My in-laws would like to relocate a refrigerator from Cape Coral, FL to Lombard, IL and I was wondering if anybody in the LTL game would be willing to help me quote this and if the price is right actually move the fridge? It's residential to residential and not crated (but maybe boxed, not sure)
Is this some special kind of fridge? What fridge is worth moving across the country?
No help here, but I played golf in Lombard yesterday.
Try goship.com. I had great luck with them price and service wise shipping through them. Carrier was R&L who did a great job too. Price was 1/3 or less the rate on R&Ls web site. Create an account and they'll send you a 10% off coupon too. You'll want to strap it to a pallet. Ratchet straps are fine. You do not want it loose shipped LTL it will get damaged.
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This too. Shipping will be a few hundred bucks. Maybe the ... contents ... are worth it??
the problem is that it's a refrigerator that was over $2000 new and its only 2 years old. Used values on the fridges (even those still under warranty) is around 40% of new, or around $800. She would rather give it to a family member then sell it for 40% of the original price, but all of the family is here in Lombard.
as to why she wants to get rid of it, they remodeled.
mtn said:Is this some special kind of fridge? What fridge is worth moving across the country?
No help here, but I played golf in Lombard yesterday.
if you're ever looking for a playing partner (and I use the word play "loosely") ping me, I play Lombard golf course every friday morning at 7AM. i'm always up for a round of golf in this area and golf and bench racing sounds like a great way to kill a few hours to me.
I worked at old Dominion for a short period. I would absolutely not trust any ltl carrier to move an appliance like that. You could crate the hell out of it to give it a fighting chance of making it, but after the time and shipping costs, there's no way it's worth it.
YRC is the cheapest LTL carrier but you stand a good chance of having the fridge redesigned on the way. It should be crated in plywood extremely well and attached to a pallet. You can go to their website and get a quick quote. If you are even slightly wrong in your weight and dimensions they will upcharge you. I use R and L a lot and they are much better but more expensive and ODF are good too but even more expensive. Still crate it really well though regardless of carrier. You might get lucky with a carrier that does a lot of volume on that lane and wind up with a good price from a better carrier so do your homework.
My son had to move from SoCal to Chicago for the summer then Chicago to Boston on Labor Day. The moving cost was double the value of his furniture. He sold it all and bought new stuff in Boston.
From Boston back to Central Illinois his employer paid for the move. He used a little Uhaul box. Might be an option?
Or sell it in Fla and take the hit.
Why not UShip? Almost seems better to find a dude with a 24' box hauling random stuff that is running a close route.
The ltl business is the Wild West right now. Lots of damages, super slow shipping times. Prices are coming down but not great. Unless you buy a special policy incurrence is just paid out on a by weight $ amount. You'll be on the hook for crating and packaging.
Uship is the way
thanks everybody. I believe my FIL registered on uship but didn't have any takers just yet. knowing that LTL isn't the way to go, i'll advise them to wait on uship or just sell it and accept it as the cost of life.
What price would she be happy selling it for? 75% of purchase instead of 40%? That would be $1500. So that's $700 more than the current market price.
She's going to have a couple hundred dollars in just the crate/materials. Then a few hundred to ship it (They are big, heavy and it's going a long way).
So it seems like she's going to do all of this, and spend several hundred $$, to avoid something in the neighborhood of a $700 loss.
Put another way, she could sell the fridge for $800 or whatever, and then just cut a check to the family member for the difference, or the amount that would've been spent on shipping and avoid a lot of hassle.
STM317 said:What price would she be happy selling it for? 75% of purchase instead of 40%? That would be $1500. So that's $700 more than the current market price.
She's going to have a couple hundred dollars in just the crate/materials. Then a few hundred to ship it (They are big, heavy and it's going a long way).
So it seems like she's going to do all of this, and spend several hundred $$, to avoid something in the neighborhood of a $700 loss.
Put another way, she could sell the fridge for $800 or whatever, and then just cut a check to the family member for the difference, or the amount that would've been spent on shipping and avoid a lot of hassle.
i am happily married... one of the things I learned a long time ago, I can't reason with my wife on somethings and even less with her mother. Correct as you maybe I am NOT telling my MIL any of that, the relationship I have with my family is worth me keeping my mouth shut.
How about a good ol' fashioned GRM relay. Fill the fridge with cold beer and a few $20s and expect it to arrive in a few weeks... empty.
I just shipped a Viper exhaust (single skid and light) and even business to business, less distance, and using my R&L discount it was close to 400 bucks....and that was with free crating thru work.
If you really really REALLY need it home, rent a truck for 1 day, drive to IL (1370 miles - 20 hours - 70 gallons of fuel at 20 MPG - almost 300 bucks just in gas) and then either turn around and drive back or get a 1 way ticket out of ORD on whatever crap-ass red eye standing room only flight you can get - and be mad about the whole thing.
Just donate the damn thing already and take the L.
Looks like goship would be about $500. It's mostly down to the dimensions - a fridge is darn big but not that heavy compared to regular freight pallets.
FYI, we ended up using uShip and it worked out perfectly. Cost somewhere around $450 or $500 and from pickup to delivery was about 5 days. The item arrived no worse for wear and worked great.
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