rv8pilotpaul
Active Member
Anybody have any issues with Con-Way shipping? They charged me $455 for the empenage kit (one box) while ABF only charged me $312 for the wing kit which had two heavy boxes.
So on my RV-12 Empennage kit they shipped via Conway. Let me tell you guys, NEVER again will I allow them to ship via Conway. They called the day before to confirm a delivery time between 8-11am so I stayed home from work and anxiously awaited my first kit, then by noon I called Conway and they said, oh the driver decided to put your stuff on for the last delivery and he should be there around 5pm. I explained that I needed to run to an appointment and that I could not accept delivery until 5:30pm.
What happens next? Well Conway shows up at 4:30 and thankfully my neighbor helped the guy carry the kit up the 400ft driveway. Oh, but it gets better, since shipping has to be paid on delivery, he started banging on the door to get my wife to answer (which woke up her and our newborn) to get paid...
Needless to say when I got home at 5:15 thinking I had 15 minutes to be ready for the guy, my wife was none to happy.
Lesson learned? When you order specify you don't want Conway and they will use one of the others. My -12 wing kit is coming via Fedex freight on Monday morning so I am hoping to avoid the same fiasco.
I agree that it sounds like you got jacked around a bit with them changing from morning to afternoon with no notification, but none of the shippers will quote you a delivery time and hit it within 15 minutes (unless they happen to be lucky that day).
My tail kit from vans to Maui Hawaii was $318.00 and took about two weeks.