To ship a Manheim purchase, open the purchases tab on Manheim.com, click Order and pick Ready Logistics (full service) or Central Dispatch (self-managed). Manheim's pages publish no transport price, so the number comes from the quote, not from us.
That makes transport the one big line on a Manheim buy that is not on any fee schedule. The calculator below is for the other end of the deal: what the car costs you once transport, tax and holding time are in.
- Daily interest
- $2.63
- Daily total (interest + overhead)
- $2.63
- Total holding cost over 45 days
- $118.36
- Break-even price drop
- $118.36 (1.0% of cost)
Enter your all-in purchase price and expected days to sell to see the daily drag on a unit. Estimates only.
Everything below is from Manheim's own pages, checked October 2026.
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How do you order transport on a Manheim purchase?
Per Manheim's transportation tutorial:
- Go to manheim.com and open the "purchases" tab.
- Select the vehicle.
- Click Order under the listing, or "order" next to "transportation" on the vehicle page.
- Choose a delivery method: "Ready Logistics (full-service) or Central Dispatch (self-managed)."
- For Ready Logistics, confirm the order. For Central Dispatch, log in or sign up.
The page does not list ACH as a payment option for transport and gives no prices, so confirm payment details with Manheim client care.
Can you put Manheim transport on your floor plan?
For Ready Logistics, yes if the car is floor-planned through NextGear Capital. The tutorial says to switch the toggle above the order button to "yes" to roll transport costs into your floor plan, which lets you "defer payment for transportation until the vehicle is sold."
Deferral is a cash-flow tool, not a discount. The cost is still in the unit, and floor plan interest runs on it. Put it in the holding cost calculator and see our floor plan cost per day breakdown.
What is Manheim's Ready+2 extension?
Standard online arbitration is 10 calendar days from sale (see Manheim arbitration deadlines). A slow truck can eat that window, so Manheim's Ready+2 policy says it "will extend the arbitration timeline to give buyers two (2) additional days from the vehicle delivery date."
Conditions on the page:
- Buy through a Manheim digital sale channel and select Ready Logistics as the shipping provider.
- Order Ready Logistics, and have the vehicle ready for release, "within two (2) days of sale."
- The vehicle must be delivered within 30 calendar days of the sale date; the policy says it is "void if the vehicle has not been delivered within thirty (30) calendar days."
- Not eligible: units sold in-lane, OVE.com units facilitated through independent auction partners, and vehicles with a purchase price above $75,000 (the page also mentions an estimated-value test).
The two-day ordering window is the part that gets missed. If you plan to use Central Dispatch to save money, you give up Ready+2.
Who pays for transport?
You do. Manheim's terms and conditions make the buyer responsible for transportation and associated costs, and the page shows a 2021 update date, so confirm the current version. See Manheim buyer fees for the rest of the invoice.
How do you compare Ready Logistics to Central Dispatch?
Do not compare headline prices. Compare three things on the same car:
- The quote for each method, to the same delivery address.
- Whether you need the Ready+2 extension on that car (digital purchase, not in-lane).
- Whether floor plan deferral matters for your cash position this month.
Write the winner and the loser next to the car's stock number. After ten cars you have a better rate card than any forum thread.
What should transport do to your max bid?
Subtract it before you bid, not after you win. Work backward from the local resale price, take out your buyer's fee, transport, tax and title, and see what is left. The max bid calculator does the arithmetic, and how taxes and fees change your max bid shows why it matters.
The free CarFlipIQ Chrome extension shows local resale, days to sell and a max bid after fees on Copart and IAAI lot pages. New accounts start with a 7-day free trial (card required, $0 today). Its manifest also lists manheim.com, so it loads on Manheim search and detail pages too. Manheim publishes no buyer fee table, so net your own rate-sheet fee out of any max bid by hand.
