Never picked up my truck

Bob Submitted this review about All America Auto Transport
Review made Live: 10/3/2006 9:02:00 AM
I negoiated a price of $1196 with Kurt of All America Auto Transport Inc, in Bethesda, MD to ship my truck from NJ to Portland Oregon on Sept 14th. I told Kurt that the truck was ready at any time to be picked up for shipment. i was told it would take about 1 to 4 days to pickup and 7 to 10 days additional for delivery. I never heard from All America and had to call them several times. They said they had offered me such a low price that it was not attractive to the trucking companies and that was probably why it was not getting shipped. They implied that if I raised the price that I would get it shipped. I did not raise the price and in fact got other offers for the same and lower prices. Anyhow my truck never did get picked up and after 11 days I cancelled my order with All America Auto Transports. I contacted another shipping company in PA and my truck was picked up the same day I called. I would not use All America Auto Transport in the future.

Company Response
Steve Walter from All America Auto Transport Submitted this response.
Response Date: 10/5/2006 5:38:00 PM
It is true that the price we quoted the customer was low. This was in part due to having quoted the customer for a car, not a small pickup truck. When the order was received we informed the customer that we charge more for pickups. He opted to wait it out with the hope that we could find a trucking company to ship it at the discounted price, which obviously did not happen. We do give a truthful idea of our pickup window, which is it’s a 2 to 4 day window, but this was affected by not charging more for a small pickup. Therefore in turn we couldn't offer a trucking company more money for the small pickup. We did inform the customer that it would be beneficial to pay more to a trucker to accommodate it being a pickup truck. He did not want to do this. He also did not want take the car to a terminal. In the end he told us he wanted to cancel the order as he was going to drive it. We cancelled the order and refunded his money in full since we did not honor our portion of the contract of providing a trucking company within 7 days. We wish the customer had informed us that they were contracting another company. We would have informed him to make sure the new company wasn’t just using a local towing company to facilitate immediate pickup, without actually shipping the car cross country.