Manoravenue
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Vintage Transport
Vintage Transport offers nationwide service. You can request an estimate on-line and will receive the estimate in an email with a representative's phone number. If calling in to request service, I'd suggest calling the Phoenix, Arizona hub as opposed to the headquarters back East because with the headquarters, one often gets lost in Voicemail Hell. Vintage Transport is a blanket-wrap shipper and they've always come through without damage. Only drawback is, one never knows when they will roll through one's local area; I've had them call me at 10:00 p.m. from about 100 miles north and estimate delivery at 2:00 a.m., to which I've just had to say, "No dice; we're not waking up the immediate neighborhood unloading a washing machine or laundry pair from a truck at 2:00 a.m." There will also may be residual bellyaching about the fact the driver would have to stay overnight, and I've just had to find the politest way possible of saying, "Sorry, I'm paying for service during hours which are convenient to me; I'm not being paid by the company to accommodate its shipping routes and schedules." I think Vintage Transport might consign to local freight outfits for in-town delivery, say, out of San Francisco to smaller towns north, and it's the local folks that want to rearrange everybody's schedule to fit theirs; also, some of the local delivery people will do their best to try to just drop the washer and dryer at the curbside and let the customer wrestle it into the garage or laundry room. "No dice" on that either; you will have paid for an in-house delivery and you should receive just that, and "in-house" doesn't mean on the front walk leading up to the home's front porch! Craters & Freighters did a good job for me once, but they were far too costly even in the days before fuel costs went to the stratosphere.
Vintage Transport offers nationwide service. You can request an estimate on-line and will receive the estimate in an email with a representative's phone number. If calling in to request service, I'd suggest calling the Phoenix, Arizona hub as opposed to the headquarters back East because with the headquarters, one often gets lost in Voicemail Hell. Vintage Transport is a blanket-wrap shipper and they've always come through without damage. Only drawback is, one never knows when they will roll through one's local area; I've had them call me at 10:00 p.m. from about 100 miles north and estimate delivery at 2:00 a.m., to which I've just had to say, "No dice; we're not waking up the immediate neighborhood unloading a washing machine or laundry pair from a truck at 2:00 a.m." There will also may be residual bellyaching about the fact the driver would have to stay overnight, and I've just had to find the politest way possible of saying, "Sorry, I'm paying for service during hours which are convenient to me; I'm not being paid by the company to accommodate its shipping routes and schedules." I think Vintage Transport might consign to local freight outfits for in-town delivery, say, out of San Francisco to smaller towns north, and it's the local folks that want to rearrange everybody's schedule to fit theirs; also, some of the local delivery people will do their best to try to just drop the washer and dryer at the curbside and let the customer wrestle it into the garage or laundry room. "No dice" on that either; you will have paid for an in-house delivery and you should receive just that, and "in-house" doesn't mean on the front walk leading up to the home's front porch! Craters & Freighters did a good job for me once, but they were far too costly even in the days before fuel costs went to the stratosphere.
