Mike,
I have a couple of suggestions for you.
You might see if you can find someone who will take the time to see if
there is a different class that can be used for the shipment. I ordered
some suspension springs from Nissan in California and the shipping was
supposed to be $1300! The receiving clerk talked the shipper into
calling the shipment clean steel and the shipping dropped to just over
$600. All that was after the springs were on the dock waiting for me to
pick them up!
Secondly, see if you can find someone who ships a lot of stuff from the
area where the oven is coming from to a location near you. Then see if
they can slip it onto a truck coming your way.
If you can pick the oven up at their dock it will also be cheaper.
Peace,
Pat
Mike Rambour wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> WOW this shipping stuff is expensive, I got quotes from$480 all the
> way up to $1,300, so I guess at $525 the manufacturer is not that
> expensive after all. I got 6 quotes, 480, 550, 580, 620, 690, 730,
> 1,310. I did try greyhound, used them in the past and I had forgotten
> about them Thank You but that is too heavy for them. Its quite a
> range and I am very surprised at the range but I guess I will go with
> the manufacturers price and get my new powdercoating oven here as
> quick as I can.
>
> That "class" thing seemed to be the lifesaver on getting quotes, once
> I rattled off the class 85, they were quick in giving me prices.
>
> Mike
>
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