Hi, I have to ship 4 wheels/tires. I have two boxes and I put two in each. I went to Mailbox Etc. to see how much it costs to mail these suckers out and they told me $240!!!!!! That is crazy. There's gotta be a cheaper way to send these.

Please Help me out!
Thanks,
Jerry

 

Use their largest boxes, which are usually about 26-inches square and ship the tires/wheels out yourself using UPS. The cost will be about $60 per box most places in the US. I've done this about four times already. Use plenty of packing materials. Each box will weigh about 46-55-lbs depending on wheels/tires. Call UPS and they'll even come and get the boxes at your house. Fed Ex will do this as well.

 

Viking Freight or Roadway. But you'll need to put them on a pallet or at least skids so that they can lift with a fork truck. They don't like to move stuff by hand. Only cost us $75 to ship a full set to Alaska that way.

Shipping a hardtop from Sacramento, CA to Seattle, WA is only $125 via Viking.

If your shipping something fairly large but still light, such as a bumper, ship via Greyhound bus. Seattle to New York was only $90.

 

I ship wheels all the time, ship thru FedEx Ground, they are always pretty cheap and offer tracking numbers. I shipped two front seats, 40 lbs each, and a rear seat 30 lbs to Florida from Connecticut and it cost me around $90. Check them out and see, pretty cheap !

 

stay away from mailboxes etc when shipping bulk items. they tack on an extra surcharge ontop of UPS' or FedEx's rate. if you have them pack the wheels for you, say goodbye to about another $20-$30.

pack the wheels yourself and take em directly to your local UPS or FedEx and save yourself some cash.

dont get me wrong, mailboxes etc is great for smaller items where the difference between their rates and UPS's rate is only like $2 or $3, but when you get into large packages the difference in price is much more dramatic.

-b

 

Mail Boxes Etc (and all those other mail box companies) charge a bundle. Get your own cardboard boxes and ship them directly out of the actual UPS or "FedX ground" owned hubs.

Get a box just large enough to hold two tires. As long as the rims are padded from hitting each other or the ground you'll be ok. Tires are pretty much immune to the shipping process. In fact I think Tire Rack still ships tires unboxed, just with a tag.

UPS will ship two S2000 tires/wheel combo (2 per box). But at that size I think they charge by dimensions and weight. So keep the box as small as you can.

 

What everybody else said. Package it yourself and ship through Fedex or UPS you will save a ton. I shipped 18in rims once to california from NYC and it cost me only $50 insured

 

I shipped some 17's with heavy tires from Chicago to NY. I didn't use boxes, but I did use round 18" cardboard cutouts to cover each wheel (both face and inside). I bundled 2 wheel/tires together using strap tape (plastic backed tape). Two packages of two tire/wheel combos only ran me $60, and they insured them at $1800 for an additional $11.....UPS

 

Thanks for the help guys, I'll try fed ex in schaumburg today!

 

FedX ground is the way to go. Cost me $100 to ship a full set to Washington State. By the way, they recommended taking the air out of the tires.............said they would be lighter ............not sure of the physics of that, but I did anyway. I did buy the boxes from Mailboxes Etc........but shipped FedX.....