Hello,
I built two cricket tables for a friend as a wedding gift. My plan was to ship them from NE Mass to Southern Cal. The boxes are about a 30" cube.
Well it seems I should have listened to my wife and bought a place setting. It is very expensive $180 a box to ship them with UPS or FedEx. The box size is to big for the post office.
Anyone have any ideas.
Larry C
Check trucking company LTL rates for your area.
Since most trucking companies give significant discounts to customers, you will get a lower cost if you have a connection to a local company who would ship it for you using their pricing and you pay them including a case of "suds".
Lew
did you try freight quote?
"Larry C" wrote in news:7TXzj.11284$C1.5269@trnddc07:
Know of any business that do shipping in that direction regularly? They may be willing to let you "piggyback" your cargo with their own.
Puckdropper
Lew,
LTL ?? Less than load Location to Location
Thanks for the help
Lew's advice is good. Your friend will have to go to the terminal to pick up the shipment instead of front door delivery, and if you ship this way, make sure you pack it well. Depending on where it is going, it might get handled at a number of terminals.
Less than load as compared to dedicated truckload shipments.
Frank
BUS
Make a crate for your tables with either a pallet or similar design as the base. Make the sides and top strong enough to support something heavy that could possibly get piled on top (1/2 CDX plywood is my choice with 2x2 corner pieces inside held together with drywall screws). Then take the package to the nearest major freight trucking company and ask them for a quote. Once they see it and weigh it you will get a very reasonable quote. Just be sure to package them inside the crate very well as they are likely to get a very rough ride. If you aren't in a hurry (like expecting overnight, etc.) they will ship it in the next truck with enough space that's headed that way and it'll get there in a few days. If you have them contact the receiving party when it reaches the nearby terminal and if the receiving party can pick it up from that terminal the delivery quote will be even lower. They like solid packages with fork truck handling capability. Also, get the agent to go down the list of rates so you can pick the cheapest one that sort of matches what you are shipping. Certain items ship for much less than other similar items ie. assembled machinery costs more to ship than assorted quantities of parts like what the machine is made of. The agent can get away with using either rate. In your case pre-cut wooden furniture parts might ship cheaper than assembled and finished furniture. Who is to say whether your shipment is a finished product or not?
Charley
"Larry C" wrote in message news:7TXzj.11284$C1.5269@trnddc07...
Give them two tickets to come visit your new furniture? :)
I suppose it's too late at this point to design them so the legs come off considering they're already built, eh? It's the dimensional weight that is killing you.
-Leuf
LTL stands for "Less Than truck Load".
I went through hell last spring shipping a mechanical shaper to Texas. Among many, many other things that went bad, the company that the buyer selected took well over 2 months to be in a position to pick it up. If you price shop this thing, you might well get what you pay for. My son ships things up to about 1000 pounds on a regular basis and uses Yellow Frieght. Works for him.
Pete Stanaitis
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Larry C wrote:
Yep.
Lew
Have you looked at Fedex ground? I don't think it will be anywhere near that expensive unless they are dead heavy.
=46rom experience, package to avoid punctures, corner bumps and smashes. With smahses I mean, if you have sp> Hello,
Greyhound Bus. On their web site click on the package express and enter the information. You can get them there for about $45 per package from what I just did from Boston to San Diego. You must drop off and recipient must pick up. Takes about 4 days. .
30x30x30 = Dimensional Weight of 140 lbs. It doesn't matter how much it actually weighs, that's the billable weight.
Shipping from a commercial address with daily rates to a commercial address (the guy's work rather than home) will be significantly less, but still probably at least $125 per box.
Package it to withstand a nuclear blast. That's about what is going to happen to it.
-Leuf
Not sure I understand "Billable weight" I tried it from zip 9xxxx to zip 2xxxx (basically across the country) and 30x30x30 at 140 lbs was $111 but at 50 lbs was only $50 Fedex ground in 5 days.
Did you input dimensions for FedEx ground? Freight is classified with dimensions of the package or in the case of trucks, buy classifications. Some items go as Class 50, others as high as Class 400. Pound of feathers versus pound of lead scenario. The feathers take more space on the truck so you pay more.
Zip 2xxxx is also about 500 miles closer than the OP that has a 0xxx zip.
It's harder to find on the fedex site but here it is on UPS, I believe they both use the same formulas.
There are also a number of other potential fees for large packages, so anything big you have to enter both the weight and the dimensions of the package to get an accurate estimate.
And I have had UPS decide the package was 3" deeper than it was when I shipped it and bill me the difference and there was nothing I could do about it. If you are just under the limits for a big whopping fee they'll just make up their dimensions to hit you with it anyway.
I don't ship large items anymore.
-Leuf
The Greyhound bus option is certainly cheaper but it just makes me a little nervous.
As an FYI the size of the package was the cost driver, not the weight.
Thanks again
Larry C
Throw a couple of rolls of toilet paper in the crate and ship it as a mixed comodity. Furniture rates are about the highest because of claims. VK
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