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Tripletap,
Just so you know, Matt (or anyone else in his shoes) has very little control over the last leg of the journey for local home delivery. He pays a trucking company to pick up the machines at his place and send them to the local freight carrier in the home town of the customer. Often times, the product could be picked-up by other carriers along the way as there are transportation brokers involved. His transporter quotes him a price for local delivery, pays it and has little control over who actually carries it. In most cases, the local freight carrier farms local delivery out to someone else. Of course, folks have the option of arranging their own transportation. Back when I was rebuilding diesel generators, I arranged my own liftgate delivery -and I was paying upward of 550 bucks per ton and that was 10 years ago.
You could go with Fedex or UPS. Last month I had $700 of metal delivered UPS liftgate (non express), it cost me 275 to get it here and we're only talking about 300 lbs of material.
Ray
Just so you know, Matt (or anyone else in his shoes) has very little control over the last leg of the journey for local home delivery. He pays a trucking company to pick up the machines at his place and send them to the local freight carrier in the home town of the customer. Often times, the product could be picked-up by other carriers along the way as there are transportation brokers involved. His transporter quotes him a price for local delivery, pays it and has little control over who actually carries it. In most cases, the local freight carrier farms local delivery out to someone else. Of course, folks have the option of arranging their own transportation. Back when I was rebuilding diesel generators, I arranged my own liftgate delivery -and I was paying upward of 550 bucks per ton and that was 10 years ago.
You could go with Fedex or UPS. Last month I had $700 of metal delivered UPS liftgate (non express), it cost me 275 to get it here and we're only talking about 300 lbs of material.
Ray
In my previous life I had the misfortune of dealing with trucking companies on a daily basis. Long story short it took me longer on the phone to fix the trucking company's mistakes than it took to sell the item. I was however very surprised and happy with the company that delivered my 1236. They were right on time, the driver was very helpful, patient and looked professional. I did call Matt and let him know how pleased I was with the trucking company as that is feed back that will help him choose a trucking company in the future.