| Author | Message | ||
     Notpurples2 |
Has anyone here shipped large one-piece fairings before. I want to sell a lower race fairing to a fellow BadWeBer but UPS, FedEx, and USPS online quotes are around $80-90, thats more than I want for the fairing! I talked to someone at UPS but the lowest they could do was $75. The cost is strictly due to size. Any advice? | ||
| Oldog |
Not trying to be smart any way to "pack it down" to a smaller box? are you using any of the rush services or sending it out of the us? | ||
| Notpurples2 |
I'd have to hack it up to get it in a smaller box. AL to NY, no rush. | ||
| Oldog |
are the panels surlyn or fiber glass? you might try wrapping the surlyn panels with foam and taping the corners up real good, ship and label each piece as an individual the wrap is to protect the finish, fiber glass I would box do you have access to pallets and a dock perhaps motor freight may be less? most items I ship that way are in the hundreds or thousands of pounds. In the end IIRC the Buell 1125 lowers were like 450$ per set, so 200$ is a deal delivered in one piece.. | ||
| Aesquire |
Foam. Bubble wrap. Tape. more foam. Box. Make sure it can't move, yet at no point actually touches the inside of the box. Get insurance. Optional. Don't forget to put the name of North America's #1 shipper, the Fra-gee-lee Bros. Seriously, pack it like you are going to throw it down a flight of stairs. Seriously. If you've ever seen the inside of a UPS facility, it's chutes and belts with metal arms wanging the boxes into funnels and down chutes to another belt. The PO is pretty much the same, but with cooler trucks. ( not neato-cooler, temperature cooler. Brown is hot. ) Consumer reports shipped accelerometers by USPS, UPS, and Fed ex, then checked the logs. Believe it or not, US Postal Service hammered the box the least. Check the Post Office for dimensions. There is a total size limit, and a size where they surcharge you. If it's an "oversize" it's just the way it is, sorry. Still cheaper than driving it there. I, for personal reasons, prefer the USPS. They, Ahem, We, deliver on Saturday without surcharge. ( UPS & Fed Ex nail you for that ) Generally, the PO is cheaper. Often, the lowball from USP means they give it to the USPS.  Go Priority. An alternative for large packages many forget is Bus. I've had office chairs shipped to me that way. All the horror stories apply there too. Less belts, more hand tossing. What really hammers a package isn't the "handling", although I've often seen, say, the purple competition toss stuff further than I would. What breaks things is boxes tossed/falling on top as a hamper fills...... Most people have no clue. I see a lot of stupid packages just not close to strong enough to carry around with the load in them, much less support a heavy box on top. YMMV, Beware of Grues. | ||
| 86129squids |
 Used to be a loader for UPS back in the late 80's- I actually chalked off each zipcode as it came down the conveyor before I loaded all the junk. Then loaded two of those tandem trailers you see flying down the highway by myself, each shift. The Memphis boys had it worse... Wow, I'm old. | ||
| Slaughter |
The cost is driven by volume so a one-piece fairing WILL be expensive to ship. Grayhound will ship cheaper but I don't have enough experience with them other than receiving some stuff shipped to California from Canada for a friend. It was packed well and arrived OK. | ||
| Ducbsa |
I also have a Model A Ford and have read on the forums of people shipping unboxed steel fenders by Greyhound. Of course they are stronger than a fairing. (Message edited by ducbsa on August 21, 2013) | ||
| Patches |
Hand deliver it. Good Excuse for a weekend Bike-Run. Right! | ||
| Notpurples2 |
Thanks guys. I'll talk with my buyer. If he wants to buy the whole kit it might be worth the shipping. No way it's worth it for just the lower. |
