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How To Freight A Bonnet Interstate Cheaply?

enoch25

By enoch25,
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saff_cossie Grand Master

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As others have said, insure it. Bonnets in my experience are the most notorious for getting damaged. Its not Carbon Fibre is it?

Bus Freight as Shan says is very good from what I have heard but size could be the limiter.

Let us know how you get on though, would be useful.

enoch25 Explorer

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Been calling around and getting quotes. TOLL gave me the run around. Transferred me about 5 times and then told me they don't do private services. Many services don't transport car bonnets. The ones that do charge way too much (one quoted $369). The best quote so far (around $100) belongs to AirRoadDirect. They provide $1000 transit warranty without the need of any insurance. Will give them a go and get back to you guys. Thanks for the help.

FATGTS-R Experienced

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Hi mate,

Im in the transport industry. (actually do a lot of work for Toll). The price you got for $100 is about as good as it gets.

For infos sake, the safest way would be to use a furniture removalist. Will cost about $50 to $100 more from QLD but it will be picked up by two guys, wrapped in felt padding, loaded onto truck and delivered to your door. It wont be handled numerous times from trucks to depots, to storage, to another truck and then delivered.

Also get some clarification on this "transit warranty". I will sadly say that this term along with "transit insurance" is commonly used to mislead the one off public customer in the hope that nothing happens.

99.9% of the time "transit warranty/insurance" only covers what is known in the industry as FOC...Fire, overturning or collision. So if the truck didnt catch on fire, overturn or have a collision then bad luck.

Find out if it covers damage from handling, or just not being loaded correctly, or if something else on the truck falls and slams into your bonnet. And get them to give it to you in writing.

If they say yes it will cover it, then ask what the excess is to make a claim. A lot of companies will have exhorbitant fees to make an insurance claim which usually costs more than the total of the freight and value of the item so most people will just go away.

At the end of the day, from my experience (7 years) the average is over 90% of freight getting there in one piece. But some items are more prone to damage than others, like a bonnet. You would be wise to send the seller another few dollars to take the time to carefully wrap it up securely, particularly the corners. Oh, and you would think its obvious but make sure the senders details (you) are plastered all over it in nice thick black texta, not a ball point pen.

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Thanks FATGTS-R. Good advise. Just talked to the people from AirRoadDirect. Their transit warranty sounds legit so far. Covers handling damage, no excess required etc. Will check their website as they say it's all written there.

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hehe i had a bonnet shipped from nsw to melbourne ... for 40 bux, would of been the same price from qld as well ...

know some one in the industry, thats where its at :O

give simon national carriers a call ...

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it will be cheaper if u can pick up the item from the depot ... but they will deliver it to where ever you want it

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hehe i had a bonnet shipped from nsw to melbourne ... for 40 bux, would of been the same price from qld as well ...

know some one in the industry, thats where its at :)

give simon national carriers a call ...

85459400

it will be cheaper if u can pick up the item from the depot ... but they will deliver it to where ever you want it

Finally got around to updating this thread. I did call simon from national carriers. Got a quote of eighty and that is without any insurance. So, I went with AirRoadDirect. Did the order online and paid only seventy seven dollars. It has the $1000 dollars transit warranty too. Got my bonnet within 4 days from Brisbane. No fuss, no damage. Didn't need to talk to anyone since the online order. So, I thoroughly recommend it. Website: www.airroaddirect.com

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Also get some clarification on this "transit warranty". I will sadly say that this term along with "transit insurance" is commonly used to mislead the one off public customer in the hope that nothing happens.

99.9% of the time "transit warranty/insurance" only covers what is known in the industry as FOC...Fire, overturning or collision. So if the truck didnt catch on fire, overturn or have a collision then bad luck.

Find out if it covers damage from handling, or just not being loaded correctly, or if something else on the truck falls and slams into your bonnet. And get them to give it to you in writing.

Bugger, if only I'd read this a month ago.. had to organise transport from QLD urgently last week, got it sorted, got it sent in a cheap backload and paid for insurance but didn't look into the finer details, thought it covered everything. A couple of things are damaged and I think this might be the case for us as the truck didn't collide etc, looks like the damage might not be covered... they just didn't take much care unfortunately. See what happens I guess :)

Also I thought it would only be on the truck for 3 days.. but they took the items out, put them on a train and then back on another truck in melb.. they used to just drive down.

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any ideas how much it wud be for 2 gtst wings sent from melb to syd?

Wouldn't be too much. Just check the airroaddirect website and get a quote from them. It's all automated. You'll get the quote there and then.

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