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Date:         Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:36:52 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: camper shipping cost
Comments: To: phishman068@GMAIL.COM
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---- Craig Cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Try uship.com if you want to take a chance with a less professional and potentially slower company. > I have had good luck with rightway and it's cost about $1000 to ship from west coast(ish) to western pa each time. > One was from Oregon, the other from California. > Mind you that's been 4 and 2 years ago now, so prices may have changed somewhat since then.

AAA gives the distance from Edmond, OK to Spokane, WA as 1746.4 miles. That's right at $1.12 per mile. I was quoted $1450 ($0.83 per mile) to ship my Prius. Of course, if I drive the Prius, I will use about 35 gallons of gas, and will have 2 hotel nights (or $125 for gas plus $180 for hotels = $305) plus meals. If I drive the camper, I will use 100 gallons of gas (including finding camping stops), will have 4 nights of camping, probably paying for 2 of them (or $350 for gas plus $40 for camping) plus meals. The trip out to Spokane looks to cost me a little more with the van, but the difference will be less than the shipping cost difference. My household stuff will go in "Pods." That's another story, and more appropriate for Friday, but I won't trouble you with it at all.

Of course, my wife says we are to drive the van out, take care of some business out there, leave the van and fly back, then drive out in the Prius. Lots more cash out that way for sure.

Blair at Riteway said the van has to go on a different trailer than a normal car trailer because of its height, accounting for some of the cost difference. What exactly is the height for a Westy?

mcneely > > -craig > > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Nomadix <subarusyncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > > Shipping cost for a larger corporate company are usually .85 cents to a dollar per mile. If you can find a shipper that needs a load back then it can be much cheaper. > > > > Bob > > > > > > > >> On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote: > >> > >> Wow ... I was quoted 2600 to ship a 1991 Westfalia Atlantic from Germany to Halifax .... > >> > >>> On 10-Jul-2014, at 18:15, Dave Mcneely wrote: > >>> > >>> Riteway just quoted me $1950 to ship my camper from central Oklahoma to eastern Washington. mcneely

-- David McNeely


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