Re: Shipping Large Cavities (items)
Roger,
No big deal to ship large items if the buyer
and seller live near metro areas and the seller
will box things up well enough for truck freight.
Find out the local and nearest large city name
(and zip codes) for the Seller. Ask the seller if
they can deliver the package/boxes crates to a
local trucking terminal... or you find out in the
below instructions if a truck at the sellers end
can come by (when contacted by the seller) and
pick up the crates/boxes.
Call Oak Harbor Freight Lines (in your area, I
use them all the time) and ask them who they work
with on the Sellers end of the deal. Get the name
and phone number of the distant end Trucking
Company and a quote number from your company
(Oak Harbor on the West Coast) to start the
process. Ask Oak Harbor for the location
and address of the terminal nearest to you and
have the boxes sent to that terminal for pick up.
I often have large items delivered to the local
terminal with "hold for pickup" and my day phone
number clearly printed on the side of the box in
3 or more places.
Call the remote end shipper, find out if they
can pick up or must have a drop off for the Sellers
side of the shipping.
Send the Seller all the information and ask they
print out and stick 3 label copies on the box.
They call the trucking company on their end to
make a pickup (at their location), or they drive
the boxes down to the terminal and drop them off
(and get a signature).
Trucking Companies live by a tracking number called
the "PRO Number", it's often issued when the item
is picked up. Keep copies of your original quote
number and the Pro Number when you get it along with
everyone's phone numbers.
5 to 15 days from the pickup date, you receive a
call from your local freight terminal (if you're not
tracking it yourself) that your box is ready to be
picked up. Sure you can have it delivered, but that's
all extra money you really don't want to spend.
Have the seller pack everything with the assumption
that a forklift will handle (and try to drive over
if possible) the boxes/crates.
Figure any box will be at least $80 min, large heavy
repeaters run from ~$130 to $210 to get send in from
the East Coast. You get a larger price break if you
ship more items. I shipped 15 MSF-5000 & MSR-2000
Repeaters for about $1,000 total awhile back. I'm sure
that price reflected a discount. Oak Harbor is a
Company that's done very well for me. I've also used
Roadway and others in the past. Pick one that has a
terminal in your local area and you're ready to have
"buy a dent" equipment shipped in...
So now ya know...
cheers,
skipp
www.radiowrench.com/sonic
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I've exhausted my ideas for shipping two of those 43 MHz cavities
from Philadelphia to Seattle. Until I come up with an epiphany idea,
I'm putting this idea on the back-burner and let it simmer.
>
> The purpose of this message is for follow-up on my previous message
that I was working on a shipping solution.
>
> Roger Hansen, W6TOZ, 443.675/r, 443.775/r
> Auburn, WA
>
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