Shipping question

[C Body Bob]

I have a guy way down in south Texas who wants to buy a pair of C body fenders. We agreed on a price & I told him the shipping would be too high. He called back & wants me to ship them via Fastnal. I have never done this. Apparently they will ship stuff for 3rd partys on a store to store basis. He said I need to crate them up & take them to my local Fastnal store. Any of you guys had experience with this company ? And what kind of crate? I can get large card board boxes, but the guy in Texas said it needs to be in a wooden crate. I'm all for helping him get the parts he needs, but I just have never done anything like this? Open to sugestions or ideas?

 

[commando1]

Go down behind Home Depot and steal a couple of those odd ball pallets, not the standard 40 x 48 pallets and never the blue pallets - they'll arrest you for stealing the blue ones plus they weigh a ton. Just make sure the pallet is big enough for an entire fender to lie flat on it without falling over the edge of the pallet. After stealing the two pallets stop off and pick up the megasize roll of bubble wrap and a big roll of stretch wrap. Back home, after spending three hours trying to figure out how to safely palletize the fenders and you realize you can't, you call the guy up and tell him the fenders are local pick up only.

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[C Body Bob]

Every time I go behind the Home Depot these a guy back there lying on the ground sleeping. Could he be guarding the blue pallets?

 

[AAR65]

Bob, if you are too far away from a Greyhond station, Fastenal will work. Just wrap them in bubble wrap and again in cardboard. I shipped a 71 Monte Carlo hood though them to Pheonix for $49. It took an even to weeks to get there, but no dents and more importantly, they didn't lose a $900 hood.

 

[C Body Bob]

Yea been screwed by the bus carriers. No longer deal with them & not a convienent location. $49.00 from S. fla to Phoenix. Now that I can do. I think I will head up there now & talk with them. Thanks Andy

 

[patrick66]

I had a Fargo tailgate shipped from northern WA to OKC with Fastenal, and it cost me $65.00. The guy I bought the tailgate from wrapped the tailgate in two layers of cardboard, and it took about a week to get to me. Pretty straight-forward. Fastenal will give you a toll-free number to call. You give them the specifics of the shipment (width, height, length, weight) and which Fastenal store will be shipping from and to. It is on a space-available basis, so if they have room in their truck to ship it on any given day, it'll go out. Your shipment is NOT a priority shipment, as their trucks normally haul Fastenal merchadise from their various warehouses to their stores. So, you could get it very fast, or it may take a little bit.

 

[commando1]

A great source for extra heavy duty huge pieces of shipping cardboard is an appliance store. I usually raid their cardboard dumpster on Sundays.

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[C Body Bob]

I had a Fargo tailgate shipped from northern WA to OKC with Fastenal, and it cost me $65.00. The guy I bought the tailgate from wrapped the tailgate in two layers of cardboard, and it took about a week to get to me. Pretty straight-forward. Fastenal will give you a toll-free number to call. You give them the specifics of the shipment (width, height, length, weight) and which Fastenal store will be shipping from and to. It is on a space-available basis, so if they have room in their truck to ship it on any given day, it'll go out. Your shipment is NOT a priority shipment, as their trucks normally haul Fastenal merchadise from their various warehouses to their stores. So, you could get it very fast, or it may take a little bit.

Thanks Patrick. I went by my local store & they were very helpfull. At this point its up to my customer. I sure hope this works out. It could open a whole new world of opportunity for me to sell some of this big stuff that I have.

 

[tallhair]

I've shipped through fastenal. Don't bother with the local store until it's time to ship. Work it all through the Fastenal online company who will set everything up and send the paperwork to your store and notify receiving store. You will need the address of the store he wants to pick up at.

Then you drop it off when they tell you. Wrap like suggested above with bubble wrap and carboard. I put pices of styrofoam in too between a tail gate and the cardboard to give it more of a crush layer.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/en/22/third-party-logistics-(3pl)

I find it easiest to be the one who pays fastenal and sets it up as I have all the details and am doing the shipping.

once you get the quote get the $ for the fenders and the shipping from the customer then proceed with shipment.

They are great for big stuff and expensive for little stuff. The local store will palatalize and plastic wrap it to the pallet when you drop it off.

 

[C Body Bob]

I've shipped through fastenal. Don't bother with the local store until it's time to ship. Work it all through the Fastenal online company who will set everything up and send the paperwork to your store and notify receiving store. You will need the address of the store he wants to pick up at.

Then you drop it off when they tell you. Wrap like suggested above with bubble wrap and carboard. I put pices of styrofoam in too between a tail gate and the cardboard to give it more of a crush layer.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/en/22/third-party-logistics-(3pl)

I find it easiest to be the one who pays fastenal and sets it up as I have all the details and am doing the shipping.

once you get the quote get the $ for the fenders and the shipping from the customer then proceed with shipment.

They are great for big stuff and expensive for little stuff. The local store will palatalize and plastic wrap it to the pallet when you drop it off.

Thanks Tallhair. I have access to free long skinny pallets that would be perfect for shipping two fenders. Will they take it like that. I could fasten them down with wire & wood screws. Since I dont have a banding machine.

 

[tallhair]

I would talk to your agent when you are setting up the shipment. They may have certain sizes they want to be uniform and maximize loads or they may not mind. I haven't brought in anything palatalized already but plan to ship a couple 727's to TX if the deal goes through. I plan to take them down and put them on a pallet of theirs though.

The have regions and the nearest regional office will probably handle your shipment.

 

[C Body Bob]

Ok I'll give tham a call. Thanks again!

 

[tallhair]

Ok I'll give tham a call. Thanks again!

You are very welcome Bob. Good luck. BTW the reason the started with the crating requirement was people claiming dents in sheet metal was caused by them.

If you you pack well with bubble wrap and two layers or one really good one of cardboard it should protect it pretty well. If the buyer is willing to forgo claims against them for dents they will ship w/ cardboard packaging on their pallets .. or that was my experience and I wasn't going to build a crate.

 

[Catfish]

You guys are lucky, I was going to ship some imperial inner fenders to Matt in Detroit, but our nearest fastenal doesn't do any shipping. One of the downsides of rural, unpopulated areas.

 

[tallhair]

You guys are lucky, I was going to ship some imperial inner fenders to Matt in Detroit, but our nearest fastenal doesn't do any shipping. One of the downsides of rural, unpopulated areas.

Get in touch with folks on the internet website I posted above and they may find out they do do shipping

 

[patrick66]

Go directly to the Fastenal Third Party Logistics site here:

http://www.fastenal.com/web/en/22/third-...455717!64135591

And go from that point. Follow the directions.

 

[tallhair]

Go directly to the Fastenal Third Party Logistics site here:

http://www.fastenal.com/web/en/22/third-...455717!64135591

And go from that point. Follow the directions.

That's a great idea Patrick

 

[patrick66]

A little redundancy never hurts.

 

[tallhair]

A little redundancy never hurts.

Reinforcement is the key to learning

 

[patrick66]

That's what I tell my students.