[Shop-talk] Fastenal Re: palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

[Tim .]

Not knowing where the OP lives or is shipping to, I will offer this:

I check somewhat monthly to see if Fastenal is shipping west of the Rockies. Last check nothing was being shipped either direction over the Rockies.

tim
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From: Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Pat Horne <patintexas at icloud.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:33 PM
To: Richard George <rkg at teleport.com>
Cc: shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

Richard, can’t help w/palletizing but you might check with your local Fastenal store. Up until the pandemic they would ship palletized stuff on a space available basis but it was store to store so end point delivery would be needed.

You might also check with hot shot services.

Peace,
Pat

Pat Horne
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On Sep 27, 2022, at 4:25 PM, Richard George <rkg at teleport.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm dealing with my dad's estate and have a large quantity of stuff (tools - ob. shop content) to send across country to get auctioned off.  I was originally looking at using normal shipping methods (boxes sent at a discount via pirate ship), but it turns out the house is confident they can deal with far more "stuff" than I had originally envisioned (would be 40 or so of those home depot small and medium moving boxes,a few banker boxes, etc I think).

I am guessing when one has that much material its probably going to be a lot cheaper to palletize it/put them on a truck and ship them to the auction house that way rather than trying to ship the boxes individually.  The trouble is that I'm not set up to do that.  I don't have any pallet jacks, don't exactly have any place to do the wrapping (they are all in storage - I suppose I could do it there, but again, no pallet jack and while the storage space would let me work there but I think getting a truck there might be a cluster, etc).  In addition, while I've packed a LOT of stuff for shipment over the years, I haven't ever loaded up items on a pallet/wrapped the pallet for shipment so that the will make it, actually tried to use a freight company for shipment, etc.  And... the times in the past I've dealt with freight companies (on the receiving end), it often didn't go well (not so much damage as the companies all seemed to do bait and switch on rates, tried to extract additional payments they weren't owed, there were issues with actual delivery, etc (story of cluster surrounding shipment of fiberglass GT6 hood omitted)).

So I was hoping to get some advice for a newbie on dealing with this.

Are there services that can handle the palletizing/getting it delivered that won't take you to the cleaners/jerk you around on the pricing,etc?  Is there a "shipping by truck for dummies" tome out there, or...?

Thanks in advance,

rkg

(Richard George)

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