Outer Limits 4x4 Board

i know this has been done before, but be nice

i'm wanting to get some tyres from brissy to newcastle... seemed like q-link was gonna be cheap, but when i rang up the dude quoted me over $250 to move 4x31" claws

can anyone help me out here? i'd like some claws for the zook, but at that kinda price to move em it's not really worth my while...

Road trip!!!

I had some tyres shipped via Followmont but I am pretty sure they only do Qld.

Maybe try a smaller local type transport mob?

PM me the dimensions m8 and I'll see what I can work out for ya using my Toll Express account.

Try the Post Office. I work for them, and we get tyres through the mail on a fairly regular basis, plus things like computers, cartons of wine, eskys, mowers, ect. Its surprising what they will take these days.

roadtrip wouldn't be bad cept i don't have the time, some of us have to work for a living do ya know any local (to you) mobs that do interstate damo?

i tried the online auspost quote thing bundy, but it was having a brain fart and wouldn't accept the size... will give em a ring tho

any other ideas?

LEXX wrote:PM me the dimensions m8 and I'll see what I can work out for ya using my Toll Express account.

you have a PM, thanks for the offer mate

bump

still not having any luck, pls help if ya can!!! don't condemn me to a life with 28" road tyres

BundyRumandCoke wrote:Try the Post Office. I work for them, and we get tyres through the mail on a fairly regular basis, plus things like computers, cartons of wine, eskys, mowers, ect. Its surprising what they will take these days.

Officially the rules are such that anything that fits in a ULD are allowed to be transported by Australia Post. this means up to 1mx1mx1m (I think it's actually 1.05x because how we can stack them.

Over those dimensions, whether we have the capability or not, we are not allowed to carry them.

Pity cos it woulda made moving house to brissy much cheaper if I coulda thrown it on one of our own trucks

The normal maximum weight over the Post Office shop counter is 20kg... up to 32kg is normally allowed at these points. I think the online calculator would only cover up to 20kg each, then spit the dummy.

Bigger stuff like your tyres would need to go through a Business Centre, and the price is negotiated for anything over 20kg, although there's pretty fair guidelines.

If it's going as a point to point ULD it will be based on the cost of transporting the volume of the ULD (s), not on individual weights

I can't tell you how much it's gonna cost - I can check how much it'd cost us, or one of our major customers who has such an agreement, but the price would be dependant on the exact dimensions and destination.

Regardless it should be under $250 or you'll either be refused outright (we can't carry this, Sir).


Just don't expect to carry 4 tyres in through one of the retail shops with an address stickytaped to it like a normal parcel.

You could try fastways at http://www.fastway.org/ they go by weight as so much dimensions...could be okay...I know I can send a 22kg aircon from Brisbane to Sydney overnight by them for $28

LEXX wrote:PM me the dimensions m8 and I'll see what I can work out for ya using my Toll Express account.

hey lexx, did ya come up wit anything?

Fastaway are more a courier and charge accordingly, give Hi Trans a call, you should be able to get the 4 tyres on a pallet to Sydney for under $100, I know I can. Followmont go as far south as Port MacQuarie.

startack express is $101.58 if it is 250kg

hi-trans wanna charge me for cubic weight of something over 500kg cos of the size, so is around $200...

startrack and a lot of the others won't deal with me cos i don't have an accound :( looks like it's not gonna be a goer

Dude xrcc is like 2 weeks away, im sure if you were really nice to somone like sam or pos or somone bringing a rig down you could get them to take em to the comp they you have to be really nice to somone like 4wheeling and get him to bring em back to newie, im sure if there was some reward involved they could help yas out

Try Macaferttys bus freight.. They take anything and are very well priced.
You can either drop it as a bus station and pick it up from a bus station or get door to door delivery.

Their phone # is 3868 0999

We use them all the time.

When you work it out let me know.

Sending tyres gives me grief every day.

LOCKY wrote:When you work it out let me know.

Sending tyres gives me grief every day.

you need a storeman...and good storeman/logistics bloke would be able to control all that for you, including incomings...and most probably save you money.

I cant understand why ppl have so manny problems with freight !

I ring the local company ( look in the yellow pages under "freight" ) and tell em what I want and where its to come from.

over the last couple of months I've had a

... set of 4X 38" swampers on rims sent from one side of Vic to the other.. cost $32.00

... 5 spd box and transfer from South Aus to Vic ... cost $78.00

... set of leaf springs from South Aust to Vic ... cost $44.00

... complete front diff from South Aust to Vic ... cost $ $72.00


And just been quoted $102.00 for another 5sp box and transfer from Qld to vic.

YELLOW PAGES >>> FREIGHT >>> TRANSPORT SO EASY !!!

Tip..
Ring the smaller freight companys, they generally try harder and are cheaper.

tried the bus freight mob, they want $60 a tyre... if feel for ya locky, glad i don't have to do this regularly

looks like i might have to try sucking up to someone that's going to xrcc

I know someone who works with Busfrieght, and I've heard of stuff going missing all the time. Like being put off at the wrong stop...

Just got 4 rim without tyres from Sydney to Gold Coast $56.00

And got 4 31x10.5x15 and rims from Vic to Gold Coast for about $105.00
it was about 6 months ago all with TNT