[AT] Tractor hauling

[JParks]

Cecil..............Your note is exactly what I was referring to........I
learned this the hard way about 20 years ago when I sent a trucker to pick
up a running Terex 8230 crawler.  The owner and the trucker spent all day
trying to get the "runner" going.  They finally gave up, the trucker came
back empty and I was out 750.00 for his time and trip.

I shipped an AC model M back to Pennsylvania a year or so back.  It was a
partial load for the trucker and he shows up with a trailer with no space
except on the front of the deck.  Fortunately I could lift the whole machine
up and set it down on the bed but it certainly wasn't expected or
anticipated.  I have made loading ramps/docks of varying height around the
place to cope with unexpected trailer heights.  Even though I try to plan on
the unexpected, I am still capable of being surprised by a new twist.

John Parks
Boise, ID
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor hauling


> > I can well relate to John's comments relative to unloading equipment.
>
> We used to receive new tractors, TLBs, skid steer loaders, agricultural
>
> equipment, and 20 ton trailers at the dealership,
>
>
> I could be wrong but I think what John was referring to was a
> truckers concern about hauling for individuals and a lack of
> coordination in both loading and unloading. Hauling commercial loads
> is a different thing with normal business hours and normal delays
> possible on both ends. It is different if an individual wants a tractor
> or machine hauled some distance and hires a trucker. A lot of the time
> the tractor or machine isn't really running, there is no loading dock
> anywhere, and there is no help to get the thing loaded. The search
> begins when the trucker gets there and they expect him to sit there and
> wait while they find help and a way to get it loaded. Same thing happens
> on the delivery end. They don't expect to pay extra for this but time is
> money and there should be a charge or some other consideration given the
> the trucker. I have hauled things for others a good distance from home
> and can tell you that a person gets leery of this quickly. The phone
> numbers you are given to call are not answered, or they "had to go
> somewhere" and left no word when they would be back. In the case of
> picking up a tractor one time, I was told where to go and given a good
> description of the buildings and yet no one there had any idea who the
> person was I was told to contact. As a customer taking delivery of a
> new trailer that comes stacked on top of other trailers on a flatbed
> truck is one thing. Asking a trucker to stack something to be hauled on
> top of someone else's load is something else. No one is going to do it
> or would have a way to do any stacking. John knows how this goes and
> is giving good advice when he says you have to be ready at both ends.
> Anyone hiring a trucker to haul for him should take John's advice and
> do his best to see that help is there on time and both the loading and
> unloading go smoothly.
>
> Cecil
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