Texas shipments typically run $850 to $1,850 for open transport and take 3 to 6 days, depending on origin and destination.
Shipping a car to or from Texas typically takes 3 to 6 days and costs $850 to $1,850 for open transport.
Reference pricing for common Texas corridors. Your specific quote depends on origin city, destination city, vehicle type, and season.
Updated August 2026| Corridor | Distance | Transit | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas to Illinois | 900 to 1,100 mi | 3 to 5 days | $850 to $1,200 |
| Texas to Arizona | 1,150 to 1,200 mi | 3 to 5 days | $850 to $1,150 |
| Texas to California | 1,450 to 1,950 mi | 3 to 6 days | $1,000 to $1,850 |
| Texas to New York | 1,450 to 1,650 mi | 3 to 6 days | $1,100 to $1,750 |
| Texas to Massachusetts | 1,750 to 1,850 mi | 4 to 6 days | $1,100 to $1,650 |
Quotes well below the typical range are almost always bait-and-switch. You are quoted a low price to pay the deposit, and then the price is bumped at the last minute.
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Most shipments run door to door. If access is tight (narrow streets, low clearance), we will arrange a nearby meeting point.
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Texas sits on the main southern route between the coasts, which means a lot of the auto transport moving through the state is not really about Texas at all. Those trucks are passing anyway, and the spare capacity they bring is something a state off the interstates never gets. It shows up as short pickup windows across Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. The state’s own size matters too: El Paso to Houston is about 750 miles without crossing a state line, and it prices like the interstate move it effectively is.
What a lane costs out of Texas depends on the return trip. Lanes to California and the Northeast price well because cars move both ways in volume. Send one to a thin market instead, somewhere in the Dakotas or rural Idaho, and the number climbs, because the driver is probably coming back empty and has to earn the round trip on your car alone. Enclosed adds 40 to 70% over open.
On the Gulf coast, weather genuinely moves schedules. Industry delivery data from the 2024 storms shows deliveries dropping between a fifth and just over 40% on the day a hurricane lands, falling again the day after, then recovering inside a week and running above normal while carriers clear the backlog. Practically, that means a Houston or Corpus Christi delivery caught in the window slips by several days, and the one booked just behind it often moves early. Dallas and Austin usually run through the same week untouched.
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Shipping a car to or from Texas typically runs $850 to $1,850 for open transport, depending on the corridor and vehicle. Midwest lanes to Illinois run $850 to $1,200. Longer corridors to the Northeast or California run $1,100 to $1,850. Specific quotes are locked for 28 days from the moment you book.
Most Texas shipments take 3 to 6 days door to door. Midwest lanes to Illinois run 3 to 5 days, and the longer corridors to California, New York, or Massachusetts take 3 to 6. What decides where a shipment lands in that range is the load: the low end when the carrier is already running your direction with a full truck and both ends sit close to I-10, I-20, or I-35, the high end when the driver is picking up and dropping along the way.
Carrier density follows the population triangle of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin, where most trucks load and unload. Amarillo, Midland, Odessa, and El Paso sit well outside it, so fewer trucks pass through and the pickup window there can run a few days longer. Transit time itself is normal once the car is loaded.
If you are becoming a Texas resident, yes: the car goes onto Texas plates and a Texas title, within 30 days of moving. Where you land matters, because seventeen counties run an emissions program, including Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, and Travis, and there the car has to pass a test first. New residents pay a $90 new resident tax rather than full sales tax on a car they already own.
To ship a car, request a quote with your origin, destination, and vehicle details. Sequoia matches you with a driver according to your pickup window, the driver picks up your vehicle, and delivers it at your destination.
You can cancel for free up to 7 days before pickup. After that, the deposit is non-refundable.
If you find damage at delivery, note it on the bill of lading before signing. We will manage the claim with the carrier from there.
Nothing is charged at booking. The deposit is charged 7 days before your pickup window opens, and the remaining balance is paid to the driver at delivery.
Every shipment is insured by the carrier under federal cargo liability requirements.
Locked for 28 days. Nothing charged at booking.