shipping equipment

[fredflintstone]

howdy all im looking for a shipper to pick up a brillion 3pt seeder in Virginia to ship to Grand rapids mich
how to go about it? thanks

 

[fredflintstone]

wow 132 views and no replys, is this in the worng place??

 

[Diamondpilot]

I always has mixed results. People try UShip but about 1/2 are disastrous.


Your best bet is do it yourself.

 

[smstonypoint]

Try posting an ad at Hauling Ads - Yesterday's Tractor Co..

Steve

Edit

I forgot to mention shipping via Fastenal as another possibility: Third Party Logistics (3PL) | Fastenal

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

I just had some great results with Uship. I was able to get my implements delivered to me cheaper than I could have picked them up myself.
I'd recommend Uship highly for equipment.

Matt

 

[Lnk]

Uship worked for me the one time I used it. You can get a better deal if you are flexible on your pickup/dropoff dates and times. There are shippers that will badger you telling you they know you wont get a better price when you turn down their offer. Just be polite and move on until you get the best deal. My uship was very smooth, but I could see how it could go wrong. But you are protected. You ask for bids, once you get one you like, you accept and schedule with shipper. You pay uship (escrow like) and they release money to shipper when you say you received it. Pretty easy. Uship gets like 50 buck for handling transaction (at least only $50 from me, might be 50 from shipper too).

Keep good track of your correspondence with the bidders, they will ask and reoffer many times.

Good luck,
LNK

 

[fredflintstone]

thanks for the input everyone I do have a posted bid on uship. just seems weird guys has a Mahindra dealership, husky and
others but has no shipping contacts going to run uship see what happens. good idea stony

 

[TMGT]

Depending on size I've had good luck with Fastenal, prices seem to have gone up the last time I used them but still not bad. They ship pretty large stuff but not sure of the limit.
Also requires the seller to pack and drop it off at a store.

 

[OldMasterTech]

Call load brokers, I use CH Robinson and Nolan Freight.

 

[fredflintstone]

I found a site called freight centers got a quote from ups freight was a couple hundered dollars cheaper than
bids I was getting on uship