You Car Parters ! Good Cheap Shipper!!

[Smokiesman]

I see there are some parters out there like me! If you need a shipper for your large heavy parts, give these guys a call ! You may be surprised at the ship cost! Have used them twice now once for a hood to NY and now a tranny to CA. They will go B2B or door to door
Call SBT "Small Business Tranportation" @ 1-888-368-6022 Ext 21 and talk to Chris

No I own no stock in this company is just a tip to help out some of you guys!

Smokie

[boneheaddoctor]

Good info...I plan of getting a fairly large shippment sent to me...and the shipping will be more than the value of the parts as it is.

[RickM]

Smokie, what was the cost for shipping? It'd be nice to have as an example.

Other cost effective shipping alternatives are:

Grey Hound bus - Very fast and inexpensive./ Ideal for bumpers, fenders etc.

National Van Lines - if they have room in a truck they'll add your piece inexpensively.

Fedex Freight - Drop off at Fedex office. Typically cheaper than common carrier.

[Smokiesman]

I believe it was about $75 to ship a Audi Hood to NY area and I just sent a tranny from NC to San Deigo for $150 .

Smokie

[Eugene 87 300TD]

About $350 for an engine from NC to OR!

Thanks!

[GlennCraven]

Originally Posted by RickM

Grey Hound bus - Very fast and inexpensive./ Ideal for bumpers, fenders etc.

My dad used to get all his Mercedes parts shipped on a Greyhound bus. If he called the dealership in Kansas City by 9 a.m. on a weekday, it would arrive in our town (a tiny burg in Kansas six hours from the dealer) by 9 o'clock the next morning.

This was in the 1970s and there was no other way (except Parcel Post from USPS) to get anything shipped to a place like that. And Parcel Post probably would've taken five days.

Great to know that Greyhound can still deliver like this.

[juergenhbr]

http://www.freightcenter.com/ is another good source. It compares various companies and provides a free quote and reference number and allows you to save the quote.

[RUinNC]

Does anyone know of a cheap auto shipper on the East coast?
(Maryland to North Carolina)

[lietuviai]

I had someone ship me a bumper cover by Greyhound. Cost from MO to WA was around $45.
Not bad I thought.

[markham]

Don't forget Amtrak. It's pretty cheap, like ~$35 for first 100 lbs, $0.35 per lb thereafter. The only caveat is that you must pick the package up and drop it off at an Amtrak station, and really heavy items can only be shipped from large stations (major metro areas) with handling equipment. I've used it plenty of times for heavy items.

[markham]

For shipping cars, keep in mind that many so-called car-transport companies are really only brokers or middlemen, who sub-contract the shipping to individual shippers. I recently confirmed this shipping my wife's car from FL to CO. I had to pay the broker, whom I had initially contacted, a $200 "deposit" via credit card to set up the service, then paid the driver $500 in cash upon arrival. The driver told me that the $500 was the only money he saw and that he had no idea what the broker charged. That said, the driver gave me the number of his company and told me that he would charge me the same $500 for the same trip at a later date. Thus I could avoid the brokerage fees next time. So there are two morals to the story: first, if possible try to deal directly with a driver, and second, if you have to deal with a broker, know that there is plenty of bargaining room on his/her commission/fee.

I'm sure this is also the case with other shipping contractors, whether one is shipping cars or engines/parts.

As far as uship goes, all of the bids for my trip were far higher than what I found soliciting shipping bids by more conventional means directly on the internet.

[bwostosh]

I had a good experience with
engineshipping.com
my 2cents

[TheDon]

you guys should check out

www.uship.com

its pretty cool. What it is, is a website where average joes and companies bid on your item to be shipped. Lowest bidder wins of course. We had someone buy the spare body tub from the parts car delorean and the buyer put a shipping page on uship and had people bid on shipping from winter have,fl to somewhere in mississippi(or was it bama?). But anyways the winning bidder is a regular guy with a car hauler that will bring it from here to his place.

Not sure how insurance claims are handled or w/e but its pretty cool if you have a large object that needs to be shipped.

[Johnhef]

I tried uship once for a complete car. Evryone's bid was higher then the quote I got from one of the regular car shippers websites so I gave up on it.

[cth350]

UShip is definitely hit and miss. I have had one great success and one dismal failure with the drivers responding. Once you find a good guy, call him first the next time.

I just shipped a crate of parts from the US to Germany. I found this company to be good at customer service... http://www.uboxworldwide.com ... I dropped the crate off at their Linden, NJ location and it's on its way.

-CTH