Richard, canâ??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@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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