Shipping with Fastenal

[andyvh1959]

Few people know that you can ship large items reasonably with Fastenal. You have to package whatever you are shipping on a standard pallet, and enclose it adequately so other pallets can be stacked atop it. Keep in mind Fastenal only uses fork lift trucks for handling, and that means items can be shoved into trailers and stacked, bumped, pushed, as needed to load the semi.

Say you want to ship a lawn tractor, or 350 Chevy V8, or a motorcycle in parts, from Green Bay to Atlanta. Get two pallets, load the items onto the pallet strapped down tight. Box in the pallet with OSB/wood screws, and put another pallet on top, screw the OSB to the pallet. Result is a wood shipping crate, Do whatever you have to, to protect the goods because Fastenal does not provide damage protection. You have to arrange/deliver the packaged item to your local Fastenal store. They can deliver it to any Fastenal store on their trucks.

But, again, being a heavy item on a pallet, you have to be there with the means to accept a pallet load from a fork lift onto your trailer or pickup. Its worth checking out, because you may be able to ship a V8 engine from Green Bay to Atlanta for far less than USPS or UPS or Fedex. https://www.fastenal.com/en/22/blue-lane-freight

[DragonLady58]

Whoa there Grass Hopper....though you could, and you can, would you want to? Lets go back a few years, and I'm located down south, and I'm ordering ALOT of stuff from Fastenal. Enter the need for a toolbox....
As I had a Industral account along with my dad....I looked at the big kennedy tool boxes, protos, snap ons, I found a custom Montezuma, 72" with hutch, 2 end add on boxes. Had been saving up for years to buy the big box....
Was looking on Their website (05'), this box was 1/3rd off....someone ordered it and no one picked it it. Was not even a year old, was a little over $6k.....after the 1/3rd taken off.....freight from the Bay Area to the coast, box weighed like 1400Lbs.....
After 2 weeks of waiting in anticipation.....no box.....another week, no box.....after 3 weeks late, they had lost a 72" long toolbox, with 2 add ons on each end, which made it 10' or 120", 2 1/2' deep, about 6' tall....and well, 1400 pounds.
Well, toolbox was custom painted, options were custom, yada, yada, yada.....they lost the box.....
I've lost 3, 14" cold cutoff blades thru them, sent back to be resharpened.....($150 ea), a nice selstrom welding hood, on sale, from another store....
Just letting friends know....They can loose stuff....
Besides, they've only had readable tickets for the past 4 or 5 years....
Just my 2 pecos.....

The folks at the store had loaded it, 5 people put it on the truck, and the driver didn't know where it went to....It was clearly labeled to go to the store where I was, and had my name on the invoice....yet, it still go lost....

[andyvh1959]

Sounds like "lost" in someone else's garage,..how convenient for them. I've heard of other people having no issues, with items fully crated and enclosed in wood.

[DragonLady58]

Sounds like "lost" in someone else's garage,..how convenient for them. I've heard of other people having no issues, with items fully crated and enclosed in wood.

Oh, I've ordered alot of stuff from them that came thru in perfect order, unscathed. Just sayin', I did loose a big honkin' assed toolbox using them.
That was a long time ago though....

[ldhthept]

DL that is one heck of a tool box!

[DragonLady58]

Yea, it was this configuration....
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitetoolboxes.com%2FRX72251 9C-SB2.aspx&psig=AOvVaw0I6JUoNWuHoVg0a22sXKj4&ust=1598105278943000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPiIl-i-rOsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
After I went to school, came back to the dealership, my dad had a big Snapon, which I'd bought from him paying every month, while he bought a new really nice big chest.
Me, I had the hand-me-down box for 12 years, then started shopping around for my own. Being a HD Mechanic there where all sorts of speciality tools that came in big bulky cases, so my end lockers were 1/2 full of drawers, then 3 shelves above the drawers on both ends....had 8 casters with heavy springs....
I eventually after 4 years, I added a 3rd locker cabinet where I'd hang my uniforms, boots, personal effects....