Transport/Shipping a trailer recommendation?

[Suregrip391]

In my planning stages so please bear with me…

If it is not possible to go myself and pickup a trailer, does anyone have any first hand recommendations of companies that can transport a trailer?

Specifically a 5.0 TA? That is what we would be looking for. Prefer flatbed but not opposed to someone hooking up and dragging it to us…..

[kathytony1985]

We had Escape deliver our trailer to a location within 30 miles of our home last month. You have to pay for it, but it was worth it to us.

[Suregrip391]

Sorry, I should have stated that if we found a pre owned unit somewhere, not a new one from Escape.

[Brian B-P]

This certainly not a recommendation, but one service is uShip. Like most others, this is really just a dispatching service; the actual transportation is done by someone arranging work through them.

I used a dispatching service (local here, not uShip) twice to move the same trailer, getting different truckers for the two trips, with similar pricing but different levels of service. If you can get a recommendation for a specific operator that someone has found to be good - not just the dispatching service - that would be ideal. My trailer was towed on it's own wheels, but it was large and tall - putting it on a flatbed would have been very expensive. ETI has Escapes shipped on a trailer or flatbed truck.

If you like unscripted ("reality") shows you might find Shipping Wars amusing... but you might not want to watch it before entrusting your trailer to one of these people. In this show the dispatching service was uShip, but I don't think that uShip really works the way they show, just as most businesses in "reality" shows don't really work the way the shows suggest.

[Doug2000]

I would call around to transport companies in your area and ask who does flatbed work. Get a few quotes locally. Most likely they will broker out the work to someone else.

My concern is loading and unloading. Escape works with drivers at the factory to safely load and instruct the drivers how to safely unload the trailer. A bumper pull is easy, a fifth wheel, not as easy.

I don’t see why you don’t just go pick it up. I wouldn’t buy anything sight unseen.