You Get What You Pay For!

Amanda Submitted this review about Horizon Auto Shipping Inc.
Review made Live: 2/23/2010 11:17:00 AM
My husband and I selected Horizon because they had the lowest cost for shipping two vehicles compared to other transport companies we contacted. When I called to get the quote I explained to the young lady, that we had to make a quick move due to my husband's job relocating us. At first we were told that they could pick up two days from when we sent our credit card info. in, then after calling her multiple times over those two days, she finally returned the call on the second day saying it would be the following day instead because she forgot.

When I asked for the manager, the young lady then turned the story on me, as if I had made all of this up. All we wanted to know was when the vehicles could honestly be picked up and delivered. Then the manager recommends that we contact the driver, who can barely speak English, but speaks Spanish. I told the manager that we didn't need to talk to the truck driver because we didn't speak Spanish, but they kept throwing us off to call the driver. I don't know why they would have they customers talk to the delivery guys when they should have been leading the job?.....

In the end we had to try to communicate with the driver through our Spanish speaking friends, and then the cars were delivered 4 days later at 3:30 A.M. Yes, 3:30 A.M.!!! When I called to talk to the manager to let her know how unprofessional we felt it was to have someone show up with your vehicles to your home at 3:30 in the morning, she wouldn't come to the phone, and I was put back on the phone with the air head with a bad memory.

Make a long story short You Get What You Pay For! If you have 7 to 14 days to wait to receive your vehicles and you don't want customer service then this is the company to go with. OTHERWISE, go with another transport company....Its Worth the Extra $700-$1000.

Company Response
MARDY SCHWEITZER from Horizon Auto Shipping Inc. Submitted this response.
Response Date: 2/23/2010 5:11:00 PM
We are a very professional team of people dedicated to our customers and it really hurts when someone is trying to damage our reputation this way when they exaggerate and lie to make us look bad. This is what we wrote to her on an e-mail on Monday 01/25 at 3:35PM: “I received the form. Thank you. I don’t have a driver assigned for this pick-up yet as I just got the form from you. What I do is look for truckers that are around the area and that are going to Sugarland, TX and hire them for the move. I cannot guarantee you we will pick them up on Wednesday but I will definitely try and I will let you know as soon as possible.” The original order was given to us on Monday 1/25 at 3:15PM requesting pickup of 2 vehicles on Wednesday. We couldn’t find a driver for Wednesday 01/27 but we had a driver scheduled for pick-up on Friday 01/29, two days after the day she gave us for pick-up. The driver couldn’t get to the cars that day because of bad weather and snow. He was very close to the cars but he could not get into that neighborhood. We asked the customer if the cars could be brought to the driver but she refused and kept pressuring us to get the driver to make the trip up the steep hill into their neighborhood. The driver waited until it was safe for him to pick up the cars. That was on Sunday 01/31. Even if she had paid $2000.00 there is nothing any driver can do about the weather conditions. The driver didn’t speak Spanish; he did have an accent, but he was not Hispanic; he was from Africa! Hence, this is proof of the viciousness of this customer in her attempt to damage our reputation. After the pickup, the customer continued to pressure me and the driver by calling incessantly. She insisted that the driver needed to drive faster and get to destination, with no consideration of the driver's safety. She told the driver that he should contact her the moment he got to the city, which he did. He then arrived at destination on Wednesday 2/3 around 6:30 am, not 3:30 am as she claimed.