast relocations, and dealer and auction moves. The routes and cities pages cover the lanes and places we see most. We also arrange a smaller number of Canada to US shipments for winter residents, with the customs paperwork prepared as part of the service.