[ic] shipping charges and weights...

Scott Martin smartin at steamvalve.com
Thu May 20 16:54:48 EDT 2004


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From: "New Media E.M.S." <ic_users at newmediaems.com>
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Subject: Re: [ic] shipping charges and weights...


> At 03:27 PM 5/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> > > >Scott Martin wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>Hi List,
> > > >>
> > > >>We have been shipping with FedEx FREIGHT for shipments above 150
Pounds
> > > >>(Bricks & Mortar). Does fedex provide something for looking up the
costs
> > > >>like the UPS tables.(Did UPS Provide those for interchange or did
> >someone
> > > >>from the interchange group write them?) I am currnetly trying to
build a
> > > >>catalog of Industrial products which range from 2 lbs to well over
1000
> >lbs.
> > > >>per product & was wondering how to accomplish this? It would be nice
to
> >have
> > > >>LTL truckload pricing tables to work from!
> > > >>
> > > >>Thanks
> > > >>Scott Martin
> > > >>
> > > >Wow, someone looking for the same thing I have been!  I doubt you
will
> > > >find pricing/zone tables for
> > > >LTL shipping.  According to the information supplied by the shipping
> > > >director at my place of
> > > >employment it's pretty much impossible to accurately price trucking
> > > >costs.  There are too many
> > > >variables, like ship date, fuel surcharges (which can vary day to
day),
> >etc.
> > > >
> > > >The best candidate I've found for a price quoting system is this:
> > > >http://www.abfs.com/ecommerce/tlinks/tl_aquote.asp
> > > >
> > > >I don't know Perl well enough to do anything with it though.
> > > >The option I've ended up going with for now to handle heavy shipments
is
> > > >adding two "free" options.
> > > >One for Ship Collect (customer supplies their shipping account
number)
> >and
> > > >another for PPA
> > > >(pre-pay & add; we pay shipping then bill customer for actual
shipping
> > > >charges)
> > >
> > > I have a written and tag to query the CON-WAY (http://www.con-way.com)
LTL
> > > rate quoting interface. I  had intended to include it with the 5.2
> >release,
> > > but never got around to it. It's not perfect; one particular
irritation
> > > (which may have been corrected) was that the registration you are
required
> > > to have to use their interface would expire if you went three months
> > > without logging into their member area, even if you were querying
quotes
> > > via my tag all day, every day. I wrote to their development team about
> > > this, but I don't know if they ever did anything about it.
> > >
> > > In any case, I may attempt to incorporate this into the next release;
it
> > > will require some work, because as it stands now it does not work with
the
> > > standard foundation demo shipping mode selection motif.
> > >
> > > - Ed
> > >
> >Hi Ed,
> >
> >Thanks for trying this, I do not know how many others this would benefit
But
> >I would greatly appreciate it. As I said we use Fed Ex Freight which is
> >nation wide. I could inquire with my acct rep @ fed ex to see if they
have
> >something available. What should I ask them for?
> >
> >Thanks Again
> >Scott Martin
>
> Scott -
>
> Before you contact FedEx, you might want to contact the author of the
> Business::Fedex.pm module,   Francois Belanger (francois at sitepak.com), and
> see if his existing code can support the FedEx freight service. It is
> general enough that it might do it with little or no modification. Since
> the Interchange [fedex_query] tag utilizes this module, it could be short
> work from that point to get their freight service into the loop.
>
> - Ed
>

Hi Ed

I will do that, Thank you for your help!

Regards
Scott Martin





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