[TowerTalk] Looking for tower shipping company recommendations

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK)]

You're right.  That's why the tower will be in 
a crate, with the forks points underneath.

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill NY9H
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:01 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Looking for tower shipping company
> recommendations
> 
> 
> At 02:15 PM 5/27/2004, K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
> >*****************************************************************
> ******************************
> >     They all do a decent job of moving towers. The trick is to find one
> >that'll deliver it directly without going thru a terminal where it's 
> >handled by
> >forklifts.
> 
> 
> THAT IS THE BIG PROBLEM,,,,,
> 
> IT TOOK THREE TRYS TO GET A GOOD TOWER TO CHICAGOLAND..
> maybe in the last three years the trucker learned NOT TO FORK IT...
> 
> I finally learned to go to the terminal to visually inspect it ...
> If you can get it to stay on ONE  trailer... much better chance of not 
> having the tower forked over.
> 
> The guys at U.S Tower were VERY cooperative thru the debacle.....
> 
> bill
> 
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