Used Engine Shipping Solutions???

GRM Hive......

I'm experiencing a problem finding someone/company to accept as shipment a used flat 6 cylinder engine across the country. We were planning on Greyhound, I broke the engine down to 3 containers under 100#s, but Greyhound policy is they will not accept anything with, or that has had oil in it. The case/crank is 92#s, so USPS, and UPS are out because they limit mass to 70#s.

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UPS will ship to up 150lb, but over 75lb requires labeling a heavy/team lift and is charged an oversized rate

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/packaging/exceed_weight.html

Stick it on a pallet and talk to UPS.

Meaning the whole engine.

Pick up at any hub

Ups does not limit to 70 pounds. However I can't see it being worth how much it will cost to ship through ups or fedex

If going the pallet route, I'd contact Pitt Ohio or Old Dominion.

Or might try http://www.uship.com/

I used uship ONCE, never again...

Never used it myself, so good to know.

I sent a broken HF band saw back to HF through FedEx (the same idiots that broke it) the box was 130 lbs, they put a couple "heavy" stickers on it with the RMA label. 92 lbs should be cake.

Also, if the engine parts truly are now clean and oil free, none of the potential shipping companies need to know the contents are anymore specific than "engine" parts or possibly "machine" parts to avoid the thought of oil even crossing their mind. I've always shipped firearm parts as "machine" parts just to save myself any possible hassle. Just make sure you get adequate insurance to cover your potential loss.

southeastern Freight Lines

I have used these guys for exceptionally heavy things before and always had good service and a decent price (appropriate to what was being shipped)

The trick with Greyhound is to just not tell them that it had oil in it.

Otherwise, i just had a transmission shipped to me because it was over Greyhound's weight limit. On a half pallet through Fedex it was $125 to residential address.

I can recommend against Roadrunner based on how they treated my scoobaru engine and trans.
(Also for how they denied my damage claim, still waiting on my appeal to go through)

Go on Freightqoute.com. They will give you multiple options as far as trucking companies.