Location Details
Car Shipping from Copart Palmdale
Won something at Copart Palmdale? AutoMove sends a truck up to the yard — which, despite the name, is on the Lancaster side of the Antelope Valley — and delivers the vehicle to your door, your shop or your dealer lot anywhere in the lower 48 states.
Copart added this yard to its California list only recently, giving the high desert a lot of its own instead of sending every Antelope Valley tow down into the San Fernando Valley. Expect the inventory any Copart sale carries: insurance write-offs, fender-benders and stripped theft recoveries, bank repos with clean titles, and fleet units consigned by dealers. Nearly all of it is sold to online bidders, many of them out of state, which is why so few of these cars leave on the buyer's own trailer.
Why Ship from This Location with AutoMove?
Newly opened lots tend to have their own quirks at the gate — which window handles releases, where loaders want trucks to stage, how long a gate pass stays valid. We sort those details out with the yard before a driver makes the drive over the mountains, because a pickup that fails at the gate has to be paid for twice.
Car haulers reach this gate from the Antelope Valley Freeway (CA-14), which runs south through Palmdale and Santa Clarita to meet I-5 at the Newhall Pass — the way most loads leave for the Los Angeles basin and the long-haul routes beyond it. The yard is on Lancaster's east side, north of Los Angeles.
Coverage comes from the carrier we assign: their cargo policy is checked before the truck is booked and stays in force until the car is unloaded. Most auction buyers choose an open carrier because it is the cheaper way to move a damaged or everyday vehicle; an enclosed trailer makes sense for something low, rare or expensive. You get updates while the car is on the road and a phone number that a person answers.
Booking a pickup here
Tell us the lot number, the buyer number and where the car is going, and we match it with a carrier already running the desert or the I-5 corridor that week. Several wins spread across Southern California yards can usually ride together on one truck, so list them all in the same quote request.
How far is Copart Palmdale from major cities?
Driving distances from this yard: Palmdale 10 mi (16 min), Lancaster 10 mi (17 min), Santa Clarita 40 mi (54 min), Glendale 52 mi (1 hr 25 min). Larger metros: Riverside 77 mi (1 hr 43 min), Long Beach 93 mi (1 hr 55 min), Santa Ana 103 mi (2 hr 7 min). Mileage is measured on the road network, not in a straight line, and the times shown are typical car drive times. A loaded carrier runs slower and works to a pickup window, so plan on 1-2 days of transit to those metros once a truck is dispatched.