Destination and delivery charge when buying a new vehicle

offer to pick it up yourself

That's my thought, unless car lots want to get into internet shopping business...those delivery and destination charges should be built in overhead, and not passed along to the consumer

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Destination and delivery charge

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Equals additional profit

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Should this fee be one of the first things on chopping block when negotiating?

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Of course

Wipe your arse with the price sheet.

Very effective negotiation tool.

yes, recently bought a 2017 tahoe. I was able to have them eat delivery and in total get them down $9k off mrsp without any rebates. It helps if you are able to know what the dealer paid for the car to negotiate them down.

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I was able to have them eat delivery

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It's semantics, but I bet if you go back and look at the paperwork, you still paid for delivery because of how the auto industry's bookkeeping works. The delivery charges are the same for every unit of a particular model of car, regardless of where the dealership is; a Ford Fusion bought in Detroit should have the same delivery charges as one bought in California if they were built at the same time. It's a flat fee the dealer owes the factory for getting the car there and there's no dealer incentive, rebate, etc. that touches it. There's nothing in that line item that the dealership can change or use to directly negotiate with, so it's a pass-through cost to the customer.

Now, that isn't to say the dealership can't reduce the sale price of the vehicle to offset the delivery charges, but the line item for the delivery charge is almost certainly still going to be there on the sales agreement. The customer pays the delivery charge line item even if the dealer sweetens the sale price by the same amount. Always.

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How do I go about getting this information?

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The internet is your friend. You should be able to find an explanation on how to figure out pretty close to what the dealer actually paid for the car. There are a few variables that only the dealer will know (if they have dealer rebates or incentives, they're not going to share that information with you, as that is where they make their deal), but you should be able to get within a thousand bucks or so of what that car's base price to any dealer would be.

Just more shite added to the bottom line that makes customers pay more.
See "Toyoguard", " under coating", and any administrative charges.