Hi all, got my long awaited new cab yesterday. Had it shipped here from Ca to Ct. It is a rust free one owner cab. No rust is like gold here in the North Easst. I picked it up at the Central Transport truck terminal in a box truck I rented. They seemed in a real hurry to get it loaded before I could get a good look. Long story short, I has been dented from so many different directions I can't imagine it being one instance even if they droped it off the loading dock. Firewall pushed in both sides. One entire corner bashed in from beltline down topped off with dents from forks in three locations, not quite pericing the metal but very evidently from forks. Pass door caved in. Even the roof didn't escape. These are not small bumps. When I tried to bring this to the attention of the shipping clerk he wouldn't even get close enought to look but said that the truck must of been like that and the dents were rusty. I challenged him to get up in the truck and take a better look at the fresh digs in the metal but he only said go ahead and file a claim and I will just say the damage was old and rusty. Some of this I didn't see until I got it home and took off the shrink wrap. I really bothers me that a 55 year old cab made it this long unscathed only to be the victim of what looks like needless abuse. I guess I will join the 21st century and buy a digital camera today to get pictures to file with my claim. I have probably left myself open now to claims that I did the damage myself after it left the terminal. Some of it I did not see. This is still a decent cab for us folks in the rust belt, I will just need to do lots of body work and it will never be the pristine original it once was. Anyone have advice on dealing with trucking company claims? I already know I should of had them unload it, unwraped it and take pictures there, but they did not seem all that co-operative.
Thanks
