Date:         Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:32:02 -0400
Reply-To:     Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Need shipping company to send van from E. coast to CA
Comments: To: Warren Chapman <vwsyncroguy@YAHOO.COM>

Warren,

In the July of 2000 I broke a piston in my Westy's tiico conversion in
Kayenta, AZ.  Over the next couple of days I managed to struggle to Page, AZ
and then to Orderville, Utah where it finally gave up in a cloud of smoke as
it spit out the oil dipstick and finally just quit.  From Orderville I
shipped it back to NC with Triple J Transport, a truck brokerage business
that claimed they would ship "anything, anywhere, anytime".   It was
actually carried by a local motorsports company that had delivered three
custom Corvettes to California from Charlotte, NC and needed a load for the
return trip.  The van was picked up in Orderville five days after I called
and delivered in front of my house in Raleigh seven days after that.  It
would have been there sooner but they called and asked if I could wait an
extra day so they could finish a Mustang to deliver to Fayetville, NC.
Except for a few bugs on the rear hatch window (it was carried backwards on
a 3 car trailer pulled by a huge pickup truck) it was perfect with no
damage.  Total cost was $1100 for the 2300 mile trip.

I would use Triple J again if needed.

Ed McLean