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Any advice on the best way to ship a cab frame?

Thanks,
Mark

topellis wrote:Any advice on the best way to ship a cab frame?

Thanks,
Mark

The typical way is to securely attach the proper type of label to it and ship either UPS or Fed-Ex. Not sure if you are shipping just the bow or the entire frame existing of a left and right side, plus the bow. If you are shipping all 3 pieces, each piece will need to be labeled individually. We have had good luck shipping many articles this way. The better service for us has been with Fed-Ex.

topellis wrote:Any advice on the best way to ship a cab frame?

Thanks,
Mark

Hey Top,
I would try and do the Grey Hound/Trailways, wrap it up good, well labled, I sent a windshield to Tennessee this way.
Regards,

I'll probably go to hell for mentioning this, but I just recieved my bow a few weeks ago - I told the shipper to cut it in half to make shipping easier. I have the technology to put it back together... Everything arrived in one box - made his shipping job easier, and my freight cheaper.

If you secure any moving or loose parts, you dont have to box it. Wrap it in cardboard pieces and put the shipping label on it. UPS will take it despite the fact they love nice, square boxes to handle.

I have recieved front spring assemblies via ups and they had no packaging at all. Just an address lable and a weight warning sticker for the handlers...

Tom Markert

M42Dodge wrote:If you secure any moving or loose parts, you dont have to box it. Wrap it in cardboard pieces and put the shipping label on it. UPS will take it despite the fact they love nice, square boxes to handle.

I have recieved front spring assemblies via ups and they had no packaging at all. Just an address lable and a weight warning sticker for the handlers...

Tom Markert

Lots of times I would order parts knowing I'd be home when they'd arrive. I'd listen for the UPS truck and go around front when I heard it. It was funny to see the female driver dragging a rear leaf spring assembly to the front of her truck, wondering how she was going to get it out. She was definitely glad to see me.

I had the same thing happen with my springs. My female UPS driver who weighed 90 pounds soaking wet, delivered two front springs for my M37, carrying them up two flights of concrete stairs infront of my home and depositing them on my porch. I am 275 pounds and 6`2" and I had a hell of a time getting them back down to the driveway. Must be a leverage thing.

Tom Markert

Guess nearly all of us have had UPS deliver our front springs! The guy who delivered mine was already expecting them since he'd had to deliver so many other M parts over time: Rim, cab bows, etc.
Gary