BUNNIES, BEERS, AND CARS LAUNCH SPRING BREAK IN HOUSTON

Modern luxury meets classic cool when the hottest cars and most beautiful women take over Houston's Rice Village for the Bunnies, Beers, and Cars (BB&C) Spring Break Edition Auto Show Saturday, March 2.

Stunning cars and swimsuit models from Playboy and Vertical Smiles share the spotlight as the BB&C bikini contest highlights this electrifying event with the most exotic automobiles in the city on display.

Auto fans get a rare opportunity to marvel at premium luxury imports from Lamborghini, Tesla, and Maserati to Mercedes, Bentley, Nissan, and Ferrari while domestic manufacturers, including Ford and Dodge among others, represent classic American speed and muscle.

Renowned  disc jockey Artafackt energizes the crowd as they take advantage of food and drink specials at Brian O'Neill's Irish Pub located in the heart of Rice Village - one of the city's most popular entertainment districts known for its shopping, dining, and nightlife.

Last year's auto extravaganza was a tremendous success, building excitement well beyond Texas with attendance expected in the hundreds for this year's show.

 "People are coming out from all over," says Ryan Pratt, co-president of N-Motion Auto Transport. "We're being contacted by people everywhere including Virginia, California, and Florida wanting to be a part of this event. It seems like it's spanning national."

N-Motion Auto Transport - a locally-based, full-service,car hauling and vehicle shipping provider - co-sponsors the event with Brian O'Neill's, Radical Roadsters, Halcyon Claire Photography, and Vertical Smiles.

This celebration for automobile appreciation and spring break excitement is free and open to the public. Doors open at 3 p.m. at Brian O'Neill's, located at 5555 Morningside Dr. For more information, contact N-Motion at (281) 888-6087.

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Car Shipping Prices

Car shipping prices can vary with different criteria such as size of the vehicle, pickup and delivery location, type of service required (open auto transport vs. enclosed auto transport), special requirements, etc.  N-Motion Auto Transport does a great job of obtaining all information and creating a specialized car transport program to fit the wants and needs of every customer.  Need a monster truck moved from Baltimore, MD to Los Angeles, CA?  Easy!  N-Motion Auto Transport would get the specs of the truck and then match the type of trailer necessary to perfectly cater to the dimensions of the vehicle. 

Best Nationwide Car Shipping Service

Each vehicle is properly secured with wheel straps, not chains.  Wheel straps do not put any tension on the body of the vehicle and reduce any chance of damage during the car hauling process.  This is an added perk of using an auto shipping company such as N-Motion Auto Transport and does not inflate the car shipping prices whatsoever. 

Fast, Reliable Car Transport Solutions

Whether you need to move off to college or even want to travel down south for the winter, N-Motion Auto Transport can cater to your every need.  We transport vehicles for a wide variety of clientele, including race teams, professional athletes, college students, snowbirds, and dealerships all over the nation.  Our car shipping prices do not change with different clients because we do not believe in price gouging.  The team at N-Motion Auto Transport gives consumers the easiest and most affordable options available in the automobile transport market.  

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Car Hauling Professionals

N-Motion Auto Transport is a 5 star-rated award winning car shipping company with car hauling trucks that run nationwide routes to service a wide variety of customers.   We work hard to earn the trust of our clients, from professional athletes to car dealers, and provide them with vehicle shipping solutions unmatched by the competition.    Our enclosed auto transport services handle exotic cars and high end vehicles all year round, especially for those needing low ground clearance options. 

Car Hauling Door to Door

Unlike other auto transport operations with car hauling trucks, N-Motion Auto Transport maintains a perfect track record and facilitates even the toughest of loads.  We move thousands of vehicles a year and give customers that well deserved peace of mind throughout the entire process.   Some could consider us the one stop shop for all moving purposes.  Our car hauling drivers are seasoned veterans with several years of experience in the car transportation industry.  They not only have their own high standards, but also meet the criteria that N-Motion Auto Transport requires for customer service and car delivery. 

Car Hauling Nationwide

Leaving your car in the hands of other people might be difficult, but after you walk through the entire process with the professionals at N-Motion Auto Transport, you will never feel more at ease.  For a typical person these days, a vehicle is the second largest purchase an individual makes and when you have to hand those keys over to someone you don’t know, it could be frightening.  Our car hauling reputation speaks for itself and after you read the many auto transport reviews, the choice to roll with us will be that much simpler. 

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Change in the Auto Shipping Industry

E-Commerce in the Auto Transport Industry

Over the last few years, the auto transport industry has seen an increase in e-commerce. E-commerce roughly means conducting business over the internet for products of all types from all over the world. In the world of logistics, e-commerce has changed the way people buy and sell directly to consumers over national boundaries by cutting out the retail channel. Manufactures can benefit more today from e-commerce than in the past by selling their products straight to retail stores. Consumers can also benefit more from these channels by saving more money on goods that would normally sell for more in the local retail outlet. Companies like Amazon.com have used e-commerce to operate in a new technological world by shipping goods directly to the consumer with a wide range of products to choose from.

Auto Shipping Industry

In the auto industry e-commerce has increased online sales of automobiles. People from overseas or in different states are able to look at vehicles for sell and make a purchase without ever seeing the car in person. This form of business has increased the benefits for both dealers and consumers. Vehicle transport companies have also benefited from the increased e-commerce move. Since vehicles are purchased online, the need for car transport services has increased dramatically.

Car Shipping Industry

Over all, e-commerce is changing the way we do business and saving money for everyone at the same time. Next time you’re online looking to purchase goods, remember you’re engaging in e-commerce which can change your view of how goods are now bought and sold.

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Missouri Begins Fixing Flood-Damaged Roads

In northwest Missouri, the repairing of flood-damaged roads has started. However, transportation officials have said that many of the major highways are still under water and Interstate 29 is going to remain closed for awhile. On Tuesday the Missouri Department of Transportation said that work is being done on both U.S. 136 in Atchison County and U.S. 59 in Buchanan County. The department spokeswoman Melissa Black made the comment that since the flood this was the first time that they have been able to make some progress. Even though there is process being made there are still eighteen main roads that are still covered with water and because the interstate bridge in Iowa is still damaged Interstate 29 is going to continue to be closed as well. October 15th is when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers believes that Highway 59 is expected to be open but they are not sure how long the construction will take. Even though US 59 has 40-foot holes in sections of the highway, construction shouldn’t take longer than a couple weeks. On the other hand U.S. 136 has an estimated 500-foot gap in it and it is undetermined how long it will take to repair. This flood damage to the highways is going to make it difficult for car haulers.



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Auto Shipping with Properly Inflated Tires

Car hauling professionals out on the roads and highways of the United States that have been looking at the tires on their car transport vehicle after conducting interstate car shipping duties wondering what road monster has been attacking your tires can relax. Your tires haven't been attacked by some unknown force, but by the constant attack of the dynamic physical forces acting on the rubber of the tires. Physical forces that are made worse by things like misaligned axles, unbalanced tire rotation, loose wheel bearings, and other things. Taking the time to make sure all of these aspects are taken care of can save you wear and tear on your truck tires and the time and money required to constantly replace them.

If you do need to replace your truck tires, take the time to examine them for wear patterns and talk to an expert in tire wear to see what they think, if you can find one. The truck tires that you need to replace after being on the roads of America will tell you what you need to know to increase their life expectancy, if you take the time to listen, so listen to what they have to say, and you'll benefit financially.

A tire-failure study done by the American Trucking Association's Technology and Maintenance Council recently reported that according to the results of their study about 90 percent of all tire failures can be traced back to improper tire inflation. Auto shipping professionals who take the time to regularly check the pressure of their truck tires can therefore reduce the possibility of a tire failure significantly, just by making the act of checking the pressure of their truck tires a regular part of their routine. Sources around the auto transport industry indicate that wear patterns produced by underinflated truck tires tend to exhibit several types of wear that depend on the tire type and wheel position. Watch for wavy and abnormal shoulder wear on rib tires, irregular wear rates on inner ribs, and increased wear on alternating lugs on lug-type tires, which could be indications of your truck tires running underinflated.

Essential Car Transport Road Tool

One piece of essential car shipping equipment that every car transport professional needs to take on the road with them is a Rand McNally Motor Carriers Road Atlas. Rand McNally just updated the Motor Carriers Road Atlas, with a new version that according to Rand McNally includes new maps and content essential for car transporters to take with them on their road trips. An indispensible road tool that you should always have in the cab of your car hauling vehicle, the new Rand McNally Motor Carriers Road Atlas is the commercial transport drivers helping hand when they need to find their way to destination in an efficient and reliable manner in the United States of America.

Rand McNally worked closely with professional transport drivers out on the transport highways of the United States to make improvements and additions to this edition that are designed to help transport professionals navigate the transport roads of America. They have apparently added things like completely revised state and province maps, including updated mileages, additional suburb, town and small city names, and better urban area representation to help transport professionals navigate the transport routes of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment. Updated highway maps show the newest truck roadways as designed by the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) or highways that have been designated for transport vehicles and the new city maps include insets of downtown areas.

Rand McNally didn't stop there as the new edition has redesigned maps that more accurately display the curvature of the roads and are easier to read. The updated charts include more than 800 changes that have been made to truck-specific state contact information, such as operating authority contacts, emergency police and even vehicle registration. The new Rand McNally Motor Carriers Road Atlas also features roads and information to assist over-the-road trucking operations, such as detailed coverage of the state-designated truck routes and STAA-designed routes, and even updated coverage of the rules and regulations concerning the transport of hazardous materials.

Open Road Tolling increases in Miami

Car transport drivers traveling north on SR 874 that pass through the exisiting toll plaza will still have to pay the current toll rate (SunPass), if they need to travel the entire distance north to the Palmetto Expressway or east to U.S. 1. Car hauling professionals that plan on exiting on Killian Parkway or Kendall Drive, though, will now pay a reduced fare, due to the benefits of Open Road Tolling along this route, according to sources. Apparently, Open Road Tolling has resulted in a redistribution of tolls throughout the entire length of the roadway, and the designers of this idea are so happy that they plan on implementing more Open Road Tolling on other roads in Miami in the days ahead in the future of the environment.

Today, Saturday July 17, 2010, Open Road Tolling will start on the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority's (MDX) SR 874/Don Shula Expressway and SR 878/Snapper Creek Expressway in Florida. Overhead gantries will now automatically collect a toll based on the distance car movers travel, which eliminates the need for car transporters to use toll plazas, and simplifies the process of paying tolls. This idea appears o be catching on in Miami as plans for the future include implementing Open Road Tolling on the five expressways operated and maintained by MDX by the time we reach 2013. This means that overhead gantries will soon be replacing traditional toll plazas and tolls will be automatically calculated based on the portion of the road traveled. According to the implementers of Open Road Tolling this idea might even reduce traffic congestion, make the roadways safer, and reduce the total carbon wheel-print of the vehicles traveling along the expressways in question. In addition to only making users pay for the distance they travel along the expressways and helping to fund the infrastructure investment needed to keep the expressways in operation in the years ahead in the century of the environment in the United States of America.

SmartWay Certified Retread Tires for Car Transport

Automobile transport drivers conducting car shipping services for an American car transporter that have been dreaming of a low-rolling-resistance, fuel-efficient retreaded tire that has been certified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay program might be able to stop dreaming in a few months time. Car movers need only look at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's list of low-rolling-resistance, fuel-efficient tires will tell you that there are no retreads on the list at the present moment. This could change by sometime in 2011, now that the interest in getting retreaded tires onto the SmartWay list, has apparently increased sufficiently to get the ball rolling, according to the latest sources.

Why aren't retreaded tires on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay list already? Sources around the car hauling industry indicate that the Environmental Protection Agency could be having a little trouble finding away to quantify the relative fuel efficiency of a retreaded tire, which is a two-part system. That casing and treads are designed to work together, but the variables involved in testing makes it difficult to objectively quantify the measurements obtained during the tests. The Environmental Protection Agency therefore had the tire manufacturers of America work together on developing a system to help the Environmental Protection Agency sort through the multitude of treads and casings on the market that could conceivably one day become a single retreaded tire.

These could be just the beginning of the challenges in front of the desire to get retreaded tires onto the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay program though as there could also be problems classifying retreaded tires within the current contest of the SmartWay program. Do you measure the casing or the tread and how do you measure the rolling resistance contribution of the tread and the casings? Every retreaded tire is going to be a unique product because of the history of the casing of the tire in question and this is going to make it extremely difficult to measure the rolling resistance values for each casing.

Decelerating Car Transports Produce Electricity?

Car transports stopping at toll booths, traffic intersections, rest areas, and even border crossings along the transport highways of the United States of American in the years ahead in the century of the environment could be generating enough energy to power the electrical needs of the auto shipping company they work for. The latest idea in electric generation using the power of heavy-duty transports is to capture the energy of the decelerating car hauling transports traveling along the highways of America in the future and use it to provide electrical energy for the heavy-duty trucking industry. In a few years time this system could even be used to power the electrical needs of weigh stations and other facilities in America and that the opportunities for using the power created by decelerating transports on the roads of the United States are increasing.

Say hello to MotionPower-Heavy technology by New Energy Technologies, a possible alternate source of energy for the car hauling industry of the future that will be tested on the roads of the United States this year at trucking facilities, warehouses, transportation depots, weigh stations and truckstops, if New Energy Technologies has its way. The company is planning a first testing of MotionPower-Heavy technology's ability to produce electrical energy while decelerating on the highways of the United States at an unnamed cargo port in the Northeast of the United States in the days ahead. They also plan to be on the road this summer traveling around the United States of America giving two day demonstrations to Americans that are interested in their MotionPower-Heavy technology.

How does New Energy Technology's MotionPower-Heavy technology work? Designed to be an unseen and unfelt power generation system that doesn't take away from a car transports fuel economy or add to the wear and tear of the automobile transport in question. MotionPower-Heavy technology captures the kinetic energy of a decelerating truck using embedded systems in the roadways and works on even ground, so there's no ramp to travel up, and drivers to date have reported not even knowing New Energy Technology's MotionPower-Heavy technology is even in use.

Car Transporters Will Interact More With CSA 2010

Car transport drivers operating on the highways and roads of the United States in 2010 can probably expect to be talking to an official from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) more often, once CSA 2010 is in full operation across America. A recently conducted 30-month field test by the FMCSA and its state partners was designed to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the new safety management system (SMS) and the systems that have been put in place in CSA 2010 to fix any safety problems that might exist on auto transport vehicles operating on the roads of America. The field tests also showed according to sources that car movers in the United States might be sitting on the side of the highway talking to an official from the FMCSA, once CSA 2010 is fully implemented. The field tests were at first conducted in Colorado, Georgia, Missouri and New Jersey, but in the fall of 2009 they started field tests in Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota and Montana, as well.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new safety management system is an initiative designed to improve car hauling safety on the roads and highways of the United States and hopefully reduce the total number of motor vehicle related accidents, injuries and fatalities associated with the work of the car transporters of America. This initiative will replace the current SafeSat compliance review system in place in the United States, later this year, once they get CSA 2010 in operation.

Just how did they conduct this road test of the new safety management system that's included with CSA 2010? Apparently, the FMCSA and its state partners applied the new SMS and CSA 2010 interventions to all of the motor carriers they talked to in the states in which they conducted the field tests, in order to try to figure out any operational issues automobile transport professionals might experience during the implementation of CSA 2010 in the states in question, before they decide to roll CSA 2010 out onto the roads of the United States in the months ahead.

Car Transport in Port of Algeciras Strong, Shipping cars to Spain

The business of international auto shipping has apparently been going strong in Spain’s biggest port, the Port of Algeciras Bay, as reports have been coming in of cars moving through this ports car transport facilities in increasing volumes in the first part of 2010. The Port of Algeciras is in a strategic geographical position along the north shore of the Strait of Gibraltar that makes it a perfect crossroad for shipping services between Northern Europe, West Africa, America and Asia. The Port of Algeciras has apparently also been at work improving the road infrastructure connecting the port facilities with all of the regions surrounding the port, so moving the cars inland or bringing them to the ships, is going to be easier for car hauling services tasked with delivering the vehicles.

There were no concrete numbers on the increase in the volume of cars being moved through the Port of Algeciras Bay in the first quarter of 2010. We can get an idea of the increase by looking at the total increase in traffic at the port during the first quarter though, which went up by over 6 percent. At the same time, container volumes in the port went up by over 15 percent, so you can get an idea of the increase in the number of vehicles moving through the Port of Algeciras during the first few months of the year. The port authorities and firms doing business in the Port of Algeciras obviously are hoping that they keep seeing sunny skies on the horizon and activity at the port continue to increase as we travel further into 2010. We second that feeling and hope that traffic and business in the Port of Algeciras is breaking records in a few months time.

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Toyota to Close NUMMI, Teamsters, UAW Protest Job Losses, car transport, car hauling

The NUMMI plant in California, a joint venture between Toyota and GM, seems to be on its last legs, much to the chagrin of Teamster car haulers. GM has abandoned its share of the plant during bankruptcy and Toyota is about to do likewise; the Corolla produced there is part of the recall that has set Toyota on its heels. Toyota is planning to shift production of the Tacoma pickup to San Antonio and move Corolla production to Canada and Japan.

That might please the Canadian Auto Workers, but the UAW doesn’t like it; the move has set up a tag-team protest of the NUMMI closure between the Teamsters, the UAW and the environmental group Friends of the Earth, who are going to exchange unpleasantries at the Japanese embassy in Washington on Thursday. Protesting in front of Toyota HQ might be more effective, but doing so in Washington in front of the Washington press corps makes for better PR; the Teamsters protested Chrysler’s apparent lack of interest in unionized car transport in front of the Italian embassy last year, playing up Chrysler’s Fiat connection.

The move should cost some Teamster car hauling jobs, as the Japanese imports are more likely to move by rail than the NUMMI-made cars. The environmental angle here is that moving the cars by sea from Japan will leave a greater carbon footprint.

However, NUMMI’s time has come and gone. When it got started in 1984, it was a way for GM to learn Toyota’s quality-control tricks and for Toyota to get pointers from GM on how to manufacture in the US. A quarter-century on, and Six Sigma black belts abound in US manufacturing; we’ve gotten the quality control bug and Toyota has gone native, as the Lexington high school football highlights from Toyota Stadium in Georgetown point out.

Source: http://www.joc.com/node/416309

Grade Inflation in Car Haulers, A Rash of Firms With AAA and AAAA Names

If home run champ Hank Aaron, who owns a number of dealerships in metro Atlanta where he spent most of his career, got into the car hauling business, he’d be well down the listings, for it seems that quite a few firms in the car-hauling business have names that are designed to be first in an alphabetical list.

A look at the listings at Carshipping.com has a truck load of names ahead of Hammerin’ Hank; “A-AAA Auto Transport, Inc, AA Auto Movers, AAA Anytime Inc, AAA Discount Auto & Truck Transporters, AAAll States Auto Transport, Inc.” That’s more As than even a good MBA class of mine from my teaching days.

How are you supposed to decide which of these firms would be good to use? People’s default response is to either call the firm with the biggest ad in the phone book, the first firm to show up in a Google search or, if they dig deeper, the first name on the list in the phone book. Firms that give themselves a three or four A name are trying to optimize their position in a list rather than tell something about themselves with their name.

There are some A names that have some quality. The American Automobile Association does a good job for travelers and Alcoholics Anonymous has changed the lives of a number of people who needed the help. However, these aren’t likely to be of that quality. What should a consumer think of a firm whose name acts like an antsy student with his hand waiving in the air? Not much.

Source: http://www.carshipping.com

Tips on Choosing a Car Hauling Company, Reliability, Inssurance, Cost

People use car delivery companies for several reasons. Car buyers can get a great deal from an online auction on a car 3,000 miles away if they have a car hauling company to rely on. Retirees would rather fly than drive south for the winter, but they still need to drive when they get there. Then there are luxury and classic car owners with cars that are simply too valuable to risk driving long distances. Especially with expensive cars, choosing a reliable car hauling company is important. By looking for a few key elements, you can be sure to choose a company that will take great care of your vehicle.

First off, reliability is important. This means you want to know how long the company has been in business under its current name. Ask if the company ever did business under any other name. Go online and search for customer feedback on the shipping company under current and past names. Be wary of any company that repeatedly turns up with negative comments.

Insurance is important when choosing an enclosed transport carrier too. Be sure the company is bonded and insured. Check that they carry insurance for any damage to your car from shipping. When you ask if the carrier has insurance, ask what kind and how much and get a copy of the insurance certificate verifying coverage.

Car shipping pricing should be your last concern when choosing a company. While affordability is important, it is much more important that your car reach its destination undamaged and on time.

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