From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 12:47:27 PST
Sure, now you tell me. As far as finding losers, Lar, I found YOU didn't I?
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Tighe" <larryradio@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>; "m35products"
<m35prod@optonline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] shipping question
> Bloomie has a gift for picking loosers.
>
> I used:
>
> Landstar Inway, Inc.
> Rockford, IL
> 800-241-0263
>
> They moved my M998 and M151A2 on two different occassions....Indiana to
> NJ...$750 per vehicle. Priced in advance, always knew what day and when
it
> would be delivered. They have "intensive" paperwork and telephone
> "following".
>
> Lar
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: [MV] shipping question
>
>
> > You will find that the transport business is filled with shrewd
operators,
> > shall we say. The first person you speak to will assure you that the
> > drivers are his own employees, and the trucks belong to him. He will get
a
> > $300 deposit, then refer you to another company, who will (maybe) be the
> end
> > trucker. They will seldom, if ever, give you a written estimate or
> guaranty,
> > or estimated time of pick up & arrival. It's all a game, to get the most
> use
> > of the trucks, within the least time. You may have to wait for two weeks
> > until it becomes convenient for them to begin the movement of your
> vehicle.
> >
> > I can show you reams of paperwork, mostly from me, with little response
> from
> > them, asking, begging, pleading, for tracking, pricing, location, etc,
> info
> > about vehicles that I have needed to have moved. I hate to broadbrush
the
> > industry, for I am sure there must be good operators out there, but I
> > haven't found one yet.
> >
> > A P Bloom
> veh.org>
>
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