Best way to ship a tailgate?

[Uncle Gump]

I'm still baffled by a feller in Arizona getting a clean tailgate from Pittsburgh.

What the Hell kinda crap is that!!

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

I'm still baffled by a feller in Arizona getting a clean tailgate from Pittsburgh.

What the Hell kinda crap is that!!

Cannonball Run crap.

 

[RobbieD]

I'm still baffled by a feller in Arizona getting a clean tailgate from Pittsburgh.

What the Hell kinda crap is that!!

It's because there aren't any Ranger tailgates left in Arizona.

They all got shipped to Pittsburgh over the years, to replace rusted-out tailgates.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Believe it or not, it is the original tailgate of my 1988, a rare no letters, no aluminum plate one.

The bed it was from melted in a car wash, due to being mostly milk cartons, beer cans, and spackle covered in rustoleum (not joking). The tailgate is completely fine.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Believe it or not, it is the original tailgate of my 1988, a rare no letters, no aluminum plate one.

The bed it was from melted in a car wash, due to being mostly milk cartons, beer cans, and spackle covered in rustoleum (not joking). The tailgate is completely fine.

But...

Don't you need a clean tailgate?

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

But...

Don't you need a clean tailgate?

Nope. Have a like new raised letters one.

 

[Things2do]

No dice on harbor freight. Manager said they ended the program during coof.

Sad!

That's when Amtrak ended their freight shipping service, too.

You might look into putting it on a pallet and sending it LTL freight. It would be more expensive if you don't have access to a loading dock and need a liftgate truck to pick it up and/or drop it off, but it seems like it cost us $150 or $250 or something like that when we were shipping pallets of books halfway across the country a few years ago. A couple of our local self storage places had full height loading docks.

If this had come up a little while ago you might have been able to get it as far as Gallup, NM or northern Arizona with someone going on Poverty Tour. But since that starts in Joplin, MO on the morning of the 1st it's probably too late to try that from Pennsylvania.