Shipping large car parts

As I am presently in the process of parting out a Saab, I was wondering if you guys might have some insight regarding shipping very large car parts. Obviously selling locally would be best bet, but I have noticed alot of large items selling on ebay, and people are apparently willing to pay for shipping sometimes. So what have you guys found is the most cost effective way to ship these large items, from seats, to engines and transmissions. Are there shippers that will pick stuff up from my house without killing me on costs?

Any advice is welcome, thanks Nick

Fastenal shipping.

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

If you want it to be affordable, you'll need to take it to the dock.

I've sold a few different engine/trans combos, and also 1 trans by itself. That time I wrapped the transmisssion in a few layers of plastic then foamed it into a big rubbermaid container.

Unless you have something very rare, shipping an engine or engine/trans combo is almost never worth it.

Especially if you want the shipper to come to your house to get it. If you have no way to get it to the freight depot, or at the very least have a forklift at home to put it on a truck, shipping with pickup is going to cost you more than the engine is worth.

Source: I used to part out Volvos and sent dozens of good engines to scrap because there was no way to make a profit.

I will ask what kind of saab. Where are you located?

I've sent big stuff via greyhound plenty of times. I usually use them to ship transmissions and wheels. It does help to have a pickup truck of your own so you can drop the part off yourself.

How does one ship vie greyhound?

you go to a greyhound terminal.. ask about shipping, and they will figure out how much.

As asked above.. what parts and where?

I do both fastenal store to store and ltl with freightquote.com

You can drop off and pick up at terminal for ltl shipments. It's not terrible and saves on the residential charges. They'll fork anything into or out of your pickup.

Needs to be strapped to a pallet.

If you know or work for a business who ships it's easier, as you can often piggy back on their account...assuming your boss is cool.

In Canada, it is all about Greyhound. You can ship a swaybar coast to coast for forty bucks!

The only downside is that both you and the recipient must go to the terminal to pick it up. In my local market, though, going to the terminal and sampling the charcuterie platter of human mental disorders is half the fun.

I have a Fedex account. Their guys will pick up stuff at the house.

Pretty easy.

Rog

I parted out my E21 and almost every part was shipped. I used Greyhound for the seats and airdam, the rest was via UPS or Fed Ex. Greyhound does have a weight limit per parcel but was still much cheaper for shipping large items. Ship Greyhound

I've only shipped via Greyhound once and it was a very bad experience. They lost a bunch of New Old Stock Porsche parts. Their tracking was no help at all. Never again.

I've shipped a bunch big of things with Greyhound no problems. One item was a fiberglass bodied racing Kart that had to go in 2 boxes due to weight IIRC. Most of kart in one and rear axle assembly in another. Also used freightquote quite a bit several years ago but not recently. Always dropped off items on skids at specified terminals.

I had a very poor experience with Greyhound having a pair of seats for a classic Mini shipped to me. I'm in the never again boat.

EvanR wrote: Unless you have something very rare, shipping an engine or engine/trans combo is almost never worth it. Especially if you want the shipper to come to your house to get it. If you have no way to get it to the freight depot, or at the very least have a forklift at home to put it on a truck, shipping with pickup is going to cost you more than the engine is worth. Source: I used to part out Volvos and sent dozens of good engines to scrap because there was no way to make a profit.

A forklift?

You wrap up the engine in such a way that you can still get to the pickup points. Then you use your cherry picker to put it in the back of a truck.

It's not difficult stuff.

Last time I shipped an engine/trans combo ~2012, from Tulsa to Colorado Springs it was $150 for dock to dock shipping.

X whatever for Greyhound. Seats from Knoxville to Houston, less than $100 and they had them the next day.

and the guy who gets to sit next to transmission on his Greyhound trip is probably just happy he doesnt have to share the arm rest.

I assume you're kidding(!) since all that stuff stores down under the floor.

Amtrak will ship crates too. I'm not sure how much it costs but it will be pallet jacked and forklifted the whole time, which might be better than greyhound.

ssswitch wrote: In my local market, though, going to the terminal and sampling the charcuterie platter of human mental disorders is half the fun.

QFT! Apparently, things are not all that different at the Richmond Greyhound terminal.