Palo Alto Car Shipping, Door to Door.

Palo Alto is home to Stanford University, Hewlett-Packard's original garage, Tesla's former headquarters and some of the most valuable residential streets in America. Our customers here ship vintage Porsches to Monterey Car Week, Teslas to second homes in Tahoe and Sun Valley, and family sedans to kids starting at colleges across the country. The common thread is that people in Palo Alto expect a shipment to be handled precisely — and documented.

We cover Old Palo Alto, Professorville, Crescent Park, Downtown North, Midtown, Barron Park, Palo Alto Hills, College Terrace, Stanford campus and East Palo Alto. Many Palo Alto streets are tree-lined and tight, and the city restricts heavy trucks on residential roads, so our Palo Alto coordinators pre-plan the meeting point for every order — typically Stanford Shopping Center, the Town & Country Village lots, or Embarcadero Road near our office.

What Palo Alto customers ask for

• Enclosed, liftgate carriers. Low-clearance exotics, restored classics and show cars ride in hard-sided trailers with hydraulic liftgates and soft tie-downs. Cargo coverage up to $2M on request.
• Photo-documented everything. Pickup and delivery reports with high-resolution photos, timestamped, emailed to you before the truck leaves.
• Stanford moves. August move-in and June move-out for students, plus faculty relocations year-round. We deliver to campus-adjacent lots and can release to a designated person.
• Second-home seasonal shipping. Palo Alto → Tahoe, Palm Springs, Jackson Hole, Scottsdale and Hawaii (via Oakland) are routine lanes for us.

Palo Alto car shipping tips

• Enclosed to Monterey Car Week or Pebble Beach: book 3+ weeks ahead — August enclosed capacity sells out.
• Palo Alto's heavy-truck restrictions mean nearly every pickup happens at a nearby lot. We'll confirm the exact spot the day before.
• For collector cars, send us the agreed value so we can confirm the carrier's cargo policy covers it before dispatch.

Services available in Palo Alto

Every Horizon service is available from our Palo Alto office: open car transport, enclosed auto transport, door-to-door delivery, expedited pickup, snowbird shipping, military & PCS moves, classic & exotic and cross-country shipping — all with locked all-in pricing and fully insured carriers.