Hello, I am new registered user to this forum but I have been here many times before. I have set up a site and everything is working fantastic - you can see it here
Our business deals with heavy merchandise, we sell natural stone tile. These tiles can weigh over 3lbs each, and when someone needs 100 square feet, they are already at 300+ lbs.
We would like to palletize all of our orders and have them sent out that way. This eliminates the traditional USPS, FedEx and UPS. I believe that UPS and FedEx have freight options that might work, but they are expensive, and I would would really prefer to use freight quote who deals with more LTL carriers. Another road block is that we need the trucks to have a liftgate, which I don't believe that FedEx or UPS have. Our pallets need to go through a company like Yellow, Old Dominion or others like that.
We would like to use FreightQuote.com, they are the company that provides quotes for large companies like eBay. They are a freight forwarder, they find you the lowest rate possible among all LTL carriers and once implemented it works just like the rest of the modules.
I have gone over the forum and the wiki and cannot find enough information to do this alone. The documentation sent to me by FreightQuote.com (which we have an account with) is a little daunting.
I would like to see if together we can't get something going with a dedicated freight module.
Here is the link to download the FreightQuote.com API XML info
If this is at all possible, please let me know because at this point I don't even know if it's possible to implement this.
Thanks in advance,
Canaan