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Help! I need (well, want) to ship a truck cab from California to Minnesota (dad's house) or Wisconsin (my home) but have no idea what to do. Costs? Who? Etc.

Anyone have advice?

Thanks,
Brent

Try http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/haulquery.pl it's part of www.yesterdaystractors.com ... I've used it in the past with great results. Good luck!

Andy

Just sent you a PM. Thanks!

Thanks for the tip!

FactoryBrook is right! I've used Yesterdays tractors to post my hauling needs. Had a 37 1 1/2 ton grain truck shipped from North Dakota to Cental New York Cheap! Got a dozen replies to my post too... Good Luck!!!

It would be cheaper to ship a rolling chassis. It might even be cheaper if it was on some kind of rolling dolly. It would seem too big for a pallet.

Tony M,

What would you guess would be the cost of shipping a rolling chassis from Central TX to Albany, NY? I would like to start a new project and AZ or TX seem like nice dry places to find a project vehicle.

Thanks,
Tim

Well, you could just throw it in the back of a F**d w/8ft. bed like I did and drag it from Galva, Ill. to New Orleans, LA. It was probally the best load that F**d ever carried. I bet it made the cab feel like a king being carried by a F**d! :p

1,800 miles round trip, but man it was a great weekend! 2 guys, bleeding eyes, bad coffee and a "truck Part" as my wife called it! :confused: She still tells folks I drove across the country to get a "truck part".

Try BAX shipping. They specialize in shipping outsized auto parts, especially engines, body parts, cabs, and so forth. BAX.

I am not sure how cheap you can get a rolling chassis shipped. The cheapest would be a running car, then a chassis or non running car, a big crated cab would be the most expensive unless it was a smaller trucking company set up for such a thing. The handling is the expensive part. It needs to get loaded and unloaded numerous times before reaching it's destination.

Fly out there and U-haul it back,
Scott

No time to travel and the cost would be prohibitive.

I would talk to a freight broker to find a partial load on a flat bed that is travelling through your area. I ship things often this way. The only downfall is that the person you are buying the cab from and yourself have to have a way of loading and unloading the cab from the flatbed.