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Coming from a Supply Chain / Logistics background myself and my husband in sales dealing with LTL and whole truckloads...This price per mile quoted is WAY too high at $3/mile.  You can get much better rates.  The key is to find someone who needs to pick something up after they drop the hay.  Deadheading will cost more which is what they tell you on that website "one way" price.

The best bet is too find someone who would be bringing fruits and veggies from the South to the North.  Get them to take hay down on their way to pick up the Southern Veggies/fruit.  This way there is a whole truck load each direction.  You should be able to take a 52 foot truck from CA-NY for $3000 shipping....just an example....alot less than $3 per mile...and that's usually deadheading!  North to South and vice versa would be less.

 

Stacy

 

kramspott@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Don,

Thanks so much, this is exactly the sort of thing I needed!! 

 

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Kathy

 

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From: Don Huston <donhuston@xxxxxxx>

> http://www.productionacres.com/new_buyers_help_sheet.htm
> The above link is for a hay broker on the east coast. He has crunched
> a few numbers and recommends "hay bale pooling", similar to "car
> pooling" :-\. Anyway, if several people pool their money and buy 50
> tons (assuming that to be 1000 bales just for crunching) at $200 per
> ton and ship it 300 miles at $3 per mile the total cost is $10,900
> for 1000 bales = $11 per 100lb bale. How does that compare to feeding
> 100lbs of pellets in your area. Might be worth while to look into.
>
> Don Huston at cox dot net
> SanDiego, Calif
>
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