Lots of great information! Thanks! Few questions?
1) How many times did you have to return to the dock in DR?
2) Would you mind sharing how much you paid Aduanas for your vehicle, and what year it was? I want to try to ship 2 vehicles, a 2004 and a 2003 but people tell me they don't accept vehicles older than 5 years.
3) When you shipped door-door did you use the same company here in USA, Hispaniola Freight? Or were they only used to ship the items from port to door? What company did you use here in the USA for the freight?
Returns to dock.... once to claim goods.... another for the aduana trip.... last to pick up car and lead delivery to my door.
Car Tax... 70.000 DRP for a 1995 Jeep Wrangler valued at $18,000 US ( a 50% discounr form the normal tax)
Hispaniola is in SDQ.. I forget my US connection.
Yes, Hispaniola handles the local delivery
Were I to do this again, I would work backwards:
Start w/ Hispaniola (their English is good), let then arrange the Us pickup thru their network and then have them deliver.
As I said before, this is not as seamless as the "smallshipment" mudanza type - you have your own container.. you are the shipper... not part of an LTL (less than load) whereby the mudanza pays for the container and then "consolidates" a shipment.
LTL works like this.... mudanza pays the $4000 you were quoted, then fills it with all those packages/boxes for the $135 each (or so),... that adds up to more than $4000 and he makes his money...
Thats their business .... thats what they do
Also, they dodge the customs
EXAMPLE: a used fridge costs $100 less than a new fridge to ship.... what does that tell you about what goes on at the dock.
Old Chinese/Dominican Proverb:
NEVER try to deal with the dock yourself !!