Shipping wheels with tires?

[turbogarrett]

I have a set of wheels and tires that I have agreed on a price with a buyer for. We agreed that they would be shipped without boxes as that would raise my cost quite a bit.

I usually ship through ups store, but they can really be a pain when shipping larger items. Pretty sure they would not even let me ship these without boxes. Where can I get away with shipping these like this? FedEx, DHL?

thanks in advance-Garrett

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I have a set of wheels and tires that I have agreed on a price with a buyer for. We agreed that they would be shipped without boxes as that would raise my cost quite a bit.

I usually ship through ups store, but they can really be a pain when shipping larger items. Pretty sure they would not even let me ship these without boxes. Where can I get away with shipping these like this? FedEx, DHL?

thanks in advance-Garrett

I have shipped bare wheels with ups before. Just used card board to cover the face and back. They (UPS) took them no problem.

[03CVLX]

Are you willing to pick them up from a shipping dock and is he willing to drop them at a shipper if its close enough.. I have never personally used them but I have heard R&L carriers has decent rates and I think they would just end up banding them onto a skid for easy and safe loading. Might be worth a phone call to at least check into it.

The milwaukee terminal I believe is still located on approx 6th & Edgerton kitty corner from the old airborne/DHL office.

[Dasred]

I had to add just a cardboard cutout circle over the rim part and some sort of support so they could band and fork-truck them, nothing tough.

[Dasred]

I had to add just a cardboard cutout circle over the rim part and some sort of support so they could band and fork-truck them, nothing tough.

Forgot to state that I went to Pak Mail on JJ in Waukesha.

[0TransAm0]

Just used card board to cover the face and back.

X2 every time ive bought wheels or tires on-line this is how they showed up..

[johnny--2k]

Forgot to state that I went to Pak Mail on JJ in Waukesha.

That's where I went, no problem, they even helped me wrap them up, and fairly inexpensive to ship 19" wheels with tires...

[jbiscuit]

Fed Ex FTW

[Car Guy]

Does one wheel/tire weigh under 75 pounds...???

[PB86MCSS]

FedEX FTW is right...

Any place should accept them like that, I shipped a set with tires and just taped up cardboard over the rim also. Saves shipping and the tire is all the packaging you need. Tire places ship tires without boxes too.

[turbogarrett]

Wow, thanks for all the fast replies. I'll cut out some cardboard to cover the wheel and hope there are no problems.

I shipped out a set of wheels without tires last week from a ups store and they made me go a little overboard on packaging. Ended up costing far more than I had figured.

The wheels with tires weigh ~44lbs each

[Todd Z]

We ship all of our tires via Fed Ex. If the tires are less than 12" wide band them together to save some cash.