Originally Posted by sarettah

Check out local conmpanies in your area that bring in or send out lots of freight (not the freight companies themselves but people who use the freight companies).

If someone has a short truck going out to where you want the machine to go you can possibly get it sent a lot cheaper then the freight companies would charge you. Also, someone at one of the companies might be able to turn you on to a trucker who is looking to get a fill for a backload, truckers don't like to take empty trucks back and a buck is always better than zero.

Do NOT let them throw it in with a meat load or a produce load (or a back load that was a meat load or produce load on the way in), your customer on the other end will be bitching loudly when he gets a crate that stinks of dead cow.

just my