Cheapest way to ship 12 bolt ??

[Joel145]

Originally Posted by MaxHarvard

My T56 was shipped via DHL.

Drop shipped on a pallet.

No longer in the domestic market.

[Sideshow]

the cheapest i found is forwardair. they only ship hub to hub. payment is account or cashiers check only. I shipped 2 grand national motors from san francisco ca to miami fl for 250 dollars. this was about 7 yrs ago.

[gearheads78]

Originally Posted by CreepinDeth

Break the entire rear end differential assembly down is cheaper ??

To put it all together, require any special tools or is it just pack and play kinda deal ??
I know rebuilding it requires setting bearing preloads, etc.


Not sure so I'm just asking so I don't end up having to go to a shop to have it put back together.
It will cost me the same in the end either way if I have to do that.

Its not the easiest way but its the least expensive. When you take out the carrier just make notes of any shim placement.

Another option someone already mentioned is Uship. I have got lucky a few times there. 200.00 to ship a 700 lb slip roll from CA to TX and a very heavy 12 gage sheet metal brake from PA to TX. I think that was $325-350.00 range. The trick is to be patient. Someone putting a load together might just be going the direction you need. Its like a reverse auction. I learned it you put a taget price in your add you cut out a bunch of redicoulous high bids. My first bids for that brake were over $1500.00

[Craig67]

Just shipped a 12 bolt less brakes from So Cal to South Dakota and it was on a pallet and weighed 208 lbs. Pallet was pretty beefy. I was $210 thru Yellow/Roadway.

[CreepinDeth]

Originally Posted by Craig67

Just shipped a 12 bolt less brakes from So Cal to South Dakota and it was on a pallet and weighed 208 lbs. Pallet was pretty beefy. I was $210 thru Yellow/Roadway.

So that was 208lbs WITH the pallet I'm assuming.

Cool, we've guesstimated it at ~225lbs with the brakes.
Price that was lowest was $150 from Texas to Chicago. Not bad.

Thanks again Gents.

[XcYZ]

Originally Posted by CreepinDeth

Cool, we've guesstimated it at ~225lbs with the brakes.
Price that was lowest was $150 from Texas to Chicago. Not bad.

That sounds like a good price to me.

[gearheads78]

Just a quick word of advice. Weigh it with a certified scale and get a print out at at least weight it somehow and take a time stamped digital pic.

A couple years ago shipping a rearend Yellow Freigh via freighquote.com I had a situtation I was backcharged $160.00

A week after the part was shipped the 160.00 charge came up on my card so I contacted freightquote. They said I had listed the freight as 225 but they wieghed it at 360. This ended up two months worth of fighting, getting a letter from Moser stating how much the rear weighed, and even had the buyer weight it on the bathroom scale without the crate he had already tossed. It came down to hire a lawer or eat it since I had no proof of the weight before shipped. They might have got the 160.00 but I assure you I have cost freightquote much more than that from my business and others freinds business lost.