RonR80

It does not cost GM nothing at all to ship , we pay for it on the $750 charge when you by a car I think they call it DESTINATION charge , GM is laughing all the way to the bank with our money

gixxerbill

$995 dude $995

Elleby13

this made me

SpryGeezer

Solution:
Eliminate destination charges and shipping costs by requiring all new car buyers to take delivery at the assembly plant.

speedlink

What are you talking about? The transportation companies go to GM and say, they want to deliver all their cars for free? What?

And the charge is $995.

By the way "does not cost nothing" is a double negative. Which implies, it does cost something.

gixxerbill

be simpler especially if the dealers make their same money. That way a person could have their car shipped or they could pick it up and drive it back with the $995 saved. Just have some service company there that would prep it for a $200.

HolyRoller

Yes, as distinguished from "don't cost nothin," which means it's free.

Does anybody here actually know what it costs GM to ship by rail or ship only by truck from BG? I doubt the OP knows beans about it, and is just mad about not having the car and is making up theories. Humans have done likewise from the dawn of time, and that's how we determined that winter and summer are due to the Hades-Persephone-Zeus incident involving some pomegranate seeds.

Does anybody know why, if we transport things by truck or train, we still say they're shipped? There's no ship anywhere!

LIStingray

Just to put it into perspective on how GM and the union rules make a mess of things: every Corvette that is delivered at the Museum is shipped by truck from the plant. By road it is 800 yards - less than 1/2 mile - from the factory to the museum. Tell me how that makes sense?

CSEVEN

OP,

Do you get an invoice on your car? My car was invoiced last Wednesday and is getting on the train this Wednesday VIA Michigan, than its a short truck drive from East Brookfield MA

2 Ag R8Cs

With a truck the driver is limited to how many hours he can drive each day, if you add in the food and "P" stops, plus traffic lights it has to be closer than you think. The wheels on that train are turning 24/7 and i bet the route the tracks take are more of a straight line while the route an interstate forces a truck to travel are more N / S and E / W while tracks may run SW / NE. When I travel from SC to NY I need to head north till I get to Harrisburg then head east from Harrisburg to NY. If it were possible to drive NE without driving on roads with 30 MPH speed limits I could probably cut off a couple hundred miles from the trip.

All I am saying is even if a truck is faster I still would bet the train is not much slower just because of the fact that there is no stopping a train or slowing it down due to bad road conditions due to weatherWhen a truck needs to make a fuel stop I would bet it probably takes almost two hours to fuel up.

On the British TV show "Top Gear" they take a super fast car and race against a train or boat and sometimes the sports car that can travel at almost 200 MPH looses to a car. How well would a train do against a truck, I think it would be closer than most people think it would be.

Even if a truck was 8 hours faster would it really matter, The final deliver time is restricted to when the dealer is open for business.

vincent_esq

Well, whether you are correct or not, I know that it will be exactly 2 weeks to the day by tomorrow, and my car has not arrived in N. CA yet. I may be wrong, but in the past, it did not take that long for the trucks to deliver the C7 to N. CA, did it? I will ask Tim today on his experience on his prior C7 deliveries.

rcallen484

awstngray

I too am extremely frustrated. My car shipped around two weeks ago, and as far as I know it's not even headed to california yet. The shipping process should NOT take a month or more, that is unacceptable. I would understand if it was being shipped to Hawaii or something, but come on.

$$$frumnuttin'

thanks...it's just one of those 'grin and bare (bear) it' situations...or 'it is what it is'....someone will post a 'patience' animation soon.

Brock 70

Unions built this country, it's cry babies like yourself that are ruining it. You should have ordered the C7 earlier and with a CF dealer and we wouldn't have to hear you cry about it.

2 Ag R8Cs

It also does not cost GM anything for the motor, nor does it cost anything for the tires, and it does not cost them anything to have people come into the factory and put them together

Brock 70

So would you rather GM hire more employees to drive the new cars from the plant to museum? Would you want some UNION guy driving your new car on the road and through gravel, dirt, salt or whatever else might be out there. How about the chance of getting in an accident when moving the cars on public roadways? They also would need temp tags placed on every car and removed from every car. That in itself would take longer to do than actually driving the Vette over. Don't forget about the temp insurance card that needs to go with every car as well. I believe its people more like yourself that make a mess of things by not understanding exactly what is going on and what is involved. You guys don't have to buy UNION made products, you have other choices. Go buy something else if you hate or dislike the UNION so much. I hear the 370z is made in a non union plant.

gixxerbill

unions didn't build crap employees do all the building - all unions do is take fees from hard working employees and cause strikes. You should know that Jimmy Hoffa. hmm i guess you weren't dead afterall.

speedlink

LIStingray

I guess you have never been to the factory or museum?
So who exactly takes your car from the factory final assembly area to the parking lot? And then who loads and unloads it off a car carrier?
I'd rather have my car driven the 800 yards on Corvette Drive, which runs directly from the Factory to the Museum without being on any public roads than have it loaded and unloaded off a car carrier. And, I am sure for the $995 delivery fee per car, we could move the 6-12 cars delivered at the museum every day with just 1 extra employee and still make a financial killing on the arrangement.