I don't believe that the transport companies are safe. My neighbor had his street bike crated and shipped up to AK. When it got here we noticed that it had been layed over before it was put in the crate and then when they where securing it in the crate they cranked the straps so tight that it cracked 1 of the plastics and put a mark on his $600 CF exhaust, and a rub mark on his seat. He went to get it resolved and all the company ended up paying for was the plastic however I still can't believe how much that piece of plastic with some stickers on it costed, something like $700 ;eekp; must have taken a lot of engineers to make that