Welcome back to my transport blog where I’ve decided that this is a good time to talk about car transportation. Ok, most people probably know what I mean by that, but just in case, left’s differentiate between using a car to transport people or stuff around and what I’m going to be talking about and that’s the industry side of transporting cars from where they’re made to where they’re sold.

That takes us to the average car buyer who arrives at his local dealership for the make he or she has decided upon buying and allows us to trace the process from that point backwards to the point where the newly manufactured car has rolled off the assembly line in the factory where it was assembled and from the huge car park where it is kept prior to its shipping off to the place it is needed. That’s the car dealerships who will sell them.

So back at our local dealership, our car buyer has decided on the model and specifications and the dealer tells them that the exact car they want is not in stock and will have to be ordered from the main depot, which is the huge car park that houses the actual car the buyer is wanting to buy. What happens next may or may not surprise you. It is usually one of two things.

First of all, the ordered car will join a batch of other models from that manufacturer to fulfill other orders and they will all be transported by truck from the depot to the dealership whereupon the buyers will all be able to drive their shiny brand new cars away smelling of “new car” and gleaming their way to their new home where they’ll be parked in an obvious place just to make the neighbors envious. Unless they bought a Skoda in which case, they’ll park it around the corner until after dark then move it into the garage. Only kidding!

Second case scenario is the buyer of the new car is the only one to order anything from the dealership for a while and it doesn’t look like they’ll be selling any more any time soon. In that case, there’s not much point in contracting out a huge car transporter truck to bring just one car down from the depot to the dealer. So what happens in that case is a driver will actually drive the new car to the dealership, or even direct to the new owner’s home if that arrangement has been made.

So now youknow how its all done!

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