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Enclosed Or Open Trailers Auto Shipping

Safeeds
February 03, 2026
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If you are shipping your vehicle you will definitely will encounter to two types of shipping methods: open or enclosed. Open types of trailer are suitable for alm ost any type of vehicle. Mostly standard model vehicles are shipped on open trailers, because it's more way cheaper than covered ones.

If you have a type of luxury vehicle like Ferrari or kinds like this you definitely need an enclosed shipment, because of its appropriate standards for loading and unloading of your car. Enclosed trailers will be very low as they are enclosed they will not be damaged by some kind of stones or some kind of weather conditions. When it comes to open trailers they are very high. The purpose of this height is keeping safe your car from damages which the trailer might encounter during the trip. You can see a huge difference in pricing of these two methods.

Enclosed costs more because of its trailer type and in most cases they will not carry more vehicles. Open ones are really cheap and economical but you cannot definitely ship your low type cars on them!

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