Shipping container transport by road?
 

Hi all, hope you've had a good summer on the road.
Anyone on here who knows waht a lorry and driver should cost for a days work? Needs to be the sort of lorry that can drop a 20 ft shipping container onto the ground and pick it up again.
Ive been quoted, by a swedish freight forwarder, 900 quid to transport a 20 ft container from the posrt of felixstowe to Colchester, less than 30 miles away. Assuming the lorry will need to wait a couple of hours while i unload, and assuming a 10% commission for the forwarder, the trucker is going to get 800quid for less than a days work! If thats the case, I'm going to get my hgv license sharpish!
So what should i be paying?
Thanks Truckers!!

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£800 would be about right for a wagon and driver (good chance it would be a 40 ton truck doing the transport). Its a 100 mile round trip roughly so thats around 3 hours moving (and a hell of a lot of diesel), plus time at port collecting and returning

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I'll ask someone I know.

Felixstowe to Colchester is about a 50 mile round trip.

Seems a lot of money IMHO

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We have just had a 30ft container delivered to our new house(90 miles round trip) for storage until the garage is built. I think is was about £180 for delivery and £15 a week (I know different circumstances as it sounds like you are importing a container full of goods??) To me £900 sounds extortionate!!!

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Is it just this part of the journey, or does it include transport onboard the ship to Felixstowe?

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Hi all, thanks for your replies. The 900 nicker is just for the journey from felixtowe to colchester, with a bit of time for unloading.
Ive just worked it out and if you reckon a lorry costs a quarter of a million to buy, repayments and interest at 6% over 10 years would be 160 quid a day (working on a 260 working day year). 60 miles at 10 mpg, todays diesel price 6.11 quid per gallon call it 40 quid for the journey, we're at 200 quid. Lets add 100 quid for servicing tax insurance etc and call it 300 quid for the lorry. Is that totally wrong? That still leaves 500 quid!

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That sounds far more sensible!! As mentioned, the 900 is just for the uk part of the journey!

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Thanks very much! 28 miles each way according to google maps.

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I'd forgotten one of my friends works for a shipping agent in Felixstowe, I'll ask her for a quote.

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I know a short cut :D

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How much diesel? About 10 mpg? Or is that a bit low?the trip is 30 miles each way.

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Over the estuary instead of around it?!

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No, just drive the ship up the River Colne, direct to Clochester :D

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Genius!

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If was possible, unfortunately Colchester Docks shut a few years ago & the giants at Felixstowe would run aground way before Colchester :p

I have made a phone call to my friend, she'll give me a ball park figure of the cost of road transport to Colchester. Won't be tomorrow, she's not at work.

When are you moving?

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Some time before christmas, or as soon as our house is sold.
Cheers for the help!

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No problem, at least there's some time to get this sort out.

I've got someone else on the case too, so fingers crossed we can get the cost down

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Good chance of less if its stop start, the 7.5t trucks that run round Newcastle do 10mpg maximum


Mavi you thinking about getting one of these across the estuary? ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ing_Bridge.jpg

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Might work at low tide mate, but you'd probably better off with something like this

http://www.steel-trussbridge.com/pho...1352_67987.jpg

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Touche

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Build it, and i will come.....

Shipping container transport by road?
 

I'm guessing you've already considered it and it's not viable.... Are you unable to hire a large box van for a day and trans ship if from container to your place?
Depending on the content of the container, try askig a local removals firm??
(I worked for a removal firm last year for a time and did a few jobs which were to be exported which we loaded into our lorry, drove to the docks and then loaded into a container, for the reverse to be done at the destination port)

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Its one of the options, but it would need to be de-vanned into one of the warehouses at Felixstowe, which would incurr costs.

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Thats a sound idea, if it means saving a few hundred quid i might just do that. Have to wait and see what the real cost of transporting the container is.

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Other way round, it would be going from container to van at felixstowe. The question is, as a private individual, would i be able to get at the container before it leaves the port? How would they feel about a van taking up space during the unloading? I suppose it depends on the company.

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No, that's what I mean. When the container is discharged from the ship it goes into the stack. Once its cleared, normally it gets dropped onto the back of a lorry & off the port, or onto a train in some cases.

You can't get access to your container on the quayside, it would need to be taken from the stack to a unloading bay in one of the warehouses by a dock company lorry. Then the contents of the container would need to be unloaded into this warehouse, where you could collect them by van. For this service you would be charged by the dock company.

The other option would be for your container to be taken to an ERTS warehouse (external remote transit shed) and have your possessions unloaded there. But again you're going to get charged for this.

But lets she what my contacts tell me, as I'm not an expert on this, but its in my work area, so I know a bit about how things work on the dock

Shipping container transport by road?
 

How did you get on with this buddy???


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