[Shop-talk] Need advice on shipping 1500 lbs from California to Minnesota ...

[eric at megageek.com]

I've wrestled with this problem for years.  I am always selling stuff on 
ebay and CL and getting ripped off from shipping companies.

That was until I shipped 3 X 300 lbs ship hatch cover to CT about 2 months 
ago.  In my research I came across this site...
http://www.freightcenter.com/ 

And low and behold, I was a believer.  There process is simple and 
painless.  They will assign you a personal rep that works with you.  My 
guys name is...
Kevin Chase
1-800-716-7608, Ext. 1024

They not only give you a price, they show you the pricing options for 
about 5 to 10 shipping companies (all of which to can schedule through 
them.)

Call him and tell him Eric Petrevich sent you.  He is a great guy and 
their prices are very reasonable.  But even more impressive, he worked 
with me to try a few different options to see what way had the best price. 
 (we looked at different pallets, one pallet, different configurations, 
etc) until I got a great price.  Then, the day it shipped, the price was 
reduced with a discount they gave me.

I have no interest in the company, I'm just really happy to find a firm 
that answered a problem that I was always having with large freight 
shipping.

BTW, the price they gave me beat the pants off of local carriers. 

On a side note, to date my largest shipment was a custom made pallet with 
8 stretchers on it shipped to Taiwan.  It cost about $3500 for the 
shipment and the sale price of the stretchers was only $200.  This was 
BEFORE I found Freightcenters.

Eric P
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson 




"Arvid Jedlicka" <arvidj at visi.com> 
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I have an opportunity to buy a mill. The owner is willing to palletize it. 

Now all I need to do is figure out how to engage a freight company to go 
to 
his house with a tailgate lift, he has a pallet jack and can get it on the 

tailgate, then have the freight company do it's thing to get it to my 
driveway and do the tailgate lift thing a second time.

Any suggestions on where to start with something like this?

Thanks,
Arvid 
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