| Author | Message | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 640 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.114.3.22  Rating: N/A |
Has anybody got real experience with buying their own container (20') and having it moved? We are finalizing our escape from Ny plan and i want to be able to load our stuff at our leisure and then have the container picked up and hauled to Pa. This wont be household stuff but my shop tools and parts etc. This way i can load and unload on my schedule (after work and after selling and moving)I can get one for $500-700 but havent checked into the logistics of transporting it yet. bus parts will be involved to keep it bus related. ;) thanks dave | ||
| Tom Christman (Tchristman)
Registered Member Username: Tchristman Post Number: 345 Registered: 1-2006 Posted From: 66.218.33.156 Rating: N/A |
Go to Pods.com. After being a professional cross country furniture mover for 15 years, this is the system I would use. Good Luck, TomC | ||
| Ed Hackenbruch (Ed_hackenbruch)
Registered Member Username: Ed_hackenbruch Post Number: 21 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 166.250.65.226 Rating: N/A |
We rented a 30ft container when we moved from Maui to the Seattle area. Shipping was included, don't remember the cost, that was 13 years ago. :>) | ||
| thomas flocks (Taflocks)
Registered Member Username: Taflocks Post Number: 523 Registered: 9-2009 Posted From: 67.253.126.41 Rating: N/A |
pods is expensive. i did 10 ft of space with them and it was $2500 or so 6 years ago. i say buy a container then have it trucked or if it is only 20 feet get one you can put on a trailer and tow it to pa. | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 2196 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.71.157  Rating: N/A |
Go to a TNT magazine; they list containers in there all the time. | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 2197 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.71.157 Rating: N/A |
here;http://www.ebay.com/sch/Shipping-Containers-/92079/i.html | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 641 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.114.3.22 Rating: N/A |
Thanks everyone. My daughter used a moving company similar to pods and it worked well but i am not going to be doing everything over a weekend. I thought about putting the container on my 5 ton trailer (for about a minute! haha) What i need to do is check on trucking costs to get it over the bridge and off the island, that and loading/unloading or winching it on and roll off.We are still slowly moving everything one 8'truckbed and 8'trailer at a time. Dori is not real keen on me aquiring more storage area haha. | ||
| Jack Hart (Jackhartjr)
Registered Member Username: Jackhartjr Post Number: 73 Registered: 8-2007 Posted From: 64.12.116.203 Rating: N/A |
Old Dominion Freight Lines or ABF Freight has a program where they park a pup in your drive, you fill it up, they then deliver it. You do it on your schedule. Jack | ||
| Jack Hart (Jackhartjr)
Registered Member Username: Jackhartjr Post Number: 74 Registered: 8-2007 Posted From: 64.12.116.203 Rating: N/A |
By Pup, I mean a 26 foot trailer. Jack | ||
| Bill 340 (Bill_340)
Registered Member Username: Bill_340 Post Number: 156 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.203.89.227  Rating: N/A |
Dave R&L truck lines has all size crates you pack them they ship them,, Brenda has used them in the past and she is a cheapskate so to speak, | ||
| Luvrbus (Luvrbus)
Registered Member Username: Luvrbus Post Number: 1306 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 74.47.99.99 Rating: N/A |
We don't move often but the wife bought 2 buses to move with 12 years ago we still have both don't buy one with 534 Ford propane burner 2 miles to the gal if you were lucky lol | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 206 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 75.226.29.168 Rating: N/A |
In 1986 I bought a school bus and pulled the seats and used it to move. worked good | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 642 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.114.3.22 Rating: N/A |
thanks for all the ideas everyone.I moved to NY in 68 GMC skoolie, my first conversion. pretty sure i tripled your milage Luvrbus. Bill,what color you calling that kettle? Jack,that was the company used 4 my daughter. They were great. I believe it worked out to 7-8 hundred dollers to upstate. thanks again all. | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 1419 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 75.253.72.209  Rating: N/A |
Dave, Sojourner purchased a 40' container for, I think, about $1500. It had a couple small leaks that we repaired. He filled it with his tools and equipment. A flatbed semi arrived and 2 local wreckers picked it up and the flatbed was backed under it. I don't know know the cost or how they unloaded the container in SC. Jack | ||
| Edward J. Sommers (Sommersed)
Registered Member Username: Sommersed Post Number: 75 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 148.63.161.138 Rating: N/A |
Keep on the lookout for an old U-Haul truck, they still have the loading ramp installed. Sell it at the other end. Ed | ||
| Jim Wilke (Jim Bob) (Pd41044039)
Registered Member Username: Pd41044039 Post Number: 717 Registered: 2-2001 Posted From: 184.0.13.120  Rating: |
My nephew drives for AB Freight. They do a lot of the short trailers. I believe there is a time limit to load and unload, like two weeks at each end. |
