UShip

[griff]

UShip has some interesting stats on their UShip.com web site this morning..

I have used them and there are some good deals to be had; i.e., earlier this year a UShip transported hauled a colt for TX to WV in a private box stall for $550.

And I liked the transporter very much. H Found he lives close and will probably have him board a couple of mares later this summer.

griff

[vallygirl927]

I had a shitty experience with a company to ship a mare from MD to KY. They had absolutely no idea what they were doing and yet, they had good reviews. Needless to say, the horse arrived at the destination but it was a mess.

[KBEquine]

To those of you who have used uship -

Did you just ask for a bid or did you give a requested price? A specific travel date or a general date range? Did you pay to add any of the options? I didn't take seriously the part about paying to put a picture of the horse to be shipped online to get better interest, but perhaps that was a mistake?

I went through the motions but finally deleted the post (because I wanted to find out both what people who liked the service did, and what people who didn't like the service did).

And Valley Girl brings up the point - how do you qualify a shipper as "the one" for you? [I never got far enough in the process to see whether there was a way to do that].

We almost always ship our own, but were looking at a horse in the Southwest, which was farther than I wanted to drive.

[karenkarenn]

I tried it out to see what it was, and to me all the STEPS that you have to fill out is enough to get away from it. I just want a quote or talk to a live rep on of the two. Its cumbersome.

[griff]

I don't own any stock in UShip and only postee this for others to use if they saw fit to do so.

I must have been very lucky..

I've used them a half dozen times and hasd no problems. Also thought the process was simple and straight forward..

All I did the last time was post that i wanted a colt shipped from a Zip Code in TX to a X ZIP code in WV and I wanted the horse shipped w/i a week to 10 days..

That's all and I started receiving bids and was able to ask any questions I wanted of thos bidders and all sent pictures of their rigs and resumes'

Again, must have been very lucky

griff

[vallygirl927]

Well that is great. I would like to know whom you used. I did the research for the I used and their rig was nice, but the people driving really had no clue what they were doing. I think they may have been new, regardless, they still should have hired professionals. They were extremely late, had poor communication skills, couldn't tie a hay net if their life depended on it, and worst of all, they had no idea which horses were getting dropped off where. So scary!

[karenkarenn]

Well from what I know it looks like you can name your own price, which can or might get you into trouble.

[ireneinwa]

I keep it simple, nice people, American Horse.