How to track your Supra's shipping vessel

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Hey all, while I'm guessing some of you already know this, I figured I'd do a brief how to on how your track the shipping vessel your car is on. It's pretty common for BMW M car purchasers to track their respective ships, so I'll share I what I learned tracking two M cars in the past.

Your sales rep will be able to see when the vehicle has or is expected to leave port. Once Toyota's order system shows the vehicle has left, they sales rep can call Toyota North America to obtain the Vessel Name and ID#.

As a side note: If I'm remembering correctly, BMW CAs can see this directly on their order screen. Which would explain the call to Toyota NA.

Today my sales rep was able to get my vessel information: 343 OCENAUS LEADER

There are a few websites you can use, but I personally use www.vesselfinder.com (aka, VF) because it is free. The downside to the free service is that the open water updates are slow and are not in real time. You can use a pay site like www.fleetmon.com for frequent open water updates.

You can track the vessel in nearly real time while it is in radio range of the shoreline.

With a bit of Google-fu you can find the vessel schedule on the shipping company's website. Using VF I see that my vessel is owned by the NYK group from the vessel's photo:


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Doing a quick search for NYK vessel schedule yields this:



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Side Note: RORO means Roll On Roll Off

Pick the schedule the corresponds to Europe to USA or East to West. Using this schedule below I confirmed that my car will make port around Aug 28. Which port depends on what part of the country you're in, but generally Denver west will be from Hueneme in California, South central states come through Houston, and east coast and northern states may come through Jersey.

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Have fun and post up below if you can find your car!

Here's mine as of Aug 4:
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With fleetmon, you can sign up for a free account and get some info the free sites don't show. You can also purchase sat tracking for 14 days for $16, which might be worth it if you are really curious to follow your ship's progress across the Atlantic to the US (without satellite tracking, you'll lose all updates once the ship gets out of range of the European coast).

Some shipping companies will let you search/track a vehicle by VIN, so if you have that you might not even need to pester someone from Toyota for the ship name.
 

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This is really neat. I’d be curious to how they load the cars...are they driven o stacked like an aircraft carrier or in shipping containers?
 

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When you ask your dealer to call “Toyota North America”, I assume they’ll know who to call?

That sounds like a blanket label for a bunch of possible people! I’d like to give my dealer a shout tomorrow and see if I can’t do this. It’s out on a boat right now.. somewhere..

Pretty neat stuff. Thanks for sharing.
 
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This is really neat. I’d be curious to how they load the cars...are they driven o stacked like an aircraft carrier or in shipping containers?
They actually just drive them on and off the vessel like a ferry.

When you ask your dealer to call “Toyota North America”, I assume they’ll know who to call?

That sounds like a blanket label for a bunch of possible people! I’d like to give my dealer a shout tomorrow and see if I can’t do this. It’s out on a boat right now.. somewhere..

Pretty neat stuff. Thanks for sharing.
They should know who to ask; I'm sure there is a dedicated line/specialist for Supra order status since it's a unique situation.
 
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A day late, but she's finally making port!

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if you guys PM or give me a VIN I can try to get you some updates. I know mine is currently (As of yesterday) on a railcar in PA making it's way to the dealership. Super late because mine is a Launch Edition, lol.. But it's cool I'm glad it's late and I received time find the right car for me.

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if you guys PM or give me a VIN I can try to get you some updates. I know mine is currently (As of yesterday) on a railcar in PA making it's way to the dealership. Super late because mine is a Launch Edition, lol.. But it's cool I'm glad it's late and I received time find the right car for me.
PM'ed! I curious to see what the Vehicle dashboard is showing for ETAs.
 

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Alright guys I think like 5-6 of you pinged me I'll have to create a spreadhseet pretty soon here to make sure I don't confuse Vin's lol.. I'll be taking a peek at your builds as well lol :D

Anyways after work I'll try to get updates and then respond back to the PM's by tonight or tomorrow morning. If ANY OF YOU have a Phantom I might not respond to you in Sheer Jealousy, Disappointment, and Anger. (FYI)
 

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Alright Guys here are my updates so far, I hope I built this and organized this right I'm still waiting to get the update on one more, Oakley Guy I believe you gave me a Bad Vin, Guys make sure I have your colors right but use the following:

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Update: Just got the other one I'll send you a PM, OakleyGuy i still need you to correct your Vin.
 

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Okay so some clarification. AstralTune because it's at port and not moving I can't really give a better update or a closer update on a ETA. nimdavii You will get yours the soonest I mean I want to say by the end of this week before any of us at least on the list above. If anyone is upset that I listed it all like that for all let me know but it was just easier.

Thanks.
 

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Alright Guys here are my updates so far, I hope I built this and organized this right I'm still waiting to get the update on one more, Oakley Guy I believe you gave me a Bad Vin, Guys make sure I have your colors right but use the following:

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Update: Just got the other one I'll send you a PM, OakleyGuy i still need you to correct your Vin.
Wooww..thank you soo much bro
 

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No Problem everyone, anything I can do to help out. Also if you guys run into delays or this is off please post back because well I don't want to jinx it but some of these are suppose to be coming in real soon, hot and fast!
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