US Auction Pickup to Port Delivery for Car Dealers Abroad
Y7 Logistics, a Licensed & Bonded FMCSA Broker (MC #1741537, USDOT #4427359), is a US company that moves cars dealers abroad buy at Copart, IAA and Manheim from the auction yard to the US export warehouse or port their freight forwarder uses. You buy on your own auction account; there is no requirement to buy through Y7 and no ocean package, because Y7 does not provide ocean freight. Y7 is a specialist in one leg, auction pickup to port delivery, for car dealers and exporters in Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and West Africa.
Who does what, from the auction to your country
Six stages take a car from a US auction to the road in your country. Y7 runs the second and hands over at the third; the rest belongs to you, your freight forwarder and the destination's customs.
US auction
YouYou win the lot at Copart, IAA or Manheim on your own account, pay, and wait for the auction to release it. The release starts the US leg.
US inland leg
Y7 and the carrierY7 assigns a carrier, which collects the car at the yard, photographs it under Y7's photo standard, and delivers it with a bill of lading to the export warehouse or port your forwarder nominated.
US export warehouse or port
Y7 hands overDelivery follows the warehouse's receiving rules and the booking on file. From here the car is your forwarder's.
US export filing
Your forwarderYour forwarder files the Electronic Export Information and presents the title and the car to US Customs at least 72 hours before a vessel export (19 CFR 192.2).
Ocean leg
Your forwarderYour forwarder books the vessel, Ro-Ro or container, and the ocean bill of lading is issued.
Destination port and clearance
Your forwarder and destination customsThe car arrives at the entry port your forwarder chose, is cleared by the destination's customs, and continues by road or rail.
What Y7 does
- Dispatch. Lists the car on Central Dispatch, negotiates the carrier rate and assigns a carrier from a network of 900+, checked before each dispatch.
- Pickup and delivery. Coordinates the release data with the yard and the delivery with your forwarder's warehouse.
- Records. Pickup and delivery photos, the bill of lading and every order status in your Y7 account.
- Carrier payment. Pays the carrier on exporter terms, included in the $50 fee.
What Y7 does not do
- Ocean freight. Y7 does not book vessels, quote ocean rates or issue ocean bills of lading.
- Customs. Y7 does not file export declarations or clear cars at the destination.
- Auction buying. Y7 does not bid or buy for you, and you never have to buy through a Y7 account.
- Storage. Y7 does not store or hold vehicles; the auction or the port warehouse holds a waiting car and sets any storage charge.
Where our dealers ship: markets, entry ports and US ports
Y7 is a broker: it moves the car to the US port, wherever the car goes next. The markets below are where dealers who use Y7 ship to, not routes Y7 operates. Your forwarder chooses the entry port and the onward route.
| Region | Markets | Entry ports (your forwarder decides) | US ports commonly used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern and Eastern Europe | Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Germany, the Netherlands | Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Gdynia, Gdańsk, Klaipėda, Odesa, Chornomorsk, Constanța | Newark, Savannah |
| The Balkans | Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Croatia, Serbia | Varna, Burgas, Constanța, Thessaloniki, Piraeus, Durrës, Rijeka, Koper, Bar | Newark, Savannah |
| The Caucasus and Central Asia | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan | Poti, Batumi; for Central Asia also Klaipėda | Newark, Savannah |
| West Africa | Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal | Lagos, Tema, Cotonou, Abidjan, Dakar | Baltimore |
Poland, Ukraine and Northern Europe
Dealers in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Germany and the Netherlands usually have their cars shipped to Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg, to Gdynia or Gdańsk, to Klaipėda, or to Odesa, Chornomorsk or Constanța. Newark and Savannah are the US ports commonly used for Europe. Y7 handles the car from the auction yard to that US port; your forwarder handles the ocean leg, the entry port and the route to your yard.
Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and the Balkans
For Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Croatia and Serbia, forwarders use Varna and Burgas, Constanța, Thessaloniki and Piraeus, Durrës, and Rijeka, Koper or Bar for the landlocked markets. Newark and Savannah are the US ports commonly used. Y7's part is the US leg; the container, the entry port and the road to Skopje, Sofia, Tirana or Belgrade are your forwarder's.
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Central Asia
Cars for Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan usually enter through Poti or Batumi on the Black Sea, and cars for Central Asia also travel through Klaipėda. Newark and Savannah are the US ports commonly used. Y7 moves the car to the US port; the ocean leg, the entry port and the onward route by road or rail are your forwarder's decision and work, never Y7's.
Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and West Africa
Cars for Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal arrive at Lagos (Tin Can and Apapa), Tema, Cotonou, Abidjan or Dakar. Baltimore is the US port commonly used for West Africa: the Ro-Ro services to West Africa load there. A non-running car goes to the warehouse your forwarder names for container loading, because Ro-Ro terminals set their own rules for cars that do not run. Y7 publishes no duty, tax or clearance figure for any destination; your forwarder and the destination's customs are the sources.
Cars bought in Texas and the neighbouring Gulf states leave through Houston, whatever their destination.
The Georgia route has its own page: US auction cars to Georgia via Poti.
Buying for the EU? Under Regulation (EU) 2026/1455, a US-built car enters the EU at 0% import duty from 1 July 2026 to 31 December 2029, when the importer proves US origin and direct transport (Article 59a, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1422). Our certificate-of-origin page covers the proof and checks where a car was built by its VIN.
What you send us for each car
A complete order is what gets a car picked up on time. For each Copart or IAA purchase, send:
- Lot number and VIN. Exactly as they appear on the auction record.
- Buyer number and the paid invoice. A yard refuses release when the buyer details do not match the lot.
- Gate pass or release PIN. Or confirmation that the release is issued.
- Condition. Whether there are keys, and whether the car starts, rolls and steers.
- Title status. Clean, salvage or other, as the auction lists it.
- Delivery point. The export warehouse address and its receiving instructions.
- Booking or dock receipt. If your forwarder has issued one.
- Your forwarder's contact. So the handover at the warehouse runs without you in the middle.
The title and the export documents go to your US forwarder, who presents them to US Customs. The Copart gate pass guide has the release rules in full.
Orders, status, documents and API integration
Orders by email. You register the email address your team will send orders from. An order sent from that address is accepted automatically into our listing queue after an operator checks it.
Status in your account. Once your car is listed, you get a notification, and you follow every order status in your Y7 account, where the bill of lading and the delivery documents are kept.
API integration with your CRM. API integration is available on request. We build it after you send your technical specification.
What the US leg costs
Medians from Y7's own Central Dispatch data for February–September 2026: standard vehicles picked up at Copart, IAA and Manheim yards and delivered to export warehouses and ports. These are carrier rates: the Y7 fee is separate and never added into them. Carrier prices are not fixed: they spike and dip with fuel prices, season and driver availability, so the figures describe February–September 2026, not a quote.
| Haul distance | Median carrier rate |
|---|---|
| Under 100 miles | $175 |
| 101–250 miles | $250 |
| 251–500 miles | $325 |
| 501–800 miles | $525 |
| 801–1,200 miles | $550 |
| Over 1,200 miles | $650 |
If you hold a turnkey quote from one company for the full cycle, these medians let you check its inland line. Full-service vs specialist auto export explains how to ask for the leg-by-leg breakdown; the method behind the figures is in the auction-to-port cost breakdown.
Which fee a dealer abroad pays, and how to pay
A dealer outside the US who buys to export is on Y7's exporter terms: a dispatch fee of $50 per vehicle, and it includes handling the payment to the carrier. The carrier rate is a separate line and is never added to it. Exporters are invoiced for Y7's $50 dispatch fee weekly, every two weeks or monthly. Carrier payments work differently: Y7 pays the carriers it assigns to your loads, so the funds for those carriers are confirmed before a load is dispatched.
ACH, Zelle and Venmo need a US bank account, so a company outside the US pays by wire transfer or PayPal. Y7 does not take cards.
On a wire transfer, each side pays its own bank fees. The one exception is a prepayment of carrier costs for Y7 to pay the carrier: then the sender pays all bank fees, so the full carrier amount arrives.
Cancellation terms are set out in the agreement you sign. If a truck arrives and the car is not released, the carrier charges a dry-run fee: the carrier sets it per load, and Y7 passes it through at cost and adds nothing. Auction storage is charged to the buyer's auction account; storage at a port warehouse is set and collected by that warehouse.
Timing: how soon after the sale a car is picked up
Copart's complimentary window, the grace period before storage starts, is three days starting on sale day, and payment is due within three business days, with a $50 late fee after that. Once the window closes, Copart storage in Y7's observation runs $40–60 per day, so the pickup deadline is set by the sale date. How many days to a pickup? Carrier assignment typically takes 1–2 days on active lanes, and pickup typically happens 1–3 days after the release slot is obtained, although a busy Copart yard can push the earliest appointment 2–4 days out and weather, season, weekends and breakdowns can add more. Y7 does not promise a pickup date. IAA sets its own window per branch.
The rules and the arithmetic are in Copart storage fees.
Non-running and damaged auction cars
A non-running vehicle adds $100–300 to the carrier rate for winch loading; a vehicle that cannot roll needs forklift or roll-back loading, which is quoted separately. This is part of the carrier rate, not a Y7 fee. Ro-Ro terminals set their own rules for cars that do not run, so non-runners usually go to a warehouse your forwarder names for container loading. Tell us at booking whether the car starts, rolls and steers.
If a car is damaged
Auction cars often arrive at pickup already damaged, which is why the record at both ends matters. Every carrier Y7 dispatches with has signed Y7's Carrier Damage Responsibility Addendum (Addendum A) before starting work with Y7. It sets a photo standard at pickup and at delivery, at least 13 shots per car plus a close-up of every existing damage, and it obliges the carrier to pay for loss or damage in its custody, including amounts below its insurance deductible. Y7 is a broker, not a party to a damage claim: it prepares the documentation and supports the claim, and an insurance payout goes directly to the title holder.
How it works: the carrier addendum Y7 requires. What to do on delivery day: car damaged during transport.
How to check any US broker, including us
Before you send a US company money or a car, check it on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's own records. It takes five minutes.
- Look it up in SAFER. Search FMCSA's SAFER company snapshot by USDOT or MC number. A broker shows the entity type BROKER and an operating authority status of AUTHORIZED FOR broker of property.
- Check the $75,000 security. Federal rules require a property broker to keep a $75,000 surety bond (Form BMC-84) or trust fund (Form BMC-85) in effect, and its registration lasts only while it does (49 CFR 387.307). The filing appears in FMCSA's Licensing and Insurance system.
- Match the legal name. The legal name on the FMCSA record should match the name on your contract and on every invoice.
- Check the carrier on your load. The carrier that hauls the car needs its own operating authority and filed insurance. Ask the broker which carrier is assigned, then look that carrier up the same way.
Red flags
- No MC or USDOT number on the website or the contract.
- A legal name that differs from the one on the invoice.
- A "broker" that asks you to pay a person rather than the company.
- An authority status other than authorized, or a bond that is not in effect.
Y7's own record, to try it on: Y7 Consulting Inc d/b/a Y7 Logistics, USDOT #4427359, MC #1741537, 6 Harding Rd, Natick, MA 01760. On the day this page was last checked, 27 September 2026, its SAFER snapshot showed entity type BROKER, authorized for broker of property. Y7 is also a Central Dispatch member with a 5-star rating as of September 2026, the rating carriers give brokers on Central Dispatch's members-only marketplace.
For US exporters and forwarders: auction pickup to your warehouse, you keep the ocean leg
Many dealers abroad buy the whole chain from a US exporter or forwarder. If that is your business, Y7 can run the auction leg for your customers' cars: pickup from Copart, IAA and Manheim yards and delivery to your warehouse or terminal, with your receiving instructions set up in our system. You stay on exporter terms, $50 per vehicle with carrier-payment handling included and the carrier rate as its own line, invoiced weekly, every two weeks or monthly.
Orders come from your registered email into the operator-checked queue, your team follows every status in your Y7 account, and API integration is available on request. Every carrier signs Addendum A. Y7 does not sell ocean freight, so it never competes with you for your customer's ocean leg.
The rest of the chain: introductions to licensed partners
If you need auction-account access or an ocean carrier, Y7 introduces you to licensed partners, and you contract with each partner directly: a licensed ocean transportation intermediary for the ocean leg, and a licensed dealer for auction-account access. Y7's own licence is its FMCSA property-broker authority; it does not arrange ocean freight or buy at auction.
Questions from dealers abroad
Do I have to buy through your auction account?
No. You buy at Copart, IAA or Manheim on your own account, and Y7 moves the car from the yard to the US port. There is no requirement to buy through Y7.
Do I have to use your ocean shipping?
No. Y7 does not provide ocean freight. Your freight forwarder books the vessel and chooses the entry port; Y7 delivers the car to the US export warehouse or port the forwarder nominates.
Which US port will my car leave from?
It depends on the state where the car was bought. Y7 delivers to Newark, Baltimore, Savannah, Jacksonville, Houston and Los Angeles. Newark and Savannah are commonly used for Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Baltimore for West Africa, and cars bought in Texas and the neighbouring Gulf states leave through Houston.
Which fee does a dealer outside the US pay?
The exporter fee: $50 per vehicle, including the handling of the carrier payment. The carrier rate is shown separately and never added to it. Carrier prices spike and dip with fuel, season and driver availability, so any rate is quoted per load.
How does a company outside the US pay?
By wire transfer or PayPal, because ACH, Zelle and Venmo need a US bank account. On a wire, each side pays its own bank fees, except when you prepay carrier costs for Y7 to pay the carrier: then you pay all bank fees so the full carrier amount arrives.
What happens if my car is damaged?
Every carrier Y7 dispatches with has signed Y7's Carrier Damage Responsibility Addendum, which obliges it to pay for loss or damage in its custody, including amounts below its insurance deductible. Y7 is a broker, not a party to the claim: it prepares the documentation and supports the claim, and an insurance payout goes directly to the title holder.
Can orders come straight from our own system?
Orders sent from your registered email address are accepted automatically into Y7's listing queue after an operator checks them, and you follow every order status in your Y7 account. API integration with your CRM is available on request; Y7 builds it after you send your technical specification.
Is Y7 licensed, and how do I check?
Yes. Y7 Logistics is a Licensed & Bonded FMCSA Broker, MC #1741537, USDOT #4427359, with a $75,000 BMC-84 surety bond. Search USDOT 4427359 in FMCSA's SAFER company snapshot to see its broker authority.
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