Need some help in Oklahoma

[aapwayneo2001]

I am buying a boat in Oklahoma City and I need to find a dealer or marina that can lift a boat and trailer onto a flatbed for shipping, anyone have any contacts in the area

[zabooda]

If you have the flatbed then I recommend finding a loading dock where you can drive it on. The same applies when you get the boat to the final destination.

[aapwayneo2001]

If you have the flatbed then I recommend finding a loading dock where you can drive it on. The same applies when you get the boat to the final destination.

I'm not sure if finding a loading dock that someone will let me use will be possible but definitely an idea

[jmvotto]

what about trailering it

[parrothd]

Uship......

[aapwayneo2001]

what about trailering it
We could and may still do that but just didn't want to put 1200 miles on the trailer in one run, I would rather, if it's going to have a problem it be 5 miles from home vs 1000 miles from home

Uship......
Did that but still doesn't solve the lift issue

[jmvotto]

Do you own the flat bed or renting one. can you get one that tilts like a tow truck bed and has a winch?

[parrothd]

Still not sure why you need a flat bed?

[jmvotto]

Still not sure why you need a flat bed?

Not sure I would want a trailered boat up on a flat bed. 1000 miles on a trailer is nothing plus its mostly highway.

[patrick232]

Will they be lowing with the tower lowered? I would confirm.

[aapwayneo2001]

Do you own the flat bed or renting one. can you get one that tilts like a tow truck bed and has a winch?
We would be using a shipping company, and I guess it's not a flatbed but more like a low boy flat trailer


Not sure I would want a trailered boat up on a flat bed. 1000 miles on a trailer is nothing plus its mostly highway.
Why wouldn't you want it to be trailered?


Will they be lowing with the tower lowered? I would confirm.
Yes tower down

[jmvotto]

We would be using a shipping company, and I guess it's not a flatbed but more like a low boy flat trailer


Why wouldn't you want it to be trailered?


Yes tower down


Trailer plus boat plus flatbed seems awful tall to me, if it's a lowboy , then that's different. . Not sure why 1000 miles on the trailer means so much, my buddy had a supra trailered from the Oregon to ny to miss...

[parrothd]

Why wouldn't you want it on a flat bed? $$$$$$ if that doesn't matter, can I have some?!? :cool:

[aapwayneo2001]

Why wouldn't you want it on a flat bed? $$$$$$ if that doesn't matter, can I have some?!? :cool:

LOL I'll see if I can't make that happen

[trayson]

I had my boat shipped from Indiana to Vancouver WA. I used uship. the person that transported my boat did so by towing it behind an F250 diesel with the tower up and the towable cover on. Worked out just fine.

[iwaterskihard]

What is the issue with trailering it? I pulled my boat from north of Denver to south of Houston on a single axle trailer with no issues.
For the shipping costs I'd rather pull it myself I'm thinking!

Seems to me someone on here had issues with shipping a boat and the charges etc. The shipper didn't have money for fuel or something? Check into the forum a bit deeper.

[parrothd]

Once you factor in fuel cost, room, maybe a flight, not to mention hours of driving you'll probably pay more then what you can get on uship. Driving long hours(8+) hours to save a few bucks isn't worth it for me. I've got better things to do.. Lol..

[aapwayneo2001]

Once you factor in fuel cost, room, maybe a flight, not to mention hours of driving you'll probably pay more then what you can get on uship. Driving long hours(8+) hours to save a few bucks isn't worth it for me. I've got better things to do.. Lol..

That's what we were thinking at first with a flight costing $1K for two people but even if we shipped it we still had to get from NC to OK so we are just driving there next Sunday staying in a hotel that night checking out the boat Monday and if all is good towing back to NC Monday afternoon.... Off subject question, what's the best energy drink out there?? LOL

[Beejwest]

5 Hour all the way....

[jzelt]

+1 on the 5 hr. And I don't drink the bottle all at once, but rather sip on it. Seems to last longer.