Hogi,
DANG! Shipping sure has gotten out-of-sight with the new fuel prices. Seems like I spent about $1200 on my 422 purchase a year and a half ago! That was the machine and one pallet.
I know someone will post some suggestions but I found this as the first thing to come up with a google search:
U-ship
I don't know a thing about them but it sounds like what you are looking for: some company that'll arrange truck space coming this way. You can deal with shipping brokers but you are adding a middleman's percentage to the bill. I absolutely know without a doubt that there are trucks heading this way from that area with the extra room that would jump at the chance to make $$ by hauling the PT. It's just a not-so-simple matter to hook up with 'em. ( I KNOW this because of the decade I spent driving truck cross-country).
I have one friend that still drives. He has a car hauler (as did I) but I'd have hauled a PT and attachments if it'd been offered to me. I hauled a whole cabin's worth of lumber to Utah one time I had the extra space. Also hauled a few loads of other stuff at other times, wrapped in plastic sheeting, of course. My friends site is at
Barnes Transport I think he has limited his runs from the NE to LA most of the times but I am trying to think outside the box for you.
Might take a few tries to find an acceptable company. I'd also do searches (after you locate a company you think worth trying) with "the company's name + sucks" or other combinations. I've found info that way that steered me AWAY from particular companies.
Wish I had more free time and more available money (don't we all?) -- you and I could make a speed trip to Virginia to get a PT for you and more attachments for me!
on edit = of course, being in off-the-beaten-path Tazewell could make things somewhat more difficult.
Phil
