Florida Car Shipping
We arrange car shipping to and from Florida. A vetted carrier makes the drive, and we publish distances and reference prices for 10 Florida routes. Registering the car once it lands is on you; we have no part in that.
Published Florida routes
Florida car shipping routes, with each route's distance and reference price range. These are reference ranges, not quotes.
| Route | State role | Road miles | Distance band | Reference range for that band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 661 miles | 500–1000 miles | $600–$950 |
| Ohio to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 1,149 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $800–$1,100 |
| New Jersey to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 1,270 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $850–$1,150 |
| Florida to New York car shipping | Florida origin | 1,278 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $875–$1,175 |
| New York to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 1,279 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $925–$1,250 |
| Texas to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 1,308 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $900–$1,200 |
| Florida to Texas car shipping | Florida origin | 1,309 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $900–$1,200 |
| Florida to Illinois car shipping | Florida origin | 1,344 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $900–$1,225 |
| Illinois to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 1,345 miles | 1000–1500 miles | $900–$1,225 |
| California to Florida car shipping | Florida destination | 2,732 miles | 2500–3000 miles | $1,300–$1,750 |
How Florida appears in these routes
We publish Florida as an origin on 3 routes and as a destination on 7.
How much does it cost to ship a car to or from Florida?
What you pay to ship a car in Florida depends on where the other end of the trip is. Florida's ten published routes span three distance bands, from a short Georgia hop to a coast-to-coast haul.
We don't price a state, because a price needs two endpoints and a state only has one. Our published Florida routes stretch from Atlanta to Los Angeles, and Pensacola sits closer to Dallas than to Miami. This is a reference price range for this distance band, not a quote for your shipment. Your actual rate varies depending on: vehicle details, the specific pickup location, the delivery location, the timing of pickup and delivery, any additional services, driver availability, and other market conditions. A delivery in the Keys adds a long, slow stretch that no published mileage on this page covers. Want your real number? Get a quote.
Who handles registration paperwork for a car shipped to Florida?
Registering your car, getting it inspected, or getting a VIN check done in Florida is up to you. We don't handle any of it.
We arrange the carrier and the move. Once the car is off the truck, registration and anything else Florida requires of a new resident is yours to handle. We don't explain Florida's rules, inspect anything, or file paperwork for you.
Which Florida routes do we cover?
We publish reference ranges for ten Florida routes, more than for any other state, and seven of the ten run into Florida.
Seven routes run into Florida and three run out. New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and California all have routes into Florida on our site. Florida has routes out to New York, Texas, and Illinois. That split reflects which pages we've built, not which way trucks drive, since cars leave Florida constantly. The imbalance in what people ask about is real, though, and it's why a northbound leg out of Florida is often the load a carrier still needs to fill. Each route in the table links to its own page, with that route's distance, reference price range and transit time.
What route does the truck take on the Georgia-to-Florida run?
The Georgia-to-Florida run is our only route with two different paths in: inland on I-75 through Macon and Valdosta, or coastal on I-95 through Savannah.
Which path a carrier takes depends on where the car is picked up. The inland route runs 661 road miles from Atlanta, 367 of them on I-75, with a short stretch on I-475 around Macon. The coastal route - used for pickups in Savannah, Brunswick, or anywhere east of I-75 - runs 482 road miles, 330 of them on I-95, entering Florida past Jacksonville on I-295. The long runs into Florida are different. The New York-to-Florida route spends 898 of its 1,279 road miles on I-95 alone, so almost the whole trip is on one seaboard highway that every north-south hauler on the East Coast also uses. When it backs up or closes, everything on it slows at once.
What time of year affects a car shipment to or from Florida?
Hurricane season affects Florida shipments most: it runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks September 10, per the National Hurricane Center.
Most storm activity lands between mid-August and mid-October, so that is the stretch to plan around. A named storm headed for Florida suspends a shipment instead of slowing it. Evacuation traffic reverses on the roads a carrier would use, fuel gets scarce along them, and no driver stages a loaded trailer in a storm's path. Your delivery date can move by days, and the carrier makes that call. Most people link Florida with seasonal migration. We can't name a busiest or cheapest month for Florida because we have no Florida shipment-volume record to base one on. Florida has no studded-tire season, no winter highway closures and no cold-weather truck rule, so the storm window is the only dated seasonal fact we can give you.
Source: Tropical Cyclone Climatology - NOAA National Hurricane Center · checked
Does Wave Auto Transport ship cars to Florida?
Yes. We arrange car shipping into and out of Florida as a broker, and every move goes to a vetted, licensed, insured carrier in our network.
Our registered address is in Boca Raton, and it is not a staffed office. We have no terminal, yard or depot there or anywhere else. We book the job, match the carrier, and dispatch it. Door-to-door means the driver gets as close to your address as a full-size carrier can legally and safely get. In Florida the problem is the gated community. A seventy-five-foot rig often can't get through a guarded gate, under a height bar, or around the turning circles inside a condo complex in Boca Raton, Naples, Sarasota, or the Palm Beaches, and plenty of associations ban commercial vehicles from entering at all. When that happens, the driver meets you on a wide road or in a nearby lot. That's normal there, and the booking hasn't failed.
Where does Florida sit in Wave's own shipping network?
Florida is one of our three snowbird destinations, alongside Arizona and Texas, and South Florida is where northern cars arrive for the winter.
Snowbird cars come from the whole Northeast (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and the rest of the upper Northeast), plus northern Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. On this site that means the New York-Florida, Florida-New York, and New Jersey-Florida lanes. Georgia and Texas are not snowbird origins into Florida: nobody winters south from Atlanta, and the same goes for Texas, even though both states have published routes into Florida for other reasons. The Boca Raton address is where we're registered, not where we work.
What vehicle-shipping infrastructure sits in Florida?
Florida's Atlantic coast carries two of the country's busiest international vehicle-cargo gateways, PortMiami and Port Everglades, and we regularly pick up from and deliver to Manheim Orlando too.
Port Everglades' own cargo pages list automobiles, trucks, tractors, and buses among what it moves internationally, and PortMiami, 28 miles away, handles similar traffic. Together they make South Florida a vehicle-logistics hub whatever the time of year. None of that changes what a domestic Wave shipment costs, which depends on distance and vehicle type like any other open or enclosed move. We have no agreement with Manheim. We regularly pick up from and deliver to auctions like it, and work around their schedule.
Where Florida's shipping volume sits
We measure every Florida route on this page from Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, which has 6,457,988 people and is ranked 6 in the country.
Miami is the anchor city we measure from. We arrange shipping from anywhere in Florida, not only from there. Florida has four of the country's fifty largest metro areas: Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville. They are strung down the peninsula and along the north coast instead of clustered together, so Miami does not stand for most of the state. Jacksonville and Tallahassee sit on our published corridors, and Jacksonville is where the seaboard routes and the Gulf routes meet. Pick up in Tampa or Orlando and you're well short of the published Miami distance. Pick up in Pensacola and you're closer to Dallas than to Miami. Pick up in the Keys and you add a slow, single-highway stretch that no published mileage on this page covers.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024, cbsa-est2024-alldata.csv
Florida car shipping FAQs
- Who handles registration and inspection for a car shipped into Florida?
- You do. We arrange the carrier and the move; we don't register, inspect, or VIN-check anything once your car is off the truck.
- Is Florida one of Wave's snowbird destinations?
- Yes, along with Arizona and Texas. The origin side of that pattern is the whole Northeast plus northern Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. On this site that means the New York-Florida, Florida-New York, and New Jersey-Florida lanes. Georgia and Texas aren't snowbird origins into Florida, even though both have published routes here.
- Does hurricane season affect car shipping to Florida?
- Yes. The Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks September 10, with most activity between mid-August and mid-October, per the National Hurricane Center. A named storm suspends a shipment instead of slowing it. Evacuation traffic reverses on the roads a carrier would use, and no driver stages a loaded trailer in a storm's path.
- What vehicle-shipping infrastructure does Florida have?
- Port Everglades and PortMiami both handle automobile cargo internationally on Florida's Atlantic coast, and we regularly pick up from and deliver to Manheim Orlando too. None of this changes the price of a domestic shipment, which depends on distance and vehicle type like any other route.
- Can a car carrier get into my gated community in Florida?
- Often not. A full-size carrier runs about seventy-five feet, and guarded entrances, height bars, and tight turning circles inside condo complexes in Boca Raton, Naples, Sarasota, and the Palm Beaches defeat one, and plenty of associations ban commercial vehicles entirely. Your driver will meet you on a wide road or in a nearby lot, which is what door-to-door means there.
- Does Wave Auto Transport have an office in Florida?
- Our registered address is in Boca Raton, and it is not a staffed office. We have no terminal, yard or depot there or anywhere else. We're a licensed property broker: we book the move and dispatch it to a vetted, licensed, insured carrier in our network, and that carrier's driver runs the route.
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