Has Anyone Used the Personal Shipping Services?

uship is a bidding service for independent contractors. There is a TV show featuring some of the shippers called Shipping Wars http://www.aetv.com/shows/shipping-wars
After watching a few episodes... no.

I've watched a few episodes of that show. IMHO it is scripted to achieve maximum sensation with extreme price competition, time pressures, and bizarre loads. I don't think it representative of what one could expect from a professional trucker. I'm still looking for someone who has actually used the services.

i used a company by the name of FREIGHT QUOTE to ship a laser with a bed o 36" x 63" which weighed approx 1600 pounds. They saved me money but I would have been better off hand carrying it from Colorado to Ohio, what a fiasco. It was a used laser that we had crated by a pro crating company and the carrier was UPS FREIGHT(if you think UPS is a terrible carrier deal with UPS FREIGHT HORRIBLE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. The crating company gave the weight and sizes to Freight Quote and loaded the pallet which was 6 x 8 feet on the UPS Trailer. When the shipment got to Ohio the dispatcher(ups) called me and asked when I would like to pick up my freight (I paid for lift gate service). I told him that it was supposed to be delivered to my shop. He then tells me that its too heavy and large for their lift gate. I then called freight quote and they said they made a mistake and undercharged me and that i would have to pick up the laser myself. I told them my two vehicles are a Impala and a Corvette, neither would handle this and i paid for delivery.  After many phone calls and legal threats they used a flatbed wrecker to deliver it. when I received it the top of the wooden crate was broken (the crate had 20 stickers that stated nothing on top) the laser damaged and the $1200.00 laser tube was broken and the machine was dented and the window on top broken.

Ups freight denied the claim and Freight Quote took 4 months to pay me. Next time I will rent a Budget truck and get it myself. That's my experience with a freight forwarder.

Sounds like it might be a good idea to wait and let others sacrifice their freight until (or if) they get the kinks worked out.

I think I will stick with USPS, FedEx and UPS for now. I have had good luck with all three of these, nothing missing, damaged or anything else wrong with anything.

And there is also Amtrak! They will ship up to 500 lbs! No joke!

The only thing I despise is as it is called, is Smartpost. ( I call it stupidpost) it starts out with fedex and ends up with fedex. Perfect example It took 9 days to get an item from Manheim, PA  ( just outside of York) to here in South Carolina. I could of rode a donkey there and back in less time. USPS recently ( with in the last 6 months) lost a package I mailed to MD, and a package I was suppose to receive from FL. But I still like them and Fedex/UPS.