Anybody with recent experience moving shop via FTL?
Looking at moving from Connecticut to Orange County, CA and trying to decide what are my options as far as moving and what to do with stuff.
Compared to some of the guys on this forum, I don't really have all that much. Just a small shop with your typical metalworking/woodworking/car-lift and auto-repair stuff. But between the shop, and a few boy-toys plus a bit of household stuff, I might have enough to fill a semi-trailer. So trying to decide if doing FTL (full truckload freight) is a sensible way to go about it.
My unit has a loading dock plus I have a forklift, so don't foresee much trouble loading, though I haven't really done this before. The idea is to find some cheap/free shipping crates for shop machines and other bulky stuff, palletize storage cabinets, and pad the rest of the trailer space with loose loaded boxes.
Don't know what I'll have on the other end yet. The move is a year or so away, but if I bring the forklift with me, I guess I'll have to figure some way to get it down from the trailer if there is no loading ramp.
Anyway, I heard that it runs about $2.50 a mile to go with semi-trailer for moving, at that rate - for my move about 3k miles from CT to CA will come to about $7500, which right now does not sound bad. My biggest questions - is this a reasonable estimate? Also any pitfalls I'm not seeing?
Advice much appreciated!
Thanks
Russ
Looking at moving from Connecticut to Orange County, CA and trying to decide what are my options as far as moving and what to do with stuff.
Compared to some of the guys on this forum, I don't really have all that much. Just a small shop with your typical metalworking/woodworking/car-lift and auto-repair stuff. But between the shop, and a few boy-toys plus a bit of household stuff, I might have enough to fill a semi-trailer. So trying to decide if doing FTL (full truckload freight) is a sensible way to go about it.
My unit has a loading dock plus I have a forklift, so don't foresee much trouble loading, though I haven't really done this before. The idea is to find some cheap/free shipping crates for shop machines and other bulky stuff, palletize storage cabinets, and pad the rest of the trailer space with loose loaded boxes.
Don't know what I'll have on the other end yet. The move is a year or so away, but if I bring the forklift with me, I guess I'll have to figure some way to get it down from the trailer if there is no loading ramp.
Anyway, I heard that it runs about $2.50 a mile to go with semi-trailer for moving, at that rate - for my move about 3k miles from CT to CA will come to about $7500, which right now does not sound bad. My biggest questions - is this a reasonable estimate? Also any pitfalls I'm not seeing?
Advice much appreciated!
Thanks
Russ