Is this vehicle shipping fee correct or way too high?

[Hammersia]

Commercial shipping of an agricultural vehicle on a curtainside lorry, took up about half the 13.5m length (eg 7m). GVW 4.5 tonnes.

Shipped from Austria to Essex 809 miles by road, shipping cost £10,600.

Seems very high, basically £12 per mile?

Nothing unusual or hazardous, zero tariff etc.

[CorradoTDI]

I think they must have quoted for Australia, not Austria :-)

[MustangGT]

Decimal point in the wrong place?

[iguana]

Too heavy for me, but yes that's a lot.

Does the price include VAT & duty & customs fees on the item perhaps?

Edited by iguana on Wednesday 3rd April 16:08

[trickywoo]

Harry’s garage did a recent video in Spain. Was £9k to truck the cars down.

Your price is ballpark although it would be nice to fill the space and split the cost, if possible.

[silobass]

I have a heavy machinery (over 5 tonnes) shipped from Italy from time to time and it's approx. €5k. It might be a load share service, I'm not sure how that works. Might be worth investigating that.

edit: that's for a curtain sided truck too, half load.

[N8CYL]

If is forklifted up and off.. then £3k -£3.5k. if a ramped trailer then maybe around 5k.

[sgrimshaw]

From the OP it reads as if the shipment has already been made ... how much was the original quote?

[Hammersia]

N8CYL said:

If is forklifted up and off.. then £3k -£3.5k. if a ramped trailer then maybe around 5k.

Yep, that's more what I was thinking it should be. Any particular shippers come to mind who would quote me please?

Cheers

[oddball1313]

Italy is always expensive €5k sounds about right, i paid about €7k for a full load a couple of months back to bring a couple of lathes back from Turin. I ship CNC machines regularly in and out of Europe most weeks and like others would agree around £3-4k would sound about right for a half load from Austria. You’ll need a customs agent to prepare your import docs as well, I use MIES based at Castle Donnington who charge about £50

I use Cardinal Global Logistics most of the time although DFDS can be pretty competitive

[N8CYL]

Hi I just spoke to a couple of my Austrian haulage partners. Two answers back for you. £3100.00 for a curtainsider with others loading and unloading but need to understand if cargo on wheels and how it will be secured and another for a flat bed with chains at £3750.00.

[Hammersia]

N8CYL said:

Hi I just spoke to a couple of my Austrian haulage partners. Two answers back for you. £3100.00 for a curtainsider with others loading and unloading but need to understand if cargo on wheels thetand another for a flat head with chains at £3750.00

That's brilliant many thanks

[N8CYL]

Hammersia said:

N8CYL said:

Hi I just spoke to a couple of my Austrian haulage partners. Two answers back for you. £3100.00 for a curtainsider with others loading and unloading but need to understand if cargo on wheels thetand another for a flat head with chains at £3750.00

That's brilliant many thanks

Edited above as on phone