Anyone ever ship something as big as H rear steel wheels?

I'm trying to sell the steel wheels from my H to help give me some money to continue my (slow) restoration. I've put the wheels up here, with no interest. And I've run them on Ebay 3 times. Twice I've gotten reponses that they would be interested if I could ship. I had them listed as local pickup since they are extremly heavy. But considering I live in central California... if there is no one interested near here, then I guess I'll have to ship them.

I don't even know where to start! Where does a person go to ship something that big?

UPS Freight or Fed-Ex Truck Freight might handle it or others NEMF. Look in your phone book under trucking companies.

You will need to go to a freight company like "Roadway" or "England" Or "RLS". You will need to know the weight and zip in order to ship.

Call a local freight truking company. They will haul them BUT IT WILL NOT BE CHEAP!! Check before you say you will pay for shipping cause it might be cheaper to sell for less and let buyer ship.

Hi, Mike.

There's a name for the kind of hauler you're thinking about it and I can't for the life of me think of it this minute.

But it's the companies you see with the double and triple bottoms out on the road -- Yellow, Roadway, OverNite, CF. They specialize in mixed loads as opposed to moving a full trailer load of goods between two points.

A lot of ins and outs to it. Most will want it the wheel strapped to a pallet. To get a rate, you need to nail down a lot of specifics with your buyer beforehand -- do they pickup, do they need a liftgate to pick it up, will it fit on the liftgate, or do you take it to the terminal, your pallet or theirs . . . On the delivery end, your buyer has the choice of picking it up at their terminal or having the company arrange with a contractor for local delivery -- one price for a liftgate truck, another for delivery to a loading dock.

Do-able, but the more details that go into booking the haul, the fewer surprises in the enterprise. Big one is for the buyer to be equipped or set up to accept the delivery. I had the 3-point for my Super C delivered to a local garage. Driver moved the pallet to the lift-gate, and the garage backed up their roll-off and winched it off the liftgate onto the deck. I shoed up that afternoon, and we slid the pallet off into my pickup. At home, me and a gorilla-like friend moved it down planks to the ground.

Well you could list them on the hauling schedule here and some one will surely move them for you. Or there are load boards that you can post on like (internettruckstop.com) for one. List it as a LTL or partial load. This will mean that from PU date to DL date the person has 7-10 days for the run so they can finish filling the truck out. Whom ever is paying the bill needs to make sure the people hauling have cargo insurance to cover any mishaps should they occur. Most will have something like $100,000.00 or so. I have a half million or $500,000.00.

Go to a local freight co., get a pallet and strap with metal banding and ship them freight. I believe UPS has a limit of 70 pounds or such. I have them bring in Air Conditioning equipment from different pplaces in the south. Shipping is not that expensive. Henry

Mike, am in So Calif might be interested shoot me an email or 951-522-3573 do you have fronts also??

Each terminal or region will have a sales staff. Call your local terminal, request a salesman, and ask if they have pallet pricing. That will be your cheapest rate. Here in New England they will allow 2000 lbs per pallet. One standard pallet should be enough.

If you are a regular customer, they will have a discount schedule attached to your account. Could be 40% or more. You probably will not be able to qualify for that. Ask the salesman to recommend a small business they ship to and from that might load your pallet and fill out the bill of lading. Or better yet, fill out your own bill of lading from the freight company's web site using the small business's account number and discount. Deliver the loaded pallet and paperwork to the small business. I suggest COD on the shipping charges. It may add $20 to the cost. You will also need to "tip" the small business.

Don't get involved with lift gates at either end. Those charges are exorbinate. Have the buyer pickup at the destination terminal or have the truck driver dump the pallet on the ground at the buyer's address. It is not likely that the wheels will get damaged.

Banding is not necessary. Home Depot has some very long and heavy-duty tie-wraps. Use a couple dozen of those to secure the wheels.

You don't need a national carrier. A regional carrier will quote the whole distance and may be cheaper.

Also look at U-Ship.com. They are an eBay company. You can post your load and destination and people will bid for the trucking. Also look at the "Hauling Schedule" link at the left side of this page.

Great info gents! Thanks!

If I ask someone to ship, I mean would they be willing to go to the trouble of packaging and meet the shipper. If I were you, I'd get the weight including two pallets + 10 pounds for tieing/braceing and list something to the effect of "buyer organizes shipping" then list the weight and your zipcode. Only thing you have to do then is verify duckies are in hand before it leaves and pack it based on what the buyer tells you.

Dave

Let the buyer make thatcall as the seller isnt required to provide shipping. Any how you must have hundreds of trucking firms in Calif. Doesent your telephone book have any yellow pages also your computer will be a big help.

LTL. (less than load)

There is a hauling schedule on this site.

Well you're a big shot in the Navy right? Have a Helo sling load them on the nearest ship that is going on deployment and have them drop it off as a practice mission. That is provided they are not too far from the coast or Great Lakes.

I am sure you can pull this off. Look at it as a challenge.

Good luck, Gene

A little advice, do NOT send COD (cash on delivery). If the buyer or you arranges to have them shipped, have the money for the wheels and shipping in hand. If you send them COD and buyer fails to pick them up, or if they try to deliver and no one is there, often the pallet will go to the shipping companies warehouse, where they will sit until you go pick them up, pay to ship them back to you, or until the shipping company accumulates enough stuff to have an auction where they are sold absolute. You will get what the wheels bring on auction minus shipping costs and storage at $0.20 per day, and they could sit for several months or a even a year. Best thing to do is to have buyer arrange shipping, and just slap them on a pallet and drop them off where you're told to.

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Slightly OT, but then again on topic. Kinda long.
Not to pick on any one or two individuals, but there is a lot of confusion about shipping terms out there. Hope to clear some of this up.
C.O.D.- Cash on Delivery- this is for the cost of the product being shipped. Eg: 2 tractor wheels @ $500 each. The consignee ( recieving party ) pays the price of the product to the delivering carrier, who then forwards the payment to the shipper. You don't get paid until the carrier collects from the consignee. There is a fee involved for handling the money, the shipper designates whether he or the consignee pays the fee. Shipper also designates who pays the freight,prepaid or collect.
Freight Collect- carrier collects the shipping costs from the consignee. Many people call this C.O.D. but it is a completely different animal.

Freight Prepaid- The shipper pays the freight. If actual weight, class, distance etc are known, the agent may have the costs figured ahead of time, otherwise will bill the shipper in a few days.The Standard Bill of Lading used by all LTL (less than truckload) carriers has a box on the right side, about half way down that says " if charges are to be prepaid, write or stamp 'to be prepaid' here". If the box is blank, it goes collect, the charges are paid by consignee, no matter what it says anywhere else on the B.O.L.
On collect shipments, the carrier may, at his option, demand that charges be paid before unloading, or may extend open accout up to 15 days.
On prepaid shipments, usual procedure is for the carrier to bill the shipper within a few days. Actual costs are determined by scale weight, freight class, special service needed, & distance. Pick-up drivers usually don't have this information with them. If listed seperately, tare weight ( pallet, packaging etc) rides free, only pay for actual weight of product. If the driver cannot REASONABLY do the loading/unloading by himself, it is the shipper's/consignee's resposibility to provide suitable hoists, docks, ramps etc at his own expense.
clear as mud, but it covers the ground. Over 40 years in the freight business.
Willie
diesel pilot-retired

Mike,
I"ve used uship.com to have some big tractor implements moved across the country fairly reasonably. You might also post on ebay in your sale that the buyer has to make all the shipping arrangements including having the hauler pick it up at your location. I"ve also done that as well and it"s not terribly difficult to get arranged. Good luck!