26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
11:49 a.m.
Sometime in the next few months I will be transporting the contents of my
storage unit in central California to northern Washington. Can I get some
ideas of cost of how to do this? My first thought is to fly down, rent a
truck, fill it up, and drive back to Washington. My father thinks it
would be overall cheaper to rent the truck in in Washington, drive it
down, and drive it back. Still another idea is to rent a shipping
container and put my goodies in that. Can I get some other ideas,
suggestions, and/or advice?
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On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:49 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Sometime in the next few months I will be transporting the contents of my storage unit in
central California to northern Washington. Can I get some ideas of cost of how to do
this? My first thought is to fly down, rent a truck, fill it up, and drive back to
Washington. My father thinks it would be overall cheaper to rent the truck in in
Washington, drive it down, and drive it back. Still another idea is to rent a shipping
container and put my goodies in that. Can I get some other ideas, suggestions, and/or
advice?
The cost of a local rental will be dominated by mileage. Depending upon size/weight of
what you're moving you'll want a lift gate (I recommend "rail lifts" vs
"tuck under lifts"). Most truck rental agencies will only rent lift gate trucks
locally (btw, I recommend Penske...I've tried all of the others except U-Haul which I
run away from as a matter of principle...I've had major equipment failures with
everyone but Penske).
Another option, is to talk to ABF (www.abfs.com) where you basically load up a trailer and
they move it and you unload it.
TTFN - Guy
1:44 p.m.
In article <2D040762-4791-4F7B-8F9D-97C751212E6F at shiresoft.com>,
Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> writes:
(btw, I recommend Penske...
+1 for Penske.
I rented a truck in St. Louis, filled it full of SGI racks and
drove it to SLC no problems.
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From: Richard
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 1:45 PM
In article <2D040762-4791-4F7B-8F9D-97C751212E6F at
shiresoft.com>,
Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> writes:
> (btw, I recommend Penske...
+1 for Penske.
I rented a truck in St. Louis, filled it full of SGI
racks and
drove it to SLC no problems.
+2
In 1989, the LOTS Computing Facility at Stanford purchased a DEC-20
(MIT-XX) from the good folks at MIT, for US$1.00. At that price, we
had to go pick it up ourselves. Redeye to Newark, change to local to
Logan, pick up the truck at Hertz/Penske (as it was then) at the
airport, and drive to 545 Tech Square, stopping at Ratshack for a
throwaway CB radio.
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Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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1:32 p.m.
On 6/26/2013 11:49 AM, David Griffith wrote:
Sometime in the next few months I will be transporting the contents of
my storage unit in central California to northern Washington. Can I
get some ideas of cost of how to do this? My first thought is to fly
down, rent a truck, fill it up, and drive back to Washington. My
father thinks it would be overall cheaper to rent the truck in in
Washington, drive it down, and drive it back. Still another idea is
to rent a shipping container and put my goodies in that. Can I get
some other ideas, suggestions, and/or advice?
Just rented 27' truck on way LA-KC. about 1800 w/o extras. Extras
included towin car, walkaway insurance. car was 450, ins was about
200. original quote was 2300, discounted.
remember senior / aaa, etc., means 20% is on the table, just ask for it
off any quote. you don't need them, but they'll give it if you ask for it.
I asked about the drive down/back. I think most places operate their
local trucks / 1ways under different corporations and charters now. In
CA the local truck can't be taken outside CA if rented on a casual
basis. And the mileage is not free on local rentals high enough to go
interstate.
The container is likely to be too heavy to be handled if it is loaded
for storage. One way trucks are usually something you can overload
because they are usually known to be loaded by idiots. an overweight
container will likely have to go on an extra wheel heavy load flatbed,
not the usual container carrier.
I found that a full 28' yellow or ABF cut off and loaded was the
cheapest if you get that big a load. also if you had means at both ends
you can get good LTL rates by dropping freight at the terminals. They
like freight that can be forked and fill out spots, and give good rates
on that. Not much different than just a one time freight rate, but if
you had the situation, you could ship it over many loads and make out.
You will need a local dock high truck to get to / from a terminal to
drop stuff off, of course.
One thing that is missing on the one way trucks is a lift gate.
Calculate need to have dock, or freight that can go on the truck via
ramp if you rent a 1 way, or rent a fork lift for a day. I find it very
handy to pack and palletize everything in advance and rent a fork truck
(and I have a couple of pallet jacks), to load a truck. quick load and
unload, and easy to shuffle in storage till I need access.
figure fork lift about a $150 or 200 hit / day. Be sure your location
can handle the dropoff and pickup, and that your ground fits your
forklift, of course. Renting a fork lift intercity can get it stolen or
stripped after drop and before pickup and you are responsible. Or the
storage yard can open and allow it to be dropped.
jim
1:45 p.m.
On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 6/26/2013 11:49 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I'm looking at this approach for my move. I've already made 2 trips in a 26'
truck and spent $$$$ on the 1-way truck rental not to mention the amount of time spent
just driving back and forth (and trucks are *not* comfortable). I've been packing all
of the non-racked stuff onto pallets and now I just have to figure out how to get the rest
of the stuff from point A to point B.
TTFN - Guy
Sometime in the next few months I will be transporting the contents of my storage unit in
central California to northern Washington. Can I get some ideas of cost of how to do
this? My first thought is to fly down, rent a truck, fill it up, and drive back to
Washington. My father thinks it would be overall cheaper to rent the truck in in
Washington, drive it down, and drive it back. Still another idea is to rent a shipping
container and put my goodies in that. Can I get some other ideas, suggestions, and/or
advice?
I found that a full 28' yellow or ABF cut off and loaded was the cheapest if you get
that big a load. also if you had means at both ends you can get good LTL rates by
dropping freight at the terminals. They like freight that can be forked and fill out
spots, and give good rates on that. Not much different than just a one time freight rate,
but if you had the situation, you could ship it over many loads and make out.
You will need a local dock high truck to get to / from a terminal to drop stuff off, of
course.
One thing that is missing on the one way trucks is a lift gate. Calculate need to have
dock, or freight that can go on the truck via ramp if you rent a 1 way, or rent a fork
lift for a day. I find it very handy to pack and palletize everything in advance and rent
a fork truck (and I have a couple of pallet jacks), to load a truck. quick load and
unload, and easy to shuffle in storage till I need access.
figure fork lift about a $150 or 200 hit / day. Be sure your location can handle the
dropoff and pickup, and that your ground fits your forklift, of course. Renting a fork
lift intercity can get it stolen or stripped after drop and before pickup and you are
responsible. Or the storage yard can open and allow it to be dropped.
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