Car transport

Assuming you have a hefty towing vehicle you could do it yourself.

£75 to rent a trailer for 2 days because it’s unlikely you’ll do it sensibly both ways in one day.
£35 for a Travelodge room.
550 miles worth of fuel - call it £100 because you won’t get great fuel economy towing a car trailer and car.
2 days of your time - whatever that’s worth.

On that basis £330 doesn’t look stupidly expensive.
 
https://www.transporterhire.co.uk/

Just looked on Google and there's a host of similar places offering similar style car transporters as this one above^. This one is £110 for a day plus the extra mileage charge for your trip (£36 assuming the miles in post 2 is correct). Says the car needs to be below 1500kg for the smaller ones though. Agreed with the guy above though, £330 doesn't seem awful for this sort of trip+cargo.

https://www.shiply.com/

Put down your trip on here and companies will bid on it to fight for the lowest price.
 
I used JDT transport, was £500 from Redcar to Stoke for Corvette, expensive but all went great.
 
Depends if you want a fully insured, experienced high quality service or Dave in a van with some rope. Seems going rate to me.
 
I'm genuinely interested to know what the OP thought a reasonable price would be.

Yes, there is a chance someone could 'leverage' your journey and do several cars on the trip, but if you assume a simple point to point, I don't think ~ £1 per mile is bad at all.
 
I've paid £80 for a 'friend of a friend' to move a car about 30 miles on a sketchy old trailer. Then I think i paid around £100 to get a car moved about 15 miles by a proper local recovery firm who actually knew what they were doing and were insured etc, that obviously only took the guy about 30 minutes all told including loading/unloading so i think 330 to go that distance is reasonable.
 
I paid £240 to have my GTR moved 100 miles, then the same to have it brought back to me. This was with a "classic/prestige" car transport chap who had an open or/and covered trailer. He was very professional and had insurance up to £100k, he also provided me with live tracking so I knew where my car was at all times. Picked up when he said he would and delivered when I wanted, very good.

When I was searching I also found some people that would "do it for a oner" but they were mostly car recovery people that were more suited to scraping a crashed car off the road and dumping it at the local breakers.

So it depends on the car I guess.
 
If it's a decent truck I don't think you can expect less than that. A ***** (Large spear used by ancient greeks in combat) in a transit might beat it though.
 
Just over a £ a mile, seems reasonable. The standard for bikes is pretty much £1 a mile one way. So it doesn't sound way off considering you're going to need more than a white van to transport a car.
 
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