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This is trucking side, but can you talk about pricing at all? We don't buy our own freight that often. I got asked to estimate costs a couple weeks ago on some stuff and said "I'll have to quote it out, but here's what I figure" and I was embarrassingly wrong. Like, pretty much I got asked what a full load was from Detroit to Toledo and what most people were quoting was what we're already paying per pound for an LTL to Topeka. I've had this happen the other way too which is fine because when that happens everybody thinks I'm special but I cannot at all figure out if there's an underlying principle to freight pricing. I just want it to be $2/mile or something.
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lord1234 posted:I have a relatively large(for me) item I am trying to ship across the country. It's located in Massachusetts and I am in TX. Size size, its roughly 2 pallets of stuff that needs to be palletized/crated, and then shipped. Who do I call? I'm not a business, I'm just some guy trying to coordinate a shipment. Due to weight, I can't use UPS, so it has to be a freight co. I tried posting on UShip and it seems everyone wants it palletized first, and the shipper won't/can't do that. UPS and FedEx both do LTL shipments and I don't think you need to set up any special terms or anything. If you don't know what you're doing it's probably best to go with one of the big names. You'll probably not get a great price but you won't get scammed and FedEx sometimes has ok LTL prices. But if the shipper can't put something on a pallet I don't get how they're going to put it on a truck. A freight company isn't going to come to somebody's house with 2 pallets and a forklift. Maybe look at moving companies or something?
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May 19, 2015 02:17
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