Freight and delivery
A two-post lift is a freight shipment, always
Two steel columns, a carriage assembly and a pallet of arms and hardware — even the lightest model in our range crates at several hundred pounds, and the heavier end runs well past a thousand. It moves on a pallet, on an LTL truck, and it does not arrive the way a parcel does.
That is why every freight figure on this site is quoted against your address and your model rather than published as a flat rate. A single national number would be wrong for most orders in one direction or the other, and on an item this heavy the gap is real money, not a rounding error.
What we confirm before an order is accepted
- The freight cost for your ZIP code and the specific model
- Whether delivery is curbside or needs a liftgate
- Whether the destination is residential or commercial — this changes both the cost and the carrier's options
- A delivery window, stated as a range rather than a promised date
- What you need on site to receive it
Curbside and liftgate, plainly
Curbside means the driver brings the truck to the kerb and the shipment comes off there. Getting it from the kerb into your garage is on you to arrange.
Liftgate means the truck carries a powered platform to lower the pallet to ground level. Without one, and without a loading dock or a forklift, an LTL truck simply cannot unload a pallet. At a residential address, assume you need one and price it in from the start.
Even with a liftgate, moving steel columns off the pallet and into position wants a pallet jack, an engine hoist, a tractor, or several people. They are as awkward as they are heavy.
Inspect before you sign
Note any damage on the delivery paperwork before the driver leaves. A clean signed receipt makes a transit-damage claim much harder to pursue afterward, and lift shipments do get damaged in transit — bent arms, crushed control boxes, dinged columns.
Photograph the pallet as it comes off the truck, wrapping included. It costs a minute and it is the difference between a claim and an argument later.
Residential delivery
Carriers treat a home address differently from a commercial one. Narrow streets, low branches, no turning circle, no forklift — these are real constraints on a freight delivery, and it is worth flagging them at enquiry stage rather than discovering them on the day the truck shows up.
Where we are
We are agreeing dealer terms and our carrier arrangements are not finalised. We are not publishing a freight rate or a lead time we cannot hold to. When ordering opens, this page carries the actual service levels and actual costs.