California to New Jersey Car Shipping

California to New Jersey car shipping, in Neptune Auto Transport’s records, is mostly a Bay Area and Los Angeles story. A third of the cars we moved on this lane started in the San Francisco Bay Area and about a quarter in Los Angeles County, and four in five ended up in North or Central Jersey. The trip took 6 days at the median once the car was loaded, and recent prices for a car ran $1,400 to $1,700.

What does it cost to ship a car from California to New Jersey?

These are recent all-in prices for car transport from California to New Jersey. Every row stands on at least three separate shipments dispatched in October 2026, for a vehicle that runs, on an open carrier, door to door.

Three of the five car listings landed at $1,400: Colton to Middle Township, Sacramento to Edison and Anaheim to Ocean. Antioch to Morris Plains and American Canyon to Phillipsburg ran $1,600 and $1,700. SUVs ran $1,400 to $1,800, most of them $1,600 to $1,700, on trips from North Hollywood, Escondido, Anaheim and Fontana to Parlin, Old Bridge, Paterson and Newark. Pickup trucks cost the most, most of them $1,800 to $2,050.

A quote follows your two addresses, the vehicle and your dates, so it can land outside these ranges. Read the table as recent history, not a price list; our car shipping cost calculator shows what similar coast-to-coast moves have cost.

Where cars leave California and where they land in New Jersey

The Bay Area led, with pickups in Fremont, San Ramon, Pleasanton, Oakland, San Jose and a small cluster in Fairfield. Los Angeles County came next: Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. This direction draws much more from San Diego County and the Central Valley than the westbound lane does. San Diego supplied 17 percent of eastbound pickups but took only 7 percent of our New Jersey to California deliveries, and the Central Valley (Stockton, Modesto, Lathrop, Madera and Bakersfield) supplied about one car in nine.

North Jersey took the largest share: Jersey City, Newark, Kearny, Clifton, Edgewater, Little Falls and Parsippany. Central Jersey was close behind, from Edison, Piscataway, East Brunswick and Old Bridge down to Princeton and Trenton. One pattern stands out against the westbound lane. Monmouth County is one of the most common starting points for cars leaving New Jersey for California, yet it received almost none of the cars coming the other way.

How long does it take to ship a car from California to New Jersey?

In our shipment records, the median transit time was 6 days from the day the car was loaded to the day it was delivered, and close to nine in ten arrived within 5 to 9 days. The end of the trip made a difference: North Jersey deliveries ran to a 7-day median and Central and South Jersey deliveries to 6. At the California end, Los Angeles pickups ran to 6 days and Bay Area pickups to 7.

California to NJ car shipping is a true coast-to-coast haul. Los Angeles to Newark is about 2,780 miles by road and San Francisco to Newark about 2,900, most of it on I-80 across Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska before the run through Pennsylvania. Allow 2 to 5 business days for a carrier to reach you on standard service before any of that starts, or ask about expedited auto transport, which usually cuts the wait to 24 to 72 hours. All of these figures describe shipments already completed, not a promised delivery date.

Popular city pairs from California to New Jersey

• Bay Area to North Jersey. The most common pairing on the lane: Fremont, San Leandro, Oakland and Richmond to Newark, Elizabeth, Clifton and Jersey City. These ran to a 7-day median once loaded.
• Los Angeles to New Jersey. Cars from Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Burbank and Glendale did not bunch up in one place; they spread across Central Jersey, North Jersey, the Morris County towns and South Jersey. See Los Angeles car shipping for pickup details at that end.
• San Diego to New Jersey. San Diego County cars leaned toward Central and South Jersey: Princeton, Perth Amboy, Atco and Barnegat.
• Central Valley to North Jersey. Stockton, Modesto, Lathrop and Bakersfield sent most of their cars to North Jersey towns such as Kearny, Parsippany and Little Falls.

Moving from California to New Jersey: plates, insurance and tint

New Jersey gives new residents 60 days to transfer the title and registration, and the Motor Vehicle Commission wants a New Jersey policy in place first, with liability, personal injury protection and uninsured motorist coverage. Window film that was fine in California can be a problem on arrival: New Jersey allows tint on the windshield and front side windows only with an MVC medical exemption.

If you are moving on military orders, we offer a military discount, work around your report date and meet you outside the gate when a base will not admit a commercial carrier. Your installation’s transportation office decides what your orders cover; we arrange the transport itself. See military vehicle transport.

Cars and SUVs we ship from California to New Jersey

SUVs made up more than four in ten vehicles, one of the highest SUV shares among our busier lanes, and almost everything else was a car. A compact or mid-size SUV ships much like a sedan. A three-row SUV, a lifted one or one with a roof box takes more room on the trailer, so give us the exact model when you ask for a quote. Our guide to shipping an SUV or truck explains what changes.

Open or enclosed transport from California to New Jersey

Most of these cars rode on open carriers, the standard way to move a car across the country and the least expensive one. Choose enclosed car transport from California to New Jersey for a classic, an exotic or a car with fresh paint: the trip crosses desert heat, the Rockies and the Plains, and in winter the last few hundred miles run on salted roads. Enclosed trailers carry fewer cars and there are fewer of them, so book a few extra days ahead.

Before your pickup in California

• Plan a meeting point on tight streets. Hillside streets in the Bay Area and permit-parking blocks around Los Angeles often cannot take a full-size carrier. A nearby wide road or shopping-center lot works.
• Take out the FasTrak. A transponder left in the car can be read at tolls on the way east, and New Jersey uses E-ZPass anyway.
• Keep the trunk light. Most carriers allow up to about 100 pounds below the window line, and their insurance covers the car, not its contents. Our guide to packing items inside your car has the details.
• Photograph the car and note any damage before you sign the Bill of Lading with the driver.

How we counted

Every share and time on this page comes from Neptune Auto Transport’s own records of California to New Jersey orders placed from May 2022 to August 2026, with voided orders left out. Pickup and delivery areas group ZIP codes by their first three digits. Transit runs from loading to delivery and leaves out the one order with no delivery date. Percentages are rounded to total 100. No individual order, customer or address appears here, and nothing on this page promises a delivery date. The price table comes from a different source, recent comparable shipments dispatched in October 2026, and it is not a quote.