You Get What You Pay For - Or Do You?
The carhaul companies that have been delivering Chrysler vehicles for the past 50 years use highly skilled and professional drivers to deliver new cars to dealerships.
When you pay Chrysler their $800 or $900 non-negotiable “destination charge”, you expect that you are paying for a quality service that will get your new car delivered to you safely and in perfect, new condition.
But there are some disturbing trends in the automotive industry. Auto makers are asking carhaul companies for huge price cuts, even though the experienced, longtime drivers who haul new cars have already taken huge wage reductions to help the auto industry through tough times.
The reason for this is that Fiat/Chrysler wants to move this work to smaller, cut-rate carhaul companies. Some drivers for these companies are independent contractors who must pay for all their own expenses.
These cut-rate companies do not provide the same level of safe, secure service. See the above photo for just one example.
These dubious companies whose prior experience has been to haul used cars from auctions to dealers or junkyards just aren’t on the same safety and operating scale as those that put their best drivers and equipment into service for the largest auto makers in the United States.
Car buyers may have to ask what they are paying for when Fiat/Chrysler is rapidly accelerating the turnover of good jobs to a fleet of smaller, unreliable companies with less experienced drivers. When you pay Chrysler $800 or $900 in destination charges, you wouldn’t be wrong to wonder who is delivering your car and whether any damage has been covered up.
You also wouldn’t be wrong to wonder what Chrysler is doing with that extra money, when you’re still paying high destination charges even after they cut their own costs.
