Hi: Last fall I shipped 3 pumps from Wisconsin to California. I asked on the forum then too. This is how I ended up doing it. I went to a public motor carrier (used yellow pages) and told them what I wanted to do. They gave me 3 pallets and I bolted the pumps on. Went to the local transfer dump station and got some cardboard boxes which refigerators had been shipped in and slit them lengthwise and wrapped them around the pumps like a cocoon, using a roll of duct tape around and around. My total cost for preparing for shipping was about $5.00 each. The first one took a couple of hours but by the third I think I did it in an hour. The motor carrier took it terminal to terminal and I used a small trailer to haul the pumps one at a time to the terminal. They billed the recipient upon recieving the pumps and I did not have to pay up front.
NOW this is important. They quoted me a list price based on weight which was over $200 per pump. You had to ASK for a discounted price and they took a percentage of their list. Who knows how they come up with it but I shipped all three pumps for a little over $300. And one was a Wayne 70 and did I ever mark that one "Top Heavy". My buyer picked them up at a terminal near his home and wrote me all three arrived in good condition. I would not have a problem about doing it this way again. A little work on my part enabled me to make a nice sale.
Good Luck.
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