Lew Hodgett wrote:
woodstuff wrote:

I don't have a fork lift, so I pick up larger and heavier stuff at the
shipping terminals and use an overhead hoist to unload inside the
shop from
the pickup or trailer. I am taking donations for a fork lift if
anyone has
spare change. :-)

I wonder if lift gate charges have something to do with an area?

Here in L/A, the only trailers that aren't equipped with a lift gate are
containers on trailers out for delivery/pickup to a job site and
containers being run back and forth from the docks to the rail yards.

Everything I have delivered comes on a lift gate trailer and there is no
notation of a lift gate surcharge on the invoice. Maybe it is hidden.

I expect that must be because of the large metro area -- most places
there's a pretty steep surcharge (like in the $100 range) for lift gate
service.

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