Moving wheel weights: Florida to Minnesota

Gordo

Take care,

Dan

Having never used shipping for big stuff other than moving my Household Goods many times with Uncle Sam --- thought I'd ask about freight and other ideas. Your responses have been very helpful in this regard.

If nothing else, I can load up my trailer, take a vacation and visit my cousin and her family.

You never should have bid on the weights if the ad said "no shipping," and had no intention of driving there to pick them up yourself. Do what it takes to back out of the sale and make things right with the seller.

The seller said "no shipping" for a reason: He was NOT willing to deal with shipping the items, period.

If he's a reasonable person, he may be willing to help you make arrangements, but believe me, the cost of shipping those weights will easily exceed what you paid for the weights in the first place. Unless they're something rare and special, it's not worth it.

FREIGHT is what all those 18-wheelers you see on the road are. "Shipping" is UPS, FedEx. "Freight" is a company like Roadway. There are hundreds of regional and national freight networks. With freight, you drop the pallet off at one depot, then pick it up at another depot. Door-to-door pickup and delivery costs extra, and generally is only worth the money if you have an entire semi-load of stuff to move.

If you really really want these weights, can't live without them, maybe you can work out a deal with the seller to hold them for you while you arrange shipment. On-demand freight is going to cost you money, but if you can find someone that just happens to be making a trip to within a couple hundred miles of you sometime this summer, you can get them hauled for a very reasonable price.

If you have to have them NOW, and you can convince the seller to wrap them separately in cardboard, you can send them by Greyhoud bus fairly reasonably. He will need to drop them off at the nearest bus station, and you will need to pick them up at your nearest bus station.

If the seller won't do the handling for any price, you will have to find someone in his area who will. Maybe the seller can help you there. It won't be cheap. I suggest you cancel the sale and offer $10-$20 to make things right. There has to be wheel weights in MN.

"Pallet Rate" means any weight up to 2000 lbs that fits on a pallet. Multiple pallets on the same bill of lading get additional discounts. Two pallets will ship for 150% of one pallet.

I could've shipped 14 wheel weights (140 lbs each) for the same price as the air compressor. That comes to $15 each. 28 weights would have cost $11.51 each.

I don't know why people are so leary about using freight carriers. They will come right to your door if you can get the item on their truck or the liftgate. Get your quotes from a salesman and not some dispatcher or clerk. Same goes for selling scrap. Get your quotes from a buyer and not the yard foreman or scale operator.

With only four weights, one has to consider UPS or FedEx. A wheel weight falls within their size and weight limits. Again, talk to an account manager. Otherwise you'll get raped.