Need shipping service for a rear axle to go across the country - suggestions?

Or "friendly up" to some industrial type businesses you might know "some folks." Here in town is a wholesale independently owned plumbing supply, so freight goes in and out all the time. Fork lift, also. I was contemplating shipping something awhile back and the owner just outright told me, "we can ship it for you if you handle the packaging" etc. It was stuff on a pallet