Arranging shipping...
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:35 am
In January I started talking with Heather at Kitfox about setting up shipping (yeah! that means we're getting close!), and the initial quote she got to bring it from the Kitfox Factory all the way to Fairbanks Alaska was $10,000! Yikes, I hadn't planned on that. Now I do need to expand on that a bit... this price is actually for 2 kits. A friend of mine and I both ordered kits at the same time, and they will be shipping together. So my share of the shipping would be $5000, but add the $2000 crate fee and I was looking at $7000 to get my kit home. Still quite a bit more than I had expected.
So I called local and long time Alaskan freight hauler Lynden Transport. After working things out with Heather, it will cost $2500 to get it from the Kitfox factory to Lynden's dock in Fife, WA (basically Tacoma), and then Lynden will bring them on up to Fairbanks for $3140.97. Again, both those costs will be shared by 2 of us... so $2000 to crate it, and $2820.48 for my share of the shipping, makes my total $4820.48, or a savings of $2179.52 off the initial quote.
With freight costs having sky rocketed since placing my order in February 2021, I had been preparing myself for a $5000 cost to get the kit here, and all said and done I managed to keep it just under that.
So now I am just waiting for the email from Heather that the kit is ready to ship! On February 10th Heather said it would still be a few weeks... so now 15 days later, I'm thinking that email could come at any time!
So I called local and long time Alaskan freight hauler Lynden Transport. After working things out with Heather, it will cost $2500 to get it from the Kitfox factory to Lynden's dock in Fife, WA (basically Tacoma), and then Lynden will bring them on up to Fairbanks for $3140.97. Again, both those costs will be shared by 2 of us... so $2000 to crate it, and $2820.48 for my share of the shipping, makes my total $4820.48, or a savings of $2179.52 off the initial quote.
With freight costs having sky rocketed since placing my order in February 2021, I had been preparing myself for a $5000 cost to get the kit here, and all said and done I managed to keep it just under that.
So now I am just waiting for the email from Heather that the kit is ready to ship! On February 10th Heather said it would still be a few weeks... so now 15 days later, I'm thinking that email could come at any time!