[Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

Richard George rkg at teleport.com
Wed Oct 19 11:24:08 MDT 2022 

Hi everybody.

First off, thank you again for all your input on this shipping issue.  I 
got it done, and thought I would share the "experience" in case anybody 
else is confronted with this.

In the end, I got the total number of boxes down to 24, weighing ~450 
lb. and taking up ~40 ft^3

After much calling, I found that -if- I had it palletized and had a 
loading dock/pallet handling gear, I could get it to its destination for 
$600-800 (There were some services that look for available space that 
might well have been less, but you don't know their best price until you 
have the items ready to go and then request a number) - lift truck for 
pallet added $50 or so.  The problem is that I wasn't there (no pallet 
handling gear, have never palletized stuff, etc) - I needed somebody to 
palletize the stuff and stick it on whatever truck was going cross 
country.  I found several companies that do this, but it wasn't cheap - 
lowest quote was $1800 to pick up the boxes, palletize, and send them to 
the destination).

The PODS guys wouldn't deliver a cube to the auction house's location 
and recommended U-pack.  A quote for moving the smallest cube they have 
to the auction house's address was $3700 (ouch).

What did I do?  I ended up shipping them all by UPS ground using 
pirateship - doing that, it cost me ~$860 to send the 24 boxes to the 
auction house, which was more or less what the more expensive freight 
quotes were.

Best,

rkg

(Richard George)


On 9/28/2022 4:42 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
> PODS or equivalent such as PACKRAT.
> https://www.1800packrat.com/
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian and Wendy Warrick <maynerdfamily at msn.com>
> To: shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 27, 2022 5:49 pm
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets 
> shipped... help?
>
>
> To follow up on Eric's comments, look into PODS
>
> https://www.pods.com/
>
> If the stuff isn't big and heavy and packs well into boxes, this could 
> be the way to go. Load the POD at the location and let them bring it 
> to the Auction House. No pallets or strapping needed.
>
> Brian
> Nampa, ID
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of 
> eric at megageek.com <eric at megageek.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 27, 2022 3:34 PM
> *To:* Shop-talk at autox.team.net <Shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets 
> shipped... help?
> Rkg,
>
> There are a few options.  If you only have a few pallets worth of 
> items, go out and buy some "pallet wrap" (big roll of clear cling wrap.)
>
> Look in the local craigslist for someone getting rid of a solar pool 
> cover (should be easy this time of year.)  They are large plastic 
> blankets of bubble wrap.  Also, you'll find a TON of people giving 
> away pallets.
>
> Load the items on a pallet and bolt it to the pallet.  Then wrap in 
> the bubble wrap, then the pallet wrapping.
>
> Once done, have a list of all the items/pallets with dimensions.  If 
> you know the weight, that is much better.
>
> Then, contact a shipping company near you and tell them you have X 
> many pallets that need to be shipped.  You may have enough for a full 
> truck (best bet.)  If not, you are a 'ltt'  (less than truckload.) 
> this just means you'll pay more.
>
> Let them know you need a lift gate.  IF you have a good paved 
> driveway, they can use the pallet jack to load them.  If not, you may 
> have to rent a forklift, or have a buddy with a tractor and forks come 
> over on the pick up day.
> Then you'll have to make arrangements on the other end.  If you have a 
> paved driveway there, it might not be too bad.
> That is NOT the ideal way, but it will work.
>
> IF you have LOTS of stuff, going to a single location, here is the 
> best way to do it.
>
> Find a shipping company that will drop off a 'intermodal container' 
> (the standard shipping container.)  You'll have to decide if you need 
> a 20' or 40'.
>
> They will drop it off for you to load on your own.  You don't need 
> pallets, just pack the stuff in there and use tiedowns and wedge 
> things together.  This is also a good time to find people getting rid 
> of mattresses and you can put them in between items.
>
> You load the container up (at ground level) and they pick it up, and 
> drop it off for you to unload at the other side.  They normally charge 
> a fee for the 'rental' time of the unit, so plan well and be ready to 
> load it and unload it right away.
>
> If you are in NJ, let me know, I can easily help you with this.
>
> Moose
>
>
>
>
> From: Richard George <rkg at teleport.com>
> To: shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Date: 09/27/2022 05:15 PM
> Subject: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets 
> shipped... help?
> Sent by: "Shop-talk" <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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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