Price ranges for shipping a car to and from Baltimore, MD, 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
569,997
Metro
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
As of 1 July 2025. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, 1 July 2025
Local notes
A port or terminal in this city means part of the move may be by ship. That is separate from an interstate truck quote.
An auction area is associated with this city. Confirm the storage deadline and the release documents with the auction operator. Yard addresses are not listed here.
A campus in this city can limit where a car-carrier truck stops. The driver often meets you off campus.
Common routes from Baltimore. Sedan or compact car.
Route
Open transport
Enclosed transport
Phoenix, AZ
$950–$1,448
$1,425–$2,172
Los Angeles, CA
$1,018–$1,552
$1,528–$2,328
Riverside, CA
$1,008–$1,536
$1,512–$2,304
San Diego, CA
$1,011–$1,540
$1,516–$2,311
San Francisco, CA
$1,050–$1,600
$1,575–$2,401
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.
The Maryland Port Administration homepage describes the Port of Baltimore as the country's leading roll-on/roll-off port. A vehicle moving on a ship is not the interstate truck quote. See Port of Baltimore. On 10 November 2026, the Maryland Transportation Authority site said the southeast I-695 crossing was closed, with the outer loop closed at MD 173 and the inner loop closed at MD 151 / North Point Boulevard, and it named the I-95 and I-895 tunnels as the alternate harbor crossings. Recheck that alert before a truck uses the beltway.
Campus and auction
College Navigator lists Johns Hopkins University at 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, with Fall 2024 enrollment of 30,210. That is not an out-of-state share. IAA lists a Baltimore branch at 3131 Hawkins Point Road, with office hours Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. No other auction operator was confirmed. See Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore auction area.
Virginia leads the inflow
According to Census migration data, ACS 2024 estimates that 28,004 people now in Maryland had lived in Virginia a year earlier (margin of error 5,694). The District of Columbia was 16,780 (margin of error 3,634). Virginia to Maryland is the largest inflow. Pennsylvania is also a large inflow, at 12,638 people (margin of error 2,389). Registration is on the Maryland page.
