Decent flatbed shipping bid board / rates

[tubeguy]

Im wondering if anyone here has had particular good luck with any of the online shipping bid boards. Any you would recommend for or against? Having looked online there are a ton of them. I need to have a machine shipped from Ft Meyers FL to central wiscosnin.


I think it could go in a van easily but a few trucking firms have balked because of the weight and size. 3'x 8'x 4'x 6600 lbs. Just a odd enough size to be a headache.

Its 2 degrees outside, maybe I should drive down and pick it up.....

 

[robert123]

I don't see any reason shipping LTL in a trailer would be a problem. Maybe if the 96" is the height it could be to tall for a trailer?

 

[WILLEO6709]

most van trailers have no way to secure that machine nor do they have enough structure to keep it from going right through the trailer side. do yourself a favor and hire a " covered wagon", the kind with the " tent frames " that roll along the trailer sides, more or less a vinyl sides trailer they can load with a crane.

and if you put it in your pickup for that trip I want before and after pics...... I hve put 6500 lbs on a f350 dually for less than 100 miles... never 1600.

 

[Chip Chester]

I read today Uber is working on an Uber for trucking -- where drivers meet loads, with no middleman. Except Uber, of course.
On edit: Oops, make that Amazon: Amazon Is Secretly Building an 'Uber For Trucking' App, Setting Its Sights On a Massive $8 Billion Market - Slashdot

Maybe a 10 or 12K trailer would do the job.

Chip

 

[Adwcali]

You can't legally secure something like that in a van. There are companies and drivers that might do it. And they'll get away with it for a while. Then you'll see the pictures on Facebook and that company will be gone for good.

 

[tubeguy]

most van trailers have no way to secure that machine nor do they have enough structure to keep it from going right through the trailer side. do yourself a favor and hire a " covered wagon", the kind with the " tent frames " that roll along the trailer sides, more or less a vinyl sides trailer they can load with a crane.

and if you put it in your pickup for that trip I want before and after pics...... I hve put 6500 lbs on a f350 dually for less than 100 miles... never 1600.

That may be why 2 different van lines backed out/Or all of a sudden they mis-quoted and the new rate was 4x the original. Anyway like the post says "flatbed" Ive given up on the van route. So aside from just what pops up on a I-net search. Anyone have a bidder broker flatbed service they like?

I was just thinking maybe I should ring up a few machinery dealers. They must have a stable of outfits they get good results from.

 

[SteveBausch]

Box trucks for pipe delivery have holes bored in floor for pipes to drop in, to keep a pile of pipes from rolling around. Perhaps a way to secure a load? Drop a chain down the hole?

Nussbaum has semi trailers with D-rings in floor, but usually for specific customers.

 

[TPMachining]

Call your local CH Robinson. They're brokers, but they regularly get empty flatbeds in all areas of the country that would gladly take a paying load rather than deadhead. Most flatbed guys price their loads coming back empty anyway because the freight is more sporadic. They might make a little money on you, but they'll go through the headache of finding the truck.

 

[sfriedberg]

You might call a local Landstar agent/broker. I used Landstar to transport my larger mill and lathe. It helped that the local Landstar agent is collocated with my riggers.

 

[idacal]

Were your going and coming from plays a huge part in flat bed trucking I just got a quote boise id to sctsdale arizona full load 45000lbs double drop trailer and 2 height permits 3800 going 3200 coming back but got a quate last year helena montana to boise 10000 lbs load ' 10' of bed space over 1600.00