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Can anyone recommend trucking companies who they've used and have had success transporting neon signs and other fragile items?

Many leading companies such as FedEx, UPS, etc do not insure fragile items such as neon signs against breakage.

Thanking everyone in advance.

Regards,

Chad

[This message has been edited by chadhaas (edited 08-22-2007).]

Had GREAT luck shipping glass with DHL they do ship fragile items with care. I last used them about a year ago to ship a neon sign and it got there just fine. Good luck

I had a neon shipped to me, and the guy who sent always used, believe it or not, Greyhound.

I've received 6 neon signs shipped by DHL during the last year. Three had damage and three were fine. All were double-boxed with good packaging (shipping charges were in the $75 range for each one). I've had some BAAAAAD luck with UPS over the years. They actually bent an aluminum pipe that was going to be used with a parking meter! I've had a classic Schwinn Phantom bicycle shipped from TX to WV via Amtrack with no problems, but don't know if they will handle neon.

Jim Winter
The Hot Rod Grille Garage www.wvpinball.com

I used to have a neon shop next door to me.

Everything was crated and had chicken wire over the tubes or towards the outside. It looked to me like the crates were usually open sided, could be wrong on that, but I am thinking they may be more careful if they see what it is??

At anyrate, double boxed without a crate inside or wood, may not be enough..

All of the signs at Barrett-Jackson have open crates where the tubing is exposed. I always thought that would increase the liklihood of them being damaged.

The neon supplier of the Heritage Signs to GM and Ford (Industrial Neon Sign) uses FedEx to ship their signs, which suprised me a bit because I did not know they handled large items. Some of their signs, such as the vertical Cadillac sign are quite large (84" x 40" x 8").

In transit, those crates probably have the chicken wire on them and or have plywood sides that have been removed for display.

Screw the sides back on and they are ready to ship..

You think a sign is hard to ship, try a loose tube..

Neon shops keeps drawings on file, and will make a replacement tube, and ship it out..sign stays up..