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I was just looking at the Florida Highway's position, and I discovered a neat feature of the Marine Traffic website. If you pull up the map and right-click on the ship, that sets a waypoint. Left-clicking anywhere draws a line to the new point, with distance and ETA based on the ship's present speed. You can add additional waypoints by left clicking. According to this, if the Florida Highway continues to dawdle at 14 knots, it will arrive in Davisville at 0200 GMT (2200 7/6 EDT), 3 hours ahead of schedule. Also, you can see which dock the California Highway is using. There are two other transponders nearby, which turned out to be tugs. I guess RO ROs are ungainly enough to need them near dock.
The schedule from the shipping line shows FH having a 7/8 estimated arrival date. Wow - that is some early arrival. Seriously - what happens now? Customs clears the cars. Then does PNA truck them to a central distribution location from where the dealers come and get their cars? I imagine that a carrier will have cars for more than one dealership, so the car could sit on top of a carrier for a couple of days. Any clue?
Then does PNA truck them to a central distribution location from where the dealers come and get their cars?
I'm pretty sure that they go directly from Davisville to the dealers. Davisville is set up with all sorts of infrastructure for processing cars. They have facilities for loading cars onto rail transport, for example, and a body shop to fix damage from transit.
A Rennlist member has been waiting for his Panamera for a while, and he was told it was sitting in Davisville for 3 weeks. When it did move to the dealer, it went direct, and not through a distribution center.
Which points out the other issue, that you really have no guarantee how long it's going to take for a car to get on a truck. They don't ship the cars individually, so there has to be a group going in the same direction. Which you would think would not be a problem with an entire ship unloading, but clearly it happens.
What I've heard is that 5-9 days is much, much more typical.
Georgia Ports Authority appears to be the obvious comparable source of information. It's a much bigger port, but not completely dedicated to RO RO the way Davisville is. The splash page shows three carriers docked.
Not sure. It is somewhere in Rhode Island tonight. I am only three hours south. I am planning on picking it up the Saturday after next. I don't see myself missing a day in the office for delivery. I have to believe it will be ready by then.
Not sure. It is somewhere in Rhode Island tonight. I am only three hours south. I am planning on picking it up the Saturday after next. I don't see myself missing a day in the office for delivery. I have to believe it will be ready by then.
I'm sure it will be ready in two weeks! Maybe they'll do an after work delivery for you.
I'm planning on meeting the transporter when it arrives at my dealership.
07-06-2014, 02:19 PM
