Vehicle Transport Quotes From Carriers on One Page

A dealer trade two states away, an auction buy that needs to come home, a sold unit going to a buyer across the country. Describe the job once, send it to the carriers you choose, and read every quote side by side.

It turns the most scattered job in the used car department into one page. Moving a unit usually means four phone calls, three different descriptions of the same car, a quote on a sticky note and another in somebody's personal email. In Inventory Link you create a request for the vehicle, describe the move once, choose the carriers you want to hear from, and send it. The request sheet then holds a row for each carrier: what went out, whether they replied, the quote they gave and the outcome.

The list of who to ask comes from the directory of transport carriers and service providers inside Inventory Link, so the manager is choosing from a list in the same portal as the inventory rather than working a search engine at eight in the morning. The same directory covers the service providers a unit may need before it is front line ready, and the same request sheet works for those jobs too.

You choose the carrier and you book with them directly. The sheet is the store's record of what was asked, who was asked and what each of them said, which is exactly what a manager needs to approve the spend and exactly what the next person moving a car on the same route wants to read.

A used car manager lands a clean half ton truck in a dealer trade from a store three hundred miles away. Before the handshake call is over, she opens Requests in the Inventory Link portal, clicks Create request, types the last six of the VIN, and the portal fills in the year, make, model and trim from the vehicle record. She enters the pickup city, state and ZIP, the store's address for delivery and the date she needs it on the lot. She notes that it runs and drives and needs no enclosed trailer, searches the directory by city for carriers near the pickup, adds four of them and clicks Send request.

By lunch two carriers have replied and one has called. She puts the phone quote on its row so the sheet shows all three, picks the carrier with the best combination of price and pickup date, books the move with them, and marks the outcome. The general manager asks what the truck is going to cost landed; she uses Email this request and he has the whole comparison in his inbox in a few seconds.

The same pattern handles an auction purchase that needs to come home, a sold vehicle going to a buyer in another state, and a unit headed to a body shop or a detail vendor across town. Every request lives in the requests list with its status, so a glance tells the desk which units are still waiting on a carrier.

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Transport quoting lives in the Inventory Link dealer portal, under Requests, next to the inventory list the requests are about. The portal opens from the My Inventory button on the dock at the bottom of LeadLocate CRM with single sign on, so the manager who is working a lead can move to the vehicle and its transport in one click and with one login.

Because the request starts from the vehicle record, the carrier quotes on a decoded unit rather than a description typed from memory. VIN decode fills the details, stock number overrides keep the store's own numbering intact, and a unit that arrived through a feed or through the import from your own website is ready to quote the moment it is in the list. A trade or wholesale piece that is in no feed yet goes in through Add a vehicle first, then onto a request. The step by step is in how to use the request sheet.

Inventory Link is also in the app stores under the name MyInventory.Link, for the manager who wants the inventory in a pocket while walking the lot.

Some quotes start on the customer's side. When a salesperson shares a DealTracker deal page, the store can switch on a shipping quote step in digital retail checkout. A buyer two hours or two states away requests delivery right on their deal page, with their address, and the request arrives on the deal instead of as a note that says to ask about delivery.

That is the moment the manager opens a transport request in Inventory Link for the same unit. The delivery address from the deal goes on the request, the carriers are asked with one identical description, and the quote that comes back is the number the salesperson shares with the buyer. The buyer sees a store that answers delivery questions with a real figure, the manager sees every carrier's answer on one page, and the deal keeps moving.

For the whole out of market deal, from texting the unit with photos to the signature, pair this with sending vehicles by text and deal pages with e-signature.

It replaces the phone tree. A manager calling carriers one at a time describes the car a little differently to each, gets answers at different hours, and ends the day with prices that are hard to compare because the questions were never identical. It replaces the sticky note, the text thread with a dispatcher, and the email chain that one person can see. And it replaces the habit of using the same carrier every time because finding another one felt like work.

Standalone quoting tools and marketplaces are a separate login, a separate account and a separate place to keep records, disconnected from the inventory the quote is about. In LeadLocate, transport quoting is part of Inventory Link, which is part of the platform subscription rather than a separate purchase, and every plan runs month to month. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

There is a quieter saving too. After a season of requests, the store has its own record of every lane it has moved cars on: who answered fast, who quoted fairly, who showed up on the day promised. That history lives on the sheets and is available to the next manager on the next request.

A transport request is a written record. It names the vehicle by VIN, states its condition, gives the route and the date, and shows exactly which carriers received that description and what each one answered. When a buyer later asks why delivery cost what it did, or a manager audits wholesale expense, the sheet answers the question with the same facts every carrier was given.

Build a habit on top of it. Confirm each carrier's operating authority and insurance at the moment you book, and put that confirmation on the sheet as a note, so the record shows the store did its diligence before a unit left the lot. Keep damage and delivery notes on the same page when the unit arrives. Transport is one of the few places a vehicle leaves the store's control between purchase and sale, and a clean paper trail is the store's best protection.

Access follows the store's own team settings in Inventory Link, with invites and roles, so the store decides exactly who works in the portal and every request carries the name of a real member of the team.

Nothing to install. Every LeadLocate account includes Inventory Link, and Requests is part of the dealer portal. Open the portal from My Inventory on the CRM dock, make sure the unit is in your inventory list, and create your first request. Invite the used car manager and anyone else who moves vehicles from the portal's team view and set their role.

If your store works with a carrier or a service provider it wants in the directory, ask for it; our team puts it in production for your dealership. The same goes for a request field your store always needs on a transport job. The pre-recorded live demo shows the portal, and the Help Center carries the guide.

Start with the inventory itself. Inventory feeds or the import from your own website keep the unit list current, so every request starts from a real record. Auto broker inventory mode gives a broker with no lot the brand offer pages that bring in buyers from farther away, and those are the buyers who ask about delivery.

On the selling side, model research pages bring out of market shoppers to the store's site; the SEO for vehicle model research pages guide covers how. If your business is the other end of this job, hauling cars rather than shipping them, the auto transport leads for carriers and brokers page is the one written for you. The all features list shows where transport quoting sits among everything else in the platform.

How do I get car transport quotes as a dealer?

Create a request in the Inventory Link portal for the unit, enter pickup, delivery and the date needed, choose carriers from the directory and send it. Every carrier gets the same description and every reply lands on its own row of one sheet.

Does LeadLocate book the carrier for me?

You choose the carrier and book with them directly. Inventory Link gives you the directory to ask from, one request that goes to everyone with the same details, and the sheet that holds every quote and the outcome.

Can a customer request a shipping quote?

Yes. When the store turns on the shipping quote step in digital retail checkout, a buyer requests delivery with their address on their DealTracker deal page, and the manager quotes it through a transport request for the same unit.

Can I quote trucks and other vehicles, not only cars?

Yes. The request starts from the vehicle in your inventory list, whatever it is, and the notes carry anything a carrier needs to know: oversized, low front end, no keys, or a unit that does not run.

Is transport quoting an extra charge?

It is part of Inventory Link, which is part of the platform subscription on every plan, month to month. The carrier's own price for the move is between you and the carrier you book.

Describe the move once, send it to the carriers you choose, and compare every answer side by side in Inventory Link, included with the platform. See it in the pre-recorded demo or start month to month.

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