Missouri to Texas Car Shipping

Open transport on this lane typically runs $725–$1,050 for a standard sedan or small SUV. Enclosed transport typically runs $1,050–$1,525. Large trucks, lifted vehicles, oversized SUVs and inoperable cars price above those ranges because they take more deck space or require winch-equipped equipment.

Price on any lane is set by what a driver will accept to run it that week — not by a per-mile chart. Fuel, seasonal direction of travel, how far the pickup sits off the interstate and how tight your dates are all move the number.

There is no single interstate joining Missouri and Texas, so carriers typically stage on I-70 and I-44 out of St. Louis, cut across the middle of the country, then finish on I-10 and I-35 into Dallas. That handoff between the central corridor and the Texas triangle is the part of the trip that moves pickup dates the most.

Missouri sees occasional winter delays, mostly a single storm day at a time rather than a week-long shutdown, so pickup windows stay fairly predictable year-round. Texas weather rarely stops this lane; the bigger factor on the delivery end is summer afternoon storms and hurricane-season routing between June and November.

Plan on roughly 500 miles per day once your vehicle is loaded, which puts this route at 1–3 days in transit.

Lead time on this lane is shorter than a coast-to-coast move. One to three weeks is usually plenty, though October through December and March through May tighten up on anything touching the Texas triangle.

Pickups cluster around Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield and Independence; deliveries concentrate in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. A full carrier is about 75 feet long, so narrow streets, HOA restrictions and low clearance are handled by meeting a few minutes away at a wide lot.