alternative shipping methods, LARGE stuff
 

Posting for a friend who has a 62 Tempest manual trans along with the torque tube rear to be shipped to the Western US from the East Coast, I think at one time someone mentioned a website that truckers used to supply shipping when their trucks had space on them that they could fill. He has tried Fastenall and the other major shippers, but has run into the usual REAL high prices.

Can anyone help or make suggestions?
Thanks, Mark

I've shipped stuff and have called and received prices only to have them call back later and tell me it's going to be X amount of dollars more. I didn't realize that I was not talking to the actual person doing the hauling but a broker. It's too bad there isn't some place you can call/email and talk to the person who will be hauling the stuff for you.

We've had good luck with Uship.com
 

https://www.uship.com/

It's been a few years, but we've shipped several engines on pallets to the East coast and brought a 1962 Seagrave fire engine from NC to Las Vegas.

You post the item or vehicle and then carriers bid on it. The first thing we did when we got a response was ask the 'bidder' if they were the actual carrier or if they were a broker. About two-thirds of them were brokers.

With brokers, they would bid anticipating that they can find someone who will move the item. Hairballs can occur, especially if you are working on a time-frame to get the item moved.

We'd filter through the bids to find the actual drivers who were looking for freight for themselves.

Once you know that you are dealing with the actual truck driver, things usually go pretty smoothly.

I know that there are other sites that the brokers use to find trucks to move their stuff, but not familiar with them.

Good luck!

The site you are thinking of is Central Dispatch, however only commercial accounts can post on it!

Uship is 90% brokers & the other 10% are transporters who (because of a lousy reputation) cannot book their own transports. Quality Transporters like myself & the 4 or 5 guys I share my overflow with are booked up to 8 weeks in advance all year round, so there is no reason to pay a fee to have someone book our transports! A side note...I only know of One Transporter who was BANNED from Uship! Must have been a real bottom feeder to get banned from a site like that!

Best of Luck finding someone who is honest & can help you with your parts! I have no more west coast trips for this year.

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...closed.614419/

Have The Buyer Choose A Shipper
 

I still have my UShip account.
When it started I could communicate
directly with folks looking for transport
before placing a bid.

With #2 diesel averaging around $5.00
a gallon nationwide and higher on the
East & West Coasts and Northeast
there is no “ reasonable “ transport
to be found.

I am an actual business with insurance
and other operating costs that BS
Haulers don’t have to pay …

Whoever is paying for transport should
be doing the research and selecting the
method of transport.

The reality is - like vehicles - parts are
usually cost prohibitive to pay someone
to transport across the country so they
arrive in the condition they leave in.

Occasionally I will transport parts along
specific routes anchored by vehicle transport
but in reality the routes and timing seldom
line up.

If space allows I will transport parts with
a vehicle I have picked up - usually at no
additional charge ….


Jim

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...1&d=1665973836

Enginesdirect.com. ask for Dave.Tom

This is GREAT!!! I am forwarding this link to my friend, I hope he can find a shipper with someone here. I know the prices of fuel are going up again, we talked to a friend in Arizona that is paying $5.10 a gallon for regular gasoline again and I guess it is only to get worse. Reminds me of 1979 when I had a 1974 GTO, that was a thirsty bugger.

If anyone has more ideas please post them, any help is most appreciated.
Mark

Sorry
Engineshipping