How does freight shipping work?
I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place. So my parents, brother and I are helping my grandma move in a few weeks, it's a 6-7 hours drive from Montreal where we live and there's a big textile-working machine thing roughly the size of an upright piano and weighing maybe 75 pounds that we want to bring back to Montreal. For whatever reason, my mom wants it since grandma doesn't need it anymore. We would normally use our cars to move this stuff around but that thing is definitely too big for anything we have.
My dad was thinking of renting a U-Haul truck somewhere on the way there (as close to grandma's house as possible) for 3 days. It would have a dual purpose, first for the move from grandma's old house to her new place, and then using it to bring back the machine all the way back to Montreal. I estimate it would ride 800-1000km, which is $400-500 in mileage ($0.49 per km) plus $60 for the days, not to mention the maybe $200 in extra gas. So we'd be at nearly $1000 after taxes. It would be nice to have it for the move but definitely not a necessity.
I was wondering if there was a way to get some freight service to ship it instead for a couple hundred bucks. Is there any kind of all-inclusive service that can go to her house, box it up or load it up on a pallet, and then ship it here? The only problem I foresee is that it's a rather remote area. The city is Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, in Quebec.
Cheers, would appreciate any suggestion
My dad was thinking of renting a U-Haul truck somewhere on the way there (as close to grandma's house as possible) for 3 days. It would have a dual purpose, first for the move from grandma's old house to her new place, and then using it to bring back the machine all the way back to Montreal. I estimate it would ride 800-1000km, which is $400-500 in mileage ($0.49 per km) plus $60 for the days, not to mention the maybe $200 in extra gas. So we'd be at nearly $1000 after taxes. It would be nice to have it for the move but definitely not a necessity.
I was wondering if there was a way to get some freight service to ship it instead for a couple hundred bucks. Is there any kind of all-inclusive service that can go to her house, box it up or load it up on a pallet, and then ship it here? The only problem I foresee is that it's a rather remote area. The city is Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, in Quebec.
Cheers, would appreciate any suggestion