Shipping a tire?

I have a fellow in Indiana that wants an 18.4X38 tire shipped to him and although I have shipped many parts I have always had buyer line up truck.Any ideas what freight company to call? Thanks

i dont know where you are, but id check in the yellow pages under trucking companies, and find a ltl freight line that operates in your area, they can tell you how to prepare the tire for them, and where to take it for shipping some may even come to your place and pick it up , the tire is going to be too big for ups, fed ex may be worth a call since around here they operate with pup trailers with lift gates on them,, but otherwise the regular ltl freight lines will be happy to take it, [and your money]

I would ask the buyer to make the arrangements. I have only once had a customer who actually wanted a part truck shipped once they found out how much it would cost, so I always give them my address so they can figure it out themselves and save me the time.
Zach

YRC (formerly Yellow & Roadway) are probably the biggest and go the most places.

You can save big $$$ by dropping it off at their nearest depot to you, and having the buyer pick it up at the nearest depot to him. Otherwise, your buyer can kiss any money he saved by buying this tire from you instead of buying a new one from a local dealer GOODBYE.

I don't understand why anyone would ship big tractor tires. It's not cheap. It's damned expensive in fact. So much so that it's almost universally cheaper to buy a new tire from a local dealer even if their prices are crazy, than to have one shipped.

Check the hauling schedule on this site. If someone's going that way with a pickup they may help you out cheaper than a freight co.

You can usually do better calling a broker (unishippers; CH Robinson; freightquote.com; ect) rather than calling the trucking company direct. Brokers get deep discounts; so much so that they will often beat your non discounted price.

As said arrange for terminal drop off and pickup unless you are willing to pay the limited access (farm; residential) upcharge.

Larry, I'm not sure how close you are to Fort Dodge, I'm almost certain that there would be a terminal there for some company. Then do like Mkirsch recommended. The limited experience I've had shipping via truck has been simple. Our local truck freight company transfers cargo onto different companies truck ie ABF, Roadway,Dorhn,etc. when the cargo needs to be shipped out of their area. No extra charge.

I have used Hybrid Transit in Cedar Rapids, they are brokers and find good pricing. They also call and make sure it gets through.

I would do what Zac suggested and have the buyer make the shipping arrangement. Hal

Most carriers do not charge extra to a farm but do charge to residential or hobby farm.

If you want to ship and have no interlining I would go YRC ( Yellow,Roadway,Holland)ABF,CCX, UPS Freight or FED-X Freight.

Strap it to a large pallet for shipping it will help them a lot and could save a few dollars in handling charges.
Walt

I was just checking on the price of a new 14.9 x 28...shipping alone was around $240 for one tire!

Walt freight lines don't like that size tire on pallet it takes up to much floor room. They will stand them up and put freight up against it or strap it to wall of trailer.

I've shipped them by R&L freight. Took them to the terminal in Pt. Pleasant, WV. Put the tags on the tires with NO pallet and shipped them that way. Shipped them to Arizona & shipped them C.O.D. on shipping charges. Keith

Try UPSFreight. Their website at freightcenter.com should give you a quote.

Larry, Be aware that unless the buyer is very happy with the amount of tread, he could refuse it and you get stuck paying both ways. Don't put it on a pallet.

Lots of things do not get charged every time. But a farm is considered limited access.


"Limited delivery access: If the pick up or drop off location has limited access for carriers, an adjustment may be applied. Limited access locations include: camps, places of worship, educational institutions, construction sites, fairs and carnivals, individual/mini storage units, military base/installations, mine sites, some government facilities, schools, businesses located outside city limits, rural locations and farms. Limited access may also include commercial businesses not open to the walk-in public or where an employee is not available to assist with loading or unloading."

I drove for a union common carrier for 38 years and they never charged for all the places you listed. The only ones charged extra was inside delivery or a residential delivery. They would also charge extra if we got at the delivery address and they wanted it delivered to a differant address.

FedEx

I work for a LTL line. If the driver marks it on the bill so the clerk knows to charge it every farm p/u or delivery gets a $115.00 upcharge over the normal freight charge.
The attitude; help loading or unloading; has a lot to do IF the driver writes it on the bill.

Thats some new changes since I retired 4 years ago but I bet the owner of the company I worked for would not follow that very close. He would only charge if we had truuble with delivery. I will have to talk to one of the drivers that still working and see if they are going by this.

I've used the hauling schedule on this site, and I've also had good luck with UShip for tractor rears. Lots cheaper than a freight carrier.

Interesting stories on shipping. I guess things have changed since I shipped anything truck. Last time I did was in 2007. I build small stock panels for people that travel with livestock to shows and whatnot. Normally people come pick them up and that is the end of it. I did have one customer that ordered 12 8' panels. When they were done he wanted them shipped to NY. I set up an account with Yellow on the net and they came out to the farm and picked them up. I had them all banded together and a bill of lading all filled out and taped to them. I used the loader to get the bundle in the back of the truck and he strapped them to the wall and was off. He wasn't here but ten minutes and was gone. $180.00 from CO to NY. Sounded cheap enough to me and the customer paid for it with no issues. Even overnight-ed my check to me.
The dispatcher I worked through told me that as long as the truck could easily get in the drive and had room to turn around without the driver having to jockey around there would not be an extra charge for a farm pick up. Worked out good.

Greg

[i:654c4848f0] The dispatcher I worked through told me that as long as the truck could easily get in the drive and had room to turn around without the driver having to jockey around there would not be an extra charge for a farm pick up [/i:654c4848f0]

So I take that to read there was a upcharge but we are not going to charge you it if we can get in and out of there with limited delay.

Pretty much how we do it today.
We show up and you are ready to go; help us load or unload; and we do not even worry about writing farm on the bill.

On the other hand we get there and have to wait for you to band it; you have no loader so we have to man handle it; or worse you are not even there cause you feel your wife can handle it and all she does is stands there and points.
Guess what.... You just got the upcharge.

We see the last one all the time with residential deliveries. They order something off the internet to save $20; the wife is the only one home when we get there; the piece ordered is 200 lbs; and they think we will unload by our self and put it in the back yard on top of that. Guess what that $20 internet savings just cost you over $100 in upcharges.

The one that really gets me is you go to a school; church; rich house; ect; and there are several able bodied men at the location but none will help you. They look at you like that manual labor is beneath them.
That's when I leave with their stuff if I can work around it. Then it gets appointment charge so we can come when someone is there to help us; redelivery charges; and maybe even lift gate charges.