So, you "think" you've had problems with shipping companies.....

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Next time I need to ship my "Spirit of St. Louis" I'll keep this in mind.......

 
Sorry, that container was 100% sub-standard for shipping aircraft parts, let alone and entire aircraft.
 
rich people problem

i can honestly say none of my planes ever got damaged during shipping
 
rich people problem

i can honestly say none of my planes ever got damaged during shipping

I have to sort of disagree. Weeks might be filthy rich, but he's actually worked for all that, and continutes to do interesting stuff, and at least for a few years, tried to share that interest with the public. Few rich snobs can claim that, certainly not most of the overpriced Horrywood spread. Just spending HIS time to make some of the interesting videos he's done is quite remarkable.
 
I have to sort of disagree. Weeks might be filthy rich, but he's actually worked for all that, and continutes to do interesting stuff, and at least for a few years, tried to share that interest with the public. Few rich snobs can claim that, certainly not most of the overpriced Horrywood spread. Just spending HIS time to make some of the interesting videos he's done is quite remarkable.

As interesting as that is, it has no real bearing on the situation...have you ever had one of your planes damaged during transport?

Who he is, where he got his money, and what he does with it doesn't change the fact that most of the population can not afford a private plane

That is all I'm saying
(It almost sounds like you think I might be gloating at his misfortune, but that would be incorrect...i am simply offering a different point of view)
 
Well we ARE talking about shipping ****, whether it's amateur radio high power amplifiers, car parts, or frozen weenies, or pieces of cheap jigsaw puzzles--or aircraft. I'm also guessing and pretty sure that they asked the shipper what was needed for the job
 
We used to ship Karmann Ghia windshields by UPS. about 50% of them would get damaged in transport. We had a UPS rep come out and we devised a crate we could build and protect the windshield, UPS Rep got them approved and off we went, well, they still found a way to damage them and then started denying our claims saying that they were not packaged properly even with having it approved by our rep. I no long use UPS to ship, I sent all my business through Fedex, came up with a new way to ship and have been good ever since! I would have lawyered up especially with all the documentation he had!
 
You know the boilerplate insurance claim is "your not covered". You just don't have to accept it. Lawyer up and the insurance co will come back with a counter offer, almost a given. How do you cinch a wing down when its hanging unsecured off a framework...and how do you not have guys on the ground to receive this prized shipment at the depot or cargo port? That's just bad form. We got large shipments off trucks and 90% of the time they were in crates. Not that expensive and easy to secure; cinch those down, not a wing tip!
 
When I was in the high end auto transport biz I carried $1,000,000 of cargo insurance with a $1,000 deductible.

My main customer had a '39 Mercedes 540K Special roadster valued at $3,000,000. He carried $5,000,000 transport insurance.

Sometimes I had three Mercedes 300 SL coupes on board at one time.

Had one claim in three years... Whew!!!!
 
rich people problem

i can honestly say none of my planes ever got damaged during shipping

Why does it matter if he's rich? What's that got to do with receiving the service that he paid for? How does that excuse the shipper flat out LYING about the damage? For TWO separate instances? Yes, they ultimately got it taken care of, but the amount of money someone has does not exclude them from the right to get exactly what they paid for.
 
This is typical DHL. No matter if it's a priceless airplane or junk you're sending to your grandmother, if there's a problem they deny it categorically. Been there, done that. Not with an airplane.
 
Here's the thing. You can argue that the plane wasn't protected, or that it should have been packed better......or whatever. The fact is, it was ACCEPTED by the shipper. That right there is an acceptance of contract to ship. DHL could have easily decided against it. They did not.
 
If he'd have just flown the thing there, he wouldn't have a problem now, would he?
 
You guys should see what these companies do to crate engines. LOL

Had one company demolish a crate...and try to reassemble it. Showed up looking fairly normal. (One of the shipping companies employees rebuilt the crate to try and hide the damage) customer then popped the "top" and found the engine was hanging upside down
...when the shipping dummies uprighted the crate....the they flipped it on the wrong end.
Can't make it up.
 
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