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dabomb
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Location: cerritos, California
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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:06 am Post subject: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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Hello everybody. Any of you shipped a lowered bus in an open transport carrier. The bus is about 4 inches to the ground..any advice ..thanks in advance ..
- would it clear the ramps? |
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NAES
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Location: AREA-52 Southern Killafornia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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Raise it as high as you can. Even if the rear wheels tuck under. The new owner can bring it back down. Some of those loading dock and truck approach angles are rough!
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d-rick
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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all depends who shows up..most I have felt with carry some extra boards to make the approach to the trailer ramps not so steep
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jason
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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| I raise mine up as high as possible and put rear tires on front. |
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j.pickens
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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Even at stock height, or raised, your chances of getting your vehicle to it's destination unscathed is bad, and getting worse, in my experience.
From the 2012 Barndoor Reunion thread. Uzi and I shipped our buses from Jersey to SoCal, and on the return trip, a kind Sambanista saw our buses in Tennessee and took some photos. Uzis bus had flat tires, one was off the bead, and my Baja Barndoor truck, well, see for yourself:
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Now that right there is some BBBUUULLLLSSSHHHIIITTTT!!!!!!
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Fuck Me...
The whole reason I've used DAS on multiple occasions is that they use their own trucks and dedicated terminals for shipping. This truck is reportedly NOT a DAS transport. Hell, we could have hired a broker to do the shipping and saved a bunch. I don't feel well right now.
And, I can't thank Widehatch enough. Your taking the time to document what is going on here is greatly appreciated. |
For the gory details(scroll down a ways):
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...;start=700
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dabomb
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Location: cerritos, California
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:10 am Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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| Thank you very much for the advice. I think i dont want to use a carrier anymore. Im planning to use a u-haul trailer transport and drive from phoenix arizona to socal..but im not familiar with the route. Is it mountainous or just straight freeway? Thank you guys.. |
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campingbox 
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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| That route does not have any mountains. There is a hill near quartzite along Interstate 10. |
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EverettB
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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Yes, no serious hills. There is some up and down that you mostly notice in a Bus.
There is a big long downhill going down into Indio toward S. CA.
It's basically a straight-shot for 6-8 hours, depending on your speed and # of stops and how much traffic once you hit S. CA.
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j.pickens
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: Shipping a lowered bus on a carrier : advice |
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| dabomb wrote: |
| Thank you very much for the advice. I think i dont want to use a carrier anymore. Im planning to use a u-haul trailer transport and drive from phoenix arizona to socal..but im not familiar with the route. Is it mountainous or just straight freeway? Thank you guys.. |
Even if you move it yourself, NAES is correct in his earlier comment, raise the lowered suspension, or at least install stock tires if the lowered bus has smaller ones, which is common. Some clunky U Haul trailers can be a bitch to load lowered buses on. Long (4ft?) Sections of 2x 10s with taper cut ends might help.
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