So the thing about shipping containers is that it for every thing they makes easier to ship goods there’s also a drawback. Common benefits are the ability to load the container in one country and have ships, trains, and trucks be able to move it without the need for the contents to be removed and loaded into the next conveyance before continuing on.
The apparent problem with using shipping containers is that it’s really difficult for the average guy to deal with them unless you have a warehouse with a dock available to you. When I researched the process of receiving a shipping container it was clear that it was much better and cheaper to arrange the trucking of the container from the yard to your facility on your own because pretty much any entity you deal with is going to charge a fee to higher a trucking company. More than once I saw it recommended that the container be shipped from container yard to container yard instead of warehouse to warehouse.
So that’s what I chose to do. But it seems that you have to find the right trucking company because the company has to be UIIA compliant. What’s that? Unofficially it’s a way to make sure only certain companies can move a container.
I didn’t realize that the customs process wasn’t included in the very expensive shipping charges so that’s my fault. If it had been done then Monday I could have started trying to get the container moved to the workshop. Instead I was already paying storage fees to the container yard before I could even try to move the container. I called a company that can move the container but they would do it because the delivery address is residential. How do you expect me to get the container in that case? The recommended a few companies that could deliver to a residential address. So I called and scheduled a truck to pick up the container at 9am the following day. This way if there was any problems I had the rest of the day to fix it. Well the company lost my appointment the managed to put me off all day until it was too late to get the container out of the yard, unloaded at the workshop, and returned to the yard before it was closed. I knew there was a possibility that the yard wouldn’t let the driver in without the UIIA stuff but I figured it was worth the gamble and left the rest of the day to find a workaround. BTW, the towing companies are the cheapest method for this process…
So I’m going to use the address of a commercial property I looked at leasing that’s actually only a couple miles from the workshop and have the trucking company and the flatbed driver meet me there. Then the flatbed can transport the machine to the workshop for me. Would have been nice if I could have initiated that plan 5 days ago.
Can’t do anything until Monday so think I’ll relax tomorrow.