Shipping car parts from the UK

joebre

I have bought a hard top roof from a private seller and a bonnet from a breaker. They are a couple of hundred miles apart.

Ideally, I would like to move the hard top roof to the breaker and get both items put on the same pallet for shipping over here.

Do you have any suggestions how this could be done ?

joebre

Can anybody help ?

Kenny Logins

http://www.shiply.com/

joebre

Used above site and got 2 quotes around £90 to move the hard top roof from the private seller. Seems dear for a pallet, 1.2 square, 0.3m high and weight of 30kgs. Not sure of the weight !

Kenny Logins

Seems dear compared to what?

joebre

Thanks for the link Kenny.
It just appears dearer than I thought it would be. I know how couriers charge extra for shipping over water to Ireland, even to NI.
I am just trying to work out is it cheaper to combine the deliveries or arrange to send each separately.
I already have a price to ship the bonnet here for £90. £80 to ship the hard top to where the bonnet is.
I now need to check how much extra is will cost to ship the combined pallet.

MidlandsM

Dear? thats a good price

mickdw

I found shiply to be a bit of a mess. I know its only as good as the particular supplier but Ive had guys book through it make no effort to pickup, then a week later, tell me that there are delays and that they can do it immediately if I pay dedicated delivery charges.

derry

Best I can say having worked in few courier companies my time moving things always cost too much.

On average its the handling that costs the real money not the distance. When you do find somebody to merge these two units and compare the price to just shipping each piece direct i bet it will at most save you ~10% . in both cases there are 4 handling movements which is the expensive part .The distance tables often there is no extra prices to ship from one end of UK to moving it few miles. If there is distance tables they often only change the prices by ~30% at most .Al freight is mix of handling distance volume weight and penalty if its Hazmat or awkward size oversize or over heavy and then sometime other local rules .
Merging is often done in-freight where there is ten or twenty or more items to merge thereby getting useful saving on bulk delivery.
What might work a tad cheaper is get the same agent a group-age delivery company which merges the local material deliveries to collect both items .How they merge is not your problem but expect delays as they often wait for the truck or container to be full before shipping and that sometimes can take weeks

Personally sending a spare part to another breaker is asking for that spare part to be lost and then sold to somebody else and you will only get one part

As the other guy Mickdw says they can quote you cheap and then hostage you and delay the shipment forever until you cough up the extra .Lots of UK and Irish shipping companies are barely afloat and can risk to go belly up with your items.I know the last outfit i worked for went belly up owing thousands and many packages got lost when receiver took over probably flogged them
Derry

joebre

Thanks Derry for the very comprehensive reply.
My main problem is to collect the hard top roof from the private seller who sold it as "collection only"
For simplicity, I would prefer to ship both items singly.
How could I arrange collection from a private seller in Ayrshire ?

dieselbug

I have used this guy afew times and found him to be reasonable and reliable. Damien is his name. It's been a while but I'm sure he's still going.


http://www.teds-trucking.com/

MidlandsM

I've brought home hardtops from the uk myself on the back of my truck because I would not trust any courier fullstop.

They always arrive scratched, or damaged, or window broken...... as they're bulky and hard to handle, and to go in groupage, its a NO NO.

derry

MidlandsM wrote: »

I've brought home hardtops from the uk myself on the back of my truck because I would not trust any courier fullstop.

They always arrive scratched, or damaged, or window broken...... as they're bulky and hard to handle, and to go in groupage, its a NO NO.

Yeah If it was my hard top i would drive to the UK to collect it there isn't any that 100% baboon proof from stopping a fork lift bumping into whatever.
In the UK there does exist some specialist movers for fragile articles but hey cost big buck they might move valuable painting or old furniture things like that.The problem is they often have to pass the item to Irish company and i don't know any Irish companies that do fragile stuff. Alternatively they would have to bring their own truck on the ferry to Ireland and that big bucks the sort of thing they do for moving the fragile and important materials of the embassies around the world.
The big problem if you find local to collect is he still only drives usually about 30 miles from his place and passes all the stuff to bigger all country movers like TNT or UPS etc .If you ring the big boys like the TNT or UPS half the time they get the same local guy under contract to go collect it for them as the big boys often don't have trucks that do big awkward objects they often only do the small packets less than 30kg and washing machine sized only .Anything bigger they often contract it out .

Ball park awkward objects if you call the big boys or you call local guy who passes to big boy its probable 50% chance for some minor damage scratch or similar and 10% chance for big bend where fork truck hit it or similar .

The respray cost factor in is it cheaper to go to UK and get it or is it better to claim on insurance which often pays out one year later 2/3rd the price of repair or replacement if your lucky that they pay out at all

It never ceased to amaze me in the business how about ~95% plus of the stuff gets through relatively undamaged if you saw just how many things each day get broken in the warehouses. It s a loto really to get items without any damage

The less handling the less risk hardtop for me one way only collect it and straight to the house in Ireland and the big companies will collect these items and even wrap them with wrapping if you pay for it.The wrapping alone might cost €100 as its probably an hours work to wrap a thing like that .If you don't wrap it they will probably not insure it

Me I moved from my house in France back to Ireland and I wrapped everything and put it in the post office and posted it to me.The weight limit was 20kilos max but there was no real awkward object sized rules so I often took apart items like beds and made into into pieces and shipped each piece some 30 boxes in all . Then i flew to Ireland. It all got there no breakages of any sort and saved a fortune instead to buy all the stuff for the new gaff

If the object fit the royal mail dimension and weight limits then maybe pay a local taxi driver to go collect it wrap it in suitable wrapping and post it to you . Many taxi companies do letter and package collections as well

Derry