You can ship your vehicles at any point during the year. However, there are dates when it is much busier in the vehicle shipping industry. Weekdays, weekends, national holidays, vacations are such busy periods of dates in the year. Hence, it will take a bit longer and cost a little more to ship your car during those times.
Shipping Vehicles On Weekends or Weekdays?
Weekends are often peak periods for shipping vehicles. If you’ve planned your cars, vehicles, motorcycles to be transported on weekends, you must take into account some significant facts:
1. Traffic congestion- a transport condition characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queuing.
When traffic demand is significant enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream, accrue some congestion.
When vehicles are entirely stopped for periods, this is known as a traffic jam or (informally) a traffic snarl-up.
2. Peak traffic and rush hours will help you avoid traffic jams during rush hours.
3. Weekday peak-hour traffic volumes spike in the early mornings and late afternoons, whereas weekend peak-hour traffic spikes from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
4. Third rush hour -The term “third rush hour” has been used to refer to a period of midday in which roads in urban and suburban areas become congested due to numerous people taking lunch breaks using their vehicles.
5. Out-of-the-ordinary congestion can result from accidents, construction, long holiday weekends, or inclement weather.
6. HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes
7. Congested Cities in the U.S.
These are the ten most congested cities in the U.S. in 2019, according to INRIX:
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Chicago, Illinois
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- New York City, New York
- Washington, D.C.
- Los Angeles, California
- San Francisco, California
- Portland, Oregon
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Atlanta, Georgia
Choose Better Dates for Car Shipping
When you are choosing the best date for car shipping, you must take into account the following most prominent factors that affect your decision:
Cost
The price associated with hauling vehicles, cars, and trucks throughout the
U.S. is based on some of the following factors:
• Is your required shipping date on a national holiday?
• Is your car or truck transportation date during the snowbird season?
• Are you shipping vehicles on weekdays or weekends?
Seasonal Features
January – headache month for vehicles transport
February and March – a lull in vehicles shipping.
April and May – the reverse months of January
June, July, and August – summer peak season
October and November – slow downfall season
December – trouble for vehicles shipping
Shipping vehicles wouldn’t be a stressful and tiring activity if you chose Tempus Logix.
Tempus Logix will answer any questions you may have. Our team will guide you through the transport process from quote to delivery. To know the price of your transfer in a few seconds, you will only need to use our car shipping calculator on the website.
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