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Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor?

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HarryG

01-03-2005 15:05:20




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Hey, I've seen many a decent looking tractor I wouldn't mind owning but never bid as they always have a HIGH shipping rate or provide your own. There must be guys doing hauling this stuff. I see flatbeds all the time pulling cars/trucks long distance. Any leads on East Coast?




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Ntix

01-12-2005 09:00:17




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I am hauling tractors from this site and haul for ebay also. I will run dedicated transports and will hold for combined loads in same area if possible. Mostly midwest and east. I have five or six tractors waiting in my yard now for others to same area. The more I can line up the better the rate. However with fuel high and equipt. expensive we can only do so much. Mobile 740 225 5328 Rick L.



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dennis in nc

01-05-2005 15:23:40




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
FROM WHERE TO WHERE ????? ????? ?



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Mac

01-04-2005 15:44:38




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I always figure in the freight and use the total to compare against what I can get equipment for locally. Most of the time, not always, I can find a better deal locally, and I can make sure there's something "decent" under that pretty paint. A guy down the road just ate the round trip freight charge for a tractor with bad pwrshift. Cheaper than the fix.



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Jr55

01-04-2005 04:21:59




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I haul on the east coast. I can haul up to an 8000 lb tractor. email me



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leland

01-03-2005 20:42:34




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
Are you picking up or wanting it delivered to east coast. there are thousands of trucks on east coast daily post load at truck stops some O/O may throw it on trailer if he has room and may give you a good break on freight rate. anymore even large companys will do a back haul off coast just for fuel just to get back to a decent paying area I have saw guys pull freight back west for as little as .70 cents per mile.

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Tramway Guy

01-03-2005 18:18:25




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I got extremely lucky with a "hauling needed" posting on this site. But you might have to be patient and wait for someone "going your way" otherwise empty. Get as many quotes as you can.



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Lou in La.

01-03-2005 18:07:37




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
Have you tried the hauling schedule on this site works for me



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kyhayman

01-03-2005 17:57:28




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I buy and sell all the time on ebay, tractors, trucks, ATV's, parts. Never been taken yet, most sellers are like most buyers, honest people. There are a few but thats the price of doing business. Only 2 tractors I ever got hurt on were local and I knew the sellers well, looked over them top to bottom. Still wound up losing about $5000 on each. Sent a cashiers check to a guy in Florida for an ATV, had my driver pick it up a month later, and it was better than represented. Just my experience.

As far as freight, it isnt cheap. I cant send a $35,000 truck trailer combo, with either me or a driver and a helper (say $35 an hour for labor for the 2), $2.10 a gallon diesel, and oil changes and repairs for nothing. Costs me over a $1.20 a loaded mile easy. Big trucking companies have the same kinds of costs. Customer wanted a Farmall cylinder head sent to Texas. I get $100 for it, right off the tractor, trucking company wants $271 to take it there. Its high but thats the way it is. Frieght cost drives ag prices. I can buy better hay in SD for 50 cents a bale than I can grow. My sale price is driven by the price of trucking that hay into here.

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brian 1

01-03-2005 18:42:14




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to kyhayman, 01-03-2005 17:57:28  
I bought a nice little crawler on eBay last year, talked the owner into delivery for a bit more than I could hire it done otherwise but it was worth it to have them there on delivery. Ran into problems at that time, took some patience on my part but we worked it out. It wasn't exactly as represented- not sure if it was a totally honest mistake but stuck to it and buyer ended up sending me a check for the difference of what was represented and what it was really. Difference over undercarriage measurements, and rebuilt motor parts used.

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Carl S in NH

01-03-2005 16:17:30




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
I can't provide any leads on trucking, but I really can't see why anyone would buy a tractor sight unseen through Ebay or any other internet site. Surely there must be enough good tractors right in your own area that you could look at. If you did find a really nice or rare tractor on Ebay or other site, I would think it would be worth the trip to see it, and possibly rent a Uhaul type trailer to put the tractor on to bring it back. Just some friendly advice to prevent you from getting taken by some unscrupulous seller. Even if the person shows you a picture, it might not be of the one you're buying. The whole idea gives me the heebie jeebies! BE CAREFUL !!
Carl S.

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Harley

01-04-2005 11:14:18




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to Carl S in NH, 01-03-2005 16:17:30  
Bought and sold tractors on ebay for over three years with 100% positive feedback and have yet to not get what I bought. Only time I got took was on this site from some yahoo in Kansas that I had already bought from before. Just goes to show sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes you get the shaft. By the by, the guy in Kansas is up on charges and has a judgement against him to pay or somebudy in the big house will be calling him "honey" in 22 months. Later, Harley

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RustyFarmall

01-04-2005 11:43:41




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to Harley, 01-04-2005 11:14:18  
Harley, I know who you are talking about, I hauled a couple of tractors for that crook, got paid, no problem, then I was scheduled to deliver a couple of tractors over in your direction, somehow those two just never seemed quite ready to be delivered. I am not real sure he even had them.



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Alan Fannin

01-03-2005 16:17:22




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 Re: Trucking/shipping a E Bay tractor? in reply to HarryG, 01-03-2005 15:05:20  
Shipping rates are indeed high. You can't run a $40.000 one ton truck and a $6000.00 trailer down the the road on $2.00 fuel for nothing. Not to mention cargo and vehicle insurance.



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