From: Rick Thiers (rick@mvsalesandhardware.com)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 12:06:32 PDT
Hi List,
Count me in as well. I'm an hour west of Philadelphia, and 1 1/2 hours
Northeast of Baltimore. I have an earthen bank and aluminum ramps for
loading vehicles up to 6,000lbs, a loading dock, and access to a forklift. I
can help with heavier vehicles using oak planks to load/unload. I can't go
out to get stuff for you, as I'm a one man operation, but I can recieve or
ship from here.
I think it's possble that we can get enough listers to make this happen!
Rick
Rick Thiers
M.V. Sales & Hardware
1035B Fallowfield Rd.
Atglen, Pa. 19310 USA
610-593-1218 8-6 EST
http://www.mvsalesandhardware.com
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of Paul A. Thomas
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:16 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Shipping heavy stuff as a group--cheap?
Please count me in. Located 35 miles N/E of San Francisco. no ramp or
lift gate type device tho.
Paul
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At 10:51 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Good evening all.
>I had a though this evening as I pondered how to truck parts across America
>at a reasonable price. Here's what I came up with.
>
>Is there enough interest, and patience, for us list members to have an
>actual organized effort to ship heavy items via truck to predetermined
>locations near helpful yet gullible list members homes. For example, I
live
>near Columbia SC and could assist people living with in a couple hours
drive
>of Columbia to round up and deliver items to a trucking company in
Columbia.
>I could also pick things up at above trucking company and keep at my home
>until list member X could drop by and pick up. In turn I could hope to
ship
>stuff to a city near the home of someone else on the list that could do the
>same for member Y. Perhaps we could even ship several things on one pallet
>if a couple of people in a given state what to. I wouldn't mind driving an
>hour or two to pick up some heavy item I have bought or traded here on the
>list if it saved me some big money. I think shipping cost often keep us
>from buying stuff. Time is the other concern. Again I wouldn't mind a
good
>cheap cargo cover sitting at your place of business for a few weeks until
>you had something else coming my way.
>
>So, is it potential here, or am I talking from my butt? Is truck shipping
>expensive?
>
>Regardless, if anyone does need help in the central SC area, let me know.
>Just don't expect me to pick stuff up from GL. It's just too big a pain in
>the butt. Those guys are just too hard to work with. I'm sure most of you
>know what I mean.
>
>Joe Trapp
>
>
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