Price ranges for shipping a car to and from Birmingham, AL, plus nearby terminals and common routes.
Key facts
How vehicles move
By truck; ports and islands may need a separate sea or rail service
Population
195,893
Metro
Birmingham, AL
As of 1 July 2025. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, 1 July 2025
Local notes
A campus in this city can limit where a car-carrier truck stops. The driver often meets you off campus.
Common routes from Birmingham. Sedan or compact car.
Route
Open transport
Enclosed transport
Denver, CO
$718–$1,094
$1,077–$1,642
Phoenix, AZ
$820–$1,250
$1,230–$1,875
Tucson, AZ
$806–$1,228
$1,209–$1,842
Fresno, CA
$921–$1,404
$1,382–$2,105
Irvine, CA
$900–$1,371
$1,350–$2,057
As of 2026-11-09. RideShipper estimate, updated 2026-11-09, based on 3,588 prices that customers reported paying in MoveAdvisor reviews, adjusted for U.S. diesel at $6.13 a gallon for that week (U.S. Energy Information Administration). In testing, the typical difference between an estimate and a reported price was about 20% of the estimate. This is an estimate, not a quote: the carrier sets the price. No pickup date was supplied, so this estimate uses November 2026. There is no seasonal direction adjustment for this route and month.
According to Census ACS 2024, the largest estimates of people now in Alabama who lived in another state a year earlier are Florida 16,423 (margin of error 4,099), Georgia 15,194 (margin of error 2,860), and Tennessee 11,339 (margin of error 2,639). The largest outbound estimates are Georgia 15,804 (margin of error 5,475), Florida 11,110 (margin of error 3,108), and Tennessee 9,789 (margin of error 2,113). I-20 runs east toward Georgia. I-65 runs north toward Tennessee and south toward Montgomery and Mobile. These counts are people, not booked trucks. Florida to Alabama is the state lane.
Campus, and a yard that is not in the city
Samford University is in Birmingham. College Navigator lists a Fall 2024 student population of 6,097. This note does not state an out-of-state share. A student delivery still needs a campus address the driver can use. IAA's public location list titles a branch Birmingham, and the address line on that list is Bessemer, not a downtown Birmingham street. Confirm the yard city before treating a house in Birmingham as the pickup.
Where the truck can stop
If the carrier cannot use the residential street, set a meeting point off I-65 or I-20/I-59 and name the exit. That is common practice, not a city ordinance quoted here. See residential pickup and meeting points. The state page, not this note, holds the registration steps.
