About Lopes Express Shipping
Lopes Express Shipping is a family-run motor carrier. We own the trucks and we employ the drivers who carry your car up and down the I-95 corridor between Florida and New England. One road. Both directions. All season.
Marcus Lopes started in auto transport back in 2011. A phone, a pen, and a route he already knew by heart: the run between Florida and New England. There was no grand plan to build a transportation company. There was one simple idea. Do the job right, treat every vehicle as if it were our own, and earn the trust that brings people back.
And they did come back. Every fall, families headed south for the winter and their vehicles traveled with them. Every spring, they made the trip north again. Season after season the same customers returned, and they brought their neighbors, their friends, their family. That is how this grew, and it is the only way that lasts. One relationship at a time.
Today Lopes Express Shipping is a family-run carrier running 7 trucks along the I-95 corridor between Florida and New England. And the word that matters most is carrier. We are not a broker. Our drivers are our employees. Our trucks are ours. When your vehicle is loaded, it travels on Lopes Express Shipping equipment, driven by someone who works directly for us, someone who answers to you and to our name. That is what gives us control over every mile, and what lets us offer the personal service our customers have trusted for more than a decade.
For years, the inspection at pickup was done the traditional way. A clipboard, a diagram of a car, a pen, and a carbon copy that faded in somebody's glove box. It worked, right up until the day a customer needed the record months later and the paper was lost, damaged, or simply too hard to find again.
Those days are over. Every vehicle we carry now gets a digital Bill of Lading, with the inspection documented at pickup and documented again at delivery, acknowledged and signed by both the driver and the customer. No guesswork. No "we will have to check." Just a clear record of how your vehicle was handled, from the moment it was loaded to the moment you had your keys back.
Since we moved to that platform, more than 15,000 vehicles have been documented in our system. The paper years are not part of that number, and we are honest about it. We would rather tell you what we can prove than promise what we cannot.
We chose focus over being everywhere. We move about 100 vehicles a week, and we move one thing. Motor vehicles. We stay on the I-95 corridor between Florida and New England and we run it in both directions all season, the route we have known since day one.
That focus means knowing the road, the seasons, and the rhythm of the people who travel it. It means knowing our drivers by name. And it means knowing exactly who is responsible for your vehicle, from the moment we pick it up to the moment we hand it back. It is a smaller business than it could be. It is also the reason a person answers the phone when you call.
More than a decade later, the principle has not changed. Do the job right, take care of the vehicle, and be there when the customer calls.
A lot of companies will tell you they can move your car anywhere. That is an easy thing to say when you do not own a truck. We only sell the road we actually drive.
Running one lane is not something we apologize for. It is the product. Here is what it means on a Tuesday morning, when your car is sitting in the driveway and the truck is due.
Nothing about this is complicated. It is just what happens when we own the trucks that run Florida to New England.
Our drivers run Florida to New England and back, week after week, season after season. They know the exits a full-size car hauler can use, the streets it cannot get into, and where to meet you when your street will not take one. Your car is not somebody's first trip.
On a load board, the truck that carries your car south may be somewhere else entirely by spring. Our trucks turn around and drive north. Because the same equipment runs both directions all season, the return trip is a real trip on a real route, not a favor somebody has to go find for you in April.
Small office, same voices, before your car is on the truck and after. The person who books the job is the person you get when you call back on day three to ask where the driver is. Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM ET.
Motor vehicles are the only thing that goes on our decks. Every ramp, strap and ratchet on that truck is there for one purpose, and the driver has used them on a car like yours more times than he can count. Nobody on our crew is learning your vehicle on the job.
Most of the companies you will find when you search for auto transport are brokers. A broker does not own the truck. It is a sales office with a phone system and a website. That is legal and it is common, and it is not what we are. Lopes Express Shipping is a licensed and insured motor carrier. USDOT 3013626, MC-30467.
Here is how the broker side actually works. You call, you get a price, you put down a deposit. Your car is then posted on a load board, which is a digital board where independent truck owners shop for freight. Your car sits on that board until some driver, a stranger to you and usually to the broker too, decides the money is worth the trip. If nobody takes it at the price you were quoted, the price has to go up, because the only way to get your car moved is to make it pay better than the other cars sitting on the same board. That is why the number you were told on Monday can be a different number on Thursday, after they already have your deposit and your keys are the next thing on the list.
We do not have that step. We own the trucks that run Florida to New England, and the drivers work for us. There is no deposit, because we are not holding your money while we look for somebody to do the work. You pay on delivery, when the car is in front of you and the Bill of Lading gets signed the second time. The number we give you is the number on that document, unless you change the job itself, a different vehicle, a different address, and then we tell you before anything moves. That is the word that matters most here. Carrier. It is why the person who answers your call and the person driving your car answer to the same name.
By the numbers
On the Florida to New England lane since
2011. More than a decade on this road.
Trucks we own, with drivers on our payroll
7
Vehicles documented in our digital inspection platform
15,000+
Licensed motor carrier
USDOT 3013626, MC-30467
Door-to-door pickup and delivery, subject to what a full-size car hauler can legally and safely reach. If a street is too narrow or the branches are too low, the driver and the customer agree on a nearby spot to meet.
Our equipment
Real photos of our own rigs on this lane, not stock images.
Every photo on this page is our own equipment on our own lane. You are not looking at stock images or another company's deck.
Call or text (941) 205-0012, or send us the year, make and model, the two ZIP codes, and the month you want to move. We come back with a price and a window. No deposit, and nothing is due until your car is handed back to you.
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