Amerifreight Leaves Me Stranded!

charles sheetz Submitted this review about AmeriFreight Car Shipping
Review made Live: 1/1/2010 7:06:00 PM
Paid deposit of $295.00 on a Priority Order pick up. Was told by Raechel that Priority guarantees a vehicle pick up within a 48 hour window. Confirmation was completed on Dec. 23rd for a pick up on Dec. 28th or29 th, with a 12-24 hour notification from driver. I began calling Amerifreight at 1pm on the 28th. Called 5 times that day receiving only automated messages with no "live" voice obtainable. Finally received the live voice of Shontel on 12/29 afternoon after more than a dozen attempts to reach someone at Amerifreight. She said that someone should have notified me that a Trucking Service could not be obtained for my vehicle. We were scheduled to fly out at 2pm on the 30th. Shontel assured me that Raechel would call me later that day or by 10am on the 30th with info and options. With nobody from Amerifreight calling by noon on the 30th, we were forced to cancel Airline tickets, costing $150.00/ticket, and drive our vehicle 1220 miles to Florida. We had 26 hours to do this since our daughter was to arrive at Ft. Myers airport at 2pm. I realize this was a Holiday week and unexpected occurances can happen. However, There is absolutely no excuse for not informing the customer of status, or having a live voice available for questions on a non-holiday Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday! I feel this is a shaky Company at best, and one has to be concerned about a Company with this much total disregard for Customer Service!

Company Response
AmeriFreight from AmeriFreight Car Shipping Submitted this response.
Response Date: 1/2/2010 1:11:00 PM
It is regrettable that we have caused Mr Sheetz and his family such an inconvenience. This time of the year many carriers take off for the holidays and we may encounter difficulties finding a truck in time for any shipping option. We should have been more explicit in explaining it to Mr Sheetz. This is not only unique to us, but it's true for the whole car shipping industry. Due to the urgency of the move, we probably should have advised him to rather consider driving himself. We are also on skeleton staff during the holidays and were caught off guard by an unprecedented number of enquiries. That caused our phones to be extremely busy and our staff were hard pressed to follow up on all the calls. This is of course no excuse for not being there for our customers. Feedback is extremely important to us, good or bad as that helps us to improve our services to best serve our customers. We will definitely plan better for the next year. We have erred on our side and we offer our sincere apologies. Will arrange some type of goodwill compensation to the Sheertz family. Marius Lehmann, owner.