Any suggestions on how I can get a bare car frame shipped from Colorado to Texas? Any company or people recommendations? VOH
@Voh Here at All American Classics, we sell frames and customers arrange the shipping. They have had success using uship.com, or by going into your local craigslist website, look under labor/move and search for transporters that way.
Not being a smartass but where in Colorado to where in Texas? Does make a difference. I picked up a load of lettuce in Alamosa, CO once for a broker. Asked him where it was going and he said, "Just head to Texas". Alamosa to Beaumont, TX, 1039 miles, Amarillo, TX, 344 miles, San Antonio, TX, 844 miles.
I shipped a lot of customer chassis using commercial trucking companies back when they were more customer friendly. I am truly glad I retired from the chassis business earlier this year because I'm not sure how I get the customer their chassis. Toward the end I had disastrous results with XPO with whom I'd shipped lots of chassis for years. If I were still building chassis I would probably go the route Spooky has went. Voh, your solution is simple 1 day up and 1 day back with your pickup and trailer.
There is a guy from up here on Marketplace making that trip with an enclosed trailer, I will see if I can find his info. I will PM it if I do.
Where's Winston, CO? I looked for it on Mapquest and it keeps sending me to Windsor. Just looked up the specs on the frame. With bumpers, it's 16 foot and a half inch long. It's not going to weigh much. Pickup and a trailer
Two un welded 32 rails are 500-1k to ship , (Just rails) The more the rails price (for 32 ) the less to ship , more expensive the cheaper to ship
Shipping an assembled frame would take up as much room as a car. Unless someone had a rack on a trailer. Other thing is does the seller have a way to load it? I used UShip several years ago to send a crated SBC somewhere. Whoever it was showed up in a big box truck. The guy kept staring at the crate and asked me how we were going to get it in the truck. I had to get my forklift out and load it for him.
If you could find an LTL shipping company and have them take their time it would not be to expensive . You pay by weight and skid dimensions issue would be getting it skidded or crated , loaded into the truck etc etc . might try and find a private shipping company , either way it won’t be cheap or easy . your only bet might be u-haul or a trailer .
Here is my recommendation: 1) Find a buddy to take a road trip to Texas!! 2A) Drive your pickup or your buddies. 2B) Rent a pickup with unlimited mileage and "just head to Texas". See Wikipedia: https://www.expedia.com/carsearch?date1=1/2/2023&date2=1/5/2023&dlat=&dlon=&dpln=&drid1=&loc2=&locn=windsor, co&olat=&olon=&rfrr=page.Lp.Cars.Pickup-car-rental&selCC=["pickup"]&selPageIndex=0&time1=1030AM&time2=1030AM It is just a bare frame, so you don't need a trailer. Just put it in the bed of the truck with the tailgate down and strap the HELL out of it. An 8 foot bed would be preferable, but a smaller bed will work. Put a red flag on end of the frame and motor on home!!! If you have a truck with a ladder rack, even better. Just throw the frame up on the ladder rack and go!
The routes between those two places are two long ass days in either direction no matter what the self styled experts want to say. Almost all two lane roads and going though the Panhandle right now is freaking iffy. I've driven that route more than once going to or from McGregor Tx and there isn't a fast way unless you just drive crazy fast. Personally I'd wait until the weather gets better in a couple of months rather than attempt it now and as Jim (Truly Vintage) said it may be hard to get one of the regular haulers to go up in the Denver area right now.
Not sure about the road after Amarillo, but the longer time route from Colorado to Amarillo is way better! ( Denver to Raton to Amarillo via Dalheart) I have traveled it many times! Bones
I usually cut over to Raton from Amarilo when we go that way. We towed a 20 ft cattle trailer that way on the last trip we went that way. Not fun draggin that thing through Denver in the afternoon rush hour headed north to Cheyenne though. Then finding out that it was Frontier days and we had to go a couple of hours west of Cheyenne before could find a motel room.
I agree! I did the Denver thing in the late afternoon last year with my Motorhome and 22 foot trailer! And I had to turn West in Denver! Not fun! Bones
The frame i supposed to be a minimum of 14 feet long but may be up to 16 feet long. If you actually think you can drive down the road in the Winter with a 14 to 16 foot vehicle frame hanging off the end of a rental pick up truck and not have Vehicle Enforcement pull you over ….. Jim
I don't think the frame is that long. I hauled a complete 46 Chevy in a 14 ft box truck with the door closed, no bumpers or brackets. 8 ' bed and a red flag should be fine.
That makes sense, The frame with bumpers is 16ft long, so 14ft or a little less would be normal without the bumpers. Leave the tailgate down & you will have 4 ft or less hanging out....Put a red flag on it & go. NOBODY will bother you. God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
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