shipping car

We shipped a Jeep Liberty and a Toyota Tacoma in 2005 and we could not have anything in them but I think (if I remember) I did leave a snorkel bag in one of them 🙂

Pia

No, you can no longer ship your vehicle with household goods in it.

Many have reported that if you do leave any incidental items in your vehicle, those things are likely to disappear before your car arrives in the USVI.

We shipped a car and a minivan 4 years ago with Tropical Shipping. At that time you could fill the vehicle up to the window level. We had a TV, computer printer, household goods, etc.

When they arrived on STX they were completely intact -- right down to the McDonalds bag of trash in the front seat.

I guess we were lucky. We dropped the cars off on a Monday (I think) and picked it up on STX on Tuesday of the following week. I highly recommend Tropical.

We are going to use Crowley Shipping company
They drop of a 40ft container to our home here and then we load our vehicle and household items all together in this one 40 ft container. We have been advised to leave the keys of the vehicle inside the vehicle and not to put anything else inside it. I think I will have peace of mind knowing all of our things are together. We are moving the end of Aug. Ouch the hottest time of the year here in Florida--not looking forward to the loading and unloading but can't wait to get to beautiful St. Croix

You should be aware that once your container gets to STX, Crowley's agent is O"Neale Trucking But YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE THEM TO EITHER CLEAR YOUR CONTAINER OR TRANSPORT IT TO YOUR HOME. You can hire anyone you want to use to transport the container, and you can even clear it through custom yourself! Rates vary, and so does the service. We've been happy using M&T Trucking to transport from the container port to our house.
We sent our last from-the-states container via Crowley, rather than Tropical, as it was coming from NY. Dealing with O'Neale once it hit STX was a nightmare. Little or no customer service (and that's being nice), higher prices to transport the contaner, and then they didn't do it on the day promised, and didn't tell us they weren't coming, etc, etc. Several months later, we had a container coming to stx from the Dominican Republic, and it somehow got sent via a Crowley-associated line rather than a Tropical-associated line (found out why later, it was a BIG difference in price). Container came on a round-about route, visiting several other islands on its journey to us, and when it finally arrived O'Neale was to clear it--so we wind up with major customs issues, and find out later from acquaintenances at Customs that the gal at O'Neale creates many of the situations by the way she handles shipments--seems to be another company in business in spite of itself, which seems sometimes to be a VI thing!