From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 11:55:22 PST
Freightpro-stitute quoted me $3500 to move a pickup truck from OR to NY. The
shippers I eventually used (not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but
relatively competent and honest), charged me $1150. On price alone, FP would
be my last choice. It is always amazing to me how a monopolistic, corrupt,
expensive sutuation develops whenever we have to deal with "OUR" government.
Theoretically, this is a situation where all the costs, especially
transport, should be the cheapest around, not the least of reasons being
economy of scale.
apb
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From: <TacticalTruck@aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:09 PM
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> In a message dated 3/4/04 1:20:48 PM, achavezv_gm@yahoo.com.mx writes:
>
> << thanks for your help Hunter,
>
> I will like to have a cheapper shipping company than
>
> freighpro to access all the systems and with the same
>
> trust
>
> sending a 10 lb $30 part cost me around 150
>
> >>
>
>
> This will never happen. They are working their way towards forcing us
to
> use their shipper. Take a look at Liquidators.com. You are required to use
> their shipping system. Norfolk is the worst. I know of one case where a
person
> wanted to pick up two lots, one for himself and one for a friend. Norfolk
> wouldn't schedule pick up for the lots at the same time. He had to load
his lot at
> 10am and his friends lot at 2pm. Another surplus dealer I know sent a
trucking
> company to pick up a parts lot and Norfolk would not load it because they
said
> the parts were loose and they would not package them. When the dealer went
> there himself he found that the parts were neatly packed in a triwall on a
pallet
> and the paperwork attached to the triwall made it obvious that they were
> packed this way from the beginning.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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