Driveaway is the practice of moving a vehicle by hiring a professional licensed driver to operate it directly to the destination, rather than loading it onto a carrier or trailer. For fleet operators, dealerships, and OEMs, driveaway fills specific operational gaps. The use cases include time-sensitive moves under 1,200 miles, single-vehicle relocations where carrier capacity is unavailable, multi-vehicle fleet repositioning where wave dispatching beats carrier scheduling, and specialty units that cannot be loaded onto standard carriers. The decision between driveaway and carrier transport is not a binary preference. It is a vehicle-by-vehicle, lane-by-lane optimization based on distance, urgency, vehicle profile, and total cost analysis including added mileage and depreciation. Click here to read the full blog post.