Moving a mobile home.

There’s different reasons why you might want to transport your mobile home. Maybe you’re buying a mobile home from the factory, maybe you’re in the process of inheriting a mobile home and trying to get it to your property. There’s a lot of different reasons why you might be moving a mobile home, but there’s a lot of different factors that play into the actual cost of the transport. This article is going to walk you through the transport cost, and hopefully it will shed some light on typical mobile home transport costs. Imagine a scenario of a single wide, typically if you are transporting a single wide mobile home the cost is going to be around three thousand dollars. Your transporter may include the tear down in the price, to get the mobile home on wheels and ready to roll that is called the tear down. That’s the starting price and please take into account that all the costs advised in this post are estimates and do not represent the real market prices. 

Once the mobile home is torn down on wheels, the axles are attached and the hitch is attached, then the mobile home will be ready for transport. The transport costs will be a separate fee, so depending on what’s the scenario the costs may vary. If you buy the mobile home from a factory, the mobile home is already going to be on wheels with the hitch attached ready for transport. If it’s ready for transport there’s a couple different ways that a transporter is going to quote the job, they’re going to charge a hookup fee or they’re just going to charge what’s called a weighted mile. A weighted mile is the distance from the factory or the lot where the mobile home is sitting to the end destination. Let’s pretend the mobile home is in Orlando and it’s going to Gainesville, Florida which is exactly a hundred miles away. They are going to charge you for 100 miles of weight, let’s say their rate is seven dollars a mile, then the total transport fee will be $700, just for delivery. Now typically a transporter is going to have a tear down fee, the tear down fees for a mobile home are typically anywhere from $2.000 to $3.000

There’s also a lot of different factors outside of that that play into the costs. Sometimes the mobile homes are ground set, so they have to dig out with the bobcat around the home, that’s going to be about $600 to $700 to dig it out. Sometimes there’s awning and detaching awnings costs another $500 potentially. Sometimes you have to disconnect utilities, some people will charge for that. Sometimes you’re going to have a concrete pad all the way around the home and sometimes they’ll have to dig it out, or sometimes the mobile home park will make you dig it out and remove concrete, so there’s a lot of different factors that go into mobile home transport costs. Now talking about double wide mobile homes they are a different story, they generally are going to run about twice the cost.

Another factor is clearance. For a regular mobile home, there’s plenty of room to get it out, but sometimes mobile homes are in very tight situations where either you’re going to have to take a fence post out, or sometimes they have to use what’s called a crawler and that’s going to be an additional fee. If they have to roll the mobile home out through a tight angle, they can’t get their truck to pull it out, that’s going to be an additional fee. There’s a lot of different factors that actually go into determining the transport cost. You will need to provide the transporter all these details in advance, just so they can get you an accurate quote. However knowing all these sorts of variables, having a good idea of how the transport works, allows you to inform the transporter all they need to know about the move thus you will be able to get a realistic cost.