Jeremy:
UPS and FedX usually have 70 - 100 pound per piece weight limits. I'd
recommend shipping large items via a motor freight carrier, such as CF
Trucking, Roadway, etc. Check in your yellow pages for motor freight
carriers. Most, if not all, will deliver to your recipient's door but you
may have to take your freight to the origin terminal for weighing and the
paperwork.
Sometimes you may pay for dimensional rather than actual weight if the piece
is bulky. Length" X Width" X Height" = total cubic inches, divided by 194
(cubic inches per pound) will yield the "dimensional weight". You will be
charged based on the higher of the two. Check with the carrier first for
any packing requirements. Be sure to drain all fluid from components.
Good luck.
Walt Fogle
'73 Pimento Red Spitfire
>From: "Jeremy Ryan Kinney" <kinnejr@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: "Jeremy Ryan Kinney" <kinnejr@mindspring.com>
>To: "Spitfires List" <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "Triumphs List"
><triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Query: Shipping Large Items
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 05:36:16 -0500
>
>Anyone on the list have any experience with shipping large component
>items--fenders, bonnets, hardtops, engines--from the east to west coasts
>(or
>vice versa) in the US? I am primarily interested in knowing how private
>individuals have gone about doing this and at what rate of success. Are
>UPS
>and FedEx the only options?
>
>Jeremy Kinney
>'71 GT6 Mk III
>
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