Car transportation costs

If it’s for a pre booked mot , day insurance & drive it there . As mentioned above .

If it definitely needs transporting , find someone local .
Our local guy charges £50 for stuff moving around here , that goes up the further out you need it moved .

I think the problem isn't how long your job takes, it's the time taken from a potentially bigger job.
Even a couple of hours needs to pay for a whole day as its unlikely most will get any other jobs in.

Last time I got quotes there were people offering to drive on trade plates for very reasonable money.

It really wasn't appropriate for what I was moving but might work for you.

Or speak to the local scrap yard, the guys in and out of there often make several smaller trips a day.

I am not a Facebook user. However in respect to this it’s very helpful.

I moved house a few years ago, I can walk to my old house in about 10 minutes, it’s not far away at all. When I had to move everything came together a lot quicker than I had expected and I ended up needing to move 5 vehicles that I could not move on the road, be it due to insurance, tax or some other legal implication. I could have driven them, it’s less than a minutes drive, I could have probably rolled them down the hill! However being a law abiding citizen that follows the law understanding these things are imposed for a reason, I had them recovered.

After numerous £150+ quotes per car I had someone post a request on Facebook, 5 vehicles need moving, please send us a quote if you can help or recommend someone and I had a guy get in touch, after many muppets and he said he would do it for £20 per car. Turned up in a fairly new truck, copies of all of his insurance and was an absolute diamond. One shell fell off of my dolly and he came out and gave us a hand to get it all sorted, so I binged him an extra few quid for being so accommodating. Bonus is I now have his contact details and just drop him a text whenever I need something moving.

In the end it worked out cheaper than day insurance so I am glad I persevered.

Other than that, go on eBay, put your post code in and search “recovery” and filter results by nearest first. Just message the sellers and see what comes back.

Shiply is absolute garbage. I’ve never actually had a delivery turn up, they’ve always quoted extortionately high as well. You have to pay an arrangement fee when you accept their quote, yet when they cancel I’ve never actually had any of those fees back.

Pretty sure in your case day insurance will be ok provided the MOT is pre-booked. Otherwise you’re going to have to organise a recovery truck to take the car there, hang about for the inevitable delayed mot, to then recover it home.

3 hours worth of insurance is about £20 or so, book an MOT, check the tyres and lights drive it over there.


well worth giving the car a decent run to get it up to temperature, burn off the rust on the brakes, clean the car through.

having tax or MOT test has no bearing whatsoever on insurance, PC plod cares not one jot if you don't have the former two, the latter though they take a very dim view of.

The important bit is "pre-booked MOT test" - booked, in their diary under the reg, your name etc. Then, if its's insured, you can drive with no MOT, or tax, to it, and back, even if it fails.

Has to be roadworthy though - so if you have bald tyres, no sills, and your feet poking out, you won't be done for no NOT or tax, but will for unroadworthy vehicle.

Would the garage not come and get it - either with a recovery vehicle/trailer, or under their trade plates/insurance?

Therefore, if the car;
is over 3 year old,
isn't tax or MOT exempt,
not on its way to a pre booked MOT test,
then driving it, will invalidate its insurance ?